Danbert

"NOW (surprise, surprise) he says penalty-shootouts ate a "tragedy" - so is war."

Are YOU ****ed?

Really?

 

Is that why Hargreaves went to City instead of West Brom?

 

They're both crocks after a pay-day. No thank you to both.

 

 

EDIT: Rembered Hargreaves was on pay as you play. But still, why not go to WBA?

Oh come on, that's not a serious question is it?

Would you trust someone who had this on their linkedin profile?

 

"Anaylst at Goldman Sachs"

No, I'd never trust anyone who'd worked for the vampire squid.

well, a bit techy aren't we ..Glasgow? .........since when is a little wry humour forbidden on this site?

looking at some of the company I have on your Released list I think you might get some comeback from a few of them (all in good humour, of course)

 

I'll stick to supplying the stats. that nobody else is interested in.

...and BTW...if you're really looking to criticise someone .. you can take another look at the HCDAJFU next season thread (or whatever it's called now)

WHAT wry humour?

GO boil your head

All clubs are selling clubs it is just the price that changes

Okay but in the last two seasons we've been the big fish in the small pool nicking the other clubs best players - from the end of next season we can expect to risk losing our best players to bigger clubs as some of them will have made an impact on the Premier League.

Thought he was key to the pretty football we played at the start of the season and a successful start to life in the Championship. I accept he's past it but I think we'll miss him.

What I was thinking was if we're to be run along sustainable lines and if we're successful other clubs will covet our prize assets. If Adkins was linked with a team like Liverpool it'd be a huge step up for him - two years ago the guy was managing S****horpe. If Rickie gets linked with an established Premier League outfit or a club that plays silly money it's going to be his last chance to make that kind of a move. It would be naive to think that we won't become a selling club again.

At Norwich, 31-year-old Grant Holt has put in a transfer request, presumably because this is the only chance he's going to get to make an absolute packet, and Paul Lambert is being linked with moves away, just as Brendan Rogers, incidentally, has recently rejected an approach by Liverpool.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/may/18/grant-holt-norwich-city-transfer-request

No, no your being unfair. David in Sweden would thrill us all with some statistic about how many seconds it was since we had last introduced a substitute with a middle name beginning with L in precisely the 55th minute of a top division away game against Aston Villa.

What's the point we're so obviously going to get walloped anyway (again).

Like Lambert came from Barcelona didnt he ? ffs.

Woosh

Would always take the police account's of these situations with a pinch of salt. The "Drunk entering a football stadium" law is a joke that they pick and choose when to use.

 

Also, does a bloke acting like a prat at the football really require a full page article in the Echo? Is there really no other more interesting news or stories to focus on?

"Would always take the police account's of these situations with a pinch of salt." This...

Legend. Sure he has issues -he's the first to admit he has- but the scumbag comments are way off. A strong sense of justice and dislike of hypocrisy coupled with a few demons and difficulty fitting in -that's all. Big deal - there's a lot, lot worse in the world.

Completely agree

Rise of the Football League too... the gap is no longer so wide.

 

All 3 teams that went up last year have stayed up... should give us some belief for next year.

Personally, I view next season with trepidation. All the really **** teams in the Premier League (bar Villa) have now gone down - that's the only reason the promoted sides have done so well - now it's just the quality teams left :-(

Get Kevin Davies down here for a year or two.

His experience would be invaluable.

Please no he's well past it

The oddest thing is why did Spurs sign him if he wasn't good enough to make our bench in the Championship?

So what you are saying is that our chances of playing one of the top 6 teams out of 19 is about 1 in three?

Hell yes

Drugs testing to be stepped up at SFC

 

The whole notion of the "prawn sandwich munching" elite taking the place of "real fans" is a bit absurd.

It's just a question of economics - the more it costs the wealthier fans need to be, hence a greater proportion of middle class pawn sandwich muncher bring the kids types. I don't really see how you can get around that.

This is a point I've seen discussed before, and why I think the notion of a "JCL fan" is a bit ridiculous. Attendances typically go up the more successful a team is. Not because the club just suddenly attracts brand new customers (although this is true to a small extent). But the bulk o fthe increased attendance will come from those who are already fans, who have probably been to watch games before, but are now attracted to attend on a more regular basis.

 

That's how we need to increase attendance; by encouraging fans to attend more often. Talk of increasing the catchment area etc just miss the point IMO.

I've seen a number of people on here mention the fact that they will be going to fewer games next season as prices are likely to become prohibitively expensive. I would have thought that this effect would outweigh the tendency for existing fans to attend more games because the club is successful. The net result? Johnny come lately glory hunter prawn munchers taking the place of the real fan.

Generally speaking, the larger the crowds and the more successful the club the greater the proportion of that club's fan base is made up of people with no real affiliation to the club and who are merely attracted to it because of its success. Hence Pompey's support next season will be reduced to the hardcore nut element, whilst Old Trafford is a soulless quiet stadium.

pride

"Also if they help Saints why we were one of three clubs, the other two who funnily enough have wealthy owners as well, who voted against the being introduced in the championship."

I thought that was a very telling fact. The club's rhetoric is that we will be put on a "sustainable footing" in the Premier League. This is also something Chelsea have been talking about now for about 10 years.

The trouble is, that once you start spending more than you earn it's very difficult to stop. If our overspending is to stop it has to stop now. Once we start paying wages that are unsustainable in the Premier League there's no extra income we can generate in the short term that will reduce those costs as a proportion of turnover. So I'm hoping, for the club's sake, that none of the fanciful Stalinist dreams on the 5-year plan thread get put into action.

Financial Fair Play Regulations are a disadvantage to Saints in the Championship (as this means we can't take a punt on promotion). If we're planning on a sustainable business model in the Premier League then clearly they'll be an advantage to us as they'll make it harder for other clubs with different business models to overspend.

david in sweden ALWAYS makes a valid point

In HIS OWN special way. Green biro anyone?