stev2001

Just calling as it is too

It looks like you came on to this thread just to moan about others speculating. So you are correct you never said we shouldn't speculate you just wanted to moan about it.

Ok you never said we shouldn't speculate, but please explain what you meant here if that was implied???

Hmmmm are you seriously say the we shouldn't speculate on here. Ok time to shut the threads about the coventry game or the west ham leicester game as that is just speculation. This thread is about what ifs. What's wrong with that?

My wife is from trelleborg and lives with me in chandlers ford. Our son will definitely be a saints fan. He is only just 2 so doesn't quite understand yet.

Keogh was voted their best player last season and has played every game for them this time around. His red red today could really help us.

First time we have lost all season after getting the first goal ffs

lallana might be injured?

corner come on!!!!!

5 mins of stoppage time

Bye bye, you wont be missed

I blame you if it all goes wrong today then

But we are already doing things differently to other clubs at our level. Why stop at the stadium. I'm no expert on stadium development so I won't start saying what I think is possible just to be shot down. NC has a plan.

Easy jet made a lot of money doing things differently

Or we could be sheep and do what every other club do. The owners of a championship/league one club are to build a 15m training facility. That's crazy as the other clubs at that level aren't doing it. However we seem to be trying to do things differently to make this club as good as it possibly can be for its size. I think if NC is looking to expand then we should be backing him and not moan about reasons why it's not worked for other clubs. Turkish are you a lion or sheep

Firstly I'm not getting excited but just trying to second guess NC. I don't know what other commercial schemes may work. Maybe shops like the megastore where tennents have to pay rent. This would protect the stadium expansion by bringing in money even when attendances are not that high and on non match days. I don't know if expanding is viable but if NC is talking about it then there must be something in it.

Exactly, thinking outside the box is what we should be doing. Also can someone acknowledge that building another tier creates a lot of extra space behind the stand for potential commercial use. Boxes or something else. There is other money to be made by expanding!

Ok to put it anotherway. If a new stand is built and the tickets sold for this stand only covered the cost of its running costs due to the fact for some games it will have heavily discounted seats etc. would it be worth it...of course not. However if the other money making revenues covered the cost of the loan to build it. Would it be worth it then? Of course it would.

I agree with what you just said but corporate boxes may not be the only way of generating extra income from the stand. Maybe NC has other clever plans? It might not be about extra seats. Some one has already mentioned keeping in the ground longer before and after the games, so maybe the new stand will have more entertainment. Like I said that's for the clever analysts and marketing teams.

What is wrong with that if seating is not the only revenue that the new stand makes!

Only if that stand only increases seating capacity. If it also brings in income from other commerial avenues then it does make business sense.....long term

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I agree I don't want to see a thousands of empty seats week in week out but I'd like to see us breaking to mould by having a stadium that makes money in other ways that can help pay for the running costs and any expansions.

I just get the feeling that NC is not happy with SMS which is why he talked of a possible move. Why is this??? If he was just looking at ticket sales for the extra income after expansion then its ideal as its a cheap and cheerful newish stadium with footings already place for expansion. Just trying to think outside the box and am fishing for anyones ideas.

Well said I'm not saying NC is thinking of building a hotel/stadium just using that as an example of a possible revenue income other than match days. NC is a clever cookie when it comes to finance and I bet he is not just looking at match day ticket sales as the reason to expand.