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Reply | Nickname For Bournemouth Fans
at 21:07 15 Feb 2025
No, it's a fact.
Pompey refers to their traditonal colours, which were Pompadour Pink (pink with maroon trimming). It wasn't an original nickname though as a regiment based in Portsmouth during the 19th century, the 56th West Essex Regiment of Foot, had a Pompadour Pink uniform and were first nicknamed the Pompadours and then the Saucy Pompeys. The football club just copied them. Football club nicknames in that era commonly referred to team colours, like the Clarets, the Lillywhites, Sky Blues etc.
When the orginal PFC went bust in 1911, the new club that replaced them, adopted a new blue strip to show they weren't connected to the orginal club with its Pompadour Pink strip (and its debts). But, the Pompey nickname carried over. They were also known as the Shrimps but that name didn't carry over.
https://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/regtnicknames.html [Post edited 15 Feb 21:17]
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Reply | Charly Alcaraz
at 20:57 15 Feb 2025
He's too good for our current team. |
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Reply | Happy Shiny People
at 20:35 15 Feb 2025
We started to become happy when Smallbone was subbed. His substitution was greeted by a huge cheer and it seemed to lift the whole team as well as the crowd. After that, for a while in the second half, the atmosphere was great, the team was having a real go at Bournemouth and when we scored, the Bournemouth fans fell silent and looked worried, and it really felt like we might get a draw. The 3rd Bournemouth goal was a killer, but the final score was not as bad as we'd anticipated. I thought if we lose by less than 3-0 today, I'll not be unhappy, and when they went 2-0 up, it looked like it might be much worse than that.
We fans make the most of the small scraps of comfort we get this season. To be honest though, I was cold and miserable walking away from the stadium.
I'll be back next week dreaming of a draw but accepting that anything other than a heavy defeat won't be too bad by our team's standards this season. It will be a huge boost to everyone, except the opposition, if Smallbone doesn't appear. He seems to drain all of the life out of our midfield as well as our fans.
Juric is proving himself to be a complete and utter idiot by picking him. Why can't he see what everyone else can? Anyway, the fact we got most of the second half without him, was a cause for some small happiness. [Post edited 15 Feb 21:03]
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Reply | Southampton V Bournemouth The Preview
at 11:25 15 Feb 2025
Well, that's good news. If only we could get Talovyerov from Plymouth, what an upgrade that would be, but I expect he'll go to Everton. |
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Reply | Nickname For Bournemouth Fans
at 11:11 15 Feb 2025
For many years Bournemouth were the second team for most Saints fans, although now that Bournemouth have become more successful and their fans more antagonistic towards us, Eastleigh seem to have taken over that role. It's still hard to build up a real dislike for Bournemouth though. |
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Reply | Bournemouth Sold Out
at 10:58 15 Feb 2025
Plymouth seem to have started copying Bournemouth's recruitment model in January: successful but relatively unknown manager and players from small European clubs, so we may well see them up there with Bournemouth and Brighton in the near future. Meanwhile, Sport Republic continue their doomed policy of recruiting players and managers who've failed or been mediocre at medium-sized and big clubs, like Man City, West Ham and Roma.
So, they recruit success cheaply while we buy expensive failure. [Post edited 15 Feb 12:15]
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Reply | Nickname For Bournemouth Fans
at 10:18 15 Feb 2025
For similar reasons, many of us have Geordie roots from the mass migration of dock workers from Newcastle during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
A good name for Bournemouth fans would be the one we've always used, "Bournemouth fans." The artificial use of Skates has never sat well with me. It was a term commonly used in Portsmouth to describe Royal Navy sailors. Scummer has some history. It was, according to the Oxford Dictionary, first recorded in writing in 1585, and was the nickname for a pirate or buccaneer, so Poole Pirates means the same as Poole Scummers. But, it wasn't used at all to describe football fans when I started going in the 1960s.
The SCUM dock strike myth was quite recent. It started with a spoof comic story in a Pompey Fanzine, Frattonize, in the 1990s, in which Southampton Corporation Union Men broke a strike by Portsmouth Fish Company workers. Nowadays, you have Pompey fans claiming their grandfathers knew about this mythical strike.
The first fans I heard to regularly describe other fans as Scum were Millwall in the 1970s, although there was a terrace chant used by Saints fans as well, which went "We are the people; they are the scum." It came from Borstal slang. Pompey fans who came to a Saints v Millwall game at the Dell in 1977, to support Millwall, after their own game was cancelled, heard them using it and copied it from them. I was in the Fratton End with Dougal's mob at our derby game in 1966, singing and wearing our red and white scarves, and never heard the words scum or scummer used once, because it wasn't a nickname back then.
The origin of Pompey is very clear. It comes from Portmouth's original colours, which were Pompadour pink. But, of course, Pompey fans have since tried to obscure that and claim all sorts of mythical origins, such as heroic sailors from Portsmouth climbing Pompey's Pillar in Egypt, which is, of course, total bullsh!t. [Post edited 15 Feb 11:28]
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Reply | Bournemouth Sold Out
at 10:01 15 Feb 2025
Champions League is a realistic target for Bournemouth now. I remember when Cortese wanted Saints to aim for the Champions League, our unambitious fans sneered and said it was so unfair to spend poor Kat's money to do it. Meanwhile, she made quarter of a billion pounds out of this club. Such a shame that her father died before that ambition was fulfilled here. [Post edited 15 Feb 10:04]
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Reply | Bournemouth Sold Out
at 21:35 14 Feb 2025
Brighton's win tonight means that a Bournemouth victory tomorrow will take them above Chelsea.
Are Bournemouth and Brighton the only 2 South Coast teams ever to be in the top 8 of English football together? They could both qualify for Europe. The first South Coast FA Cup Final is still also possible. [Post edited 14 Feb 21:45]
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Reply | A back 3 of Bednarek, Wood and Bree
at 20:28 14 Feb 2025
Plymouth just got 2 new centre-backs in the January transfer window for a total expenditure of £2 mill. They are better than anyone we've got and so, of course, is their new manager. It just goes to show one successful transfer window can make a massive difference to a team that looked dead and buried at the bottom of the table. Unfortunately, our transfer windows just seem to make our squad even worse: millions being poured down the drain. [Post edited 14 Feb 20:29]
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Reply | Exeter
at 23:49 12 Feb 2025
If Plymouth can hang on to Muslić next year, I wouldn't be surprised to see them join Bournemouth and Brighton as one of the top 3 South Coast teams. |
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Reply | Rebuild
at 23:18 12 Feb 2025
We really need someone like Maksym Talovierov (aka Talavyerov), but I expect a few Premier League clubs will try to get him in the summer. It was rumoured that David Moyes was interested in signing him before he parted ways with West Ham, so it would be no surprise to see him go to Everton.
Plymouth's recruitment of their new manager and players, especially Talovierov for just £2 mill, in the January transfer window was just what we could have done with. You have to give credit to them. They were looking dead and buried a month ago. What an impact the inspirational Miron Muslić has had. A club gets a manager like him once in a lifetime.
https://www.skysports.com/football/video/19530/13288454/new-plymouth-boss-miron- [Post edited 12 Feb 23:36]
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Reply | Southampton Sign Victor Udoh
at 20:49 11 Feb 2025
Victor Udoh is playing tonight, but he's by no means the biggest name in the team.
Princewill Ehibhatiomhan has scored a first-half hat-trick. [Post edited 11 Feb 20:50]
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Reply | Crowd For Bournemouth
at 10:11 11 Feb 2025
Whatever the capacity really is nowadays, which appears to be just over 31,000. |
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Reply | Farce
at 20:06 10 Feb 2025
Burnley at Preston in the next round. They'll need their first team for that one. |
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Reply | As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ?
at 19:03 10 Feb 2025
"Any decent manager will want no part of this car crash club."
There are so few well-paid managerial posts available, that we should have no problem finding a good one who wants to come here in the summer. The bigger problem will be recruiting decent players. The worse our reputation becomes, the harder that's going to get. You can predict already, that our better players would all rather move elsewhere in the summer and you can't see them encouraging other players to come here.
"Maybe this Spor fella will be our saviour."
He's a Sport Republic appointment and has he ever saved anybody else?
Our underlying problem is that Ankersen likes to do things his own way. He writes books and gives talks about it. "Embrace Failure" is a key part of his philosophy. Cortese had the right idea. He studied what other successful clubs did and then copied it. His philosphy was essentially, Copy Success, and that's what we should be doing now. [Post edited 10 Feb 19:14]
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Reply | Well done Plymouth
at 17:49 9 Feb 2025
I've got a feeling it's going to be a Bournemouth v Newcastle final. But, of course, it all depends on the draw. |
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