Daft Kerplunk

End of an era and that's the entire promo team gone. Wonder what the next era will be like

Dreadful performance overall, was bored stiff watching that but we won.

Exactly. The club said they offered him a longer contract, Fonte was adamant that they didn't. Basically comes down to who to believe. If things are going well, those among your best players who've been here whilst plenty of others have left don't hand in transfer requests midway trough the season.

Club has played this well again. Some/many fans will turn on Jose saying he just wants more money but he's stayed through thick and thin and has been a leader for the club. Didn't he say he wanted to finish his career here? The board want to cash in whilst he has value I reckon, and whilst that might be okay in some respects, it does nothing to add to team spirit or give fans heroes. Sad indictment. He should be here and get his testimonial. Things must be bad for him personally with his relationship with the club for him to want to go.

I can't bring myself to blame Puel as he is the man the board wanted. Les said they had 3 interviews with him, and all the famed due diligence would have taken place too meaning he was the number one choice based on the Board's criteria. Watching the Under-23s in the Checkatrade Trophy showed a similar type of play too so Puel is playing a risk reduced style of football that is in the style of the club, which is against risk, but without risk there are no rewards. I could only bring myself to blame Puel if he was given a decent squad to work with and ours isn't on top of it's game this season so far. I recall Les saying we had the best midfield options in the country earlier this season too but the midfield is the problem as they rarely play balls forward to the centre forwards who are then not having much to make use of. Buck stops with the top for me at the moment and they need to back the coach they picked with a squad that gives him a chance to show if he can make it here. The board should also learn to understand that Saints fans like attacking football and always have done.

You don't know that though do you maybe just maybe. You don't know everything, and neither do I. But I never claim to, and that is what makes us different. You know as much as I do which is very little but I'm comfortable with that. How about you? Can we agree on that at the end of it all?

CB Fry doesn't like other points of view. He just can't handle them.

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Snooze. You are a bore. stick me on ignore if you can't handle a different point of view darling. Oh, and check out the German model for ticket prices, investing in stadia. There's a working example of it for you from the masters of how to be a strategic economy. But maybe you just cannot see that far. I tried to be polite but unfortunately with your big keyboard willy, you had to swing it about. There's clever people like you so take a look outside into the big wide world for some genuine real life examples of the successful models I'm mentioning and stop acting like a know it all who knows only what is inside his tiny sphere of knowledge.

Well, my point is that we'd that we'd be able to get more locals, and especially younger fans in who can't currently afford it. I'd welcome the singing they'd bring too because it's a bit rubbish at the moment but that's a whole other rabbit hole to wander into sir. Personally I'd welcome the tourists as well but to have the young of the city and area is actually more what the point I made was about. Anyway, back to Pelle going off to play in a non-football country for pots of cash...

Did I say that? Nope. They have been superb and they have invested significantly, especially in the training facilities, which is of course a seed that will grow. But there is a next stage. The club is ambitious, and maybe, just maybe this will include stadium infrastructure. I know some people don't believe it could happen but I am merely saying that a not at capacity stadium every week is not necessarily a barrier to building a bigger stadium if there is a strategic ambition to be a bigger club. I guess many people on here don't actually live in Southampton but there are plenty of people I know who don't go to every game because they can't afford it but would love to. Bigger stadium with a different range of pricing would mean those people could attend. It's a much bigger discussion and whilst I should not offend people for small thinking, for which I apologise, there are other people who don't look at what is happening now, and are interested in what could happen if it was created.

See above. Oh and the owners may well agree we need to add capacity and that is their strategic view for the future, unless of course you are on the board? Or they may think their investment is currently optimised and it will be up to the next owners to invest in the infrastructure.

This part of the world has a population of over 1 million people. Not enough? There are those who think it could be filled, or at least enough to not be 'commercial suicide' as you say and there are those who don't believe we could do better. Simple really and if we weren't on a message board we could have a much deeper discussion about it and possibly see each other's points and either agree to disagree or come to a mutual acceptance of each other's perspective. I happen to believe strongly that we could get more people in if tickets were priced correctly. There are enough venues in enough places in enough entertainment choices to prove my point but I appreciate that won't change everyone's opinion.

Sorry forum clever clogs for not thinking in your way almighty one X Ps go on and have a read of some historical books about where an ambitious approach has led to a growth. It is bigger ambitious thinking that makes things better, I'm not suggesting we build the next Nou Camp but 10k seats would be filled with the correct pricing structure no problem, maybe not all of the time but enough to make a difference. Do you think a restaurant chain shuts because it isn't at capacity all of the time or that maybe 80% of the time it is so it can grow. Now there is a thought...

But I and many other think we do. Your turn.

Incorrect, check the actual real stats, and why does it need to be full anyway? Small time thinking

Well that's not really true is it now. Let's not state this as a fact when it isn't

We've got enough money to add capacity to the stadium now without having to spend any we do not have..just a thought...

And the bra comments continue... Showed it to my wife yesterday and said that some men thought it looked like a bra. She sighed and said it confirmed to her that football fans are f*****g stupid, or have just never seen a bra before. Maybe all those posting this are actually sexually inactive 14 year olds, although they will be looking at proper bras all the time in lingerie catalogues so can't be them.

It's not really obscene though, go check out how much you'd pay for a Gucci t-shirt with no technical qualities to it, just a cotton shirt with a print on. £510 on Mr Porter. Now that, it could be argued, is fairly obscene for a t-shirt so £50 for a 'performance' sports shirt is not too bad.

Agreed. Not sure what kind of bra people see, they generally cover those lovely areas of flesh but this would leave them beautifully exposed. The new kit's white area does not resemble a bra, let's stop saying it because it makes you look like you have never seen one.

That's probably because a group of people with not very good taste have to make the final decision As for the kits with the black away, I reckon that's it, similar style of artwork to previous confirmed versions.

I think the assistant might be Guy Manuel, or is that one of the Daft Punk duo and I'm mistaken nice helmets

Meltdown 13: revenge of the forum lava

Clubs also had much closer income levels relative to now, we used to get a share of gate receipts when we played at Old Trafford etc. and that's a key difference. Success from the mid to late 80s when the big money started pouring into the game or having a billionaire injecting seriously big money into a club changed the landscape completely.