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And then how much the extra people spend at concession stands... For me though maximising profit is the wrong way to look at these games. The focus should be getting as many youngsters into the ground as possible as that's the potential future season ticket holders.

I don't think a tenner for U18's is good for this sort of game if I'm honest. Should be a fiver. It's actually £12.50 for non members too. We should use matches like this to try and entice future fans and a parent with multiple kids may be put off. Surely it's better to have cheap prices, get more in the ground spending money and try and get kids hooked. Will be interesting to see how many we give West Ham. If only the standard 3k then I doubt we'll get 20k attendance.

https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/southampton-vs-west-ham-united-carabao-cup-2627 That's me out. Absurd pricing.

Like say I don't pay much attention to media so not arguing that point.

Fair enough. I don't pay a huge amount of attention to media so won't disagree with you mate. I suspect though that there probably were people in the media calling those clubs cheats but it might not have been as visible to Saints fans as it obviously was when it's our club. We are of course an easy target when it comes to the media.

All those clubs were called cheats by many people. Leicester in particular are constantly labelled as cheats on here. I'm not saying I massively agree with the punishment or anything but I don't think anyone should get upset by the term 'cheat' as I don't see why that word isn't applicable to a club which deliberately broke rules.

Out of interest what else would you call deliberate rule breaking?

Think it might be in later rounds. Doesn't work when new teams are still entering though and they'll have to merge the north/south for the third round.

Not sure it would as ball numbers would have been different. Shite draw though, surprised people are happy with it.

What was the new song? I left bang on the FT whistle.

He's definitely a better option than Downs. Quite physical as well which we need (at least compared to the academy nipper).

Where are these people who aren't going now then?

Wasn't it mentioned at the fans forum last year too? Think they said then they hoped to give more info this year so hope it doesn't become a constant cycle of 'next year'.

Yeah if it doesn't go there we'll never get one. Probably end up student flats instead.

Even the end of the season wasn't I don't think prior to Ipswich. Bristol City had quite a few empties if I remember rightly.