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Reply | Who Killed The Magic Of The FA Cup for Southampton
at 11:55 6 Feb 2025
I don't necessarily agree with this. There is still a chance for a "lesser" club to win a domestic cup, but the biggest hindrance to most of them is themselves.....for choosing to prioritise the league and field weakened teams. The likes of Brighton, Bournemouth, Fulham, Forest etc should go all in, but they rarely do.
You can also get lucky like we did In 2003. We got home draws in every round, all against equal or lesser clubs, Spurs in the 3rd round being the toughest on paper. We were far from disgraced in the final against a side in their prime who were winning Premier League titles and on another day, we could've been the ones lifting the cup.
Also, in the 2017 league cup, we beat Arsenal away and of course Liverpool home and away on route to a final where we were undoubtedly the better side and probably should have won. The bigger clubs didn't blow us away then; it was more a case of the experience of serial trophy winners Man Utd seeing them through.
There is still hope, but it requires the clubs to take the competitions more seriously. The fact they don't, sadly fuels the disinterest from fans. |
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Reply | Who Killed The Magic Of The FA Cup for Southampton
at 10:04 6 Feb 2025
The club priced the Swansea tie completely wrong and didn't learn their lesson and correct that for the Burnley game. Both are very unattractive fixtures, in a season of absolute shit, so it's not surprising to anyone the attendances for both are so low.
I love the cups, but haven't gone to any of our ties this season, in both competitions. My view is I spend enough of my time and money supporting this club and rather than giving more of both for these additional games, I'm going to use the weekends to do none football stuff for a change. If they'd of made it a tenner or done something to make me feel my contributions are appreciated, I'd most probably have gone, but they've chosen to bury their heads in the sand and carry on as though everything is rosy. Of course there's still something in me that wants to give in and go, but I won't.
The biggest killers of the magic of the cup however are the FA themselves. They have completely sold the soul of the competition for their greedy short term gain. If ever any evidence was needed why the governing bodies of the game, whether that be the FA, the Premier league, UEFA, FIFA etc don't give a toss about match-going fans, just look at what's been done to this once great competition, solely for financial gain. Those that go to the games are not even an after-thought; it's all about selling the rights for domestic and international tv packages and raping the game for what they can. |
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Reply | Will we beat Derby's lowest points record
at 13:53 31 Jan 2025
Of course I hope we don't, but the further this season goes on, in some ways I think it'd be kind of cool to break the record. At least it's something to remember the direness of the season by. |
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Reply | Are Saints Fans
at 10:51 30 Jan 2025
It's not just internet fans that are moaning; most people are completely fed up with it, but still go week in week out because of the loyalty they have to the club. The atmosphere at both home and away games has been terrible this season as there's that resigned feeling we all know what's coming. We're just going through the motions and It's not enjoyable in the slightest. |
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Reply | Le Tissier Bringe Political Protest to St Marys Stadium
at 08:12 28 Jan 2025
This is so naive. Forget the Corporates and big business and think about the millions of people employed by small businesses. In 2019 the minimum wage was £7.83....in 2025 it will be £12.21, so about a 35% increase.
How do you think a small business affords this when it's getting battered by all the other inflationary cost increases? Businesses don't suddenly become more profitable to be able to absorb these pressures, they have to make cut backs....and more often than not that comes in the form of redundancies.
6 years ago I employed 5 people...3 permanent and 2 part time, now I only employ 2 part time. The business in the unit next to me closed down altogether 4 years ago and the garage next to them went 2 years ago. The engineering firm opposite laid off 6 blokes just before Christmas. This is the reality of what small businesses have to deal with, not your utopia of paying everyone £20+ per hour and all living happily ever after. |
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Reply | Shea Charles
at 15:06 27 Jan 2025
We recalled him so we could get an improved loan fee when sending him back for the second half of the season. |
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Reply | Newcastle Ticket Exchange
at 10:28 22 Jan 2025
I listed our prime location red wall tickets on the exchange a couple of weeks ago and they sold immediately  |
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Reply | 5 Things About Nottingham Forest
at 13:02 21 Jan 2025
It's a great ground and imo their home support is definitely up there with the best, however like all midlands clubs, they seem to revel in taunting the opposing fans. Having said that, I don't mind them to be honest and they're nowhere near as vile as Wolves, Leicester, Stoke etc. [Post edited 21 Jan 13:02]
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Reply | Chelsea tickets
at 10:16 21 Jan 2025
I got on at 9.15am and the entire middle section of the upper tier was greyed out...must of been 400-500 seats. I decided against buying as 2-3 blocks of the the upper tier have been held back, so I'll try hanging on until they're released.
It's one of those things that really hacks me off that those with the best priority end up with limited choice as so many are given to corporate/family and typically the more central blocks get held back until the shitty ones in the corners and at the front have been sold. |
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Reply | Record breakers
at 13:05 17 Jan 2025
Last season we came from behind and scored late winners multiple times...it was so refreshing. Also, despite not playing well on several occasions, we were able to grind out results. That's of course against inferior/equal opposition though, which tells you all you need to know. |
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Reply | Record breakers
at 09:09 17 Jan 2025
You only have to look to how many points we've lost from winning positions over the last few seasons to determine how negative an impact our subs make. |
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Reply | Sulemana
at 07:57 17 Jan 2025
My reply had no mention of Sulemana and was to you calling people out for being negative and moaning about everything. I was curious to hear your views of the season as I struggle to see how anyone who supports us can be positive and happy with how things are. What part of that did you not understand? |
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Reply | Sulemana
at 08:53 14 Jan 2025
Ok Mr Positive; let's hear your summary of this season... |
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Reply | Sunderland v Saints
at 14:44 13 Jan 2025
Yep, next season will be much worse for fixture changes for us with multiple Friday night and Saturday 12.30 games. Added to the fact there's so many northern clubs in the Championship, it's going to be pretty frustrating getting to games. [Post edited 13 Jan 14:46]
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