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Alpine on "Reasons or Excuses" thread Alpine on Next 7 Games thread Proof if needed that not only is our resident a troll, he can't even remember which side of his own argument he's on

Alpine on "Reasons or Excuses" thread Alpine on Next 7 Games thread Proof if needed that not only is our resident a troll, he can't even remember which side of his own argument he's on

Cool works on my phone too

A few duplications but more details than the BBC version and around 5 minutes ahead of them. Great addition to the forum.

Sue Barker http://www.tvlives.com/view.php?id=3785

Thank you Markus. You were the silver lining that saved us from our cloud. The dawn that followed our darkest hour . 'Twas a shame we never really got to know you . R.I.P.

Pitch looks in pretty poor shape for the start of the season

Fair comparison. Suppose none of them have started bleating about their human rights to play / watch football yet

I thought if new owners come in an embargo stays in p,ace till all football creditors are paid in full

Does that mean he's heard all he wants / needs to hear already ?

That might explain AA's "holiday".

How appropriate, so is the town itself, maybe someone could cut them off too.

I hired a cine projector recently from Parkers the camera specialists in Woolston, around a tenner for 24hrs. (would post a link to them but it comes up with a warning atm)

Keep GSTQ (or GSTK) for occasions when the monarch is in attendance. But for sporting events etc England needs it's own. Land of Hope and Glory seems the most "celebratory" so gets my vote.

http://www.pompeytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=166%3Apst-statement-on-hmrc-appeal&catid=34%3Ademo-category But you did. You turned up. You paid to watch. You went to Wembley 4 or 5 times. You went into Europe. You revelled in your "success". You were the "Best Fans In The World"™ when things were going your way. You condoned it right up until the **** hit the fan. So don't start ****ing grizzling now.

Anyone on Twitter get following @raoulontherun whilst , excuse the pun, the jokes still running

I reckon we may have run at a loss last year - just as it takes a while to get a new team gelling on the pitch it takes a new business owner to rectify/remove loss making practices. I'd guess that we will at least break even this year. But your break even crowd figures aren't really relevant comparisons. In the PL we broke even at 21K paying higher wages but also RECEIVING **** loads of Sky tv money. I'd guess the reduction in the Sky income is bigger than the reduction in wages.

To be fair odds on for promotion is probably about right. But on both the win market and the promotion market we are considered to be two and a half times more likely to do it than Sheff Wednesday (the second favourites). Favourites certainly but by that kind of margin? Yep, I agree, bonkers

I was looking at that on oddschecker this morning. Odds ON for promotion with EVERY bookie and all have us either 11/4 or 5/2 to win it. I preferred it when we were underdogs

The away travel was just an example, but they wouldn't be selling it at that point, just making sure people are aware of it. It's too late trying to sell them a coach they are unaware of to take them to Hartlepool when buying their Hartlepool ticket, I'd guess most people know how they are getting to an away game and who with before they get their match ticket. So you bring it to their attention well before. I like the selling merchandise inside the stadium idea - that could be a real money spinner. Megastore is often crowded enough on matchdays to put people off bothering. But if little Jimmy spots someone waving a foam hand inside the ground and wants one Dad can no longer say "you can't have one, we'd have to go outside to the shop and they won't let us back in" because little Jimmy will say "but you can get me one where you get your beer". Forget the adults, pester power aimed at kids could bring in loads. Plus it would be good to be able wander downstairs and browse through Mick Channons Autobiography during boring spells in the game ;-) Like the idea of academy players surveying random fans in the concourse as well. Although one reservation - having seen 1000s of players giving (or trying to give) after match interviews over the years they are likely to be pretty one sided conversations LoL (That's my 3 strikes and out for the day)

Agree that not many will make 23 contacts but most would make more than 1. I used to have a ST for 3 or 4 seasons. I never once bought a programme, once (never again) bought a burger and twice had a beer inside SMS (always had a drink but drank in pubs not SMS). There's plenty of things they could promote, like say a 50% one off voucher to be used against those items to get someone who doesn't ever buy them to try them. Or just announcing a special offer on a certain range in the mega store only. Or "do you travel to away games, have you ever tried our coaches?" type questioning. It could be even simple survey taking like a "how are we doing" type, or "nominate your player of the month?" or if they want really good customer service " what guest ale would you like us to stock?". They couldn't do any of that in the ground on matchdays without either printing off 1000s of leaflets or causing horrendous queues at the turnstile. And all done at your expense as it's done whilst you're at the ticket office or on your phone bill whilst booking tickets.

Could be something in that. NC is from the banking industry. Stu, if I remember rightly you were involved with tele-sales in the insurance industry (?). How many times did you have to ask if there was anything else you could help customer with? Certainly banks do it all the time. Buy a ST the club has contact with you once a year, apart from that you just turn up and watch. Buy 23 separate tickets and tha'ts 23 "contact" occasions they can try and sell you something else on top. It could catch on with other clubs if it works.

Forget the stripes, make this one permanent

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