franniesTache

I do wonder if part of the problem is a big part of our modern "support" have no connection to the city itself. Why would they care about loving Southampton, or take pride in the history of the city, when they're not from it, and have no connection to it. To them Southampton is a football club/form of entertainment, rather than their roots and history of their family. Mind you maybe that logic doesn't work, because i can't for the life of my understand why someone from Wiltshire - with no family connections to the city - would "hate" pompey, it's all just pantomime at that point. Also @TheAlehouseBrawlers made a really good point, right up to the mid/late 90's we just ignored the skates most of the time and that wound them up something chronic. Don't get me wrong I f*cking hate the c*nts, not the football team, the city and people in it, but, and maybe because of that, I don't want to sing about them all the time. Also agree with @JRM i'd love to see Great to be back in Southampton used (and it doesn't even need to be the whole thing, just the chorus and bit about going to the game) but I honestly can't imagine our newer fans doing that. A while back our lot tried to get something new going to the tune of Dock Of The Bay, which given St Mary's is on the docks seemed to make sense, but literally no one bothered trying to join in. That was, Left my home in Hampshire, Headed out from Weston Bay. I've got something to live for, Love Southampton till my dying day. Oh sittin' on the dock of the bay, Watchin' the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Wasting time (time oh time). Two, Three, Four (and repeat). Would've been unique, catchy and about the city/club, but instead we get another song nicked from Man City which mentions the skates.

Boro away this season was the perfect example of the complete lack of a need for facts for them to sing about libraries. Boro's fans had spent the first 30mins or so loudly singing and some lad banging a drum, at the first break they had in noise one of our mouth breathers immediately - and loudly - started singing football in a library. Fortunately a lot of them around him told him to shut up, but he genuinely looked confused to what he'd done wrong. I can only assume he was either deaf, or had his intelligence stunted because someone dropped a breeze block on his mum's stomach when she was pregnant. Either that or he'd never actually been to a library in his life.

This might be a controversial one for many on here, especially as the numbers we take away now are bigger than they've been in a very long time, but it seems to me that our away support is the worst quality in my lifetime. This isn't just a reference to the dark fruits drinking, bad gear sniffing, inbetweeners wanabees that have sprung up (though it might be because of them), but it's more to do with the noise we make now. Our obsession with the skates has actually reached a new level. At all the aways i've done this season we've sung about the skates more than anything else, with the low point for me coming first half away to Millwall when every single song sung was about them with the exception of OWTS. It even reached a point this weekend where the local journalist covering our game for the yorkshire post commented on it on social media Then you add to that the compulsion from some of the red lodge dwelling nippers to have to sing about libraries absolutely everywhere (i'd honestly not realised our support were made up of so many bibliophiles) and nippers who aren't even seven stone wet through "offering out" home fans and it just makes us look like f*cking yokels. God knows what we can do to improve it but it's come to the point where some of us actually actively avoid our own fans to escape the bantz boyz. Maybe it's just me getting old but all i really wish is our fans would have a bit of class and don't leave cities thinking Sotonians have the combined levels of class as spice addict who's wet himself in a JD Sports doorway

I think we can all agree the correct outcome here would be for the skates to be wound up as a football club, Fratton sold off to tesco's to pay the fine and Twitchy to be hung, drawn and quartered, and his body left outside the FA's building as a reminder for others not to repeat his actions.

Nah was bored and they were arguing about religion on Illingsweb so thought i'd nosey here

If anyone is attending the atmosphere meeting can they ask the club for 3 year banning orders for anyone that sings about libraries at away games please? Personally i'd go for a lifetime ban from the city of southampton for doing it, but a 3 year banning order would be a good start.

My brother moved to Wickham, a PO postcode, i refused to visit his house until he moved out of a PO postcode. Edit to say: I've also refused CV's from people at work because they went to school, college or uni in portsmouth

Fair few of our out of town supporters would probably sing that to be honest as they don't seem to actually like Southampton