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Rumour has it that Pompey plan on showing solidarity with Gary Lineker and won't appear on MOTD for at least 20 years.

Haha yeah in fairness there's a good chance that he's doubling down due to his regret at missing out.

Sellers doubled the amount of PL clean sheets Ralph got this season in just 3 matches. He did a good job here but was done by the time he went. Should have gone in Summer.

In fairness I work with a Brighton fan who does this all the time. Had been a STH since they played at Gillingham but gave it up after the first season of VAR. Yeah it seems this thread is bad timing because of how poorly we're doing but there are many people who would have the same sentiments even if we were doing well. It's bigger than simply whether team x or y is doing well. The whole sport has become far less enjoyable to many fans. I don't watch non Saints games or motd anymore (would have been unthinkable a few years back) and I'm sure I'm not alone in that.

Dreadful news about the Blackpool fan losing his life. How fucking tragic over a game of football. This has been coming for a while sadly. Hopefully the cunt/s who did it have been caught on video and go to prison.

My advice is go and watch Brighton instead

Sad to think that paper tickets will no longer exist in the near future. Like most people I've got a collection of random tickets from over the years and it'll be a shame to not be able to add to that further.

The first one made sense to try something else as he's never scored one from the right hand side. Second was just bizarre though.

Surely can't survive that second half performance after this week?

Proper classic Bednarek og that. Blooper video style.

Lemina hahahahahaha

Does anybody know why we started giving the whole northam away in recent years? The 15% rule has been there for years but I remember loads of cup games where we still had some fans in the northam. Is it to make segregation easier? Bit shit really and hands an advantage to the opposition.

Can actually see us winning this 1-0. Also predict that it'll be the best atmosphere at St Marys for a number of years.

Same. I'm actually tempted to go now and I wasn't even considering it beforehand. You can stick your fucking ted talks up your arse!

Leicester year before they won league perhaps too?

West Brom were bottom at Christmas in 04/05 and obviously survived. Wolves were also bottom at Christmas this season, not us. Good post other than that though.

Sounds like a blessing.

Settled well after a shaky start. Just utterly toothless as we all have become used to.

Why on earth would he have come here? Deluded much.

Their support was pathetic I thought given how big a game this was for them. Loud as fuck as teams came out and up to about 10 minutes in but dropped off hugely and sounded like an average league game. Hundreds left early too which I thought was strange to say the least.

Nice to see some sensible Geordies come on and make up for their fruitcakes, all clubs have them including us but nice to have a reminder that most of them are sound. Pub wise I knew there was loads to drink in from last visit but as a lone traveller was wondering where the majority were gathering for a good old sing song pre match. Really looking forward to this. Not expecting anything but quietly hopeful. As long as we give a good account of ourselves then I think we can't have too many complaints COYR!!

Not sure Milan is a fair comparison. That was at one of the most famous stadiums in the world and our first opportunity to visit there as well as our last. Once in a lifetime stuff and people knew it. Also had a couple of months to plan it. Newcastle doesn't fit into that category at all and has also come just after Christmas in a period where loads of people are skint. I think 2800 is a fantastic effort for us personally and I thought it'd be slightly less. Bearing in mind we rarely take that many North of Brum for Saturday matches not on TV.

Where's everyone drinking for this? Is there specific away pubs does anybody know?

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Not sure I agree that there's total apathy about it from our end. Everyone I've spoken to is absolutely buzzing for it. The fact we've sold well over 2k tickets for a match 320 miles away on a Tuesday night in January demonstrates that there is no lack of enthusiasm for this tie .