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Reply | Parsons Has To Go
at 15:30 24 Feb 2025
You are right that is true, but this is 2025 not 1965, running a football club is all about business and generating incomes, the difference between the Premier League money is not that much different about 6 million per place.
What makes the difference between the big and small clubs is not the Premier League money, it is their ability to generate income in other areas, transfer fees would be one and commercial deals, sponsorship etc another.
Everton putting another 12,000 on their capacity gives them another £12 million or so in gate receipts if you just take a normal seat, but it is then their ability to milk those extra 12,000 people, some in corporate and fanzones etc, plus of course merchandising, it all adds up.
You are right all most fans care about is results on the pitch, but without the off the field incomes we would all be in League One & Two |
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Reply | Rusk
at 13:08 24 Feb 2025
You have to balance out risk against reward |
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Thread | Premier League Table After VAR Re adjusments
at 13:07 24 Feb 2025
Interesting reading, although it wouldn't change much, it would have still seen us with a few more points and perhaps that might have seen us pick up a few more and have a fighting chance.
Liverpool - 58pts
Arsenal - 55pts
Bournemouth - 47pts
Nottingham Forest - 47pts
Manchester City - 45pts
Chelsea - 43pts
Newcastle - 41pts
Aston Villa - 41pts
Fulham - 39pts
Brighton - 38pts
Brentford - 37pts
Tottenham -35pts
Crystal Palace - 35pts
Everton - 31pts
Manchester United - 31pts
Wolves - 26pts
West Ham - 24pts
Ipswich - 19pts
Leicester - 14pts
Southampton - 12pts |
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Reply | Best Pub In Southampton City Centre
at 13:00 24 Feb 2025
You are in the wrong place, but at least you get to share the pub with the likes of Kate Moss and the Chipping Norton set |
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Reply | Rusk
at 12:59 24 Feb 2025
This is a positive move, Juric clearly does not have the knowledge of the Premier League nor do the staff that came with him.
We can go on about Sport Republic doing things on the cheap, but the fact is that they have splashed the cash, just not very wisely at times.
In 2022/23 we spent around 120 million.
In 2023/24 we spent £25 million
2024/25 we spent around £115 million
Thats £260 million in total.
In the same period we raked in about £190 million from transfers in.
So so far SR are about £70 million down in what they have spent out.
Add to that what they have spent in compensation to managers (lol) then no one can accuse them of not putting their money where their mouth is, they have just spent it badly.
Some of that is not their fault, two good appointments in Joe Shears and then Jason Wilcox were good and if they had both stayed then we would probably be in a lot better position now.
Putting Rusk up to the first team coaching staff is clearly a move aimed at keeping the peace between the players and the manager, then hopefully Sporrs can sort things out we will have a new man in next season who will have the foundations
In life we can keep moaning about the things that have now happened and we can't change or we can be positive and hope that they will get it right.
On Saturday at St Mary's I saw it empty, I haven't read anything about fan protests in Marine Parade, last May thousands turned up to cheer on the team coach with flags and flares, no one can be bothered protesting. |
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Reply | Parsons Has To Go
at 12:05 24 Feb 2025
To give Parsons the benefit of the doubt a little, he is out of his depth in the football side of things, but he seems to have got the club on an even keel in terms of the way the non football side of things are run.
The fanzones are not my cup of tea and we can all go on about taking business away from local pubs, but they are popular with the fans and they raise income for the club, we seem to be doing ok on selling hospitality and sponsorship etc.
There are two sides to football clubs these days and one side not doing well doesn't mean everything is failing.
Perhaps if Sporrs turns out to be good, then things can be turned round. |
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Reply | Juric Gives Reason For Albert Gronbaek Absence ! Why Sign Him Then
at 12:01 24 Feb 2025
I think there have been worse teams in the 50 years or so I have been watching, the 2007/08 season saw us stay up in the Championship on the last day of the season and under Michael Wilde we had an owner who made Sport Republic look good.
The side that lost away to Hull 5-0
M Poke, A Ostlund, D Powell, J Viafara, W Thomas, M Licka (S Gillett, 62), J Euell, Y Safri, G Vignal, D McGoldrick (V Pericard, 46), S John (J Wright, 70)
The current side would have beaten them.
Or in 2008/09 the side that lost to Coventry away 4-1
K Davis, L James (S Gillett, 58), C Perry, O Lancashire, J Mills, J Cork, P Wotton (B Wright-Phillips, 58), D McGoldrick, A Lallana (T Pekhart, 59), A Surman, J Robertson
A couple of promising youngsters in there like Lallana & Schneiderlin but they were just kids, so I think this seasons side would have beaten them |
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Reply | Best Pub In Southampton City Centre
at 11:38 24 Feb 2025
The house lager in Overdraft was £5.80, they dont seem to do anything else though, just the one lager accompanied by a raft of IPA's & a few ciders, no Bitter or similar drinks.
Most of the pubs the 4% cooking lager is about a £4.50 - £5 and the premium stuff £5.5 to £6.
Beer will go up again when national insurance goes up in a couple of months or so |
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Reply | Best Pub In Southampton City Centre
at 09:34 24 Feb 2025
As I said I like the beer, although it is grossly overpriced, the 4% house beer is £6 a pint and Krombacher etc £6.50 I think.
It is a manufactured place though, it is a bar in Southampton set up as a German Bier keller, its a theme bar, I likened it to the Gulags as the experience there seems to be like a Munich Beer keller, rows of benches, music and encouraging people to drink, stand up and sing.
The Steingarten to be fair doesn't seem to have music and want people to sing along to an oompah band, if it did I might like it better, in truth its just a room with a bit of German memorabilia and decent beer |
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Thread | 5 Things About The Brighton Game
at 21:41 23 Feb 2025
1. It was easy to get out of the ground and over the footbridge at the end of the game.
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Reply | Charles/Edwards and the rest...
at 21:30 23 Feb 2025
Ballard seems to get a reputation that is bigger than his stats, he was recalled from Blackpool in League one as he was on the bench and now at Cambridge United he is too on the bench.
22 League games played, 11 starting and 11 from the bench and only 2 goals scored, not exactly screaming that he should be in our squad at the moment |
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Reply | Brighton Game Matchday Thread
at 09:28 22 Feb 2025
Brighton are one of the 4 teams who have dropped points to us this season, so from that perspective it gives us a chance, the reality will probably be far different. |
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Reply | Albert Gronaek
at 09:27 22 Feb 2025
There is a theory doing the rounds that Bella Kotchap has made 24 Premier League appearances and that if he makes 25 it triggers a payment to his former club.
I'm not sure about that, if that was the case and we wanted to save money, then we would have loaned him out .
So I think it is a lot more simple, neither Martin or Juric really rate him or perhaps like his attitude
With Groenbaek what we needed was another big strong midfielder, not another lightweight one, Juric has already said he doesn't play Lallana because he has Mateus Fernandes, I suspect its a similar reason for Groenbaek not playing again.
Against Ipswich he was ok, he didn't really stand out for either good or bad reasons, that is probably a positive thing, he did a job, but Juric wants more than that |
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Reply | No subject
at 09:21 22 Feb 2025
I don't really agree with most of this, although the footballing side of things was ok under NC, the commercial side of the club was in a terrible state and when he left without Kat stepping in, we would have headed for bankruptcy.
Now it is the opposite, it looks like the club is in a good position off the pitch in terms of sponsorship income, marketing and trying to make St Mary's something more than a football stadium and in doing so bring in more income.
Where I do agree with is that we need a director of football who knows what he is doing in terms of running that side of things, NC had Les Reed, much maligned by some on here at the time, on reflection he did much of the groundwork that took the club from League 1 to the Premier league, we need someone like that now |
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Reply | Best Pub In Southampton City Centre
at 09:09 22 Feb 2025
Reading this post I was trying to work out why I don't like the Steingarten and then it hit me it's a manufactured German bar ( No Germans appear to be actually involved in this) but it is very similar to Gulag 1 or to give it it's more common name The Northam Fanzone.
It's an oblong concrete box , a load of benches in front of a TV screen at one end topped off with overpriced beer & food, although the beer is a bit better than the fanzone.
It's ok to meet up as there is usually a lot of benches available, but there are a lot better pubs in the area |
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Reply | Ross Stewart
at 09:03 22 Feb 2025
Might be useful in getting us out of the bottom 3 of worst ever Premier League seasons in the run in |
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