Legod Third Coming

I've seen my side lose on penalties and win on penalities. It was brilliant when we won and heartbreaking when we lost. But I'll tell you one thing, it was FAIR. Blatter is an idiot - and bent too.

I'm afraid this is all the evidence we need for stadium expansion... This is the modern way (and maybe always was). A huge swathe of fans are glory hunters and will go where the action is. And who can blame them???!!! When I was stood in the near-fog watching us scramble for a 0-0 draw with Wycombe fecking Wanderers - read it again WYCOMBE WANDERERS... and my mistress was sending me suggestive texts, I'm thinking to myself, what the feck is wrong with you LTC??!!!!!! Still, must be the masochist in me but I quite enjoyed that night... not as much as a hotel suite, bottle of bubbly and blonde in Agent Provocateur... but life is nothing if not for variety!

To pay the wages of the players we will now need to employ to be competitive in the Premiership.

Er, maybe that's because you're missus doesn't look so good in just a footie shirt...?

Tell you what, you have the burger, and I'll buy a seat for the bun.

Si senor. You want to build the new Barcelona? You hire the architect, of course....

Oh man I hope you are right. Glory, glory days in that kit - Stevie Moran, Williams, Agboula, Channon, Worthington, Holmes, Armstrong, Wallace, KEEGAN!

Hello and welcome! 100%. And if we did adopt Wigan's pricing structure and spent the whole season praying for a win, I bet this place would be full of humility that the Chairman had delivered them 'value for money'... If you spend £1 on football you are a wealthy man. Because all over the world people do not have a penny to spend on food.

Sadly there is only one place he is going... And it was also annoying to see Jose sign a four year deal with Real...

About as good as our chances...

I think you misunderstand, me. 1. United will not sell more tickets because they are on sale longer. FACT. They have a waiting list. So their decision to sell ST's earlier is either because a) they want the money sooner, b) they want to give people as long as possible to be able to pay, c) some other reason unebknownst me. It is NOT, 100% NOT, and nothing to do with the volume they will sell. You couldn't get one if you wanted one. So to cite United as evidence that a longer window sells more is just not true. None of those clubs you list has a longer window than us to sell more tickets. The reason they do it is nothing to do with maximising sales because they all (to my current knowledge) have Season Ticket waiting lists in the many, many thousands. 2. You think we would have sold more if we had put ours on sale earlier. This suggests that there are people who would have bought one in the afterglow of promotion, but who have now changed their mind. Do you really believe this? I don't. That could be our one area of genuine disagreement. My gut feel is that the demand for Season Tickets is fixed by those people who have the INTENTION to buy one. And not by the length of the buying opportunity. We're not talking about cars, or clothes, we're talking about a Season Ticket to see your club play at home every other week. Why does that require eight to ten weeks of buying opportunity?? I would accept that selling them in one day would be tough - not enough sales agents for a start. But I bet, and I would bet a lot of money on it, that if the selling windows were one month, two months or three months, the variation in sales would be neglible. The only differences will come if fan's circuamstances change (they receive a bonus, win the lottery, etc - but by the same token the same number of fans will also lose their jobs and not win the lottery)... Does that not make perfect sense?? PS: I used Apple simply to demonstrate that sales has everything to do with DEMAND and little to do with sales opportunities if the demand doesn't change.

You fecking eejit. The sooner you sell something, the sooner you get paid. FACT. So for cashflow reasons, it is always best to be paid as quickly as possible - that is what I meant. And what anyone running a business understands. Get the cash in the bank as soon possible - that is whay I said 'personally' - ie. if it were MY business. No offence, like.

I'm not saying it's right or wrong but that it doesn't make the blindest difference. If people really did rethink their intention to buy a ST, I don't believe they were seriously considering buying one in the first place. And if they were wavering (over finance) an instalment plan (and not a short sales window) is the most effective solution, surely? I would have put them on sale straightaway for cash flow reasons, personally.

But surely, a more important factor which influences demand is price - so if the club wanted to sell more STs they could reduce the price couldn't they? Or at least offer an instalment plan? The least possible effect on demand is the window within which to buy a product. If anything, a smaller window pushes demand UP - not down, typically. The fact other clubs have their STs on sale might have everything to do with their cash flow and nothing to do with the number they will utlimately sell. I can tell you how many STs Spurs will sell now. And Chelsea. And Arsenal. And United. And City. They all have waiting lists... Do you really think Wigan will sell more STs this year than last because they are on sale now?? By your logic people who might have bought on the final whistle against Coventry have now gone off the idea because the euphoria has what 'worn off'?

Ok. If you think the longer window leads to more sales you must believe people need time to decide to buy? Or are you concerned that people will miss a smaller window for some reason? Neither makes sense if you think about it. The demand is the demand. How can a longer opportunity to buy create more demand??

Or it could have been said that an 'average' Season Ticket was around £100 - ie. one in the wings without a great view. Whereas a 'great' Season Ticket is £2,100 - with girls in dirndles, serving Becks in Liter Steins and offering a happy ending regardless of the score... just a thought...

Ask the late Steve Jobs. You want it. We want you to have it... But not yet... Swings and roundabouts. Reading have (if I read you right) sold tickets to people who are renewing - my guess is that the vast bulk of those would have bought whenever they were released?? And as for new ST holders (of which I will be one) it makes no odds to me if you sell it me now or eight hours before the first game. I'll still buy it. I'm not sure why with the biggest deficit in our living memory, in a technical recession and with 2.68m unemployed people are blaming the club for letting them hang on to their own money a bit longer...??

How are any sales being sacrificed? People want them. They can't buy them yet. When they can they will. Or have I read this wrong?

I read 'The Jellyman has thrown a wobbler' and if it's half as good as that it will be worth the cover price. Funny bloke and really good writer.

Someone must have a scooby? There must be marketing materials being prepared, business planning meetings minutes of which are taken... I mean someone could just post a number on here... or PM me and I will... It would be good to know how much I have to steal from the wife's housekeeping soon...

You're right, apart from not signing Drogba, he proved himself a brilliant chairman.

Yawn... Must be tough to cling on to regime that bankrupted us with incompetence and not join in the fun now we actually have a future...

Fans rarely berate a Chairman for showing ambition - they recognise he can't dictate whether the player is any good. His job is to employe people (scouts and coaches) to tell him this... And while our scouts often did, Rupert had this crazy idea that Lloyd James would grow into the role...

So we could have sold him to Chelsea for £24m in 2004 and staved off administration - well done Rupert, as graves go you did a fine job with the shovel...

A couple of thoughts: 1. Just because a manager is successful at one thing does not mean he is the right man for the next job. Di Matteo has worked wonders at Chelsea but if they have a desire to rebuild a team to play in the style of Barcelona, then surely the best qualified manager available is Pep Guardiola? 2. I used to be all for managerial stability but the world has changed. Arsenal have had one manager for nine years and won NOTHING. Chelsea have had 8 managers and won TEN trophies during the same period...