| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 17:21 - Aug 11 with 3594 views | PatfromPoole |
Make up your own punchline….
In all seriousness, I struggle to see this being a profitable venture, and I imagine Megastore staff who have had their hours reduced (due to being shut a few days per week) will be looking at this with raised eyebrows. |  |
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 17:28 - Aug 11 with 3562 views | Southamptonfan |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 17:21 - Aug 11 by PatfromPoole |
Make up your own punchline….
In all seriousness, I struggle to see this being a profitable venture, and I imagine Megastore staff who have had their hours reduced (due to being shut a few days per week) will be looking at this with raised eyebrows. |
My thoughts exactly. I went to the Dell bar on a non match day a few weeks back, all very nice, but it was completely empty. It's open from 7 in the morning to 11 at night. They had chefs, bar staff, waiting staff and no customers! Surely it's running at a loss. [Post edited 11 Aug 2025 17:30]
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 17:37 - Aug 11 with 3534 views | Joiedevivre |
We’re a football club and outside of the immediate City Centre: there’s much a football club can innovatively do to increase revenue. But what has this got to do with football and how is this likely to make money against competitors who specialise in these markets? |  | | |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 17:50 - Aug 11 with 3513 views | PatfromPoole |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 17:28 - Aug 11 by Southamptonfan |
My thoughts exactly. I went to the Dell bar on a non match day a few weeks back, all very nice, but it was completely empty. It's open from 7 in the morning to 11 at night. They had chefs, bar staff, waiting staff and no customers! Surely it's running at a loss. [Post edited 11 Aug 2025 17:30]
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You mean it wasn’t full of suits taking advantage of the super-duper “wi-fi and coffee” offer so they could take their laptops in and use the Dell bar as their mobile office?
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 17:58 - Aug 11 with 3485 views | franniesTache |
Climbing walls, darts and shooting ranges, the chapel paramilitary training center is being built.
I assume they'll turf them out into the gulags ready to scale the walls and slaughter the away fans.
WE MARCH ON (the enemy) |  | | |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 18:32 - Aug 11 with 3414 views | LondonSaint76 |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 17:58 - Aug 11 by franniesTache |
Climbing walls, darts and shooting ranges, the chapel paramilitary training center is being built.
I assume they'll turf them out into the gulags ready to scale the walls and slaughter the away fans.
WE MARCH ON (the enemy) |
They should install virtual ski slopes in those booths - then if things don’t go well we can all go downhill fast together 🙂 [Post edited 11 Aug 2025 18:36]
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 18:45 - Aug 11 with 3372 views | Southamptonfan |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 18:32 - Aug 11 by LondonSaint76 |
They should install virtual ski slopes in those booths - then if things don’t go well we can all go downhill fast together 🙂 [Post edited 11 Aug 2025 18:36]
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Ha. They ought to install an ice rink so that people can go ice skating. | |
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 20:10 - Aug 11 with 3285 views | dirk_doone |
You know what's going to happen. Somebody will have an accident there and sue the club for an enormous amount of money. |  |
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 20:18 - Aug 11 with 3273 views | PatfromPoole |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 20:10 - Aug 11 by dirk_doone |
You know what's going to happen. Somebody will have an accident there and sue the club for an enormous amount of money. |
If the club have any sense, they will franchise it out so that they are shielded from this.
It will never make money. Particularly if it is run by Parsons.
As with the Dell Bar. A huge white elephant. | |
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 20:37 - Aug 11 with 3244 views | franniesTache |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 20:18 - Aug 11 by PatfromPoole |
If the club have any sense, they will franchise it out so that they are shielded from this.
It will never make money. Particularly if it is run by Parsons.
As with the Dell Bar. A huge white elephant. |
The mistake you’re making is thinking it’s about making money, when the reality is about laundering it so we can spend more under PSR | | | |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 20:46 - Aug 11 with 3223 views | PatfromPoole |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 20:37 - Aug 11 by franniesTache |
The mistake you’re making is thinking it’s about making money, when the reality is about laundering it so we can spend more under PSR |
But it's small beer, isn't it?
The annual turnover from this wouldn't cover our 3rd-choice goalkeeper's wages. | |
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 20:49 - Aug 11 with 3216 views | djsaint |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 17:28 - Aug 11 by Southamptonfan |
My thoughts exactly. I went to the Dell bar on a non match day a few weeks back, all very nice, but it was completely empty. It's open from 7 in the morning to 11 at night. They had chefs, bar staff, waiting staff and no customers! Surely it's running at a loss. [Post edited 11 Aug 2025 17:30]
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Went to the Dell bar on Thursday about 12:30, took my daughter for lunch after popping in the megastore. There were roughy about 50 people inside, some groups, some on their own, saw a few with laptops out and a table of four all with laptops out so yes probably work/meeting. Food was good, not particularly cheap, good atmosphere. |  |
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 21:06 - Aug 11 with 3189 views | Southamptonfan |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 20:37 - Aug 11 by franniesTache |
The mistake you’re making is thinking it’s about making money, when the reality is about laundering it so we can spend more under PSR |
So how would that work? We spend a fair amount to build it, pay staff to run it, assume we get little back, what do they do, hide the loss, but it allows us to spend more on transfers? Don't understand it at all [Post edited 11 Aug 2025 21:07]
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 21:14 - Aug 11 with 3157 views | PatfromPoole |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 21:06 - Aug 11 by Southamptonfan |
So how would that work? We spend a fair amount to build it, pay staff to run it, assume we get little back, what do they do, hide the loss, but it allows us to spend more on transfers? Don't understand it at all [Post edited 11 Aug 2025 21:07]
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I think they are changing the PSR rules so that your wage bill can be a certain proportion of your turnover (rather than imposing a maximum cap on losses you can make)
So the higher your turnover, the more you can hypothetically spend.
Seems a highly dangerous concept to me. | |
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 21:14 - Aug 11 with 3156 views | djsaint |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 17:21 - Aug 11 by PatfromPoole |
Make up your own punchline….
In all seriousness, I struggle to see this being a profitable venture, and I imagine Megastore staff who have had their hours reduced (due to being shut a few days per week) will be looking at this with raised eyebrows. |
Maybe those megastore staff on reduced hours will be getting offered extra hours in the new venture (level 1)? | |
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 21:23 - Aug 11 with 3136 views | 1885_SFC |
I won't be happy until they put access to the roof of the stadium & construct a huge water slide that pops out right on the centre circle.
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 22:53 - Aug 11 with 3031 views | franniesTache |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 21:14 - Aug 11 by PatfromPoole |
I think they are changing the PSR rules so that your wage bill can be a certain proportion of your turnover (rather than imposing a maximum cap on losses you can make)
So the higher your turnover, the more you can hypothetically spend.
Seems a highly dangerous concept to me. |
Yup exactly that, also if you think of one thing in isolation it won’t seem much, add them up and it’s a fair chunk. Especially at £7.30 a pint (couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that) | | | |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 23:00 - Aug 11 with 3022 views | PatfromPoole |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 22:53 - Aug 11 by franniesTache |
Yup exactly that, also if you think of one thing in isolation it won’t seem much, add them up and it’s a fair chunk. Especially at £7.30 a pint (couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that) |
Good.
Hopefully people will start using the pubs more. | |
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 23:01 - Aug 11 with 3016 views | franniesTache |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 23:00 - Aug 11 by PatfromPoole |
Good.
Hopefully people will start using the pubs more. |
Think the club frown on you nipping back to the boozer at half time tbf | | | |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 23:11 - Aug 11 with 3004 views | Southamptonfan |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 22:53 - Aug 11 by franniesTache |
Yup exactly that, also if you think of one thing in isolation it won’t seem much, add them up and it’s a fair chunk. Especially at £7.30 a pint (couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that) |
So we are finding ways to generate more income, that we can add to the spreadsheets as income, which will allow us to spend more in the transfer market. We can't generate that extra income by trying to sell our shirts in India, so instead we want to encourage people to enjoy golf, bowling etc and buy a few drinks and some lunch. Our income increases, so we can spend more on the team. With that logic though, we could build a holiday camp and a theme park. This would generate so.much income. | |
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 23:32 - Aug 11 with 2981 views | franniesTache |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 23:11 - Aug 11 by Southamptonfan |
So we are finding ways to generate more income, that we can add to the spreadsheets as income, which will allow us to spend more in the transfer market. We can't generate that extra income by trying to sell our shirts in India, so instead we want to encourage people to enjoy golf, bowling etc and buy a few drinks and some lunch. Our income increases, so we can spend more on the team. With that logic though, we could build a holiday camp and a theme park. This would generate so.much income. |
Which is basically what Chelsea did with their hotel. They’ve also “sold” their women’s team to their own owners.
Basically clubs are doing a bunch of really shady stuff as a result of this change and like Pat said I can see it ending in disaster | | | |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 23:41 - Aug 11 with 2967 views | Southamptonfan |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 23:32 - Aug 11 by franniesTache |
Which is basically what Chelsea did with their hotel. They’ve also “sold” their women’s team to their own owners.
Basically clubs are doing a bunch of really shady stuff as a result of this change and like Pat said I can see it ending in disaster |
A hotel, ofcourse. That will be the next thing at St Mary's, quite probably. | |
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 07:56 - Aug 12 with 2827 views | djsaint |
A multi purpose indoor arena is I’m sure what the club (and city) really want. That would be a big money spinner, possibly 7-10k seater. | |
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 08:01 - Aug 12 with 2816 views | PatfromPoole |
| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 07:56 - Aug 12 by djsaint |
A multi purpose indoor arena is I’m sure what the club (and city) really want. That would be a big money spinner, possibly 7-10k seater. |
Agreed.
Far too much stuff goes to the BIC.
Gigs, Garner fights etc. | |
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| What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 08:17 - Aug 12 with 2797 views | Ron11 |
They could open a Turkish barbers and name it Goztepe Hair. No suggestion of money laundering of course. | | | |
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