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Anyone else think block 15 is getting worse rather than better as season goes on? Very quickly turning into the Cokehead Corner imo, full of angry shouty people who aren't contributing to the atmosphere in the way they think they are. Also worth pointing out that singing songs about Ormerod and Gabbiadini isn't going to get lots of other people involved at this end of the ground.

Agree on your first point re the skate songs. Always been a problem but certainly seems worse at present due to the lack of player songs we have. We have a fairly new team so hopefully that improves as the season goes on. We'll have to agree to disagree on the pride in the city thing. I agree it's our shithole but I have no pride in the city itself and simply don't like the place. Maybe it's because it's largely unrecognisable to me now compared to my childhood and I'll feel more nostalgic for it once I move away in a few years. Not sure how that makes me a plastic though? I love the club itself, the indescribable and unbreakable connection I feel to that patch of grass and my fellow supporters. The feeling of driving 4/5 hours to see us get dicked by someone like Burnley and taking a strange solace in knowing the people around me have seen it all before and will do so again. Being on holiday thousands of miles away and someone recognising your crest and mentioning Bobby Stokes, MLT and the 9-0s. I love all of that but don't see why having a pride in the city is an essential to go with that. You're right of course that that's how it originally starts, you don't choose a football team but rather it chooses you and it is part of who you are. My nipper doesn't even like football but loves going to matches and singing songs about us. Tbf I don't really like football as a sport much these days. But just because I've grown up to dislike the city that doesn't negate all of the above? It's not a switch that you can turn on and off, it's a feeling of belonging deep inside your soul and makes up a big part of your personality. You're basically saying anyone not from the City isn't a true fan and is a problem for our atmosphere which is utter bollocks quite frankly.

Can chuck "Richard Chaplow, he looks like like my thumb" in with them too. But again that's part of the problem; lots of people would have thought they were brilliant/hilarious.

We've always sung far too many skate songs in the 20 odd years I've been going, don't see it changing anytime soon. We're also too obsessed with ex players, see the abuse Hoedt got on Saturday or the Tella song a couple of years back which for some bizarre reason needed the line "Danny Ings is a fucking cunt" 🤔 Lack of song variety is clearly one of our biggest issues but you can see the problem in this thread as too many people want to slate certain songs as shit. What one person thinks is decent another will think is shite which hardly leads to lots of new songs as people tend to give up. I don't personally mind songs copied from other clubs as much as others seem to. Very few clubs consistently make original songs in this day and we're just simply not one of those types of fanbases. Would prefer we adapted player songs from another club than had our 15th rendition of slow OWTS in the 12th minute of an away match. Don't get the whole "pride in the city" thing either as if it's a prerequisite to a good atmosphere. I've lived here all my life and think the place is a shithole but it doesn't mean I don't like to sing songs about the club.

I think Leicester will beat that record personally. And probably should be with that squad

Umm last week? I thought my memory was bad...

Just went I thought we'd seen it through a goal out of nothing. Bit of a shit goal to concede for Gav and feel for him a bit as he was excellent other than that. Bednarek my MOTM. Kind of feel we only have ourselves to blame for that. Spent the last ten minutes of normal time fucking about with it which led to lengthy stoppage time.

Would be staggered if it wasn't Aribo.

I would definitely have preferred Smallbone to Aribo but given the latter had his best performance for us last week off the bench then can't argue too much.

Downes injured? Be a big miss today.

Yeah but not losing Saturday would still be 7 matches short of that record.

And that's the only time that it's not been won by one of the 'top 6' clubs since the turn of the century. Last second tier winner was 1980 and only four have reached the final since. None in 15 years. The notion that a championship side could win the FA Cup this year is for the birds when you consider the above and how much bigger the gap is these days.

I doubt a non top tier side will ever win it again. Only two finalists this century I believe and the gap is only getting bigger.

Shame it's not away. Alfreton would obviously be preferable from an interest pov but would be good to welcome Walsall back to St Mary's for first time since the final day in 2011. Had a great crack with loads of their supporters that day.

Ahhh yes that's the one cheers. That Blackpool match is the one Bialkowski dropped a howler and never really recovered if my memory isn't failing me.

Leicester too, David fucking Nugent. Wasn't it Bristol who ended our long winning run at SMS and meant we fell just short of a whole calendar year?

Leicester also broke financial regulations to get promoted in 2014, without which they'd have never won the PL two years later. So hardly in a position to bitch and moan too much. What goes around comes around and all that.

Interested to see how long the appeal process takes. Surely it needs to be quite quickly as it'll be farcical if it gets to April time and it's still uncertain? Either way I hope they stay up and think they will.

Suspect there may be some twitchy arses in West London and East Manchester upon hearing this news... A joke really. Suspect they'll still stay up which will be hilarious.

Website does say initial so I would assume there is a chance of more. Think they normally have at least 7/8k empty seats so would like to think we'd get at least another 1000

Yeah you can tell the ground was designed primarily to combat hooliganism.

They did let everyone through eventually when the crowd started to get really congested. Beyond stupid to do it in first place though. If that was a Leeds/Cardiff/Brum type club reckon it'd have kicked right off before the game.

Woke with a massive smile this morning. Can't beat a stoppage time winner right in front of you. Gonna be singing this all week I reckon. Not this exact version mind 😅

No feeling of satisfaction from a win like that haha you fucking lunatic. Luckily all of us in the ground thought it was fucking marvellous! Made being kept in afterwards much more fun than I thought it was going to be 5 minutes previous. Not long got home and just stuck a bit of Johnny Cash on 😁

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