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| RIP Football on 11:21 - Apr 23 with 2880 views | saints__fan__73 |
The fans are protesting. They are protesting by not going. It's as good a way as any in modern football as money is the only thing which the owners listen to.
It was the poor level of s/t renewals went a long way to getting rid of Puel.
It was the thousands of empty seats at every Arsenal home game that forced their owners to finally push Wenger out.
The Saturday Semi still had a good atmosphere, yesterday's was appalling but I an see why. For us, it's a shit season, we have owners who have given us a self-inflicted relegation while pocketing hundreds of millions of transfer fees. There was little enthusiasm for the game from the s/t holders I know and there were a few who didn't think the cost was worth it.
For Chelsea -it's a nothing season - they are a team that usually contends for the PL and CL so an FA Cup doesn't really excite their fans much in the world of modern football. I know a couple of Chelsea fans who go to 20+ games at Stamford Bridge when they are contending for a PL title but neither bothered to go to yesterday's semi.
If we had the genuine aim to try and compete with the top 6 then I have no problem with the PL, but as soon as we were just trying to remain in the league as our over-riding aim then I lost pretty much all interest and I'll be happier when we are in the Championship where we can contend for Top 6. | |
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| RIP Football on 11:30 - Apr 23 with 2863 views | PatfromPoole |
I thought our support in the ground was pretty poor as well.
Far too many people think that just turning up wearing a Saints shirt represents passionate support. Try getting on your feet and making a bit of noise as well, FFS. You might actually enjoy it.
I reckon the following we had at Leicester on Thursday made more noise. | |
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| RIP Football on 11:53 - Apr 23 with 2829 views | Boris_ |
I must admit Bradders that I'm finding myself agreeing with you recently and it's a very bitter pill to swallow.  [Post edited 23 Apr 2018 11:53]
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| RIP Football on 11:54 - Apr 23 with 2818 views | Boris_ |
Support was definitely poor. Apart from a couple of OWTS there was nothing really.
Even on the trains up to London the atmosphere was very subdued. | |
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| RIP Football on 12:01 - Apr 23 with 2798 views | saint22 |
Its also the playing of semis at Wembley thats killed the Cup excitement for many
As sh1te as we have become that was our third game there i a little over a year which therefore now means little or less than before
Plus all the tools filming the thing on their phones
Some gyppo in front of me on his feet filming every 2 minutes, in the end my son shouted 'sit down pal its on tv later' | | | |
| RIP Football on 12:02 - Apr 23 with 2792 views | Bar_Brother |
We have a hard core passionate fan base but in proportion to our average attendance it is becomining increasingly diluted. The PL and everything it stands for does not help. | | | |
| RIP Football on 12:09 - Apr 23 with 2770 views | Leslie_Hughes |
I think the main reason is the pathetic gap from the top 6 to the rest. Nobody can compete anymore. The top 6 are sewn up. Barring the freak Wigan win vs Man City, it would’ve been Chelsea, man united, Man City and spurs as the last 4. They’re not even really bothered about the cup. Man City winning the league cup with ease as well, as a competition football is dire. I didn’t meet one saints fan yesterday that realistically thought we’d go through. Football as it is, is absolutely rubbish. | |
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| RIP Football on 12:43 - Apr 23 with 2699 views | saints__fan__73 |
Right back at ya Stu-pot. | |
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| RIP Football on 12:48 - Apr 23 with 2685 views | saints__fan__73 |
The PL now is very akin to the world of the Harlem Globetrotters. The only difference is that the league has 6 Globetrotters and 14 of the irrelevant opponents who are served up to play them every game.
Just like the Globetrotters, people the world over want to want to watch the Big 6 play but no one gives a f uck who they are playing they just want to see the likes of Salah and Lukaku score goals.
As has been said before, the only way to change this is to have a Euro Superleague played out for the TV audiences around the world and let the new PL/Championship be a league for people in the UK and those who actually go to games. This league will have zero TV appeal around the world and so the clubs will have to go back to their actual fans being the main stream of revenues and not those paying to watch Man U play from their sofas in China. | |
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| RIP Football on 12:50 - Apr 23 with 2681 views | this_charming_man |
Bradley I find myself nodding in agreement at everything you’ve said on here | |
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| RIP Football on 13:28 - Apr 23 with 2621 views | Leslie_Hughes |
Spot on | |
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| RIP Football on 13:48 - Apr 23 with 2591 views | kingslandstand1 |
But weren't you in corporate 22? (or have I got that wrong) Not a mickey take, or dig but I've usually found the corporates are tourists and a trip to Wembley is a novelty hence they will make their movie (that they will never watch) and have no real interest in football apart from taking any freebies on offer and pretending to know what colour shirts their team is wearing
That was certainly my experience when on a corporate at Wembley a few years ago | | | |
| RIP Football on 13:48 - Apr 23 with 2591 views | kingslandstand1 |
Fair play to your nipper though ............. | | | |
| RIP Football on 14:24 - Apr 23 with 2530 views | Buggalugs |
Did your lad really refer to someone as "pal" whilst heckling them?  | |
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| RIP Football on 14:34 - Apr 23 with 2501 views | Number_58 |
Football isn't dead though, is it. I'm sure supporters of Burnley, Huddersfield, Brighton, Bournemouth and a few others are having a great time in the Premier League. Unfortunately, due to the laws of mathematics, not everyone can do well every season. Not too many Saints fans were lamenting the death of football when we put eight past Sunderland not so long ago, or as our team walked out at the San Siro last season. Football is cyclical; virtually every team has bad spells and good spells. For a few years we've had it quite good and perhaps we've all become too arrogant and self-righteous. We'll probably go down this year, but we'll be back sooner or later and we'll enjoy our future successes all the more for the current downturn in fortunes. | | | |
| RIP Football on 15:33 - Apr 23 with 2413 views | Buggalugs |
Totally agree.
It's really come to something when an FA Cup semi final, an EFL Cup Final, a Europa League campaign and a few top 8 Premier League finishes are shrugged aside by Saints fans as being shit. | |
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| RIP Football on 16:35 - Apr 23 with 2342 views | this_charming_man |
They were though. When we were doing all that still people complained, bemoaning our lack of ambition, inability to push onto the fabled next level and so on. They hated every minute when we weee only qualifying for Europe and only finishing in the top 8, so why would they be enjoying it now? | |
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| RIP Football on 17:02 - Apr 23 with 2308 views | patred |
the best players of those clubs will soon be ripped away from them, and they will struggle again to compete. Thats due to fear, fear that one of thier big rivals will buy them instead.
Look at the benches of those big 4-5 clubs, everyone of them was a 'star' in thier clubs. But alas, thier agents got them packed off to earn his bonus, and thier clients were turned into 'rich bench warmers' who occassionally played a cup game or two.
It happens more to us because we try to produce our own, and we have a DOF who thinks that ambition is selling.
So the struggle goes on, promise turns into relegation. Relegation nowadays can easily lead to administration. It will continue until one day football will lose a club.
Sad really, that a whole community could lose thier football team because of 4-5 clubs greed and fear. [Post edited 23 Apr 2018 17:06]
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| RIP Football on 17:15 - Apr 23 with 2268 views | 1885_SFC |
It's the same across the whole of Europe really. Every year it's the same old same old. The CL will have Real & Barcelona from Spain, PSG from France, Benfica from Portugal, Lazio, Juve, Roma from Italy, Ajax from Holland - and the usual suspects from England.
It is repetitive... and boring. The sooner they all bugger off to create a Eurowánkfest League - the better. | |
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| RIP Football on 18:58 - Apr 23 with 2162 views | grumpy |
The fortunes of Leeds ,Sheffield Wednesday, Sunderland etc. do worry me,are we going that way? | | | |
| RIP Football on 20:13 - Apr 23 with 2052 views | this_charming_man |
The Italian league is good this year. Napoli won 1-0 away at Juventus to put them a point behind them with 4 games left. They’re playing some great stuff and their fans are brilliant. Would love to see them win it. | |
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| RIP Football on 20:17 - Apr 23 with 2043 views | Leslie_Hughes |
I’ve seen there’s a few saints lads that follow Roma as well. | |
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| RIP Football on 20:22 - Apr 23 with 2034 views | this_charming_man |
There are indeed, a few of them have been over several times and a few from Roma over here | |
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| RIP Football on 20:30 - Apr 23 with 2023 views | Happy_Jack |
Football is shit now but I do have high hopes for Saturday's game. It's do or die so the atmosphere should go up a level. | |
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