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Yes but by those standards you'd have to blame the students and teens as well. They get the same price.Seniors are oft the people with the most money nowadays, index linked pension schemes be praised.

I'm sure that if someone put up the average CCC gates you'd see that we're in the top middle as well.We used to get big crowds,we have a relatively big ground,percentage of seats filled figures mean nothing. To quote Rupert when he sacked Gray "We"re not building a stadium for the Nationwide".

Not so Our attendances are down on a greater percentage basis than many others. Apart from a few teams we are still getting reasonable gates for the CCC. One of our main problems is that we seem to have a near-Southampton core base of about 9000 fans and the rest is scattered about the country randomly. I would suspect if you compared that to say the 16K they got at Palarse when they were playing their neighbours Charlton, you would find that the vast majority live within a short drive or train ride of the stadium. As we can see from SOG's post it's not just the £24 to go to the game in that case, it's petrol or diesel which have rocketed lately, it's food on route because you need 3 hours to get here.We probably have fans dobbing out £70 or so for every home game, when a "credit crunch" starts to bite and your mortgage goes up along witth your bill at Tescos etc ,football becomes a luxury you can't afford.I would think the area in which our fan base has dwindled the most is the 32-40 year old, married 2 kids,150K mortgage section. Students will be hard pressed financially this year as well. It has now been 3 seasons since we got relegated, 1 complete higher education cycle.Kids who started going in their 1st Uni year are now gone from the City,perhaps the incoming haven't replaced them.

Yes well as I say unless Lowe et al and Wilde actually sell their holding there will be no takeover (or investment as some quaintly put it). The fact that they came "storming back" was because their investment was disintegrating.If the "investors" had the wherewithal then they would have sold out (thus protecting their investment in another way). Crouch's investors didn't have the money,that's why Mike Wilde asked for proof of funds.All this is public domain knowledge. We were talking to them after Lowe and Wilde came back, they didn't have the swans, we told them stop tarting about. It's all in the LSE notifications.Lowe and Wlde will be here UNTIL SOMEONE HAS THE MONEY TO MAKE THE DISAPPEAR, end of...

Well yes, because it's not possible afterwards.He could only sign on loan for a maximum of 93 days if he signed AFTER the 1st September.We'd have to wait until 1st January to give him a full transfer contract.

So then this season's attendance is conditional on last seasons performances. A ST (early bird) on the half way line is £500 or £22 per home game. On the "March Madness" scheme it would have been about £80 less I expect,so the home game cost about £18.50. Interest free credit to boot I think. There is no validity in this ticket price guff, not if you were a season ticket holder and could have renewed uner the MM scheme. That the football was crap, now that I do buy. Big money team that has nigh on bankrupted the club for tinpot dire performances, yep that explains it very well;Last season we were catastrophically badly run, neither of the present incumbent was involved with that....Dodd and Gorman what a fook up supreme.We were bad under Burley, should have been sacked early on,wasn't, then he left and we got the comedy duo when there were plenty of cheap candidates waiting in the wings. If we'd got Pearson THEN, he might still be here.

It's an academic arguement? LC had his chance to find some "investors". Trouble with all that is that he's a minority shareholder. If his "investor" can't produce the financial clout to convince the majority shareholding groups of their plans for the club then LC could stay in charge 1000 years and we wouldn't be taken over. He just found Fulthorpe et al, they don't seem to have the wherewithal.Nothing stopping Crouch from selling them HIS shareholding and letting them try to convince others of their plans.Mary Corbett could do the same, then they'd have 16% or so as a working base. There are a few other bits and bobs floating about out there as well. Let them get to 29% first and then proposition either Wilde or the Lowe clique.Why can't they do that, ah no money, yep that's always a bugger. It's catch 22, they need control to get the money, but they won't get control without the money.Mike Wilde as good as said "flash the cash and I'm listening, if you can't p!ss off".

Yes he is, he gets paid for 2 days a week. It's public knowledge, said so himself. Said it was "all we can afford". Mike Wilde gets nothing, expenses from Jersey from time to time perhaps. As he's only allowed what 75 days a year in the UK he probably turns up about once every 2 weeks.

Why didn't they renew their season tickets then?, wouldn't have cost £28 a game then. Presuming they went to QPR that would have cost them £30. So they go to QPR at £30 but not to SMS where they could have gone for £24 (or less if they'd renewed their STs).I presume the Sheff U game cost a tenner because it was last chance saloon and when you know you're being kicked out on the morrow you can do whatyever you want, the finances are no longer your problem.In fact it might have been done to stick up the proverbial two to the incoming administration. Talking away the 13500 ST holders,16500 at £10=6895x£24.

Because he thinks we do, the bank might well think we do as well.On the salary front I doubt if 80K a year is going to change much, shift Rudi and we'll save 6 times as much. Rupert Lowe (and his clique) and Mike Wilde own a controlling interest in the club.Until someone is prepared to step up with enough filthy lucre it doesn't matter what you, I or Uncle Tom Cobbley think of their continuing usefulness.

There is no contradiction, one says he hasn't moved to the south coast yet, the other talks about contract. Never signed a contract for a job that starts in the future? If you signed a contract today for the 1st of January 2009 it would still be valid although it is as yet non operative.

Yep ,award yourself the C.D.M

Well I would have thought that would have been obvious.If you listen to some of our co-forumists the diabolic duo find ways of not paying players that aren't injured so paying a player who was injured from the start:-

If you need cash then betting on Saints isn't the best solution. Have a look on darkmarket to see if there are any fixed matches.:cool::cool:

Not a dicky bird as far as I know.

Well you didn't miss 'it" because 'it" was a non-event as per usual. Wants someone to spill the beans on exactly who leaks this "tomorrow for sure" stuff to them and expose them for the tyre kickers they are.

Never mind Coventry, Blackpool is the result that shouldn't have happened, we should have won that.Winning at Coventry is a hypothesis, we could and should have won against Blackpool, Lallana needs to learn to shoot low and in the corner and bob's yer uncle, in play-off contention.

Soon the concessions will read Seniors,Students and Unemployed Investment Bankers £18 Couldn't have happened to nicer bunch of blokes, they made my 5 years as a student a misery (well when there was no beer,sex or hallucinogens anyway). I remember hiking it from th Portobello Road to Romford in the snow to scrounge £2 off my aunt,jus cos the w*nker at the Midland wouldn't lend me a fiver to go home to get some cash off my folks. George W and Gordon Brown never bailed me out..

Close: 8658. 1-0 to us back in 2001

Well given the number of ITK Investment Bankers that we've had on the various takeover threads" It's a wonder we even get 15K.:smt107:smt107:smt107

Not that it makes a vast difference but the actually monies perceived by the club are ticket price-VAT. It renders the gap between £24 and £20 slightly smaller in the equation.If you read through the interview between Nick I and David Luker it's all set out for you. No mention of the bank of course.

I realise all of that but for such a definitive statement...then nothing... it's totally not Nick.Not a maybe,a could be,or a perhaps anywhere in sight .. the gist of the statement is it will happen and it will happen tomorrow.There are no riders which would lead one to think otherwise.I mean if it was a 10pm posting you could say" yep, he's downed a few", but not in the morning.

Well of course as he never ever posted his "takeover tomorrow" spielge on this forum he owes us no explanation. Still he must have known that it would be spread about liberally and publicly. Seems like an OK guy so he must have been seriously mislead, unless of course the money was coming from some plus values to be made on Wednesday after the markets bump started on Tuesday. This theory should not be ignored as it is the only explanation I can see as reasonable...

Loan of course. We shall see if it's real or just another case of social referencing to try to shift him before the second last Thursday in November.

What's juicy about it then?? Probably less the Lawrie Mac's "expenses".