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Thread | Newcastle Ticket Exchange
at 09:11 22 Jan 2025
The game is all sold out and the ticket exchange open,as of this morning there are approximately 250 tickets listed for sale, thats a lot of people who cant be bothered going, no real excuses on this one, Saturday 3pm kick off and against a team that looking to get into the top 4 |
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Thread | Denis Law
at 09:03 22 Jan 2025
I was very sad to hear of his death, played in the first Saints match I saw live, January 15th at the Dell in the FA Cup 3rd round against Man Utd, exactly 53 years and 1 week ago today.
Back then 30,190 packed the Dell for a 1-1 draw, United had Denis Law, George Best & Bobby Charlton in the side, so understandably they were still a big draw.
Mind you Saints had Mick Channon, Ron Davies & Terry Paine, so we had our own Holy Trinity on show
Law & Best didn't score but Bobby Charlton did in a 1-1 draw
Law's career started before i was born and was at it's peak before I watched my first match, but he was a genuine legend who crossed the divide of all football fans, even those that didn't support the teams he played for. |
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Thread | 5 Things About Nottingham Forest
at 12:48 21 Jan 2025
1, The Mullof Kintyre thing at the start of each half is impressive, but the support dies a bid at times during the game.
2, Why do they market it as "The World Famous City Ground" it's not even in the City and not even in Nottingham to be pedantic, I have never seen it as World Famous.
3. Why were the Forest fans so nasty, most of their songs seemed to be aimed at us either going down with Leicester or saying hello to Derby for them.
4. Car parks seemed to be in short supply, but you could park near the ground and loads of cars seemed to be parked on the pavement and double yellow lines without getting a ticket.
5. As I said it isn't even in Nottingham it is in the town of West Bridgford which is a seperate unitary authority than Nottingham
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Thread | Liverpool Fans
at 21:31 14 Jan 2025
Singing "We hate Nottingham Forest etc, a staple for all football supporters bar Forest in the 70's & 80's it seems to have died out at some stage, good to hear it being sung again |
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Thread | Tonights Games
at 20:11 14 Jan 2025
Forest just gone 1-0 up at home to Liverpool |
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Thread | Leicester City
at 14:48 14 Jan 2025
I wonder how Leicester City fans view King Power now, early on they worked wonders and won the Premier League, the death of the main man in 2018 didn't change much initially, but in the last few years they have run a similar path to us and could easily go down again with us |
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Thread | Tickets On General Sale For Bournemouth Game
at 10:58 14 Jan 2025
Ok there is still a month to go till the game itself but it seems that there is around 2,000 tickets still left for this game, seems like the floating support is giving up |
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Thread | Broja Stretchered Off
at 21:36 9 Jan 2025
Barely played for Everton this season as been injured, just gone down after an inoccuos challenge, looks like either a fracture or a ligament snapped. |
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Thread | FA Cup Tickets
at 21:04 9 Jan 2025
Norwich are charging £10 for the visit of Brighton at the weekend, Brentford £15 for their game against Plymouth, Ipswich V Bristol Rovers £10, shows that Saints are overpriced |
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Thread | Dom Ballard Recalled from Loan
at 22:38 6 Jan 2025
Not expecting him to get in the first team squad, his record at Blackpool hasn't been good, 10 starts and 8 as sub with only 1 goal out of 22 possible games in League 1.
Not started much in the last 2 months, so I would expect that its more a mutual consent thing and Saints will try to get him out on loan again for the second half of the season |
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Thread | Stand Up & Be Counted But Address The Real Issues Not The Petty Ones
at 11:22 6 Jan 2025
I put this up on another thread, I wrote a lot more than I was planning to, so I thought it perhaps deserved a thread of it's own.
Its Not a dig at anyone, just an observation to a thread suggesting that spending money at St Mary's should be boycotted and that SR were perhaps responsible for the marketing of the club.
"In fairness to SR or Phil Parsons, they don't check all the marketing stuff that goes out on social media, in times of crisis most people blame all and everything, but you have to look at the root cause of the issue.
Have Sport Republic spent large amounts of money ? Yes so that is not the issue.
Have SR appointed experienced people to oversee the club ? _ Yes Rasmus Ankersen built up both Midjutland & Brentford, he has the track record, after RA & SR realised that Martin Semmens was not the man for the job, they sacked him and he appointed Joe Shields as head of recruitment who was head hunted and then Jason Wilcox as director of football, he was headhunted likewise, so they have appointed experienced people but due to no fault of their own they went on to bigger things.
The real issue is the failure to replace Jason Wilcox when he effectively went on gardening leave in February/March 2024, leaving no one with any football experience controlling the playing side of the club.
Phil Parsons had no experience running football clubs, although having played at non league level, it cannot be levelled at him that he is no a football man, just that he is not experienced in the business of a football club.
This is the root cause of where we have gone wrong, Parsons was not strong enough to stop Russell Martin running his own agenda, he sat on his hands when things went pear shaped and we are paying the price now for it.
The fact that the Swansea advertising has former players scoring goals is not a sign that the whole club is rotten, but some will take it as that because of the position, if we were 10th in the League and ready for a good cup run then no one would care about it, in fact the opposite they would be saying how great it is that the club is recognising our history.
What were they supposed to do ? show pictures of the 2008/09 season when we were truly appalling along with the headline "It's a bit better now"
The club now need to focus on the areas in which it is going wrong, not be side tracked by the fact that they get a bit of PR wrong.
Back in 1993 when the fans were demanding change, there was a real chance of achieving it, the board were essentially local businessmen, the club ran on it's income not by a rich owner funding it.
Change could be achieved, but the reality is a lot different.
Sport Republic are a business who want to build a portfolio of football clubs, they are committed to football, but will they remain committed to Southampton FC ?
The answer is for now yes, they have always said that this is a long term project, that it will be a bumpy ride and it will be tough, if the fans turn on SR then perhaps they will turn on the fans, stop investing and looking for a cheap sale and that would be catastrophic as was the case in 2006 with the arrival of Michael Wilde, man of the people and absolute disaster.
So yes if you truly want the club to go downhill then boycott it, its the quickest way to send it to oblivion as without the fans a football club is nothing and without the owners it is finished.
In modern football clubs are playthings and the ones with the richest owners and biggest fanbases flourish, whilst the rest of us are just there to make up the numbers.
I am all for supporters standing up and questioning the owners, but it has to be about the things that are going wrong and not about the things that aren't.
You only have to look at the League table to see the gulf now between the Championship and the Premier League, Leicester City are one place above us, 8 points above us yes, it's fine margins though if we had hung on to win against them, then they would be just 2 points above us.
Ipswich are just two points above them, the likelihood is that all 3 promoted clubs will go back down, so it is not just Saints.
Maybe i'm old fashioned, for me and probably 18,000 others it is about turning out and supporting your club (The club, not the owners or the manager) through thick and thin.
We have 12,000 floating supporters, I am not slagging them off, everyone has a right to support how they want, not bother going or storming out after 70 mins whatever they want to do, but that is not what football is for me !
This verse from a poem by Attilla The Stockbroker who was a big part of Brighton's campaigning when the Goldstone was sold and they were homeless is up on the wall at the Amex, it says a lot
"The battle's only just begun, but we have won the war.
Our club, though torn asunder, will survive.
And I salute each one of you who stood up and said NO!
And fought to keep the Albion alive.
And one day, when our new home's built, and we are storming back
A bunch of happy fans without a care
We'll look back on our darkest hour and raise our glasses high
and say with satisfaction: we were there."
Not the same issue that we have now, although quite near the one we faced in the 90's and then 2009 with administration, but the message is, turning you back on your football club is not the answer, standing up and be counted is.
Let's see how many boycott Saturday's game but instead make a protest outside the ground instead.
Last May standing outside St Mary's and welcoming the team coach seemed to be popular, where are the people NOW who were all over the internet back then encouraging it "
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Thread | Brentford Game Matchday Thread
at 09:50 4 Jan 2025
Will Welington be in the squad after becoming Saints first signing of the transfer window, |
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