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Not sure if it's just recency bias but it does seem like whenever we end up in the same division as them we end up getting them in a cup too. Would love a night game at St Mary's in the league cup without a bubble, reckon the whole city would be absolutely bouncing for that and the blue few would learn a few of their myths definitely weren't true. From what i heard at the time cost and time were the two main reasons, apparently organising a bubble takes a fairly long time to do for both the club and the police and the decision was more or less taken out of their hands. Especially as there was a chance the coaches would find themselves stuck in normal traffic and just become sitting targets

Bristol, Norwich and Brum all perfect opportunities for those complaining they can't get away tickets to go there. I assume along with Ipswich @LeBizzier69 will be clamouring for tickets given how "unfair" the system is

Think it was earlier in the Championship last time as we played more games, did a quick scan of my emails and it looks like last season it was United away (first away in January) that it switched

tends to move around a bit but as a rule of thumb it's usually the first or second week of December, if i was to take a guess i'd say the reset will be Norwich away on 13th December

"Best" bet is they escort them is a 2mile walk through two large exposed parks with no CCTV that they can't police, having to stop traffic on the ring road, then pinch points in st mary's by central hall and the rail crossing. They'd be very fucking exposed on that walk and if people wanted to i doubt there's a hell of a lot the police could do to stop things from happening. The other option they have is straight down from the station, over the bridge and down the kingsland side of St Mary's, but again unless you disrupt everyone in the kingsland stand there's no way of doing that, even with the new banter fence in place. Which makes me think it has to be a bubble

I assume this means it's a bubble then? "For this match, all Southampton supporters will need to enter via Britannia Road, Marine Parade or the Northam footbridge. Melbourne Street will be out of bounds for home supporters and will be for away supporters only. This will be the only way for away supporters to enter the stadium footprint" To be fair i don't see how it won't be with the new stadium layout, because an escort from the station would mean they’re going to have to escort them either via the parks and through st Mary’s or via the parks and through golden grove. Not sure either of those is going to work for policing.

He'll coach that out of them i'm sure, scoring on the break isn't The Right Way of playing football and i'm sure Martin will be angry they didn't pass sideways and backwards first

Ipswich away on sale tomorrow, £43 for an adult ticket so for those of you complaining you can't get an away ticket it's a great opportunity, because it 100% makes members at £43 a ticket on a sunday lunchtime with rail replacement. Surely people like @LeBizzier69 will be ecstatic at the fact that our first away day should be easy to get a ticket to and be buying a ticket when he qualifies? https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/ipswich-town-vs-southampton-2526

I can't wait for Martin to do a powerpoint presentation to a room full of angry Glaswegians to explain to them why what they're watching is wrong and that his style is world changing and innovative and they couldn't possibly understand it, after they lose their third game on the trot by a goal caused by them dicking about with it at the back

They did it for a short period capped to a small number, haven't done it for years though

it's been in place since before we were relegated to league one, it's just that our numbers have shot up in the last 5 years or so. People never used to moan back in the day because north of london we'd often only take a few hundred, and often back then it was just pay on the gate too (which did also mean you could travel up somewhere and get locked out and have to try the home ends). A ballot isn't really about "fairness" it's about people thinking they deserve something without putting in the effort, and as i pointed out you're hardly out in the cold there's plenty of games you can make.

It always baffles me that people make this argument, a fair few games made it to members last season and even this season i reckon you'll be able to get away tickets on zero aways or a membership for a few. For example, Ipswich away, sunday midday kick off and bus replacement, will definitely got to members. Hull away, long trip up north the week after the skates at home and not a new ground. Sheffield United, a tuesday night that will definitely go to members. Bristol City, midweek big away end will go to members. Blackburn, potential of up to 7k if we wanted, on a saturday so no problems with time off, will definitely make members. Birmingham, monday night, big away end just after xmas, again that'll make members. Boro away, long trip up north, on a sunday and a big away end, again that'll make members. When people complain about this what they mean isn't I can't go away, because that's not true. They mean i can't do no aways and go to a handful of very specific away games that everyone wants to do. I've been going since '84, had a season ticket since the Dell and do about 15-18 aways, if for some reason my circumstances changed and i couldn't do aways anymore then i wouldn't complain if a nipper who'd had a season ticket for one season and did 15-18 aways got tickets before me. I think unless you do them regularly you can't understand just how much time and money it takes to do them. You're spending thousands each season on trains, tickets, food and drink. You're often using up holiday from work or leaving the house at 6am and getting back gone midnight, if you do that week in week out then you deserve first dibs because it's fucking tough (especially when we're losing). The only thing I personally think is unfair is that members who do a ton of aways can lose out to a season ticket holder who decides to do their first one of the season

Yeah think it's almost certainly going to be a bubble which will be fucking shit to be honest. The away end there for the league cup was one of the best Saints away ends in recent memories and that was largely down to the fact that a lot of our more placid fans didn't travel. The thought of the replica shirt, blanket and soft toy supporters making up a large chunk of our away support up at Fratton is depressing as fuck to be honest

Northampton away sold out this morning to people with 7+ away makes me wonder how many have bought and are actually planning to go. Being a cynic i reckon a few of those will pop up online in the next few weeks as people start to hoard numbers so they're at the top for the Skates away

It baffles me how any saints fan who was around at the time of Lowe can be taken in by this absolute shithouse on anything. He actively showed us how much he hates normal people in this country, patronised our support, talked down at us, lied to us, was involved in a seriously shady takeover of the club to financially benefit himself, and was partly responsible for it going into admin (and now he's denying that). If you think Lowe has any interests beyond Rupert Lowe's bank account then you're woefully naive, he's the absolute epitome of a self interested elite lining his pockets at the expense of normal people. Swing Lowe indeed

The Best Company jumper in that just show's how Russ Abbott, much like Dale Winton, was ahead of the game when it came to dressing

Needed to slow down season tickets sales as we're reaching the limit of what we can sell so they announced this

1. Miles Davis In a silent way 2. Stevie Wonder If you really love me 3. The Specials Ghost Town 4. Fela Kuti Zombie 5. Sam Cooke A change gonna come 6. Otis Redding Dock of the bay 7. Spiritualised Come together 8. John Coltrane A love supreme part 1 acknowledgement 9. Aesop Rock 9-5ers Anthem 10 Jorge Ben Jor Ponta de lança africano

We have a new generation of utter oddballs who've taken over from Hat Kunt's reign of terror. They combine stealing songs from other clubs, drinking darkfruits, throwing pints around in the concourse whilst filming themselves, standing around giving it the big "come on" to home fans before getting on the bingo bus, and shovelling rat poison up their noses.

Grey hoody, three quarter length white (but stained) lonsdale shorts and a pair of "goodyear" Puma's. They travel the country on the bingo bus singing about how much they "hate" pompey when they're from salisbury, winchester, basingstoke or the isle of wight. First down for a half time pint, first to start Fathers Gun, and always looking to steal a chant from another club to sing at a 100miles an hour. Will often be heard slagging off the city of Southampton despite supporting the team.

I need to see it in it's correct environment to judge. Until it's being worn in a spoons barely concealing a beer belly with a full english spilt down the front, and the owner singing about a players cock to the boredom of the minimum bar staff it's impossible to say if it fits it's role correctly.

Something very interesting. It was about Dragon and the money he can put into Southampton Football Club. It made the rumours and decisions we've heard recently make a lot more sense. Hope that helps

Heard something very interesting about Dragon's ability to put money into the club, something which explains a lot about certain rumours and decisions. Wonder if we'll start seeing subsidised areas around the ground and matchday soon 👀

I'm too young to have seen him play so i'll defer to others there, Ron Davies was my grans favourite player so i heard all the stories about him, likewise she loved Paine so heard all about him too. Sydenham and Chivers were mentioned a lot but not in the same way so i don't know as much about them.

Wasn't really hate just randomly disliked him, no idea where it came from either but the folly's of youth and all that. Ward-Prowse is simple for me, i thought he was a fairly ponderous player, slow and nothing more than a "good pro" but a section of our support held him up as being on par with Le Tiss which pissed me off. Well that and the fact that he's a skate who was once a season ticket holder there, a mascot for them and called their cup final win one of his favourite days.