stev2001

Not sure if it's been posted already but if possible go through luxembourg to fill up, buy drink and cigarettes if you smoke.

Do I get student discount on match tickets? I work full time but have a valid NUS extra card due to the OU degree I'm doing? Never tried it before as I'm in my 30s

You are so much better making the points I was trying to make and have summed up a lot of what others are saying too. Good post.

Hence why we are not expanding today. Come the end of the season if we are still in the Prem and we've sold out most games who knows. The evidence is the club is now showing ambition to expand by releasing pics of a possible future. I can't recall them doing that before?

Well said.

And I know a load of people who couldn't go because they couldn't get tickets?

You got that definition totally wrong you idiot.

I'll come if I'm over visiting her family while a game is on.

Troll troll troll. The last couple of pages of this thread have been about our increased attendance next season. I was merely continuing on from what others have said that other factors will contribute to this other than just more Saints fans going to matches. You can now read though all my old posts to try to find something that I might have said that you can slate me with. Troll troll troll

I agree with that but I don't know how you come to the conclusion I was an idiot when all I did was carry on with a discussion someone else already started. You were the one who come along and spent a couple of posts trying to work out what point I was making followed by saying the thread was pointless and you were leaving. Then you come back with a couple of insults and argued something different to what I was trying to say again. I think we both better call it a day before we drive each other nuts.

Are we arguing different points here? Growing as a club? I was talking about our attendance going up due to more neutrals, ManU fans (citeh, scousre fans etc) living in the Southampton area and fair weather fans going to the game due to our large catchment area?

Only took you 30 mins to come back to it though

Mate, I'm not the one one who keeps angling for a bite. Why is it difficult to understand that now we are in the prem we will attract alot more fans who want to watch Prem football. Whether these are neutrals or away fans (lots of manu fans in hampshire) or just Saints fans who can't be arsed to watch us play walsall but will make the effort to watch against Liverpool. The amount of extra away fans that come to the ground is probably not that many but that added with all the other factors will mean we will probably sell out most of games next season. You said earlier you didn't understand the point I was trying to make, I'm not sure what the point you are trying to make? Thats the only bite your getting!

I agree with most of what you are saying and I think our catchment does become much more important now we are in the Prem. Having a large area and rich catchment probably doesn't bring in many extra supporters in the lower leagues as fair weather fans and fans of other teams don't want to watch Saints v Walsall anyway. Now we are playing the likes of citeh, ManU, liverpool, Newcastle and Everton this catchment will start drawing these fans out especially if they have the money to do so.

Anytime

I was just following on from what others were saying.

I did actually mean a neutral coming to watch ManU.

I've sat in the away end with a west ham fan to watch middlesbrough before now as he wanted to watch a Prem game in 2003 and I couldn't get tickets with the home supporters.

Almost, fans will come to Saints games to watch ManU and Prem footy, yes. This is fact as I have been to games many times with non Saints fans because of this.

Catchment is very relevant as those who want to watch ManU and not Walsall will do so at the nearest club they can. If our catchment is big the more of these type of people will come.

No but there alot of people who won't bother to go to SMS to watch walsall but will to watch ManU no matter where they live. I know this as fact as my friend who lives abroad and isn't a Saints fan didn't fancy going to watch walsall for free when he was over last (as I had a spare ticket a few seasons back) but is now asking me if I can get tickets for the ManU game so he can organise a trip that corresponds with that date.

IMO the perfect season would be to sell just short of a sell out in every match as this would mean that the pricing has been spot on. Low enough to attract but high enough to generate revenue. Everytime we sell out we lose potential income. I'm not a great fan of just keep increasing prices to lower demand either as potentially you are alienating your poorer and maybe some of your most passionate fans. Like I said before a larger stadium gives us that flexibilty and hopefully the coming season will prove we have a need. Alot of sell outs at high prices will prove this!

Bigger stadium = increased flexibility. How many people on here started moaning when the new layout was introduced for the coming season. Smaller family area, lesser kids deals etc. While in the championship our 32k stadium gave us the flexibility to do this. Now demand is higher we have obviously lost that ability. It does remain to be seen however whether we can justify a expansion as this is a hell of a expansive option to gain a bit of flexibilty but hopefully this season will prove that.

Well that makes a change. Some really good points made in the last page or so all without the normal trolling spoilers. Keep it up

Is anyone else of the opinion that it is good to have a stadium that you don't fill every week? If we are filling a stadium every week then we are losing out on alot of revenue for the big games that would attract a much larger crowd. IMO we need a stadium that for more than half the games of the season we max out on. No one likes seeing empty seats but no one likes missing out on a game that is a sell out either.