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What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? 17:17 - Aug 11 with 1195 viewsSouthamptonfan

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What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 17:21 - Aug 11 with 1025 viewsPatfromPoole

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 993 viewsSouthamptonfan

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.
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What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 17:37 - Aug 11 with 965 viewsJoiedevivre

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?
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What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 17:50 - Aug 11 with 944 viewsPatfromPoole

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.
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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?

Who would have thought it?

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What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 17:58 - Aug 11 with 916 viewsfranniesTache

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)
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What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 18:32 - Aug 11 with 845 viewsLondonSaint76

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 🙂
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What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 18:45 - Aug 11 with 803 viewsSouthamptonfan

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 🙂
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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 716 viewsdirk_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 704 viewsPatfromPoole

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 675 viewsfranniesTache

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
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What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 20:46 - Aug 11 with 654 viewsPatfromPoole

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 647 viewsdjsaint

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.
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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 620 viewsSouthamptonfan

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
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What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 21:14 - Aug 11 with 588 viewsPatfromPoole

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
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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 587 viewsdjsaint

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 569 views1885_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.

Lend me your budgie smugglers Nick...

Old Skool is Cool

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What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 22:53 - Aug 11 with 462 viewsfranniesTache

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)
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What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 23:00 - Aug 11 with 453 viewsPatfromPoole

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 447 viewsfranniesTache

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
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What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 23:11 - Aug 11 with 435 viewsSouthamptonfan

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 412 viewsfranniesTache

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
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What ever next? A theme park at St Mary's? on 23:41 - Aug 11 with 398 viewsSouthamptonfan

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 257 viewsdjsaint

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 246 viewsPatfromPoole

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 227 viewsRon11

They could open a Turkish barbers and name it Goztepe Hair. No suggestion of money laundering of course.
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