Legod Third Coming

I'd be stunned if they don't sell a single player in the future...

They will be Chinese. He will be Portugeuse. We will be challenging for Champion's League. Deal with it!

Confirmed.

"You'll never play for England (to Shearer)" Brilliaint!

Haha! Good point!

For a view on Barton that is 100% accurate, search for Jimmy Corkhill's 'open letter to Joey Barton'...

Well said, sir!

Yep imagine when we're in with a chance of winning it on the final day

Agreed.

Fabulous, fabulous day. I really, really enoyed that.

Er this is the most incredible football match I have seen in my life I think!

Come on your Rs - 20 minutes away from me Loftus!!! Plus I have a soft spot having been these so often with pals!

I prefer evening games myself - although I am often bored senseless on a Saturday afternoon if we're not playing, especially if there's no decent cricket or racing on...

It was a great journey because it was a short one... Imagine being a Coventry fan...!

That's the same the world over sadly. But ignore the real glory hunters. Truth is they do not go to games anywhere... I grew up 45 minutes from the Dell and supported the club as did quite a few of my mates in Petersfield (now ok I had family supporters) but those who didn't had a choice - Pompey or Saints. Pompey had more supportes (most of my mates) because they were more local. But Saints had plenty because they were second in the first division! So I think I agree with your overall point which is that there are not 50,000 latent Saints fans waiting to come and watch us every week... BUT, and it is a big but. A few years competing in the top flight and success (in whatever form) will do wonders for what young kids do with their alleigance. Take a former poster on here who I know. His son was a reluctant Saints fan (preferred United) until that promotion game and feeling. Now he's asked for a red and white kit...

ok, draw the line at Milford then. The point is the same, if you want a local club where is it?

Ok, write off the 'Big Club fans' - they're everywhere sadly. And most have never set foot inside 'their club'... If you want to support a local succcesful side in Basingstoke, it's either Reading or Saints right? That's me question. Sorry, I wasn't posing a solution. I was asking the same question - how do we convert and attract them!

Is he the best buyer of a player in the UK?

I think I just brought up a little of my breakfast seeing some of those names...

I don't think we will STRAIGHT away, but I refer you back to my earlier question... If you're growing up now in a belt that spans the south coast and up to say Guildford, and you want to support a 'local' club, who is it?? Notwithstanding that 90% of young people support their 'family' team I imagine (ie, who their dad or other family members support and the club they get into).

Is that true? Now THAT is the power of a great manager... Maybe Adkins could be Clough II...

Hallebloodylujah! The world changes and football moves on... For me this debate is utterly pointless. In the next five years these are ALL feasible results: Win the Premiership Win the Championship Win League One Win League Two (yes I've done the maths) It used to take football clubs a long time to do what a Derby did under Clough (or Forest) or United under Busby, or Liverpool under Shankly, then along came people like Jack Walker and suddenly money spoke a little... and now money it speaks VOLUMES. We might go bust, we might qualify for the Champion's League in the next five years. To rule out either is meaningless. To claim either is pretty ridiculous. But if you believe Nicola Cortese is a constant (again, at best a bet) which is he most likely 'targeting'?? I can't see us selling out a 60k stadium any time soon. But then I couldn't see Rangers being liquidated...

Just imagine what might have happened if Lowe had appointed Pardew on WGS' departure, right now we could be competing for 4th, genuinely!

This is the first of your posts which (with the exception of the bold) contains a number of indisputable FACTS. (I can provide the evidence from Gartner (Carlina Milanesi, VP Research) and Microsoft on the tablet data (we call them that, not 'iPads' since they only make up about 60% of the tablet market) and the stadium data is freely available via Google)

Gotcha - in which case I agree!