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Phil Parsons at the fans forum last night... "Your revenue level is tied to your salary level and without the increased revenue you can't drive your salaries into higher levels. We've been working a lot on some real estate projects around the stadium. We're not quite at the point of being able to publicly share those because we're in talks with some major developers. But I can tell you that they will be one of the biggest development projects around any stadium in the UK." Parsons mentioned the reveal may be in 12 to 18 months time. Solak had previously said it is into the hundreds of millions of pounds being spent on this. Not just around the stadium either, a stadium capacity increase is also included.

This is part of what was available for public viewing on the Southampton Planning Portal earlier this year, not sure if still up. Extract of the memorandum of understanding document between SFC and SCC: Expand the current footprint of St Mary's Stadium to allow future growth of the stadium (minimum 45,000 capacity stadium for football events and minimum 50,000 capacity for concerts/music/other entertainment events). Work with SCC to understand the development opportunities for the St Mary's Waterfront area, including developing an effective together to acquire and develop land in St Mary's Waterfront to maximise additional significant revenue generating opportunities in the area immediately around the Stadium. Work with SCC to create a 24/7, 365-day set of commercial, leisure, sports and entertainment operations around St Mary's Waterfront. Work in partnership with SCC to develop the optimal use of the land in and around St Mary's Waterfront. Use the operation of such additional activities to make the St Mary's Waterfront the prime sports, leisure and entertainment destination on the South Coast. To become the prime operator and owner of leisure and entertainment facilities in the City. To use the revenues produced by the additional commercial activities to establish Southampton Football Club as a genuinely sustainable Premier League football club and work with SCC to make Southampton attractive to residents and visitors. In collaboration with SCC, development and deliver a strategy to significantly improve the transport infrastructure of the City to make it a destination of choice for visitors nationally and internationally. Grow and develop relationships between the Club, partners and communities across the City Alongside of SCC and as part of their overall masterplan for development, play our role in the sustainable development of the City

The Princess towers are going to look awesome. Imagine peering down from them on a matchday. Exquisite.

Finally! The Marc Jackson vision becomes reality

Peretz, Bree, THB, Stephens, Manning, Downes, Bragg, Matsuki, Dobbin, Scienza, BBD. Glaring weakness is upfront and having to pick from BBD and Downs is laughable. Thankfully there's still a week left until the first league game for Larin to get up to speed.

It is a zoo...

I would be amazed if we were not doing more often. To suggest we spied in December then nothing until Ipswich came to SMS is for the birds

Is there a thread already? So Parsons mentioned it last night & I recall Dragan hinting about his secret pet project a year or so ago? Given the importance of commercial money in regards to spending, this could be massive thing for the club. Anyone know much about what we’re discussing with the council?

I want to get to Wembley so I can boo their chief executive. That'll show them

Leo responded though

Okay Turkish Striker wise who would you like us to get ?

If we sort out ‘vertical drinking’ we can sort the rest of the country’s problems https://news.sky.com/story/no-10-urges-council-to-work-with-london-pubs-amid-row-over-vertical-drinking-13570555

From what was said on various match commentairies, he didn't want the operation that might have enabled him to play on, nothing certain apparently, and the reeducation didn't really work so end of career.

That's you, that is. 🙂

23 down turned out to be "four." The house number where the Telegraph had imprisoned it's crossword creator, whose desperate attempts at sabotage finally summoned the authorities. Sadly, after 5 years of Telegraph readers putting extra letters in boxes or just making up what they wanted.

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On this agree, and yes, I don’t have any sympathy with him personally. Claiming others work and profiting from it is low grade behaviour and conduct.

I guess there are 2 sides to every story and we have not heard both. I imagine Stewart might see it that Saints weren't 100% committed to him when they chose not to trigger the extension at any earlier point before we were expelled from the play offs? Whatever, time to move on now. It's not the end of the world that Stewart hasn't stayed - he wasn't our most important player and would always have been a risk with his injury record - just as long as he is replaced with a striker of equal or better abilities to help the team. Over to you Johannes!

Yeah, it's just that line that "I can say there are no more allegations" in response to a direct question about whether we broke the spying rules more than 3 times kind of implies to me he knows that we did but it just hasn't been alleged to this point! Would have been better to avoid the question altogether on the basis investigation is still in progress in my opinion.

DAD's Army is surely a front three that also includes Azaz 😉

Agreed. Just watched the forum thing, thought it was pretty good this time with all answers being clear and no over analysis required. Minus 4 who gives a fuck, the Saints are going up.

He gave a much longer answer than the one line I've pulled out, but yes he did say the assurance he could give is that there were no more allegations beyond those three

So much for the much hyped Bristol city in their opening game!

Promising form in pre season, I like the idea of a manager promoted from within who has been at various levels of the club over a number of years. Feels a good fit for the hoped for resurgence. Fingers crossed you guys get promoted this year!

He also stated that our lawyers are involved in the process, which is good to hear.