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The SFC hierarchy have certainly kept a low profile for a few months now and appear to have stepped back from trying to reinvent football with Tonda moving away from Russball to great effect. Looks like Dragan has acted and allowed Spors and Eckert to get on and try and right the wrongs on the pitch. That second half at Leicester certainly feels like a turning point. And you can't ignore that there's at least a desire to grow this football club with SR pushing on with the long term commitment of redeveloping the stadium and surrounding waterfront area. Whether it actually happens is clearly uncertain but there's no doubt they're working closely with the city council to progress this. It's been in the public domain on the city planning portal for some time which includes this from the SFC perspective: SCHEDULE 2: OBJECTIVES OF THE PARTIES SOUTHAMPTON FOOTBALL CLUB LIMITED: Expand the current footprint of St Mary's Stadium to allow future growth of the stadium (minimum 45,000 capacity stadium for football events and minimum 50,000 capacity for concerts/music/other entertainment events). Work with SCC to understand the development opportunities for the St Mary's Waterfront area, including developing an effective together to acquire and develop land in St Mary's Waterfront to maximise additional significant revenue generating opportunities in the area immediately around the Stadium. Work with SCC to create a 24/7, 365-day set of commercial, leisure, sports and entertainment operations around St Mary's Waterfront. Work in partnership with SCC to develop the optimal use of the land in and around St Mary's Waterfront. Use the operation of such additional activities to make the St Mary's Waterfront the prime sports, leisure and entertainment destination on the South Coast. To become the prime operator and owner of leisure and entertainment facilities in the City. To use the revenues produced by the additional commercial activities to establish Southampton Football Club as a genuinely sustainable Premier League football club and work with SCC to make Southampton attractive to residents and visitors. In collaboration with SCC, development and deliver a strategy to significantly improve the transport infrastructure of the City to make it a destination of choice for visitors nationally and internationally. Grow and develop relationships between the Club, partners and communities across the City Alongside of SCC and as part of their overall masterplan for development, play our role in the sustainable development of the City

Maybe it's a 'alve and 'alve scarf... Do they still do the 'Yellow Pages', they (and a big pair of scissors) would make a lot of confetti!

This has sold out so should probably be open soon. I have bought off the ticket exchange earlier this season.

I'd give all ST holders a couple of days to buy, then straight to members for a day or two and then open it up for ST holders and members to buy extra tickets for mates so more chance of being in the same areas or just straight to general sale. Man City fans ain't buying our tickets, they won't be selling their own allocation. No restricted sales that we've had in the past, not needed.

I’ve read they’re a physical side and will be aggressive and shithousing all over the pitch, fortunately we can do a bit of that ourselves now so should be a feisty affair. “Get into ‘em”

Fans will really play a part now, isn't really showing right now but fatigue will likely set in at some point playing intense games twice a week. We've been patting ourselves on the back for backing against Arsenal , really got to be like that every time. Like Wrexham before, looks a tough test but we can keep this going. 3-0.

Beat me to it, just worry about the next match. We’re only nailed on for one Wembley trip, even if we make the playoffs it will be tough with the heavy match schedule we’ve got coming up, if we did most would still want to be there.

Wrexham's tight little ground will be the polar opposite of the sedate home support of Craven Cottage, it will be noisy and raucous. We only got 1,200 tickets (a sizeable chunk of that went to corp, etc), they'll do well to make a dent in the atmosphere. Winning will help.

How old is he? The club have been doing half price memberships recently so just £7.50 for a junior. Only £15 for an adult which is a small price to pay on top if it shunts you up the pecking order. https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/membership

I would imagine half price memberships will be snapped up now with our run-in and potential clamour for tickets https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/membership

wrong thread...carry on

Been mentioned we've been given an extra 300 tickets to take the allocation to just over 2,700. These are probably the extras now on sale.

A bit crap that the FA Cup quarters clash with the Easter weekend fixtures, usually throws up some good games. Palace away in 2012 (FFS 14 years ago) 6,000 up there back in the day the home support was pretty shit at Selhurst, their ultras consisted of about a dozen lads right down in the corner just constantly banging a drum. Won 2-0, Rickie Lambert brace, happy days.

Ahem…. “you’re “

Good Morning Christophe, There's actually a decent selection of restaurants available in the city centre and whether British, Indian, Asian, Italian, French, Greek, Turkish, steak houses, etc and whether you'll be looking for a top-end experience or more wallet-friendly, there's a reasonable choice. There's a good selection at Ocean Village which is a pleasant setting or a good varied choice at Westquay South next door to the shopping centre. There's plenty more scattered about elsewhere, I'll let others make recommendations. Most pubs and bars will be packed, particularly as there will be around twice as many away fans for this one as it's a cup game and will be in town early and probably take over a few. Again, your choice of drink, real ale, cheap beer, would determine a recommendation. If you eat at Ocean Village on match day you could always drink around there or nearby Oxford Street or a walk back towards West Quay would take you to the Wool House for a nice old building. I would imagine the Fanzone behind the Northam Stand may be suitable for yourself where they also have a live band on before the game. Half-and-half scarves will be on sale everywhere, unfortunately, most of us detest them. Southampton is more industrial rather than a tourist destination but the city centre is very green with massive parks through the centre, great when the sun is shining, There's Sea City museum (with the Titanic story), Solent Sky museum (a small aviation display - near Ocean Village), Tudor House, various city walks around the Walls and Vaults (Southampton was once ransacked by the French...take care!). Of course if you'd like to venture further afield then London is little more than an hour on the train (but expensive!) or closer by Winchester is a very nice cathedral city to visit, 15 minutes on the train from Central station. Hope that helps a bit, others may offer more details. https://www.visitsouthampton.co.uk/easter/

Only a handful of tickets left for this almost all in the usual Chapel block. Arsenal sold their allocation, clearly a big day out for them….an FA Cup day on the beer on the sunny south coast, what’s not to like?

…and It’s A Knockout down the Sports Centre in the run up….?

Nutshell.

If a 20 minute or so walk is OK for the young 'uns then the Marlands is a good place to park. Can always get a space and you just pay when you get back so no racing to get there. Alternatively, I think it's £4.50 for all day parking in the Toys-R-Us car park next door.

Around 500 left earlier so should be close to a sell-out by KO. Lovely warm sunny spring day, perfect for a day at the football, so gutted I'm missing this. They're quite excited about this trip, big away following for them and a new stadium to tick off, some getting a little more carried away than others like this fella talking about us... "Bit of a non-entity of a club. We should be beating this sort of team for breakfast" ...remind me, it is Oxford we're playing?

You can’t from the Kingsland but you can from the Itchen North. It leaves the corner open on the concourse for access to the fanzone.

FFS…that’s taking the piss

I remember a game around this time of year in the 1978 promotion season when we had Blackburn at home who were going strong and expecting a tricky game. We stuffed 'em 5-0, that felt a season defining moment.

Support has been disappointing at St Mary’s this season, hopefully a bit more edge now playoffs are in sight. Remember how their defender pumped up their crowd in the away game and they got on the ref’s back and got decisions go their way. Our turn now and if Edoze gets on the pitch he can use the injury he picked up there for a bit of payback. I’m going 2-0.

FFS how many did she shag?