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The madness is that in terms of income it wouldn't actually make a massive difference. Say, for a basic example we sold 18,000 STs at full whack of £459, that works out at around £8.2m. In reality a fair chunk of those would be concessionary prices so the actual amount would probably be closer...

Even in the 70's they couldn't beat New Zealand.

In terms of day to day interest it's not even close to a 50/50 split and hasn't been for about 20 years. People still turn out for a piss up on Six Nations days but have little or no interest in club rugby. If you added the attendances of all the Swansea Rugby clubs (Dunvant, Glais etc) to the...

Unless there are expenses involved that make it non-cost effective, taking season tickets off sale makes no sense. Keep them on sale, but reduce the price by £20 for every game that passes. Plus I'd certainly look at the kids pricing. Considering how much we've spent over and above our entire...

Placing restrictions on supply thus driving prices up plays into the hands of the richer teams anyway. Probably even more so than the alternative. When we've reached a point where you're looking at a club paying £35m for a player (albeit a very good one in Guehi) and thinking "Christ, that's...

Window should be done away with altogether. Back to the way it used to be. One transfer deadline late in the season.

Sounds about right. And we were a club on the up at the time having not spent four or five years playing football tedious enough to drive away supporters.

You're quite right. As this is a discussion over which one of them served the team better as a striker last season Cullen being top scorer doesn't actually matter as most of his goals came when he played in a completely different position. Glad we sorted that out. I haven't decided anything...

Enjoyed this read. Was a better system for me. All transfer windows have done is push up prices and wages as desperate clubs have less time to make deals happen.

No. No he wasn't. Not in goals scored when playing upfront, which are, after all, the raison d'etre of a striker. The figures are pretty clear on that. A 5/6 week purple patch when he wasn't even playing upfront seems to have convinced a lot of people otherwise. Including you it would seem...

He does seem to have woken up a bit since moving to Coventry. I just found it amusing that, as per usual, it was the other midfielders who were being targeted by high profile clubs.

Poor Matt Grimes. Always the Bridesmaid.

Cesc Fabregas was playing regularly in the PL at 16. Ditto James Milner. Ryan Giggs was 17 when he became a Man Utd regular. If you're good enough, you're old enough. If anything players are a bit too coddled these days. Certainly we keep them around too much. Once they hit 17-18 they should be...

There's a lot of people desperate to make football more complicated than it needs to be. That's for sure.

Because Sheehan thought Cullen contributed more. He was wrong, and to his credit has rectified the problem. Hopefully permanently.

Which is why they've been on the lookout for co-investors with the profile to drive interest and ramp up the value of commercial deals. I still wouldn't rule out more names alongside Modric and Dogg.

Lots of reports that Idah has undergone a medical but any confirmation? In any case, I wouldn't lose much sleep if Vip is our first choice forward between now and January. Another would be nice just to ensure that we don't have to see Cullen up front again any time soon, but it's not essential...

It is a skill in itself to know where and when to be, and perhaps the only area where he's arguably better than Vip. But otherwise yeah. He's so limited in basically every other requirement of a forward, and not up to much else even in the position that some people think he's good at, that he...

I was expecting Cullen to start today so kudos to Sheehan for being prepared to re-evaluate his plans.

Maybe we aren't looking to sell him. Maybe he wants out. Watching the club spend the entire Summer chasing another forward, then starting the season with an obviously out of place alternative in the starting XI probably doesn't scream in his mind that the manager has faith in him, no matter...