Wow Spit turn's socialist.

Meadow/RK - cheers. Sounds promising. TBH it wasn't particularly warm today either...

I don't want to be fans owned,in the pro game,it restricts us.. rich people like Galty should be stumping up,not those that day by day hope they can afford grub from the supermarket. The expensive west stand should be double the price for the wealthy fans only .the temporary stands were cheap and should be affordable seats for all.

JG, would you kindly provide figures for the other 91 clubs? And your working out

Spit - why should "someone else" always be the ones to pay more? It's strange that when people define those with the "deepest" pockets they generally refer to anyone just slightly better off than themselves. I'm sure that there are greater efficiencies to be had as there are in all businesses - but ultimately there is no getting away from the fact that one gets what one pays for and in our case our average bum on seat revenue last season (net vat) was around £13. After allowing for an average 15% London "Weighting" ("Weighting" not "Waiting" as Laurence has kindly pointed out) this is the lowest out of all clubs in the football pyramid. Rather than talking about the expansion of the stadium to accomodate more low paying subsidised fans - lets gradually ratchet up the cost of attendance and create awaiting list. Once we are then profitable we can then look a very gradual expansion. Always better to have less seats than are in demand!

JG - I would also be prepared to pay more for a higher grade of football, unfortunately, I don't even have enough for a lower grade, so I'm very sorry, but I'll have to continue being a meanie for the time being.

REPD, eastern Latvia is very "russian". IIRC, Latvia has the largest %age of russian of all the Baltic states

REPD, it'll be quite cold in October. Mid September wasn't very warm when I went.

Meadow - just spent over 24 hours here on the way back to SM4 and it's definitely nicer than I remember it. Tempted to come back here in October

Trumps mate Woody Johnson looking to take the 43 % in Crystal palace.

John Galt - London Waiting is in fact London Weighting and relates to pay for staff in the capital, who were given a little extra each month for working in the higher priced area.

REPD, Riga's an amazing city. Jurmala on the coast is well worth a visit too. Very cheap train fare to get there.

Watching the video of that plane crash perhaps wasn't such a good idea whilst in line for checking into a flight...

TBF, not flying is a lifestyle choice for me , like to keep my carbon footprint at a low level.

Actually the women's ST is only £75 or £55 if you have a men ST holders. Bargain.

Spit, I wouldn't personally want to live my life being afraid to do things like travel. You could have been living in a house where the Dreamliner cam down.

JG,surely you should be concentrating more on the fact we have a vast corporate area,double KM crowds,Ground share , great club shop sales, good player sales yet still make a big loss. . Surely our rich fans can fund the club. So the poorer fans can still attend matches and aren't priced out.!

Fact: After one has factored in a "London Waiting" uplift our average revenue (et Vat) per bum on seat is one of the lowest, if not the lowest, in the entire football pyramid. Some of you expect a West End Production for the price of an local amateur dramatics production. All too often I hear people pleading that they can't afford more. Well fine - buy a season ticket for the Women's or watch Youth Football or accept watching us struggle in L1 or perform in L2. But don't just expect someone else to pay - whether it be a sugar daddy or fairy godmother or expecting players like Tilley & Neufville to take reduced earnings. I am prepared to pay more for L1 football and I will be prepared to do the same again if we ever get promoted into the Championship - but everyone else needs to do the same.

Glad I don't fly anymore ,RIP to those in the Air India Dreamliner Crash.

P99, that's on the other side of the road outside the carpet shop.

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Think a 493 crashed outside the ground last night

Sav - absolutely agree about the survey, it shouldn't be one designed to get the preferred answer but something that sets out the difficult choices.

Looking forward to private ownership when apparently [checks notes] we will be able to sign whoever we want, won't lose any players to rivals, won't sign any duffers and we will always be looking up not down. Come on. Find me any fanbase that doesn't moan about the above. Our model presents some challenges. Change of ownership might present others. It's wrong to just look at the downsides of one scenario and just look at the upsides of the other.

TS - yeah, except in the case of insolvency we are pretty much stuck with improving the current model or accepting our level.