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National league is slightly different I think with all ties being one leg with higher placed team at home.

Agreed mate, I didn't particularly want a pie or programme but it's the principle of it that some fans are more important than others in the club's eyes. It'll all be down to money, guarantee they still made a profit from those fans despite the freebies. And if they do Preston based on x amount of official coach travels it'll be the same. Reminds me of the fans forum when someone asked why the club didn't do anything for the fans anymore like free badges or a letter for doing every away etc. and Parsons replied with stuff they make money from like the fanzones.

How does it benefit those teams? They'll still play a two leg semi same as now.

Don't give them ideas. I dread to think what will earn points in this new loyalty scheme... It's like at Boro when people on official coach got a free programme and pie, because nobody else who made the 600 mile round trip on the first weekend of January deserved it of course.

Not sure that's that unpopular anymore. Most people I speak to in the real world don't really want us to go up this season.

Writing that post reminded me of something else for this thread actually: That 4 season run of top 8 finishes including Europe and a cup final has had a long term negative impact on our fanbase, giving us an entitlement which wasn't there before. I don't think we'll recover from that either without an extended stay outside the top flight.

Spot on. The points comparison to the season before is daft due to the amount of players we lost as you point out. People always say we were dull but we weren't away from home for much of the season. Didn't we score 4 goals in back to back away games at one point? Can't imagine we did that too often during the recent decade in the top fought. Basically it amounted to that stat about failing to score in our last x home games but we did miss two penalties in that run which could have turned 0-0's into 1-0's. Even so to judge a manager poorly based on a dull end of season run is ridiculous. Hardly the first midtable side to be on the beach towards the end of the season, especially after playing so many games having been in Europe and reached a cup final.

Stoneham would be a terrible location for a ground. The only good thing about St Mary's is the location.

The allez allez song is worse than the baby shark one for Angus Gunn.

QPR and Leicester are the other ones which come to mind.

The slow version of OWTS is shite and should be limited to 2/3 outings per game.

Our away support mostly is terrible these days I find, especially when numbers are good. Expecting Fulham to be the same next week, maybe even more so with the Sunday midday KO.

I thought it was one of our worst away supports of the season if I'm honest. The fact that from 2-0 until halftime over 3k Saints were outsang by about 200-300 Wednesday said it all. Can't stand that Bree song and it's the most typical Saints thing ever; Charlton sang a version last Saturday, then QPR did on Tuesday so of course the Northam adopted it in the second half. Did anyone from upper go outside at half time? Some proper tragic behaviour from our 'lads'.

Wouldn't fancy a second leg at the Den midweek. Reckon they'd arguably be the worst team to face.

Lost at Bristol City.

Think we've only won two games against teams currently above us so we'll be miles off unless we significantly improve that. Three actually as didn't realise Watford were above us.

Noticed in the latest minutes that 'The club are looking at a reward system/loyalty points for attendance for next season'. Away points for home cup matches and women's games incoming?

Me asking about the new membership process because one of the meeting notes stated someone believed a public vote wasn't necessary.

Got this last week but forgot to add it here in the madness of the Leicester game.

We had the whole end last time we played there in the cup. Have to give us at least 4400 too.

Having watched that one I reckon it's actually supposed to be some sort of 'wind up'.

Would assume they didn't open all the lower blocks at once, no way did we sell over a thousand in one day to non regulars.

Easily one of if not the best away ends of the season for me, and I'd have thought that even without the 3 late goals. Like you say we got our reward too. What I liked is that after the first goal there was no sarcastic 'gonna win 4-3' or 'we scored a goal' but instead a really raw and visceral 'come on you reds'. It showed that we collectively thought we could really get back into it and I think the players fed on it. I agree too that our support is often better with the smaller followings. QPR was another one of the better ones this season whereas most of the big allocation ones have been poor.

My favourite too though have to admit there's a bit of recency bias there. But I've never experienced anything remotely like those last ten minutes and am still in a state of shock/euphoria now. Thought the away support was class too, whilst a lot of stick was given at HT it didn't really turn at all until the third went in, and everyone seemed bang up for it again pretty quickly when the second half started.