Crouchie's Lawyer

Yes and no. As mentioned above, mixing all the off topic rooms into one, or even just TMS and The Lounge would mean that there would be more people and therefore better conversation. Alternatively, rather than £5 per year, try £5 for life? Have a monthly raffle/lotto stylee thing for the full members accessible on the new website when it is up and running and funded by new member £1 from the £5 for example, and money from the advertising. I do fail to see why a site can survive for a few years on donations, but not on advertising income and donations? I do not claim to know all the facts and figures but would be surprised if the cost of this new mega forum to support the use costs a hell of a lot more?!

I wonder if he is on holiday...

I miss him too. Where has he been, he hasnt posted for ages!

And only 13 viewers in TMS! Posts equivilant to only once every 5 minutes! This place is dead?! Whats happening. I would say normally Mondays and Fridays are the busiest days, its propper dead in here though? :smt064

I blame it on the 'traditonal' family saver ticket Pompey offer. Two adults and two kids for £x. How many 'families' does this apply to in Portsmouth?! There should be a family saver ticket as follows: 1 Adult, his sister/wife and their 7 illegitimate children. I think they would then stand a better chance at filling the stadium.

It was purely suggestions. For the record i am 25 nearing 26 and have done 3 of the 5 things Sorry, yeah sh*gging one I meant. When you say sleeping with one takes balls, you mean closing eyes or sh*gging?!

Sleep with a prostitute. Go to Amsterdam and get stoned. Appear on TV. Create a song and try to get it officially released. Blow £1,000 on a bet.

I lol'd

Lesbianism, religion rebel and now she is endorsing knife crime! Whatever next?!

Damn swear filter!

Yeah I prob would too. Actually no prob about it. I would

Yes I know Jillyanne, I was making a jokings

Fri: Was off work, went to Oceana in the evening, got drunk. Sat: Hanging most of the day with a bad tooth ache due to too many sugary drinks from night before. Played FM08 while watching footy on telebox and listening to that local team of ours. Went over mates for Pizza, Wii Golf & Mario Kart night with a few smokes. Sun: Watched footy while playing FM08 most of the day. Spoke to my Mum in Canada using skype to say happy bday followed by chinese takeaway. Back at work today after a week off and I have ear ache to top things off. Weekend 6.37/10 Now 1.18/10

I know lenders charge fee's for mortgages but £30k is a bit steep!

£60 plus £10 postage is a bit steep for something you can pick up brand new and more importantly in working order with a game for £129.99! As someone mentions above, send it to MS and then sell it after? Otherwise, send it to me (postage free), ill send it to MS, take £25 and you can have the rest!

Blah, Chelski are so last season, its either Man City now or QPR :shock: who are the richest team in the world!

I can see what you are saying, however the importing of goods example you use above is just because you are purchasing something cheaper abroad which is due VAT but due to the country of origin in which its being purchased not having VAT, it is charged at a later point. This is VAT the buyer must pay also which is something very different to VAT which the seller has to pay. Im pretty sure but if you purchased an ipod from the USA, the seller would not have to pay VAT as he/she is USA based. This like the carrot sofa example is very much different from SFC giving away or selling cheaper tickets. The sofa carrot example, cannot be prepared as we are not charging for something, while giving something perceived to be more expensive away for free just to obtain a loop hole. I believe it would be similar to the air line tickets. When you pay cheap prices to fly with an air line from A to B, does the air line have to pay the same amount of VAT on all tickets sold for that flight at 'X £'s VAT per ticket' or is it done on a percentage basis? I would hazard a guess its done on a percentage basis which would mean if the same rule applied for SFC selling cheaper tickets, we would not get stung for VAT.

Yes, like a flash. As mentioned above. A manager who knows what is required to get out of the league the right end. Coupled with a chairman willing to throw money at the cause. We will be in their position, with them in ours next year with 2 fundemental differences. We will be at the bottom of L1 with minus points having gone into administration, while Leicester will be at the top end of the CCC having invested £££'s into the playing side.

What is needed to get rid of lowe? Simple... A bullet. Ill get my coat

I personally blame the credit crunch for a lot of the stay away fans. Yes there is the 1) Lowe protesters. 2) 'Glory' supporters (to the extent of premiership) etc etc, however in my case, it purely down to not having as many bits of paper with the queen's head on it than I used to. I got a letter from my utility bill provider trying to justify why they were increasing prices and it quoted a figure in there that the cost of gas and electric has risen 217% and 193% (or so?) in just over a year. These costs have been passed on. My mortgage is going up £100 per month. Petrol has soared through the roof of recent too and worst of all, because my job was directly affected by the credit crunch, I have had to change industries and I will earn about 30% of what I was expecting to earn this year had the credit crunch not hit. Im sure I am not the worst case scenario and that there are people who have been hit worse than me and indeed there are people who are probably going to be better off this year, however, there are a lot of people in my boat and it all comes down to priorities.

Ca-ching!

A free ticket is a free ticket, providing the face value shows as £0.00, it has no tax implications. And a wise old owl once told me, if you are making a decent profit margin on your product/service, the higher the VAT bill, generally the higher your income. The point I believe is being made is similar to the aeroplane theory. If British Airways are flying from A to B and have only half filled their plane at £100 a ticket. It would benefit them to offer the tickets for £1 to fill the other seats. Providing the additional cost of fuel that the extra 1 person is covered and any additional costs, then they are better off filling that seat than not filling it. With SFC, providing the additional cost of stewarding is covered and additional staffing of bars is accounted for, then the tickets can be practically given away. A full staduim has been likened to a twelth player. I would imagine the combine p/h cost of a steward and bar person would be no more than £15. Based on you needing 1 steward @ £10 per hour, per 100 (?) people for 4 hrs and 2 bar people @ £10 per hour (combined) per 50 (?) people for 3 hrs... for an additional 100 people, providing you were charging over £70 in total for the 100 people, you would be making a profit. Ergo, if you charge £1 per ticket, you would be making a £30 profit every 30 people on just the ticket prices. Factor in the additional money generated from extra sales at the bar and additional programs purchased and potential shop sales too, this profit figure increases. I do not claim to know the figures, in terms of wages, how many people are required re staffing and stewarding or indeed profit margins, but using the above theory, SFC would be a lot better than having a half empty stadium.

You getting royalties for this?

Pretty sure it would be simple to smoke while fielding in cricket too and thats a sport!

* What about a buy two, get the third seat free scheme? * A 3 tickets, 3 burgers and 3 pints for £69.99 (£23.33) per ticket deal? * Recuce the price of a box dramatically so the boxes are filled EVERY game. Maybe instead of what equates to approximately £100 per person, cost it at £50 per person, but restrict the alcohol to a reasonable level (maybe 5 bottles per person). * Have a meet and greet before / after the game where you pay £30 per person, you get a beer before the game and after the game and you meet players, manager etc for 30 mins where you can chat and ask questions. * Introduce a family ticket. 2 Adults (doesnt have to be mum and dad!) and 2 kids (under the age of 16) for £50. I know a lot of people dont go to the footy because of the costs and at a time like this with bills increasing far quicker than salaries, people are not spending as much. If you consider going to a game (even if you dont go to the pub before)... The ticket costs £25.00 or there abouts. You spend £5 or so on parking (I know you can park for free if you park far enough away but this add's about an hour to your jouney, especially with the traffic after a game). You buy your program before the game, how much are they now? £3.50 or so? You buy a beer in the ground at £2.50 a pint and a burger at £3.00. You wouldnt get much change from £40. This is for one person. 2 adults is £70-£80 or so, then add 2 kids and your well above £100. With the mediums of internet, radio and sometimes even live TV people from as far a field as Dubai (Phil!) can keep up with the games. Given this choice and cost issues, its no wonder we are only getting the 15k circa attendances. Implement discounts, new schemes and hopefully, people will come back. I know if I could go for £10-£15 I would certainly go to more games.