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Both fairly meaningless statistics.

All the beers I've had from the Salopian Brewery have been excellent, as are the beers from the Titanic Brewery in Stoke on Trent, top draw stuff.

In the construction phasing information it says "No seats would be lost during construction", but its hard to know exactly what they mean by that. It'd be a real challenge to build a new stand without disrupting the old one, bearing in my how close the river runs behind it.

Fair enough, I can also see why pundits would think we would go down, just wanted to demonstrate that we weren't "****" in all of our first 10 games.

No we were weren't. Out of our first 10 games, you could only really say we were really poor against Wigan, Arsenal, West Ham and West Brom and even those games there were positives from most of them.

From the start of November, once the side had got some Prem experience under it's belt & once Cork and Shaw were in the side regularly, look how few games we've lost http://www.statto.com/football/teams/southampton/2012-2013/results

Pretty impressive is that.

Well there have been lots of teams that have been well down in the lower leagues and suffered admin etc and made it into the Prem, so I'm not sure exactly what the question is? Is it teams that have left the Prem, gone down to League One in admin, then made it back into the Prem? That's probably only us.

An excellent example that prison does indeed work.

Guess it might have been easier for Wolves as they has "stand alone" stands. Do you know how much that is costing Fulham? An impressive piece of construction work if they pull it off successfully.

Everyone is discussing free travel.

Think you're getting a bit carried away now. They don't play the best football in the world, but they're nowhere near as bad as some are making out.

Not sure what others thoughts are on this, but I can't see how we could expand the ground without having to close sections of it during the season? Is that likely to be possible?

West Ham at home is quite a bigger game than Norwich on a Weds night in November, or Fulham at home on a Sunday lunch time on Sky. Kracken's point is right though, if you scratch out "walk up on the day" and replace it with "buy with ease a week or so before hand", the point remains valid.

Why do you think we chose him as our new manager if his record at Scunny hadn't been succesful? Two promotions in two seasons for us is an excellent achievement, no-way you can pretend it isn't I'm afraid.

I didn't say I'd have no desire to use it. Just that there is a difference between accepting an offer theoretically and what you might end up doing in practice.

Cartels shouldn't be allowed, but that is the same with any industry. We could argue we are ripped off with loads of stuff, price of petrol, food and drink, football tickets, I'd rather it was all cheaper, so what?

Why should energy suppliers be owned and managed by the government? We have football clubs owned by people from all corners of the world, why should any other industry be different.

He says that people are creatures of habit and are unlikely to change their travel routine just at the offer of a free bus ticket - fair point imo. He then says though, that if asked if they'd want a free ticket, most fans would say "yes", even if in practice they probably wouldn't use one - again, correct, I'd class myself in that bracket.

Well how has he contradicted himself then?

He might end up at Stoke or Sunderland, or a newly promoted side. Not going to offer our side anything.

HE's not contradicting himself is he? Have you actually read the article?

As with any elecetion. Regardless, for the majority of the country, she was a success.