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Any idea what the allocation is for away teams there ?

Isn’t Jimmy Saville ‘one of theirs’ ?

Also, we changed at WBA, but they remained in their home kit last night. That didn’t seem to confuse anyone.

Thanks, but doesn't explain the term "wools" , for exiles or 'out of towners'. Any further background ? Genuinely interested. (Is this a Southampton phrase ?)

He and mate had one each. Facing prosecution, but told they don't have a leg to stand on.

One thing I saw last night stuck with me, a bloke ran on with his son (probably 11-12) from the Itchen corner. They went past a WBA player, big black bloke (No 4 I think), and the child stood next to him and said something , the player looked down, and then the lad held out his hand to shook hands with the player. Does this represent a better class of hooligan at Saints, or should we call for banning orders and tell them to fuck off and follow rugby instead, as there is no place for such behaviour at football ?

Can you imagine explaining to them this morning, or on Monday morning, why they won't be going to Wembley , or St Mary's for a while ? I understand the euphoria that led to it, but it did end the celebrations for most people and the team prematurely. Also accept what Billy says that not everyone acted badly, the goading of the WBA fans was unnecessary and pointless. There are some clubs that merit abuse perhaps, but don't think Albion fans deserved that crap. Wonder if all the hard cases would have been so keen if it was Milwall, or at Wembley with Leeds ?

Chairman's vote of confidence and all that ..... Nothing would be off limits for Saints. From my time following them, just when you think things are harmonious and fine someone throws a bit of a fit and it all falls out. I'm thinking Alan Ball leaving us, Merrington being sacked despite having achieve the season's goal, the Souness tantrum, Pearson not being kept., Koeman moving on, all at times when you thought things were settled at the end of the season. We don't know the set up, and how working relationships have gelled, or how Wilcox fucking off will affect things.

Have we really extended his contract ? We seem to have a blind spot in a)identifying GK's , and b)then offering contracts their performances simply don't warrant, and at times when if anything we should be looking to offload them.

They both probably also know Farke will go the same way if Leeds don’t go up.

Here’s hoping

I don’t know enough about the Leeds squad tbh, but it’s possibly a bit blinkered to assume they didn’t have matches where they weren’t hampered by absence of key players. I read in one of their forums that they felt it went a bit flat with four players after Wales failed to qualify for the Euros (apparently they had four players involved). Not something that troubled us ( I don’t recall it anyway).

Exactly. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Big dilemma , does RM start and keep all his penalty takers on, even if they look to be flagging a bit, or keep a couple back for ET if needed.

Anyway, just loaded the foam hands in the car. Just about to find the old wooden rattle and I’m on my way.

Didn’t Leeds have any injuries during the course of the season ?