franniesTache

Climbing walls, darts and shooting ranges, The Chapel Paramilitary training center is being built. Soon we will have the junior Saints better drilled than most armies and the legacy of fear of the DEF will be maintained for generations. The club will train them, then turf them out into the gulags ready to scale the walls and slaughter the away fans. WE MARCH ON (the enemy)!

Thought they were very noisy but you'd expect that from a side that are the heighest they'd been for two generations and on the back of multiple promotions Agree that the back of the chapel was decent, felt like the early days of the Itchen North, i just hope it doesn't become flooded by nippers on cheap gear wanting to gesture at the away fans, think it'll take some time to catch on too which isn't necessarily a bad thing. In terms of the Wrexham fans i definitely thought they were load but their songbook was pretty damn generic, like so many others it was the standard songs nicked from liverpool, songs about libraries and a weird version of the song we used to sing about ricky lambert that didn't seem to scan properly. Thought they were at their most impressive when they sung land of my fathers to be honest, that was really damn loud

We've moved over to the chapel this season and to be honest with you all my group are sat on our hands a little bit because we don't want it to get stopped before we have our game against the skates. Saying that it's really interesting now being that side of the ground because you realise how little you can actually hear the Northam end. If I hadn't seen the posts on here about it being a "great" atmosphere i'd have thought the Northam was silent all game because you basically don't hear them from where the away fans are. Which means the skates are going to go on about St Mary's being a library and calling us quiet. The chapel itself i thought was decent, a far few standing at the back, a complete lack of soccer am "banter" and none of the noddy shit sung in the Northam. It's so much better than the Northam creche and hopefully that little section will grow with time as more move over

The joy of being lightly caressed by Monty Don

Someone should ask Solak what the plan is to get money into the club given that they're at to, or close to their limit of FFP, and if the cash injection he has planned will be laundered through reduced costs in the gulags outside or if player sales are still the only means of funding, in which case does that mean we have to sell Dibling and Fernandes before we can buy?

So you're agreeing our start screwed us cheers.

Hopefully the club realise points on the board is the most important thing and we play players who might leave anyway. Last time round our start screwed us and we basically had to spend the rest of the season playing catch up.

One of the top ones on my list that as for some reason i've never done Hull away, weekend after the skates so i'm expecting a bit of a drop off in numbers for that one despite the northern games usually being some of the best

Think the club will see a fair bit of that this season, once again it's a balls up due to moving the away fans. If they'd been in the old spot the two bits to the side of them would've been the first to sell out. But by moving the away fans and then having one of the more expensive parts one side and the family stand the other people are obviously going to be nervous about buying there for games that could be a bit more lively. I imagine for teams like millwall it'll be the same because the home fans who'd naturally sit there won't want to.

It was shared in the COT long before the press 👀 but as with everything COT related it was shot down by bitter people, a cross that people like myself and @Turkish have to bear

So Wrexham haven't even sent out their first load of away tickets yet and i've already received my tickets for Northampton away, and bought mine for Ipswich and Watford away, and only paid £1.50 per ticket booking fee compared to the £9 booking fee their fans have paid. I might have to stop moaning about our ticket office tbf 🤣

I am frankly amazed that it didn't go to members to be honest

Hopefully the blocks to the sides are filled by decent lads and folk who want to make a racket because it's going to painful if it's the skates singing at families sat down

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