| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic 11:58 - Jan 5 with 2291 views | PatfromPoole |
Other than your season ticket / match ticket monies.
Boycott all gulags, the Dell Bar, food and drink, club shops, all merchandise.
All of it.
A wholly legal form of protest, cannot be dismissed by the Club as mob rule.
It will never happen of course, as there are far too many people who simply must get their fix of drinking crap lager in a plastic glass while bawling moronic Scouser songs about the club starting in a chapel.
But it would be a good start. |  |
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 12:00 - Jan 5 with 2087 views | saintwizzler |
Does that include buying Swansea FA Cup tickets? |  |
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 12:02 - Jan 5 with 2068 views | PatfromPoole |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 12:00 - Jan 5 by saintwizzler |
Does that include buying Swansea FA Cup tickets? |
I think that there already appears to be a boycott on that one, looking at the ticket sales ...... | |
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 12:21 - Jan 5 with 1974 views | Joiedevivre |
You’d think the pre-match video of “it started in a church” would entice people to look into the clubs history. Alas, we now apparently started in a chapel. |  | | |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 12:22 - Jan 5 with 1970 views | TripleNiemi |
Sadly I cannot do any more. The only thing I procure through the club is my ST and the odd away ticket which doesn’t impact SR’s revenue.
Anyone that drinks the Nats Pïss on offer at St. Mary’s needs their head examined anyway.
I do feel a small amount of sympathy for Dragan who I might suggest has been hoodwinked by that clown Rasmus **
**Disclaimer - Surely he should have been advised by somebody with a braincell [Post edited 5 Jan 14:47]
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 12:45 - Jan 5 with 1852 views | kernow |
How can a successful entrepreneur, businessman be hoodwinked into losing money like that?
I don’t understand how he would sanction so many poor decisions?!
Is our club a front for some kind of money laundering scam? That’s the only way this naive follower can rationalise what’s going on. |  | | |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 14:26 - Jan 5 with 1657 views | kingslandstand1 |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 12:00 - Jan 5 by saintwizzler |
Does that include buying Swansea FA Cup tickets? |
Has anyone actually bought a ticket?? I don't know of anyone that has |  | | |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 14:49 - Jan 5 with 1589 views | TripleNiemi |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 14:26 - Jan 5 by kingslandstand1 |
Has anyone actually bought a ticket?? I don't know of anyone that has |
Yeah, the older chap next to me admitted yesterday he was going.
#Commitment | |
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 15:06 - Jan 5 with 1542 views | Number_58 |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 12:02 - Jan 5 by PatfromPoole |
I think that there already appears to be a boycott on that one, looking at the ticket sales ...... |
Why don't you start the protest movement? |  | | |
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 15:41 - Jan 5 with 1450 views | kingslandstand1 |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 15:06 - Jan 5 by Number_58 |
Why don't you start the protest movement? |
Does it not need someone with a bit of savvy to do one of those "formal open letters" to the club via the Echo (downside is who reads the Echo nowadays) to explain the fans total frustration etc at the way the club is run from top to bottom etc and for SR to do the decent thing? | | | |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 18:16 - Jan 5 with 1297 views | TripleNiemi |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 15:41 - Jan 5 by kingslandstand1 |
Does it not need someone with a bit of savvy to do one of those "formal open letters" to the club via the Echo (downside is who reads the Echo nowadays) to explain the fans total frustration etc at the way the club is run from top to bottom etc and for SR to do the decent thing? |
Someone with proper clout needs to take the reins, you know, one of those types well in with the club and majority of the fanbase.
Step up SaintRob, Martin Sanders et al - WE NEED YOU!! | |
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 18:45 - Jan 5 with 1249 views | PatfromPoole |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 15:06 - Jan 5 by Number_58 |
Why don't you start the protest movement? |
I’m far too much of a geek for that caper. | |
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 20:57 - Jan 5 with 1103 views | dirk_doone |
I'm not sure what the end product is supposed to be here. No matter how much you hate Sport Republic, they can't just walk away, having invested hundreds of millions in the club, albeit it very unwisely. They could, I suppose, put the Club into administration, but who knows how many years it would take us to recover from that.
Our best hope is either to give them time to find a buyer, which isn't going to happen in the middle of this season of turmoil, or hope they can turn things around. Right now, they are probably working on both of those options.
Kat Liebherr is always there, selling first to Gao and then bringing in Sport Republic. Don't be surprised if she has a big say in the next choice of owner as well. There will be a few chancers but don't expect great owners to be queueing up to buy us now. A lot of care needs to be taken over this decision so trying to rush it through now is unlikely to end well. [Post edited 5 Jan 21:06]
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 21:06 - Jan 5 with 1065 views | SaintNick |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 20:57 - Jan 5 by dirk_doone |
I'm not sure what the end product is supposed to be here. No matter how much you hate Sport Republic, they can't just walk away, having invested hundreds of millions in the club, albeit it very unwisely. They could, I suppose, put the Club into administration, but who knows how many years it would take us to recover from that.
Our best hope is either to give them time to find a buyer, which isn't going to happen in the middle of this season of turmoil, or hope they can turn things around. Right now, they are probably working on both of those options.
Kat Liebherr is always there, selling first to Gao and then bringing in Sport Republic. Don't be surprised if she has a big say in the next choice of owner as well. There will be a few chancers but don't expect great owners to be queueing up to buy us now. A lot of care needs to be taken over this decision so trying to rush it through now is unlikely to end well. [Post edited 5 Jan 21:06]
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There is still plenty of time to run in this story.
January 2022 SR arrive and we think that football success is just about spending money.
October 2022 the fans demand the sacking of Ralph Hasenhuttl
December 2022 the fans demand the sacking of Nathan Jones
May 2023 after relegation the fans demand the sacking of Sport Republic
August 2023 the fans gripe about Russell Martin
September 2023 the fans demand the sacking of Russell Martin
December 2023 the fans demand that Russell Martin be upgraded to ok
April 2024 The fans demand the sacking of Russell martin and that SR leave
May 2024 The fans say they have had their best day ever watching Saints at Wembley & demand the canonisation of Russell martin
August 2024 The fans demand the sacking of Russell Martin & the burning of all SR owners at the stake.
Sept/October/November/December 2024 Please see above
December 2024 The fans acclaim Ivan Juric
January 2024 The fans demand the sacking of Ivan Juric and the burning at the stake of SR owners
There is a pattern here , perhaps we should book the street parties now for May 2026 and order some pitchforks and torches for May 2027
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 23:47 - Jan 5 with 872 views | PatfromPoole |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 21:06 - Jan 5 by SaintNick |
There is still plenty of time to run in this story.
January 2022 SR arrive and we think that football success is just about spending money.
October 2022 the fans demand the sacking of Ralph Hasenhuttl
December 2022 the fans demand the sacking of Nathan Jones
May 2023 after relegation the fans demand the sacking of Sport Republic
August 2023 the fans gripe about Russell Martin
September 2023 the fans demand the sacking of Russell Martin
December 2023 the fans demand that Russell Martin be upgraded to ok
April 2024 The fans demand the sacking of Russell martin and that SR leave
May 2024 The fans say they have had their best day ever watching Saints at Wembley & demand the canonisation of Russell martin
August 2024 The fans demand the sacking of Russell Martin & the burning of all SR owners at the stake.
Sept/October/November/December 2024 Please see above
December 2024 The fans acclaim Ivan Juric
January 2024 The fans demand the sacking of Ivan Juric and the burning at the stake of SR owners
There is a pattern here , perhaps we should book the street parties now for May 2026 and order some pitchforks and torches for May 2027
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Point of order.
I was griping about Russell Martin earlier than August 2023.
June 2023, when we were first linked with him, was when I started saying he was the anti-Christ or similar. | |
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 08:13 - Jan 6 with 724 views | Ron11 |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 12:00 - Jan 5 by saintwizzler |
Does that include buying Swansea FA Cup tickets? |
Saw they are advertising Swansea Cup tickets on Instagram with background footage of Sadio Mane and others scoring great goals.Just about says it all about this lot. | | | |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 09:31 - Jan 6 with 620 views | Hollywood56 |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 12:00 - Jan 5 by saintwizzler |
Does that include buying Swansea FA Cup tickets? |
Shut up you idiot | | | |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 09:35 - Jan 6 with 605 views | saintwizzler |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 09:31 - Jan 6 by Hollywood56 |
Shut up you idiot |
Welcome back.
It’s been a while.
Did you have a nice Christmas? | |
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It was the questions we had wrong. |
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 09:38 - Jan 6 with 591 views | Gennaro_Contaldo |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 12:00 - Jan 5 by saintwizzler |
Does that include buying Swansea FA Cup tickets? |
I have 3 ... :| |  |
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 10:07 - Jan 6 with 538 views | TripleNiemi |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 09:31 - Jan 6 by Hollywood56 |
Shut up you idiot |
Misses kick you out the wrong side? | |
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 11:03 - Jan 6 with 468 views | saintwizzler |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 10:07 - Jan 6 by TripleNiemi |
Misses kick you out the wrong side? |
Don’t worry about him.
He seems to like to abuse me.
Not clever enough to use the ignore button.
Don’t forget he’s an ex Saints player
Apparently. | |
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 11:16 - Jan 6 with 431 views | SaintNick |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 08:13 - Jan 6 by Ron11 |
Saw they are advertising Swansea Cup tickets on Instagram with background footage of Sadio Mane and others scoring great goals.Just about says it all about this lot. |
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 that seemed to be popular, where are the people who were all over the internet back then encouraging it NOW | |
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 12:20 - Jan 6 with 354 views | saintwizzler |
Question
I paid my £700.50 for a season ticket back in the summer.
If I decide not to attend a game is this still classed as a boycott?
I’m still included in the matchday attendance I believe.
I don’t buy anything at the ground so am I missed? | |
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 12:44 - Jan 6 with 320 views | SaintNick |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 12:20 - Jan 6 by saintwizzler |
Question
I paid my £700.50 for a season ticket back in the summer.
If I decide not to attend a game is this still classed as a boycott?
I’m still included in the matchday attendance I believe.
I don’t buy anything at the ground so am I missed? |
If you chose not to attend then no one will notice and yes you are still included in the matchday attendance
If you chose to turn up and stand by the Ted Bates Statue during the game with a big banner, then you will get noticed, people will put it on social media and the Press will pick up on it.
If 200 people join you, people will notice from the corporate areas. If 2,000 people join you at full time or at 70 minutes when we go 2-0 down, then it will really get noticed.
If after that 3,000 people join you for the Newcastle game then it will truly create a stir.
Having been involved in fans groups etc for over 35 years I know what makes club owners sit up and take notice, when their main sponsors start asking questions about why they couldn't get out of the ground the club sit up and take notice.
At the end of the day though fans judge clubs on League positions, which I totally understand, but this isn't 1985, football is an industry.
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 12:49 - Jan 6 with 315 views | DorsetIan |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 21:06 - Jan 5 by SaintNick |
There is still plenty of time to run in this story.
January 2022 SR arrive and we think that football success is just about spending money.
October 2022 the fans demand the sacking of Ralph Hasenhuttl
December 2022 the fans demand the sacking of Nathan Jones
May 2023 after relegation the fans demand the sacking of Sport Republic
August 2023 the fans gripe about Russell Martin
September 2023 the fans demand the sacking of Russell Martin
December 2023 the fans demand that Russell Martin be upgraded to ok
April 2024 The fans demand the sacking of Russell martin and that SR leave
May 2024 The fans say they have had their best day ever watching Saints at Wembley & demand the canonisation of Russell martin
August 2024 The fans demand the sacking of Russell Martin & the burning of all SR owners at the stake.
Sept/October/November/December 2024 Please see above
December 2024 The fans acclaim Ivan Juric
January 2024 The fans demand the sacking of Ivan Juric and the burning at the stake of SR owners
There is a pattern here , perhaps we should book the street parties now for May 2026 and order some pitchforks and torches for May 2027
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Its extraordinary that you can turn a tale of complete incompetence on the part of a football club into a frothy mouth rant about the fickleness of football fans.
Russell Martin took the team on a very good Championship league run and an excellent play-off campaign.
Apart from that, the story of SFC since SR took over has been catastrophic failure. | |
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| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 12:53 - Jan 6 with 305 views | SaintNick |
| Do Not Give A Single Penny to Sports Republic on 12:49 - Jan 6 by DorsetIan |
Its extraordinary that you can turn a tale of complete incompetence on the part of a football club into a frothy mouth rant about the fickleness of football fans.
Russell Martin took the team on a very good Championship league run and an excellent play-off campaign.
Apart from that, the story of SFC since SR took over has been catastrophic failure. |
My frothy mouthed rant was elsewhere, this was just a jokey timeline, I mioght have got a few dates a week or two out, but I think it is pretty much an accurate description of the past 3 years | |
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