benjii

Benthelegend! Legend!

I am intrigued to hear more about his experience. Hopefully he's still registered on here so he can give us all an example of one of the successful takeovers he has helped by applying his value add.

We're worth naff all. We are a small/medium business incapable of making a profit without external capital investment. That sort of investment is not readily available in the debt market precisely because the industry we're in has been recognised by many banks as being, largely, ridiculous. People can point at the crowds and pluck various "break-even" figures out of the air but if didn't have the financial muscle to attract the top players those crowds would be down by at least 25%. The only reason we have that finance is due to one person's deep pockets. We may be worth something if we get into the Premiership.

Hardly, although I get your point.

There are some awful teams who manage to stay in the second division. The season we got relegated Watford were absolutely dire. I saw both league matches against them and they were pathetic. Unfortunately we had amateur coaches and so couldn't defend set pieces properly and only picked up one point against them. The presence of that sort of dire team leads me to think we would certainly not be relegated if we were promoted with the current 11. We would also enter the FA Cup later and not need to play in the JPT so squad depth would also look a bit stronger. As others have said, the difficult part is getting promoted to the top division and then staying up. If there really is a 5-year plan and we go up from the third division in year 2, then years 3 and 4 are absolutely vital as our best talent becomes firmly in the Premier League shop window then as well. If we do make it in to the second division then I would not be surprised if we made one or two genuine marque signings at that point because we would be entering an absolutely critical period. In the third division it's a fairly safe bet that our relative size will see us promoted at some point (so long as we continue to enjoy a great executive management team). In the second division there are more clubs of a similar status and the rewards on offer for promotion are bigger - we wouldn't want to be there long.

Am I the only person who has never heard of Joe Garner?

Shirely sounds game. Joke derivation: circa 1970s Leslie Neilsen films.

So, you saw two people who look like this: in the same car?

Our players are a thoroughly dislikable bunch of thick, McIdiots. The only one I like is James, and he's a skate FFS. He's also gash, which is a shame. Actually, I like Crouch too. And Theo is clearly a nice lad with decent parents. Most of them are scum though.

You can't fiddle with his musical legacy.

So don't go to the cup matches. Having said that, it would be just £3.50 each, assuming you come in your usual trio. Many of the cup matches will be at cheaper prices anyway. If you can afford to share the petrol from Andover, presumably an extra £3 won't break the bank? If you have severe problems walking don't you qualify for a disabled badge? I have the utmost sympathy for you with respect to physical difficulties and I realise money is tight (I am not doing something I had planned to do this weekend because I need to save money) but it sounds a bit like you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Bit odd if the driver looked like him. He's a funny looking chap. You sure it wasn't a couple of fans on the way to a tribute or something?

Such a relief. I would like to thank him, not just on my behalf, but on behalf of all the kids in Soton who could've grown up with a team to be embarrassed about and now have something to look forward to.

They should do pretty well but they were a long way behind us by the end of last season in terms of optimum performance level. I would expect Lambert to get more.

Who does he play for?

I cannot comment on the relative merits of those Sheffield Wednesday players as I cannot recall having ever heard of them before. I do expect we will finish above them this season though. Probably because I'm a Saints fan, but also for all the reasons that the bookies think we will finish above them too.

I went around gobbing off to everyone before the tournament started about how England would be knocked out in the second round (I am football intelligentsia, you see) but never got around to putting any money on it. Never mind.

I will come back to this thread this evening and I hope to find a picture then. Thank you and kind regards Benjii

Why wrong? You must agree he's a petulant so and so? Presumably therefore you think he has more good games than bad? I'd say it's around 50/50. Anyway, probably not a discussion for this thread.

Exactly, reading some of the comments on here you would think Southampton was gridlocked every home match. It isn't.

So for an extra £23.33 each you're going to give up going completely? Because you can't be bothered to park ten minutes further away from the ground? If so, that just proves how a business will always have some weird customers and that no decision can suit everyone.

Probably because he has as many bad games as good games and is a petulant so and so.

Neil Mellor :vuvu:

They are different to Leeds... Leeds had some things going for them.

A booking fee. It is standard practice across a wide-range of industries. It is hardly sneaky or disreputable. Ticketmaster charges £4.50 per ticket FFS (I think). As to your main point, when you can stop the infantile rhetoric for a second, it is something I have pointed out before. It's a funny situation because you want the team to be succesful but that success necessarily comes with a price unless you are a team like Fulham in the shadow of others and have no choice but to be competitive on price. Saints are in the enviable/bad (depending on your viewpoint) position of being able to charge a fairly premium price when we're back in the Prem as there is no viable alternative for Premier League football for miles around. That's not sneaky or bad - it's just a fact.