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Maybe they're as crap at maths as our lot are...and they've just made up a number! But if Boro did hold back a thousand tickets and the SMS T.O. only had 3,000 on sale then reports of around "300" left yesterday were probably right. Still, we'll see tomorrow.

Must be a Midlands, thing like Batman and Robin and all his other exotically dressed Villa mob that invaded the Dell pitch in the 90s as we were stuffing 'em 4-1 while trying to stay up. But I must say, I've been more impressed with all the 50 year old shaven-headed lumps that have been prevalent at many away games recently. Old ruffians reliving those fine days out of the 78 promotion run no doubt.

Yeah, but you were saying we'd finish 17th and that Glenn Oddball is some kind of footballing genius so excuse us if we don't take much notice. Will you come back and admit to being a f'kin looney if we finish in the top 2? Had to have a look on NSC, some are saying they hope wet spam finish above us 'cos they still haven't forgiven us for '78. Wonder if they've got a chip on their shoulders about Spurs too?

Exactly this. I sit Kingsland/North but have done many matches Itchen North and this is how it is. Comes down to crap acoustics at SMS. From the Kingsland last night you could barely hear the Reading fans other than briefly when they scored. Not surprising but the Kingsland/Northam corner sounded by far the loudest part of the stadium as that's where we were. I had a look on the Reading forum earlier and on one thread about last night's game someone was banging on how great their fans were and how St Mary's was one of the worst home supports he'd ever (not) heard. Now I know he's probably full of typical t'internet bullsh*t but just shows what away fans experience at SMS. They hear as little of the Northam/Kingsland as we do them and with the south end of the ground pretty much muted most of the time, they don't leave with a particularly good impression.

Like the skates game, very good at times but some of our fans are a bit sensitive and too easily hurt by an opposition goal. SMS was rocking Saturday but once they equalised it seemed to rip the guts out of many for the next 20 mins. Same last night, once Reading went 2-1 up it went flat again and when the stadium (Chapel end in particular) should have been roaring every attack forward looking for a vital equaliser it was like a different place to the one earlier. Too many go quiet, let the away fans get on top which just spurs on their side.

Where did it all go wrong, eh? From this... to this... in just a couple of days. Shame. DFCSBS. WTFILN.

Regional (top of the table) Clash. There, sorted...

As he's the genius who gave us this... ...it's only fair it gets a run out on this thread. One of my favourite ever pictures.

When we played Millwall the other week, we walked into the 'Barrowboy' and almost immediately a couple of ****s at the bar started singing this. We all just turned round and walked out of the place realising it was probably full of more ****s. My mate wanted to string them up first but we talked him round. One of them you? It does remind you that we've got more than our fair share of geeky fans.

"...'ello, 'ello, Southampton are back, Southampton are back, 'ello, 'ello..." Promotion song 1978............................................................................................................./2012

We've got some f'kin' drama queens...if Sharp had come over to most fans after scoring (what should have been a late winner) in a local derby I'd be amazed if anyone wouldn't have acted any differently. They were going f'kin nuts were I was stood.

A regular rendition of "CHEATS, CHEATS, CHEATS..." wouldn't go a miss. And lots of whistling when they get the ball and when they get a corner give it to the skate **** like you've never given it before. Intimidation is the order of the day.

They might try if they're getting stuffed and the goading gets too much for 'em. But I think the biggest mistake is the decision to serve them beer, should have been the same for them as it was for us. They now get plenty of drinking time before kick-off and if they start playing up and wrecking everything in sight on the concourse who picks up the bill? The cheating skates certainly wont.

Well you say that...I'm on speaking terms with one of their most notorious, Micky 'Six-Knuckles' Clampitt, and he text me this pictures of the 657s preparations for the big day...

OMFG it's true... breaking news...pictures just in as the 657 turn up 2 days early sending Southampton running away in panic... ...oh, panic over...old picture, just skates backtracking from the Joiners a few years back...

We're DOOOOOOMED!!! The invasion has started!

Someone should post that on the Palace and Millwall sites...Palace should be particularly narked with 'em anyway because when the skates rolled over and died at the Hawthorns in 2005 thinking that would send us down, all it did in the end was relegate Palace.

You see, the first couple of lines are acceptable (tho' don't like the use of the 'P' word personally) but then it quickly deteriorates into one of the most stupid chants ever heard on the terraces. Firstly, some will tell you it's "we only drink whiskey, we NEVER dring rum", the reason being that whiskey is the prefered tipple of the merchant seaman as opposed to rum for the matelots. Pretty lame whatever you sing. Secondly, others will tell you it originated back in the early 70s when Watneys were one of the main sponsors at The Dell, with Watneys Brown the popular choice hence the alternative "we only drink whiskey, we only drink BROWN", this had the added bonus of actually rhyming with "...Southampton boys are in TOWN". Either way a pretty crap effort and about time the last couple of lines were replaced by something sensible...I'd suggest... "We are Southampton the Pride of the South, We hate all those b'stards that come from p*rtsmouth, They came to St Mary's, we sent the cheats down, Southampton Boys are in town, la, la, la..."

Oh, that tune...again. A great footie toon you don't hear much anymore "Those were the days/We'll see you all outside/Come on you mighty Saints" could do with a revival... "We hate the cheating skates, we hate the cheating skates, We hate the skates, we hate the cheating skates, You cheat and stole the cup, but now you've f*cked it up, We hate the skates, we hate the cheating skates". Gets my vote...but I'm old and biased.

More a case of it only costing a quid extra for an 'Executive' seat rather than a standard one. By doing this (you do get a padded seat to stand in front of) you're not gonna have a pillar in front of your face and the seat will be around the halfway line. Worth a quid extra for some.

Gonna be a close call I'd say. We're now getting extra tickets in batches of around 1,000, which appear to be selling quickly as soon as we get them. Another 900 went on sale yesterday so that's 5,000 we've already had. Palace will give us another final 800 of the 5,800 probably tomorrow and then, if you're still waiting, it's just a case of fingers crossed to see if they release the extra 'sterile' areas which could get us up around 7,000.

I'd imagine they're now having to pay up front for the extra tickets and so are gonna just sell each batch before asking for more rather than ending up out of pocket. This of course aint gonna happen as in a weeks time when they're all gone they'll be countless on here saying how sh*te it is as they've missed out. If it gets to a general sale it could get frantic - they'll be a lot of lads that usually play local football over a weekend that will be looking to get up for this one.

"Like for like"? In 1987 the skates finally got their long awaited promotion to the top flight. Fratton Park held around 30,000, The Dell about 10,000 less. Average attendance for both clubs that season was around 17,500. "17,000" yer 'aving a larf...and "shafted for years"? You've just had the best decade in living memory for most of you skate JCLs. Let's just accept for a minute that a "massive" club like you can only get around 13k home fans because the ground's not very nice (tho' most skates tell me it's a proper old football ground and one you much prefer to a flatpack like SMS) but aren't you even a little surprised that you can't find anymore to part with, what is it £9.50 adult one week, 4 for £44 the next, £1 for kids, in your gravest hour of need? I thought you lot were meant to be "tough working class heroes" (there go my sides) but your grounds a bit rough for you. Oh dear. WTFILN.

This is the English football leagues for English clubs. I'd go further and dump the Welsh back over the border. And it would be like turkeys voting for Christmas if everyone agreed to them joining. Give it a few years and they'd be powerful Premier League clubs just making it even harder to win anything/get into Europe for most of us. Hurry up and give them their independence.

"You used to get 19,000 down there and it would feel like 100,000 people" Considering he was smacked of his face with drugs and booze most weeks it probably did. Deluded ****