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My favourite bullshit term is "aerial duals" as if we've got a fucking spitfire and messerschmitt hovering over the pitch. I'm honestly convinced that the rise of this MBA speak in football is so posh folk can justify liking the game and getting to make out it's "actually intelligent and complex", instead of just 22 blokes kicking a ball around. Bit fucking hurtful that mush, i'll have to report you to the FAB grass line for being sizeist, another period in the gulags it is for you

I am supposed to be meeting him at Coventry station on Saturday, I am now concerned that when i step off the rattler instead of being greeted by @Noodles34 I shall instead be met by The FAB's armed Stazi wing ready to bundle me into a re-education gulag. Scary times

Ticket touting AND encouraging a breach of ground regulations? @Noodles34 will be sending your post to FAB as we speak as i heard that as part of his plea deal he agreed to be this board's resident grass.

The Northam Wall was always going to be bollocks, the people saying that though got shot down by the zealots who refused to listen to criticism of it.

I can't believe there are people against this, it's a massive improvement on SOCCERBALL and keeps the excitement going for the end of the series. The London Hornets vs Derbyshire Rams would be prime time viewing in match week 49! Hopefully they schedule the game day for a late evening kick off so the world doesn't miss out

With time and persistence they'll achieve their final dream goal. Every game a bubble game.

I mean as someone who knows what happened with Fonte, directly from the horses mouth, i can tell you for nothing that is absolute bollocks. The person responsible for Fonte leaving was Fonte, with some nudging from his agent. He acted like a dick and didn't give the club a choice. But it's fine you blame Puel who had nothing to do with it. That was such a relief that goal, genuinely felt like we'd never win again, up there with Barry Horne's goal for one of the biggest "release" moments i've seen from a crowd at a game I take it you don't go away?

And this is where my "puel was good" and "ralph should've been sacked" align. Puel 8th and a cup final which was lost by a bad decision, beat inter milan at home & played some brilliant counter attacking football away from home is roundly thought of by many as shit. Ralph who lost 9-0 twice and never got us higher than 11th or into a cup final is somehow a messiah who only didn't achieve domination because of things out of his control. Surely clapping at the fans can't make that much of a difference?

Which reminds me of another... Ralph should've been sacked immediately after the first 9-0 as a point of principle that that level of failure wasn't acceptable at the club

this reminds me of another one actually, The word "legend" is massively overused by fans because we are so starved of real legends. Since Le Tissier we have only had one, Ricky Lambert, that fits the profile.

As a team we are completely irrelevant to 99% of the teams in the leagues, and that is absolutely fine. Claude Puel was a very good manager for us and even the "boring football" tag wasn't correct. JWP is a skate and will never be a legend. Our away support is pretty cringeworthy these days. Silence at a game is preferable to a lot of the songs that are sung (stared in a chapel, songs about libraries, most songs about the skates). To many of our fans take football WAY too seriously, it should be a laugh with your mates not an exercise in stat counting. The way away tickets are dished out is completely wrong, it should be season ticket holders + x aways first, then members + x aways, until it gets down to general sale. As a fanbase we have a losers mentality & will put up with glorious loses far too easily. The fans singing about championship again ole ole ole last season are part of the problem with what's gone wrong at the club, if we don't show ambition & standards why do we expect the players to? David Armstrong is one of the best players to ever play for the club and should be held up on the same level as many of our legends

Hipster

Hopefully the FAB will leads us all in a round of "We Appreciate That You're Here, We Appreciate That You're Here" to the away fans tomorrow to show how welcoming we are as a club. Maybe followed by "We respect you because you've travelled", or "Whatever happens, we hope football wins"

Is there any truth in the fact they're finally discussing how to stop people from saying nasty words to the away fans? Apparently one away fan was accused of having a face with it's own gravitational pull the other week because it was so big and this really hurt his feelings. Also hopefully they'll be talking about how we can invest more money in the women's team because the mens team is taking too much of it. I believe The FAB will be on the money with these things given how well they represent us

It was disgraceful behaviour and obviously i chastised them for doing it, how could they disrespect the Rule Of The FAB like that? Anyway i've taken their names for the list, i believe one of them is called pike

Personally i'm entirely behind their appeal and i think it should not just be overturned but Charlton, Blackburn and West Brom should all be given an additional six points for the mental stress this has caused.

Bit of a stretch to call Fulham south london, i mean craven cottage is north of the river.

Done it loads so probably one of the ones i'd want the least, of those left an away at any of Port Vale, Macclesfield or Mansfield would be my preference. Otherwise given it should be a weekend game Bristol City would be great as Bristol is a cracking day out for pubs, in fact of the teams left the only one i wouldn't want is Wolves away, so Wolves it is then

You are right, there was clearly room for improvement here as reducing the number would've given us higher possession stats. Every time we scored the opposition started with the ball taking the possession stat down, clearly a massive mistake by Martin that. Good spot.

Honestly i can't believe there's still people blaming Martin when it's actually football that's the problem, Martin is a visionary, way ahead of his time. If only the game itself could catch up with the fact that goals don't matter and sideways and backwards passing is what the spectators are there to see. In fact his powerpoint should be mandatory to everyone in the country and the beatings should continue until there is no doubt that his way IS the right way

Gordon Simpson left the club recently who used to do all the social stuff and marketing/comms, he was a saints fan from southampton who actually got the city and what the club means to us, it would appear whoever they've replaced him with has the knowledge of hamster who's been drinking bleach

I believe it was the premiership who bottled it rather than the people running division two which they're in now

Fortunately we have the FAB on the case, and they will be asking the hard questions here. Like "how does this affect the women's team?" And "can we give priority to people who take stuffed toys on the bingo buses?". We are so lucky to have a group that reflect the core identity of those that go home and away. Piss taking aside though - and whilst this doesn't really affect me in the slightest - this does now basically lock away tickets to season ticket holders only, and also penalises anyone who can't afford a smart phone (or can't use one because of disability). I wonder if this is even legal under uk law? Surely there has to be an alternative (i know they do provide physical tickets in place of season tickets for example)

With Sport Republic's track record cutting loose the entire squad and replacing them would see us go down with zero points and the worst goal difference ever