Nordic Saint

Ours is one which is rarely played and so more similar to Stoke v Port Vale https://news.sky.com/story/eleven-arrests-after-despicable-violence-at-rare-stoke-vs-port-vale-derby-match-11571967

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Revenge for 2010! Premier League Saints at League One Pompey. We've got them at the right time.

Revenge for 2010 at last!

On the one hand, I like to see Pompey lose every game; on the other hand, I'd love to see us thrash them at St Mary's. Failing that, any lower league team at home. As we know, this is a competition we can at least reach the final in.

José Fonte captained his Lille team to a 3-0 victory over Saint-Étienne tonight.

Second consecutive away win and two clean sheets. We're on a roll.

Classic Shane Long miss from a yard in front of goal. It's what we've come to expect from him.

A free-kick in that position is when you want Boufal rather than Ward-Prowse taking it. But, Ward-Prowse hogs them all.

Credit to him. He's worked his socks off.

Obafemi + Djenepo, Danso and the improving Boufal and Redmond and you can see things really picking up again.

Obafemi! He's a real star in the making.

Someone with a bit more oomph and pace to replace Ward-Prowse could be the key. He doesn't create much so nowadays his main role seems to be to battle in central midfield but he tends to get easily overrun and outpaced. I think we were all hoping he would turn into a real team leader but the fact is he tends to get bypassed by pacy opposition and doesn't offer much in the way of leadership. Boufal seems to be our main midfield battler tonight. Pity Ward-Prowse doesn't let him take the free-kicks as I think he'd be better at them too. Anyway, as long as we win, it's all good.

Boufal is doing a lot of defensive work.

99 times out of a hundred, league clubs in dire financial trouble are saved at the brink or reborn under a slightly different company name so the odds are that they'll both survive in some form or another. The worst case scenario is probably that one of them might end up reborn in the National League North after a short hiatus. The rise of Salford FC in an area already dominated by Manchester United and City hasn't done Bury any favours though.

That looks like a very exciting starting lineup for Saints. Happy with that. McCarthy Cedric Danso Bednarek Romeu Ward-Prowse Hojbjerg Boufal Djenepo Redmond Obafemi

I have fond memories of our last 2 home games v Bury: the 2-0 FA Cup win in 2008, when they brought a fair number of fans down, and the 6-2 league win at the Dell in 1965 (4 goals from George O'Brien and 1 each for Wimshurst and Chivers in our promotion season), when they didn't. There must be a few posters here who were at the away game at Gigg Lane that season, which we won 3-1. It must be tough for both Bury and Bolton trying to survive in the ever growing shadows of the two big Manchester clubs. Bolton have always been a bogey team for us though and I remember some trouble with their fans up there on the way back to the station in the late 70s, which was reciprocated when they played down here.

That's why we all went to the Koln game but they still wouldn't let us buy tickets for Liverpool. New fans would have the same hurdles preventing them from buying tickets for the Man United game. The Club is very much aware that attendances are all at or close to the stadium's capacity, the only exception in the last half year being the midweek game v Fulham. So, they don't want to encourage a lot of new fans, as the last thing the owner would want would be to face pressure to spend millions on stadium expansion, which would mean ticket prices could not be increased and might even have to be reduced so he wouldn't make any more money. The city's population and the club's fan base inevitably continue to grow though.

PS I used my address (in the Southampton area) for their membership cards, not their overseas address.

They are trying to discourage new fans, especially from overseas. I had relatives visiting from abroad and bought membership cards for them which they used to go to the Koln game but the club wouldn't let them buy tickets for the Liverpool game with their cards nor let me buy them for them using mine. Meanwhile black market tickets were selling on StubHub for £200.

Of course it will. About the only league game that hasn't sold out in the last half year was a midweek game against Fulham. The club prices games to JUST sell out, not to have games sold out weeks in advance with thousands left clamouring for tickets, hence the £65 ticket price.

That second goal was the icing on the cake. It makes such a difference to morale for players and fans alike. If it had only been 1-0, people might have felt we'd just scraped home against 10 men but 2-0 away from home is a very good result. In Djenepo it looks like we have a real star in our team again.

Especially as it is almost sold out, in spite of the high prices. The only blocks which are not listed as either sold our or nearly sold out are in the corners of the Northam. I guess fans don't want to sit near the away fans.

Schneiderlin seems to be Everton's equivalant of Clasie: #bbcfootball or text on 81111 (UK only) Don’t understand why Marco Silva bothered to put Morgan Schneiderlin back in, he goes backwards, looks a liability on the ball and players jog past him frequently.

That's all right. It shouldn't have been necessary. I was a bit slow on the uptake. But, there are still a few people on here who still appear to believe that LD Sports is some sort of dodgy deal orchestrated by Gao, when in fact all such high profile deals will have been approved by the Chinese government.