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  • "For those saying we should fill ours first, partially agree but then building bigger shows ambition which helps attract and keep talent, and when we were in the Premier League it was difficult to get tickets. A bigger stadium could also allow greater spread of ticket prices thus enabling more to go to games so we'd fill it up. this is how they do in the US as well where you can get very cheap tickets right up to the very expensive.

    Never shall his name be uttered didn't build the original SMS big enough for the same reasons as stated about selling enough tickets first then once we were doing well he said it would cost too much to build when adding an extra 10k seats originally would have been much less. Lesson: more ambition in the infrastructure would have made us even stronger.

    I like Cortese's ambition and this is where we need to be. We have massive potential. Comparing spending on this to the bunch down the road is also futile as they spent more on players, which if they'd invested in a stadium development and youth policy, they may not be in the situation they are in now. Anyway, this has nothing to do with P*****y at all and everything to do with a team who is going places :)

    COYR"
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Saints to revamp St Mary's?

An artist's impresion of the revamped St Mary's An artist's impresion of the revamped St Mary's

SAINTS have released artist’s impressions that appear to show possible plans for a St Mary’s Stadium expansion.

The drawings were contained on a DVD given to fans who have renewed their season tickets.

They look to show extensions to the Kingsland, Northam and Chapel stands, with a fresh frontage on the stadium.

A new building is also attached to the back of what appears to be the Chapel end in the drawings.

The designs are included on a DVD which features a review of the last three campaigns, as well as a selection of interviews.

Fans shouldn’t get too excited yet, though.

Rumours of a possible St Mary’s expansion have been circulating since Markus Liebherr’s takeover of the club was completed in 2009.

But no plans have been lodged with Southampton City Council, and Saints themselves have not so much as mentioned the artist’s impressions on their website.

The drawings were also featured under the hardly-definitive heading “our future?” in the DVD.

Saints are unlikely to consider putting any expensive plans in motion unless they can safely establish themselves as a high-flying Premier League club.

They would also need to be confident of a season ticket base that is both big enough and loyal enough to warrant the initial costs and sustain the necessary crowds to make an expansion viable.

While attendances last season were impressive, Saints’ average St Mary’s crowd was still nearly 6,000 below the ground’s current capacity.

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