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Because i'd really like people from other cities to not look at Sotonians as yokels, because I don't want to give the skates fodder for calling us "church mice", because i'm proud of where i come from and proud of how we're seen in the country. It's bad enough that our away support sings about libraries and the skates non stop, but to have a banta wall that trudges out equally brainless shit that makes us look small time and for away fans to think Sotonians have no fire would annoy me.

Or maybe the club could actually talk to the fans and understand that there's different cultures and different wants from different sections of the fans, instead of lumping them all together in some braindead idea based on a "myth" of a "kop" end that has literally never existed in the history of our club and doesn't work at most clubs that have it in english football.

it's going to be next level shit, the away fans will be hurling abuse at people in the chapel who don't want to be next to them. They'll also think our home support is shit because the acoustics mean the BANTA wall noise won't travel to the away end. The BANTA wall itself will be full of muppets singing about the skates for 90mins and we'll probably end up with god awful fancy dress ultras, prices will go up elsewhere to pay for the mouth breather section and piss off long standing fans and everyone will want it changed again by about the middle of next season. The club have properly fucked this one up, they should've kept the ground as it is but put in safe standing from block 3 round to the kingsland north (including away fans) Instead they're going to make the atmosphere worse because they don't understand what creates it in the first place

Install running machine type floors into the stand so they're forced to get their steps in. Plus it would also have the benefit that the "limbs" would be amazing as you could speed them up when we score to catapult people out of The Northam BANTER WALL(tm) As for our illustrious leader Phil Potts plan I personally can't wait till the Skates come to St Mary's and give grief to the folk in the chapel and kingsland and are completely incapable of hearing our numerous songs about them from the other end of the ground. The good news though is the hilarious banter will now been done by people who are standing up, and the rolling joys of songs about bit part players who are roundly useless when they actually come on (ole, ole) will make the upheaval well worth the cash It's exactly the same as it is now, except you'll have a barrier infront of you.

I'd argue with the financial implications for both Leeds and Leicester it's probably safe to say they're both more desperate than us to be honest

But how else would we broaden our reach to the MASSIVE catchment areas without it? Surely you can't be saying you only want the support to come from, and represent, the city it's in? I thought with your woke sentiments you would encourage more TV and more fan experiences, so our overseas, druid and northern (basingrad) friends can really feel the special atmosphere of singing about pompey and shouting pork all game whilst wearing a VR headset?

plus billy davies will target our best player in the first game of the play off semi's, injuring him so he can't take part in the second and taking the advantage away from us. Once we've lost on penalties we will have to leave the ground into a biblical downpour, but fear not next season the Saints will go WILDE

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£15 tickets would've meant the club lost around £48k for one game (based on the £30 we charged). This was at a time when the club were making redundancies and had about a £90m loss for the season before. You can see why that would be deemed unacceptable to Saints to be honest.

Saw someone describe Martin's style as propaganda football, as in "All possession with no penetration. Basically just propaganda football" and i can't think of a better description.

I find it mad how we've got this far into the season - with only three away games left - and people still don't understand that the 10% of allocation rule is for clubs that have ground capacities below 20k. The rule for away allocations in this division is 10% of capacity up to 2k tickets. So far any ground over 20k you only have to give 2k, unless the club decide to do otherwise (which we have for most games). Just because we gave leeds 3k tickets doesn't mean they in anyway to do the same for us.

3k definitely won't rock up as they've only given us 2k which is the minimum needed to be given (despite us giving them 3k at £30). There's no way i'd be going personally if i hadn't already bought train tickets, absolute disgrace of pricing

Yup definitely me mush, i'm going to get top boy to organise the dance routines and have our mayor get the glue and macaroni banners made up, we can also make sure every song mentions the skates and we do organised hand waving to show people through the medium of mime what libraries look like. Also we're really hoping we can get as many people from Salisbury, Basingrad and other places that aren't Southampton involved in large numbers, as they won't care about making our city look tinpot as they're not from it. It'll be top notch BANTZ and not utterly fucking cringeworthy and embarrassing shit that makes you want to boot the people doing it in the face repeatedly.

nope bunch of dins starting an ultras group https://saintsarchive.com/the-1885/ Genuinely going to be embarrassing as fuck but i guess it was always bound to happen. That combined with Northam wall is going to add to me binning it off to be honest.

It's going to be laughably shit, I can't imagine how bad our support will be doing "ultras", genuinely can't wait to see what god awful shit they come up with to embarrass us so I can laugh at them. Hopefully most of our normal fans will reject this shit completely and give it the full abuse it deserves.

I think the really important questions are, will it look good over a grey hoodie? Is it easy to clean when i spill my spoons breakfast down the front of it?

Doesn't help that there's train strikes that day to be fair which means you're either looking at bus replacement for large parts of the journey (and paying the extortionate trains prices anyway) or driving up.

Be careful organising meets at the football on the internet mush, the old bill will have you up on conspiracy charges and you'll be facing a 5year stretch

Yeah he was definitely a cult hero by the end of his career, but that was mainly based on the fact that he clearly fucking loved the clubs and city, was a Sotonian lad and got away with ABH on the pitch most games, to add to @Miltonaggro and @Noodles34 ones him seeing if he could launch Paulo Futre into orbit at Upton Park, or going straight through the back of Steve Bruce at the Dell stand out. Also his goal was probably one of most "connected" fans/players goals i can think of in my long time going, up there with Le Tiss closing out the Dell, and Marian scoring against the skates at St Mary's. The split second of absolutely silence when it went in, followed by someone at the back of block five shouting "it's fucking franny" and all hell breaking lose will long be one of my favourite Saints moments ever. But despite all that i can also remember his name being booed when he was in line ups and general groans around the Dell when he did something shit (and outright abuse when he gave away another goal).

he was great at booting people off the pitch, and actually a half decent man marker. Basically as long as he was nowhere the ball he was a good player, but he'd cost us a goal or two a game and probably score his share of own goals along the way (his diving header own goal "for" Bolton sits in my mind). Franny was also great as that sort of player you wanted on the pitch to wind someone up so they got sent off or taken off, remember him doing a great job of just niggling Cantona all game until he lost it completely.

Yup it's all really a non story but the fact he claimed to be George Weah's cousin made it more than it was. And then a generation who i'd hazard never saw him play (i mean most saints fans didn't as there was only about 15k there that day) have turned it into a far bigger thing than it ever should've been due to social media. And now you see him regularly voted one of the worst players ever to play in the premier league by fans and journalists who have absolutely never seen the time he was on the pitch and judged it on a story about a phone call alone Wouldn't say he was alright, but honestly not the worst, don't forget we had players like Frankie Bennett back then who'd come from being a waiter in a bournemouth hotel (i think) and Tommy Widdrington, who's only moment of note was accidentally scoring off his arse. Like i said before i honestly don't think i'd count him in my top five worst Saints players, maybe not even in my top ten. Trying to think who the "top" worst five would be and i'd probably have to go with 1. Lee Todd 2. Sergey Gotsmanov 3. Nigel Quashie 4. Callum Davenport 5. Olly Lancashire/Franny Benali (yeah i love him now but anyone that says they loved him as a player is lying)

As someone who as there that day I've long thought the Ali Dia thing was a massive storm in a tea cup, if you take out the phone call then it's basically just a trialist who played for us because we had injuries who wasn't that great and happened to be brought on for Le Tiss (and how different the story would've been if he'd scored, which he came very close to doing). In my opinion he doesn't even come close to the worst players i've seen play for us, Lee Todd wins that one by a country mile, in fact as far as i can tell most people who talk about him being our worst ever player weren't at the game, didn't see him play and base the entire thing on the story rather than reality.

I want to get promoted because i don't want people i know to lose their jobs. I hate the premier league with a passion, it's rigged to money, full of plastic cunts from nowhere near the cities "their" clubs are from, annoying overseas "fans", a media that talk shit and only care about the rich clubs. The away games are dull and played out at corporate soulless bowls, and once you're up you're pretty much just killing time before you go down again. The only positives are if you do well you get a european trip, and you have a better shot at the cups (though probably won't win them because the money clubs have them sewn up too). And then add to it all the fact that if you do have the nerve to do well you're gutted by the vultures around you. The positives of staying down is the league is genuinely competitive, there's nearly always a new ground to do, and we potentially have a derby against the skate cunts to look forward to. Anyway this is all by the by because i think we'll probably lose in the first game of the play offs and won't go up.

Great opportunity to expand the Saints Gulag out the back

Can you imagine how shit our version of "ultras" would be? A bunch of nippers, most of who aren't even from southampton, and who's idea of terrace culture was taken from a tik tok with badly painted signs jumping up and down in replica kits singing songs they'd nicked from Rangers or Man City that had been adapted to mention the skates 🤣 As much as i can't stand the idea the idea of ultras i'd almost like to see it to give me something to laugh at