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Looks like someone has screen grabbed a teams call there, that's a really stupid thing to do and they're almost certainly going to lose their job for that because it's very easy to work out who it is. I can't imagine risking your job like that to "leak" a kit that's going to be announced fairly soon anyway

I left Laurie off because i didn't see much of him as manager in person, 84 at home to cov was my first game so i'm just a bit too young for him. I actually liked Jones as a person, he was massively out of his depth as a manager but he called out our overly precious fans for being entitled and was genuinely funny at points. Plus he at least seemed like he had something about him instead of being one of those dull modern football drones who only talks about stats. Martin was the singularly most arrogant manager i think i can ever remember us having, he even had the arrogance to give people a powerpoint presentation of why "his way was the right way". Such a smug cunt, and wouldn't look out of place as one of those public schoolboys that waltzes around top companies thinking they're special but they've just got their because their dad owned the place

Likeable WGS Ball Nicholl Adkins Least likeable Branfoot Branfoot Twitchy Branfoot Martin

We managed to move our seats online for the renewal price from the Northam BANTA wall to the chapel block 21 pretty easily online, and with no fuss, so i don't think you need to wait to do it (in fact i had the option as a link out of the email they sent)

I'm surprised it wasn't more people given it's been The Greatest Era of the club ever. Couple that with the brilliant job Sport Republic are doing on everything except that football bit that doesn't matter and you'd have thought it would be 90% highly satisfied.

SJ is almost certainly hearing about this stuff from the same source i did i'd imagine. A consortium you say? But who would be interested in leading a consortium of a club by the sea

All the teams playing the three promoted sides. We need one of them to get less than 12 points so we don't look as bad as we've been

Apparently that prick Adrian Heath is going to be there, so for him alone i hope we ruin their party

We've got five of us together right at the back of Block 21, and about the same again in the rows infront. i'm assuming that the ones currently not available probably will come available once the renewal window passes as they'll be people who had season tickets there last season.

I thought that but when i checked back my season ticket in the Itchen North for our last season in the championship cost me £430 so it's actually an increase if you do a like for like. It's obviously not terrible pricing but given people are skint at the moment it's not great, and the extra 5% fee for people doing monthly payments is a proper kick in the bollocks to those folk

Renewed mine, I make it my 43rd consecutive season of going which makes me feel properly old. Moved to block 21 from the Northam Wall as i couldn't face another season in what seems like a creche for Soccer AM fanboys

Nah it definitely didn't. It "stemmed" from someone who if people knew who it was no one would be asking questions anymore. Also just because the club are open to buyers and have made it known they are up for sale doesn't mean it will happen. Because lets be honest, who in their right fucking mind would buy a football club?

Given we are in our golden period and that the board are doing a magnificent job on everything except for recruitment and managers i think it'd be foolhardy to expect anything other than a home banker here. So Saints 9 Man City 0 seems the obvious choice for a prediction. We are all so lucky to be watching such a golden era of the club, the best in our history and no doubts

Yes but on the flip side we have a new pub, a champagne bar coming and the best gulags this side of siberia outside the ground. All we need now is a picture of a train on the wall of st mary's, a championship spoon hide and seek game, an award winning radio station, and the best catering in a football ground in an SO postcode and we'll truly be in a glory era of the club

Jonathan Fulthrope, he's a lawyer who was interested in the club back in 2008, not the person i've heard named as interested but doesn't mean not involved

COT has even hinted about the future too, those that know will know. These rumours have only really been around a week or so - in public - but there was some sort of "change" to them at the weekend and they went from chatter around the club to "this actually sounds like something is happening", which is probably why Simon Jordan openly spoke about it on the radio.

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Was class, should've done him in the first round but stopped him in the second. Hell of a right on the lad and great to see one of our own doing well.

Well maybe that's a slight lie, it's only one Saint, a Saints fan who a few of you might know and more of you might know his old man Mike. Derrick is fighting for the ISKA Pro British Title on Saturday, fair few of us heading up after the match straight there to watch it but it's good to see a proper mush doing well in his sport and representing Southampton a lot better than the club are doing right now

Yup i'll be renewing, think this will be 42nd consecutive season of going to watch saints so fuck knows what i'd do if i didn't. That said i'd rather shave my bollocks with a rusty angle grinder than spend another season in the northam wall so will definitely be moving

I just get annoyed when people don't act with pride. I'm massively proud to be a sotonian, proud of my city, my roots, and by extension the club. I despise us being the laughing stock of football, and i judge people who think it's all just a jolly and singing about our failure is something to be proud of. The way the world view us as a football club is also the way many in the world view southampton as a city, and instead of singing about the championship or going to coventry we should be raging we're being humiliated like this because some know it all, ted talk, hipster cunts think they're so fucking clever. So yeah they CAN do what they want if they've paid, but i wish they fucking didn't, or better yet if they're going to celebrate being shit they didn't bother going in the first place.

I've done 13 aways this season (plus Oxford pre-season), already have tickets to West Ham and will be going to Everton, plus the season ticket. Most seasons i'll do between 15-18 aways, plus the season ticket. And in Europe i did every single away game (including 72 hours in Israel). Does that mean my moaning about the lack of pride a section of our support has is fine?

There's gallows humour (which is fine and understandable) then there's celebrating failure. Singing Championship again ole ole isn't gallows humour, it's just fucking embarrassing. I've been going since the early 80s and we have spent most of my time going in the top flight, being relegated is absolute failure to me and there's nothing to celebrate about it. The fans should be fucking fuming and directing their anger at the board and at the players so they know it's not fucking acceptable. Is it any wonder there's no fight or pride in the team if they know they'll just end up getting sheep like support. I know i really should be too old to be this annoyed by a football club but i'm personally livid at what the club has done this season, useless fuckwits who've completely failed at their jobs, in any other industry the people responsible would be sacked for it. But yeah Championship Ole, because why not celebrating going down, being relegated the earliest in history, probably beating the lowest points total ever and normal sotonians who work at the club losing their jobs again. Ole in-fucking-deed. Twats