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I am sorry but I was not trying to represent your views whatsoever. I was asking a question which I thought that you and others like you would be able to answer. You say that demand for tickets "significantly outstripped supply." So why is 32,500 the current capacity of SMS the magic number ? If Stoneham had gone ahead we would have had a capacity of 24k - 28k. Why is 32.5 k the magic number? Why wasn't 24k or 28k the magic number ? Why not 36k or 40k? 32.5 k seats were not enough on several occasions to fulfil demand last season. It was not enough on several occasions the seasons when we were in League 1. Why will it be enough in the Premiership? Why shouldn't we plan for further growth?

Forgive me if this point has already been answered somewhere else on this turgid ramble of a thread but can the CB Fry/Charming Man Gang of "nothing ever changes in football so the sooner the better we accept our place in the food chain" explain how the move to SMS ever happened. How on earth did we justify a stadium which could house more than double the capacity of the Dell?

Shortly afterwards a Brighton fan wrote in and gloried in the fact that the Saints fan continued our tradition of being runnersup. FA Cup 2003, League 1 2011, Championship 2012 and the SSG. Sometimes you have to feel sorry for the little Brighton fans.

No way. Nige knocks spots off him.

Claire Balding suffers from the Fiona Phillips disease - she has been a Chelsea fan when interviewed in the last few years. Her brother who is a successful racehorse trainer, was / is a season ticket holder at SMS.

It is posts like this on threads like this that really make mefear for the sanity of some posters on this forum.

Coming back from a few days away and catching up with this thread, I find it staggering how whenever a thread gets started which indicates that this club can go forward and can progress, the usual suspects come out and ridicule everything. The vehemence of thier beliefs and ridicule of anyone making an optimistic point is quite amazing. This thread is a classic example of this. Any thread which talks about expanding the stadium suffers from the same fate. Has you know who yet posted his "man walking on the moon" comment on this thread? Very few people say that we will win the Prem next season or the Champions League the following year. Very few say that we need a 55,000 seater stadium tomorrow. But you have to be rather blinkered in your approach to life to say that a steady, consistent progression for Saints is not to be aimed for and that one day these dreams may not be so unrealistic.

Can anyone spot somebody famous in this photo? http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/650_41675323196_8422283196_1185429_9406_n.jpg

Look up the page at 61972

Hmmmm. If Mark Fry had not taken the Pinnacle consortium as seriously as he did and had instead given Markus's bid more credence we could have been bought 6 weeks earlier than we were. Thank goodness that Markus was patient and didn't walk away from the deal. I think our current rosey position is despite Mark Fry and Begbies Traynor rather than thanks to them.

The BBC interview with Adkins is superb. I think we have heard some more of this in the last 20 months! Interestingly 8 of the team from that game were in the 16 man squad last Saturday!! http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/8968093.stm

Lets bump this. It would be criminal mr ****e if people did what I did for so much of last year and missed this blog. I plan my monday evenings these days for when your blog appears on here. You and Rallyboy (who posts often on the Pompey Takeover thread) have a great ability with words. I wiould be very upset at the wasted talent if you and he did not make your livings through your creative abilities. I regularly read Private Eye but the offerings that both you and he give us are just as good as what you can read on that magnificent journal. Well done sir.

Yesterday,according to ex skate Gary O'Neill,West Ham could have scored loads more goals against Hull but they eased off once they saw that we were winning so easily. There was little point in them scoring more against Hull. Yeah Gary. I am sure that you could have scored loads more goals if you could be simply bothered. West Ham are clerly such a great team that they can do whatever they want againt the dross of the Championship. West Ham have clearly not yet learnt the lesson that all relegated teams must learn - they have not yet learnt to respect the division that they are in. They were relegated last year because they were simply not good enough. Until they appreciate this and start to show some respect to their rivals, they will not go up. Why am I so sure that this is the case? Because it took me 3 years to respect the Championship. We were relegated from the Prem due to bad luck / a couple of fluky decisions etc etc. We were bound to go up at the first time of asking as we were a big club. We had been in a Cup Final 2 years befiore. We must be better than every other team in the division. I probably saw the light during our third Championship season and our final day win v Sheff United. From then onwards I respected the division that we were in. I respected the opposition more. I appreciated their football and their better players. My belief is that you only achieve promotion once you appreciate where you are and respect the division you are in. Until West Ham do this they will not go up.

I know it is hard to believe but one day you will get rid of SISU. We finally got rid of Lowe. When they go things will look better. Respect the league you are in. Enjoy it. You are there now because you haven't performed, Acknowledge that fact,move on anfd you will enjoy League 1. Enjoy the JPT. You wiill be back and I will welcone you. Good luck.

My thoughts exactly. What a wonderful man. His family must be so proud of him.

Agree completely

I agree entirely. Gestures like this must mean a lot to the Liebherr's. I would love 32k fans to be singing my name every week nearly 2 years after I had died. If I had as much money as them (and presumably could buy whatever I wanted) I am sure that I would get more enjoyment from this sort of gesture than from virtually any material possession.

An excellent summary if I may say. The only thing is that I doubt that Chinny would want to get the club in a position to be able to challenge for promotion from L1. How much will it cost him to keep thesquad together?£17 million? Why would he want to spend this to get his hands on £14 million of parachute payments?

My cat is named after Markus. He must suopport the Saints. My dog gets double food when Saints win but gets beaten up when we lose. He wishes that I supported Man United.

I have been relaxed since the end of Leicester v West Ham. For weeks I have been nervous with all the what ifs often acting on the Geoff Boycott batting principle - "things look good now but if we lose our next game and they win their next the table will look ....." Now though I feel strangely relaxed and am counting the hours until 12.30 saturday. I cannot wait. we know what we have to do. We can do it. Lets go and do it. Last night I had my first dream about Saturday. We were not playing well but were leading 1 0 in the 70th minute when I woke up. I wonder if I get to see the final 20 minutes tonight.

That team came so close to the double that season - yes younger readers Saints and a League and Cup double. How we never beat Everton in that Cup semi final I will never know. A bobble and Adrian Heath combined to give me my worst ever feeling after a Saints game. Coming second in the league was some sort of consolation but again we came so close. A stupid 0-1 home defeat to Notts County who were relegated that year was so costly as we were only 3 points behind Liverpool at the end of that season. A scrappy 1-0 defeat at Everton on Grand National morning when we were too intent on saving players for the Cup semi also cost us. That season was full of great memories - despite the disappointment of the Cup semi. For some reason I remember the Cup run better than the League - and not just for Steve Moran at Nottarf. Blackburn away in the 5th round on a Friday night was a highlight. 8-2 on saturday would be great. Hopefully it will lead to younger generations of Saints fans getting as much satisfaction from their team as I did in 1984.

There is still time - come on Leicester

That really is funny isn't it. What he really meant was: You are paying me shedloads more money than anybody else would. Keep on paying me.

If so, let me know and I will pop round. I think our manager is just briliant

Yes but Alpine is a depressive with genuine problems who is a Saints fan. Charlie Wayman is a skate on a wind up.