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But.........................did he ever buy a round? I've known Bennett for 35 years but he's the tightest man on the planet.

Spot on. Shame that John Lee's opinion is that anyone who disagrees with his viewpoint on safe standing shouldn't go into the stadium though!

Ask him what happened to his socks when he stayed at my place in the 80's.

The Albion fanbase is a broad church, and Liz and John represent one part of it. What disappointed me most of all was their inability to articulate why they thought that safe standing was a bad idea. Just saying 'I don't like it' repeatedly isn't adding to the debate (although this approach...

If you look at the football budget in the first four years at the Amex it was 2011/12 £13.1m JEC as manager: finished 10th 2012/13 £19.9m (49% increase) JEC (ceiling comments) finished 4th 2013/14 £20.7m (4% increase) Oscar finished 6th 2014/15 £23.7m (14.5% increase) Hyppia/Jones/Hughton...

Where are they now? Ulloa has not played this season, Bridcutt bounced around on loan for 18 months and now at Leeds, Buckley is warming the bench at the massive, the £6 million received for that pair was great value for us., Upson has retired and Ward was never our player to begin with. Ashley...

I think your analysis is flawed though. The Albion's budget was competitive, which is why we've made the playoffs for three years out of four. Clubs such as Burnley, Palace, Blackpool have been promoted on smaller budgets than ours. To say we are doing it 'on the cheap' is inconsistent with the...

As much as I'm anti Murdoch (no Sky, Times, Sun or Talksport in my house) PB would be foolish to bite the hand that feeds the Albion. Sent from your mum using Tapatalk

That had me scratching my head too a bit. £4.5m (FL/central distributions) as a proportion of £23.6m is just under 20%. It could be argued that sponsors are willing to pay more because of TV exposure, and therefore Sky indirectly contributes to that revenue stream. If all the sponsorship money...

About to go running so will check out PB. I wonder how many other CEO's of clubs would come out on a Friday night for such a task? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

But just in case, I have prepared the Blackpool nightclub story using words that won't get the Roar banned! It was probably the best thing that happened to me, as it confirmed my suspicions that a career in accounting wasn't quite what I wanted.

About two years old I tink. There's the Blackpool nightclub story Steve Gerrard Story Why I was persuaded by a friend's husband to move 250 miles away from Brighton story But I'll probably stick to entertaining the masses discussing how busy the goalkeepers were last night at Wednesday instead.

Great news. The Roar is an ideal podcast companion when running!

1: Manager's salary is embedded within overall wages and salaries, and included as part of 'football costs'. Difficult to work out an average salary, but would expect it to be in the region of £300,000, but Harry Redknapp last season at QPR would have been on substantially more, with substantial...

If you take a look at transfers in this division, last season 21 out of 24 clubs made a profit on player sales. There is the issue of revenue falling next season too, as I would expect attendances to fall by at least 10% unless we start the season like a train, and therefore there will be...

A crude calculation is that the club will lose £1 million in revenue for every 3,000 reduction in average attendance.

My gut reaction is that we were behind Leicester, QPR (both promoted), Wigan (playoffs), Forest (who gambled and lost, and now subject to FFP sanctions), Blackburn, Bolton (both in receipt of parachute payments), so seventh.

It would cost the club just under £6 million in lost revenue, on the figures you have quoted. Relegation to League 1 would cost another £4 million in lost TV money. All this is before taking into account reductions in catering, merchandise and commercial income.

Excellent show with Tank ( who I suspect is now SuperTank size now), he's very level headed and funny with it too. Perhaps one or two less references to his age when he retired?

Milk and two sugars love.