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Thread | Spare Ticket For Liverpool
at 21:55 26 Feb 2025
I know someone who has a spare they want to get rid of if you know anyone looking for one |
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Thread | Nigel Adkins
at 10:41 26 Feb 2025
He has just left Tranmere Rovers by mutual consent, ie they have sacked him, but they like him so let him go with dignity.
Perhaps he could take over from Juric till the end of the season |
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Thread | 5 Things About Chelsea
at 09:58 26 Feb 2025
1. Never really liked going to Chelsea, it seems like a club with no heart in the community where the stadium is, I doubt that many Chelsea fans live near Stamford Bridge.
2. The away section has a great view from the upper tier, but the facilities are cramped and poor.
3. Fair play to the 3,000 Saints fans who turned out, great support
4. London prices are criminal, I can understand why you can charge £7 for a pint in central London, but not in the suburbs
5.Don't get me started on South Western Trains |
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Thread | Premier League Table After VAR Re adjusments
at 13:07 24 Feb 2025
Interesting reading, although it wouldn't change much, it would have still seen us with a few more points and perhaps that might have seen us pick up a few more and have a fighting chance.
Liverpool - 58pts
Arsenal - 55pts
Bournemouth - 47pts
Nottingham Forest - 47pts
Manchester City - 45pts
Chelsea - 43pts
Newcastle - 41pts
Aston Villa - 41pts
Fulham - 39pts
Brighton - 38pts
Brentford - 37pts
Tottenham -35pts
Crystal Palace - 35pts
Everton - 31pts
Manchester United - 31pts
Wolves - 26pts
West Ham - 24pts
Ipswich - 19pts
Leicester - 14pts
Southampton - 12pts |
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Thread | 5 Things About The Brighton Game
at 21:41 23 Feb 2025
1. It was easy to get out of the ground and over the footbridge at the end of the game.
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Thread | Brighton Game Matchday Thread
at 09:02 22 Feb 2025
A winnable game perhaps and much quaffing of overpriced and tasteless beer in the fanzones after |
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Thread | Best Pub In Southampton City Centre
at 21:16 20 Feb 2025
So what's everyone's top 3 pubs in the City centre, I don't get around much these days in town, so a bit out of touch |
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Thread | Flynn Downes Back In The Squad
at 21:03 20 Feb 2025
Looks like he has settled his rift with Juric and Jack Stephens is also back from injury |
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Thread | Nickname For Bournemouth Fans
at 09:03 15 Feb 2025
We will be regaled by mass chanting of "Scummers" by our neighbours from across the Forest this afternoon, but we don't seem to care about them as much as they care about us.
We don't have a nickname for them as we do our Skate friends towards the East, this must rankle to average Bournemouth fan, in their average 7 years of supporting the club, it must upset them that as an established Premier League club, that they don't have a true local rival apart from perhaps Weymouth.
So should we join in with their little game and find a disparaging nickname for them, if so what should it be.
Should it be an obvious but fairly friendly one such as "Deck chair attendants" or should it be a llittle more vicious.
Truth is I can't think of much about Bournemouth that distinguishes it as a town or a football team or for that matter a supporter group. |
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Thread | Bournemouth Game Matchday Thread
at 08:56 15 Feb 2025
Can we get over the 11 points mark by beating the Cherries today, that is all we are playing for now. |
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Thread | Ticket Exchange/ Sell Out
at 11:04 13 Feb 2025
Only 38 tickets left on the main ticket page, but 620 have been put up for sale on the ticket exchange, that is a massive amount, seems like some have just given up |
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Thread | Are Saints So Hard Up
at 16:56 11 Feb 2025
That they have to close the club shop at the stadium on every day bar a Thursday, Friday & a Saturday.
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Thread | Trains Cancelled On Saturday
at 10:25 11 Feb 2025
It is a replacement bus service between Brockenhurst & Southampton, so there will be the potential for chaos for the Bournemouth game |
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Thread | Crowd For Bournemouth
at 10:00 11 Feb 2025
Less than 100 tickets left and the ticket exchange is open so probably there have been tickets sold on that as well, so technically a sell out |
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Thread | 5 Things About The Burnley Game
at 09:57 11 Feb 2025
1 The Red Wall, I went in there and found it a little underwhelming, there was no cohesion in the singing etc, there seems to be 2 or 3 sections, all singing at different times, I was told this is the norm in League games as well
2. How many songs have we got, I counted 3 on Saturday, the most popular being the Liverpool cover version.
3. Closing the Kingsland probably takes about 3-3,000 off the attendance.
4. I am concerned about the manager, his team selections and substitutions are woeful and I think he is fast splitting the squad into factions
5. A reasonable crowd given the circumstances, ticket price, the season we are having, closure of the Kingsland, the Weather. |
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Thread | Did The Premier League Kill The Game As A Working Man's Sport
at 09:02 7 Feb 2025
This was a a suggestion on the home page article, "Who killed the magic of the FA Cup for Southampton".
I would suggest not !
The game was dead on it's feet by the mid 80's, a combination of football club owners who did not give a toss about the fans, having to watch games in decaying old stadiums, often on open terraces with no roof and the actual danger of attending matches when football hooliganism meant that anyone was fair game for a punch in the mouth, had seen attendances plummet from the 1970's.
Take 1988/89 even the big clubs were struggling
Man Utd Average 36k 10 yrs earlier average 56k
Liverpool Average 38k 1979 average 46k
Chelsea Average 15k 1979 average 24k
Spurs average 24k 1979 average 34k
Arsenal 35k 1979 average 36k (They were champions in 1989)
Saints average 15k 1979 average 21k
Football was dying and dropping, hence the Premier League came in and changed the face of the game .
So did the Premier League finish the game as a working mans sport, I would say no, it was already in the morgue when the Premier league came along, so the Premier League might not have reinvented it as a cheap working mans sport, but it saved it as a sport and made it a game that everyone followed albeit many on TV and the lower league clubs benefitted from this as the average person was now taking an interest in the game as a whole.
So the Premier League was the saviour of the game, but that came at a high cost as we now find out 33 years later.
I write this through gritted teeth as i am no lover of the Premier League and what it has become, but without it the game might well have died.
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