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Exactly. The pr*t is a deluded fantasist.... but I think that most of us knew that anyway.

So long as it is one of those lovely real ales.

Unlike PFC , Mero and Mack had the balls to stay on this board during the badtimes down at the cesspit. We have enjoyed their contributions. They have kept up to date with events down at "the arena" & hence have a better grip on reality. PFC disappears for months on end and only appears when he thinks he has something to feel proud about - like another bunch of dodgy, Russian mafia owners. Its amazing how a bunch of money launderers can make a Pompey fan feel so pleased. We just need Corp to reappear and then we will have a full set of those funny fishy folk back on this thread.

Christ. Didn;t you lot have a lot of fun yesterday afternoon. I am pleased that I was unable to log on. At the risk of being called airhead, an idiot, f*****g mental etc etc I do think you are correct.

Christ. Yesterday you were banging on about crowds of 45k per week. Today it is 50k. What figure do we need to justify an expansion to 36/38k in your eyes? Any advances on 50k???

I think a correction is needed here. NC is a businessman. Rupert Lowe thought he was a businessman but was not really!!

What an idiotic reply.We will not average 30k attendances next season. No way. But that is no reason why we should not plan for expansion in the future. You and Turkish have a strange way of arguing. Anybody who disagrees with you is an airhead or a clown. You then state a strange proposition (we must have 30k fans this season // we need to sell out against Torquay iin the League Cup to demonstrate we have 45k fans) and if your ridiculous proposition is not proven , you hurl abuse at the poeople who disagree with you. My son used to argue like that when he was 6 years old but he soon grew out of it. My view, for what it is worth, is that expansion will happen on a gradual basis. When our current capacity is not enough, one stand will be expanded. Another stand will be expanded when we need more space. Expansion will happen - it is just strange that some Saints fans are so vehmently against it.

Why is a gradual expansion like this financially OK for other teams but not for us?? Wolves are expanding this summer. Brighton have already started to talk about expanding at their new stadium. Why is it good enough for them but not for us?

You keep banging on about 45k a week but that is not the way that expansion of SMS would happen. We can currently hold 32k. There will be several games this coming season when that will not be enough. Not every game but several. When we get promoted again, we will find that the majority of games see more than 30k fans (effectively a sell out once segregation / empty away seats are taken into account). Many games would sell out if we had 35 - 40 k seats.... and that is what will get the expansion plans dusted down and implemented. It will be one stand at a time raising the capacity from 32k to say 38k and once ( I daresay you would say if) 38k is not enough, another stand wiill be extended. It will be a gradual expansion but will seem as natural in the future as the move from The Dekll to SMS seems natural now.

Thank God you weren't around 15 years ago. If Rupert Lowe had had this sort of advice then, he would never have gone ahead with SMS. And by the way Turkish, I may disagree with you but I am not "f u c king mental" and nor am I a clown, Why don't you tone it down a little ??

Torre andre flo???

LOL Anyone who disagreed with you would probably have been called "****i ng mental" by Turkish.

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I have no idea why the antis on this thread are so vehement about this idea. The fact that this topic keeps coming up so often shows how real this issue is. Nowadays larger grounds and expansion are the name of the game. Even Wolves are expanding this summer. The feel good factor is coming back to St Marys and I confidently expect crowds to average over 25k next season with a few games selling out completely. We cannot be content to sit back and assume that our 32k stadium is going to be big enough once we get back into the prem. If we do, we will find that in the same way as the Dell held us back in previous decades, SMS will impede our advancement in the future. We will need a stadium holding 40k+ and if SMS cannot be expanded (I was told that it could be enlarged relatively easily to 48k) we will need to find a stadium that will be big enough.

I just can't wait for the season to begin and was wondering when the players report back

How likely is it that our first game will be televised? There are no premiership games that weekend making us much more in the spotlight. In addition to Sky, the Beeb have started to have live games from the Championship. If they are broadcasting one that weekend, I would be anmazed if we were not on either them or on Sky.

Ivan with Marian a very close second.

If you find them tedious, why read a thread entitled "Steve Mclaren has nicked the bus!!"

Although as we all know, Adam Lallana makes Messi look sh i te

The article neatly sums up what is wrong with the media's football reporting these days. You can imagine the scene in the NOTW offices "Quick , write something about the lower divisions. Don't bother doing any research - just write about anyone who is likely to have been heard of by our average Premiership supporter. Try to limit it to players who will be in our transfer rumours round up very week for the next few weeks - Shane Long, Conor Wickham, Alex, CMS. Don't bother with any insightful reseach on any players our readers will not have heard of" Alex may have plenty of potential - but one of the top 10 players outside the Prem ???? Do me a favour!! No Fonte ?? Very strange. No mention of Ricky!! This time of year really is the silly season.

What a fat goalkeeper

What a fat goalkeeper

I do feel for you. At least when we were down and feeling sorry for ourselves we could consle ouselves with the knowledge that we had our world class catering and the leading radio station on the south coast.

Corp may be too embarassed to post on here these days ..... but he still pays us visits. He last logged on yesterday afternoon according to his profile. Clearly there are no decent Skate sites for him to look at.

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