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Leicester stadium is an identical design to St Mary's. I'm guessing that's the point the op was making. Coach parking for away fans always seem the sticking point with the police but I'm sure there's loads of solutions if the club looked a bit closer.

Who remembers when our players turned up in the old Dell car park in their cars and signed autographs for ages. Remember Bobby Stokes just after he'd broke into the first team getting worried about being late and getting a bollocking off Laurie if he spent any longer signing autographs. Then there was Terry Hurlock turning up in his old builders van happy to spend time signing once he'd managed to shut the doors that were falling off his clapped out old van. How times have changed !!!

So we're all agreed this season has to be the worst for many many years. But yet, a season in which we've won matches against 3 different Chelsea managers, ended Man City's quadruple hopes, drawn twice against the league leaders, conceded just once against Man Utd and ended Conte's time at Spurs. Just imagine if we'd been told that at the start of the season. 🙄 Strange old game.

Yep, agree with that but there was a fair few certainly on this forum who didn't want Howe. Wonder if their thoughts have changed now.

Chris Sutton got us down to lose 5-0 in the paper. I know he said we were terrible in his commentary on Thursday evening but he's probably being kind forecasting only 5 !!!

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Ward Prowse not feeling well the reason he's subbed.

I was around in 74 when we got relegated with Laurie in charge. Thankfully the board didn't panic, kept the faith and the next decade was arguably one of the best eras. Fa cup winners in 76, promotion again back up, runners up in old Div 1 in 84, teams full of ex ex England internationals and captains, leaders everywhere, then in the 90s the great escapes which I always believed were possible, with the genius of Le Tiss, the spirit of Benali etc. Down again in 2005, but still hoped on a quick return, ok took a bit longer than we hoped. Now though, sadly no optimism. The Welsh wizard appointment like for many others was the turning point when I thought we were definitely going down. I'd loved to be proved wrong but as a self proclaimed oldie the belief has gone. !!!!!!!!! How can you have faith in a board that has made so many horrendous decisions. Short of a couple of fanatical Hollywood multi millionaires aka Wrexham style who could surround themselves with good decision makers, or another Marcus, God bless him, to save us sadly the future isn't looking to rosy.

Ah right, thanks for clearing that up. Another thing I remember from that pitchside interview was how he said about the club had this young up and coming kid who was going to replace him, a lad called Mick Channon. Umm...think that worked out ok. 😊👍

I thought he said when interviewed pitchside the other year at St Marys the first he knew about being transferred to Spurs was when he read the echo headlines displayed outside the newsagent ?

Sellas, master tactician

Yep , all the time. Only difference between you and me is I've suffered since mid 60s. 😐

My experience of financial guys getting promoted usually means that purse strings are going to be much tighter. Actually if that means not wasting millions on buying rubbish masquerading as footballers it might not be a bad thing !!!!

I guess with that Saints connection there's a good chance we can sign him for next season in the Championship then. I think he'd be quite good. 🤔🙄

There is so much wrong with that statement I don't know where to start. Ok, in this particular case you mentioned it probably does seem callous stopping a little kid wearing an opposition shirt from coming in but at other times how do the stewards at the point of entry on the turnstiles decide if fans wearing opposition shirts are going to be well behaved ? How do stewards know that home supporters aren't going to give the well behaved opposition fan a load of grief. How about big sell out games( ok we might not get many now !!) where home supporters can't get tickets yet away fans are sat in our seats. Personally like yourself, if an away fan is sat quietly and being discreet I don't have a problem but in reality football fans are slightly different to Test match fans at cricket, who it should also be said sometimes don't exactly behave like well behaved choirboys !!

Play offs are a bit of a lottery in the national league. Team finishing seventh plays as in a quarter final. Would be a travesty if County already on 97 points miss out and the team finishing seventh go up. Oh hang on...that's Eastleigh, on 65 points maybe not !! 🙄🤣

Stuff watching the champions league, that was a real cracking game. Brilliant !!

My friend had a leg operation a couple of weeks ago and was struggling for comfort on Saturday, and the stewards who in fairness couldn't have been more helpful, moved the three of us to the front row Itchen/Northam corner so she could stretch her leg out where amazingly there were quite a few empty seats at the front all together. Not a good look though for TV cameras.

In today's paper it says Burnley were shocked that Saints didn't have him back in January as he has arguably been the best player in the Championship !! That goal Sulemina missed yesterday in the first half is the type that Tella is gobbling up this season, albeit it the Championship and ok !! yesterday we were against one of the best club teams in the world ....even so !!!!

🤣🤣. Oops, I got that well wrong. Burnley of course it should have said 🤣🤣

Just watched him celebrating and enjoying last night with the Middlesbrough lads, he won't fancy coming back.

We were shit for 90 minutes, I don't think an extra few minutes added on time would have made much difference.

Not a bad couple of seasons though. Two champions league finals he helped them to, winning one and getting the man of the match. But yes , we wouldn't get that money now.

More importantly the team we play the last game of the season , maybe to stay up !!! looked a shadow of previous seasons. If we go into that last game needing a win I'd be confident after seeing that display from Liverpool today.

Looks like Moyes will get sacked if we win. A pattern is starting to emerge here. Poor result against us and the opposition manager is gone !!! Beat Man City in a couple of weeks and maybe it will be Pep's turn 🙄😄