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Married. Relatively happy I guess. But a true statement nonetheless?

At the end of the day it's what straight couples can have a don't want and what gay couples can't have and do want isn't it? Discuss.

It wasn't really a decent thread though was it. It's been done over and over again and is currently being discussed on the five year plan thread.

Hes not going to come to the meal and slag us off is he. I dont like the way he went about engineering his move and neither do most people i know. Walcott and Bale didn't go running to the papers about how good they were and how they deserved a move, despite the fact we were on the decline at the time and it was a place anyone with any ambiton wouldn't have wanted to be. Hence they have my upmost respect. Still if your happy for players to mug us off in the papers then thats up to you.

The "twinning" wasn't a problem for games this or last season why is it suddenly an issue now it doesn't suit you? This supposed Man U reserve team included Scholes, Smalling, Hernandez, Anderson, Fabio and Berbatov, Giggs, Rooney, Nani on the bench. Not quite reserves sunshine. Either way Man U are still a bigger draw the Spurs, how could I forget the cringeworthy status updates on Facebook from part time fans about how excited they were to get them in the FA Cup. Yet we got no where selling out. Actually you were the one banging on about why we didn't sell out the FA cup game because it was league one v premier league on Telly and all that bollix, I simply asked why it want a problem for Leeds when they were in league one. And you still haven't answered how we can be bigger than Everton but not as big as Leeds.

Apologies saints attendance was 28,792, only 3,500 short of capacity. Leeds v Tottenham was 37,704 so only just shy on 9,000 more. FA Cup. League one v premier league. Live On terrestrial telly. And you still haven't told me how we are bigger than Everton but smaller than Leeds. How we can compare our attendances wi Sheffield United, Wolves, Forest, Chelsea in 1984 And Sunderland in 1978 but not Leeds when we were both playing premier lewgue sides when in league one in an FA cup live on telly. Funnily enough the twinning problem which meant the 12,000 fans which would have otherwise attended the Man U game wasnt an issue when we played Coventry, Reading and Pompey in the League this season. So we can compare Saints v Man U to two premier league clubs playing each other but cant to the more like for like comparision of a club in our divison playing a premier league club when both games are live on terrestrial TV. Okay then.

What has ITV4 got to do with it. it was on ITV1. http://www.itv.com/sport/football/news/facup/manualstories/leedsvtottenhamandcrystalpalacevwolvesfacupreplaysliveonitv2346/default.html As someone that lives 260 miles away from Leeds I have no idea but given Leeds fans general disillusionment with Bates and ticket prices we can be assured tickets weren't given away, So you are saying we can only compare attendances when it suits you, yes? 10000 more league one fans for a league one club against a premier league club in match live on telly obviously doesnt.

Who said that?

No one cares what you think you don't go to football. Stick to politics sweetheart.

It absolutely is like for like. It absolutely is. How are we not bigger than Leeds, using your logic of course. We've got more fans than Everon according to you, how are we bigger than them yet smaller than Leeds?

But you love comparing our attendances to Nottingham Forest, Sheffield Wednesday and so on when it suits. League one v premier league. FA Cup game. Live on terrestrial telly. One club gets a sell out 38,000 the other gets 27,000 despite having a bigger game. Explain how this canbe possible.

No that right we are bigger than Leeds as we need a bigger stadium than them and are going for the champions league, they aren't. In addition to this we had a bigger game than them which was on a weekend and we all know how fans love to claim midweek games are less attractive. yet they managed to get over 10000 more fans than we did. It's like for like. FA Cup game. Live on telly, league one v premier league all the things you apply. they sell out we get no where near doing so and also have the misfortune to have a catchment area nowhere near what ours is. How can this be?

Nothing wrong with him moving, see above it was the way he did it that p*ssed a lot of people off.

Because Jamie the little f*cker mugged us off. Quotes in the paper such as "I'm ready for the premier league now" ie - I'm too good for Saints. "the next young star might come along and I might miss the chance" arrogant little c*nt. We didn't want to sell, he wanted to go and mugged us off in the press. bale and WAlcott went in a decent and dignified manner. Plus we had no choice to sell them.

Why not Chamberlain?

I forgot about him to be fair.

Well done for writing a sensible post at last and not mentioning what Nokia did 10 years ago and look at RIM now.

Well we keep being told by MLG we need to expand because we sold out once against Bolton in 2005. I've stated my opinion on other posts about when we should consider expanding and I'm not going to repeat myself except to say that it shouldn't be done on the off chance that a 1000 or so more might bother trying to get a ticket if they can be arsed too.

But we only sold 26k for Aston Villa in 2001 we only had 25k for Fulham in 2002 for every boner you get about Bolton in 2005 you do there is also an erectile distinction you need to remember you must have got for these games you need to consider. It's easy to bangon about what crowds we might get for Man United but do you really think Cortese is going to expand St Mary's of we only get more than 32k on one or two occasions a season?

How come league one Leeds managed to sell out for their home FA cup against Spurs in 2010 then?

Well that would obviously depend on demand and waiting lists and just how many of the 5k Man U fans in Epsom are declaring their interest in coming to St Mary's regularly. But as I've said previously I don't think it's unrealistic for us to fill 38-40k regusly. Although unlike the self titled enlightened posters most of us wih supposedly retarded logic want us to actually see there is the demand there first before throwing on 8000 seats and banking on thousands of fans from Weymouth and man U fans from Epsom filling the seats.

We'll I dont know anyone who couldn't get a ticket for Pompey or Coventry. Nor do i know Anyone who never got one when they wanted one in the premier league. My sister for example got one easily for Coventy. He want down on the morning they went on sale and queued and god forbid she got a ticket! Wel I never!! So between us we know of about 3 people that couldn't get tickets and one that rarely goes and despite all the odds and millions of others trying managed to get one, how odd.

Well as I've said on a number of occasions my wife worked in the ticket office between 2001-05 and I can't tell you for a fact literally tens of people did ring up only to be told "sorry" and unlike Spurs who have a waiting list and Newcastle who have a waiting list and Chelsea who have a waiting list and Arsenal who had a waiting list at Highbury Saints fans are the only ones in the country who don't bother trying to get tickets if thy think they can't get one. You can't argue against that sort of reatarded logic.

Who knows? Last time round in the PL everyone that wanted a ticket got a ticket. You had to Make a bit more effort for the big games but you could still get One if You did. Let's not forget our average this season was 26k so it's actually 14k extra regularly needed to justify expansion. If we can sell out every week for the next two season and easily sell loads more then it's be worth expanding. There is no evidence that we need to expand. None despite what the self titled enlightened posters might claim.

Most of us with any ounce of common sense would like to see St Mary's sold out regularly for a couple of season before we spend £18m on expanding it. No the self titled intellegent posters who cite Chelsea's attendance in 1984 and believe there are hundreds of thousands of fans from all across England dreaming of seeing Premier league football at Southampton.