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Be honest, did you read back your idea for dynamic pricing and realise how stupid it sounds?

No it isn't. Its because no one has come up with any compelling or convincing evidence that firsly we need a bigger ground and secondly that we can fill an extra 12,000 seats without reducing the price. Even your magnificent idea of starting prices at £50 and then reducing them and reducing them until they did sell still involved one imporant factor, reducing the price. I still cant see why an sensible CEO would spend £20m on expanding a stadium and then slash the prices to fill the seats, which however anyone dresses it up, flexible and dynamic pricing are going to do just that.

wasn't a problem for Niemi.

Thanks for the riveting breakdown. Are we the only club in the country that draws fans from outside the City? What about the counties surrounding Birmingham like Warwickshire, Staffs, Worcs, Gloucs, North Oxford****e. What about the counties surrounding London, like Kent, Surrey, Essex, Herts? Can provide a breakdown of these areas please so we can do a proper like for like comparision. Also you say we should wrongly exclude Portsmouth from our catchement area. I'm still yet to be convinced as to why anyone supporting Portsmouth would suddely swtich sides to Saints because we are in the Premier league. Even if the theory were true, surely we'd have masses of Southampton residents who switched sides between 2005-09 when the roles were reversed? Surely thousands of Cardiff fans would now be Swansea fans. The same goes for Millwall fans switching to west Ham, are Rangers fans now all going to become Celtic fans because they are in trouble at the moment?

He is an idiot but he's done well at every club he's been at. Even at Newcastle they were 11th when he left because this wasnt good enough for the geordies, the following season they went down. How anyone can say he's clueless is beyond me.

This can't be true Jamie. I don't believe you. Devon and Cornwall sit under this imaginary line from London, Birmingham and Liverpool which means everything below it is ours.

Anyone that says Allerdyce is clueless is an idiot. Great record at Bolton, decent record at Blackburn and was sacked when Newcastle were 11th, The following season they were relegated, then got West Ham up at the first attempt. He might be a bit of a tw*t and not play football that is easy on the eye but it's effective.

It is unique. Half of it is in the sea, a large % of it is Forest and overlapping with London club areas like Basingstoke. Yet Apparantly is massive, much bigger than anyone else in the country and it means thousands of fans from Surrrey, Kent, Sussex, Somerset, Wales, Warwickshire, Devon and Cornwall are all going got come to Southampton now to see premier league football.

So he hasn't bothered trying flexible pricing for the last two years because it's against PL rules? remind me whats divisions it is we've been in for the last two years. Remind me why West Ham were able to offer two for one groupon deals yet Saints weren't? Also if it is against PL rules to introduce flexible/easy jet pricing doesn't this rule out your brilliant idea of a starting mathchday ticket prices of £50 for seats, then when only a few thousand buy them reduce then price, then reduce it again, then again until they do sell out? I thought you'd have known this Timmy?

We'll see. Forgive me for being skeptical that thousands of fans in Portsmouth are suddenly going to start actively supporting their big rivals. It didn't happen in Southampton when we were L1 and they were winning the FA cup. Leeds fans haven't suddenly become Man U fans whilst they were in L1 and the championship? Are Caridff fans now following Swansea because they're in the Premier League? Are West Ham braced for all the Millwall fans set to pull in the claret and blue next season now their back in top flight? How welcome are all the Ipswich fans travelling to Carrow Road very week now they've switched teams? I could go on. Is it Happenng there?

Itll be months before its passed onto us, if at all.

Yeah, signed in 1989 I believe, what a signing he was. A lad at work used to be on saints books as first year pro in thea mid nineties, says Spurs tried signing Dodd and he turned them down as he loved Saints so much.

Does it? Although Just Mike was quite specific that fans either end of the M27 will now become Saints fans. I expect to see hundreds of Saints shirts next time I visit Gunwharf Quay in that case.

No, "it wasn't that great" you said. Was it excellent or "not that great"?

There should be thousands of them though, i wonder how many other people know all these young fans who are Pompey fans due to their success when we were sh*t, I don't know any, anyone else?

You're right, as dumbass says, any shower of sh*t can get to a cup final.

We weren't a shower of sh*t though, we finished 8th. One place below teams who you think have had so much more success than us and two places beneath a team that spent over £100m in three seasons. "not that great" though, yes?

FA cup final or UEFA Cup final? Not a lot of difference. I'll give you it but one carling cup win and a highest league postion of one place higher is hardly a massive success considering the amount they spent compared to us and our "not that great" performances and achievements.

Whats he like? I'd never heard of him until we were linked. Edit, just seen his stats 65 clean sheets in 117 games, impressive and still only young. Looks on paper a top signing.

Despite all the extra spending of Villa, Boro and Fulham their best finishes have only been 1 or 2 places above ours which "wasn't that great". What do you expect?

Both of theirs highest ever league position was 7th, one place higher than ours. They also both got to a cup final. Middlesborough have since been relegated and Fulham almost did before Hodgson save them. So how have they achieved so much more?

Aston Villa spent over £100m between 2008-11 and never finished higher than 6th or got to the FA Cup final. How much more improvement are you expecting?

It was a great achievement, we didnt play great football but we had some great results and it was a terrific couple of seasons. We were solid at the back, hard working, fit and Beattie was on fire. Beating Liverpool at Anfield when they were half decent, beating Arsenal at home, a team which was one of the best sides of the last 20 odd years. And it was our highest league finish in 22 years, yet still we didn't sell out every game.

Maybe it wasn't that great, but it was still our first FA Cup final in 27 years and our highest league position since 1990. Dont forget we also signed Kevin Phillips who was at the time, labelled our biggest signing since Shilton on the old S4E forum. I certainly remember lots of excitable "who's got a ticket for xxxx game?" type posts on here at the time. There certainly was a lot of interest but we weren't turning thousands away every week and just off the top of my head i remember us beating Fulham at home that season 4-2 and there only being 25,000 there.

Such a Dell sized mentality Jamie. It's even in your username FFS.