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Several. Not thousands then. All we need are another 8,000 like them that will go EVERY week and we will recoup the £18m it will cost to make it a 40k stadium and it's job done. Next.

So nothing to do with the builder we used Barr, who have built a number of other stadiums Including Leciester. Same design same capacity then?

It has been answered. We had a 5 year waiting list at the Dell we needed to expand. We don't have a waiting list at St Marys. And everyone who wants a ticket gets one. What does that say? Next.

This is what I am struggling to understand. In 2003 people from Weymouth and Basingstoke still wanted to watch premier league football. Chelsea still only got 13k in 1984. Sunderland still only got 17k at Roker Park in 1978 and man had walked on the moon. Yet all these reasons are why we the freaks claim we can get 20,000 extra fans now so why couldn't we in 2003?

So ignoring all fans of big clubs on our catchment area. All those that aren't interested in football. All those that will chose Reading instead of us. All those people in our catchment area that go to university away from here as according to Les Bender everyone that goes to university automatically starts supporting their local premier league team. All those that live closer to London than Southampton in our catchment area. All those that stay loyal to their local teams despite being relegated ie I dont recall thousands of Saints fans becoming skates when we wee in league one and they were in the premier. What are we left with?

Our massive catchment area seems to be shrinking by the minute.

How many people in Basingstoke will want to support a local team? How many are going to ignore their older brothers, parents and mates and decide to start supporting saints instead of successul, huge London Clubs which are only the same distance north Of Basingstoke as Southampton is south or Reading which is only 20 minutes up the A33. I would suggest we can count on litterally tens of these a most, not most of Basingstoke and most of everywhere south of London like some think.

Okay well let's use Basingstoke as an example. I worked There for 6 years in total, over a 12 year period. In my company of 500 people there were 3 Saints fans, two of which including travelled up there everyday. The others were Spurs, Arsenal, Man United, Liverpool and Chelsea fans with the odd Newcastle, Reading, Watford and Luton fan thrown I to the mix This is smack bang in the zone you talk about. How do we convert them and attract them away from their family clubs? Basingstoke is only 30 miles away but not the hotbed of fans chomping at the bit to go to SMS every week.

It's the charity Pap,not the individual. Although I must confess the thought of his red, sweating spade face with veins popping out at the temple and the amount of pain he'll be during and after were also reasons why I'm keen for him to do it.

But this can't be true. They sit in the zone which means they are potential Saints fans, surely their desire to watch premier league football would overcome any anti English feeling. I mean they won't go to Swansea, although I am sure Swansea fans are having this very debate on their forums that they can realistically expect to pick up loads of Caridff fans what with them being in the premier league, near Cardiff and all that.

Hardly sh*t. In fact IIRC a lot of talk on the old Saints forever site shortly after the move to SMS was that we were on the verge of a golden period. There were lots of excitable "who's got a ticket for *insert game*" post and our league positions whilst at St Mary's were 10th, 11th, 8th, 12th, 20th. So baring the last season solid midtable finishes, a cup final and Europe. Yet despite this no signs of 20,000 fans travelling from Cornwall, Wales, Devon and Somerset. Why is it going to be so different now? And to complete the Millwall references they took 50k to Wembley for a game once, 49,500 offcially for their play off game in 2009. why aren't they expanding and talking about the champions league?

Yes I saw that Jamie, that was before it was on here though. You are in the UI camp.

So are none of you tight f*ckers going to sponsor him?

He's not letting Green go. His contract is up and he's told them he wants to leave. players are allowed to do this you know.

What qualifies you to tell us what all these people in Trowbridge, Shepton Mallet, Weymouth, Exeter, Truro and Malborough are planning to do with their entertainment and how far they're prepared to travel to do it? At least CB Fry has the FACT that for the last 126 years travelling to Southampton in their 10's of thousands to watch football has never happened.

Cardiff and must be getting sick of losing in the play offs as well, plus they sit below the infamous Liverpool, Birmingham, London catchment area. I am sure we can pick up a few thousand of their fans.

So here you are having a go at someone from behind your keyboard on behalf of all true lifelong fans who don't do such things, yes?

What I am struggling to understand is why there are tens of thousands of people desperate to come to St Mary's to see premier league football now but Everton don't benefit from tens of thousands of people travelling from Blackpool, Carlise, Wrexham and Preston to see the same thing. why are we going to do so well when they don't?You said yourself in a previous post a club in 7th should expect to get higher crowds than one further down the table, yet Sunderland average bigger crowds despite being lower down the table.

Patents have already gone in my boy.

Once they leave Saints i dont give a f*ck about them. So wont boo or cheer any.

is doing some 100km run or something tomorrow London to Brighton and is rasing a bit of cash along they way. If anyone wants to donate to the very good cause then they can do so here. I said i'd stick it up on here for him to see if any of you lot want to chip in. http://www.justgiving.com/stuartschallenge Even if you dont want to donate it's worth a look to read some of the comments from other people who have put their hand in their pocket.

We never did.

* braces himself for a Dark and dingy bedsit gag from Greenridge *

I think you'll find these Pompey fans without a club are part of our massive catchment area. We'll see plenty of them at SMS next season you can be sure of it.

One thing about twitter is that it is yet more evidence that Saints can be bigger than Man United. I mean, 7 years ago everyone was talking about Friends Reunited, but things have moved on. people use twitter now and no one bothers with Friends Reunited. Another case we can use in our evidence that Saints will be bigger than Man United and are set for world domination.