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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.

I'm pretty sure that the leagues have a cap on the percentage of the ground that can be sold as season tickets. I think it used to be you could only have 75% of the ground as season tickets, but they dropped it to something like 60% on the idea that you had to provide "match day tickets" too. Obviously that doesn't take into account away tickets though so 60% minus the away allocation. Saying that some clubs - especially the big tourist clubs - actually cap season tickets much lower as they want to sell more game by game tickets to tourists because they spend more on tat

There's been quite a few for me down the years, Colin Clarke Paul Moody, Dixon and Speedie, Telfer, Lee Todd, Paul Wooton, at times Kelvin Davis and Franny (both ridiculously error prone) and Ward Prowse

My 20 would be Le Tiss Channon Ron Davis Terry Paine Nick Holmes David Armstrong Ricky Lambert Mark Wright Shilton Niemi Pahars Beattie Ball Moran Schneiderlin Van Dijk Michael Svensson Bertrand Steve Williams Keegan Would've maybe included Danny Wallace, Golac and Flowers in there too and you could make a case for Bridge

Looks like the away game at the inbred scab cunts will be around the same time the away ticket points resets. So those early season aways are going to be really important to build numbers up

Greggs? I think we should be aiming higher than a pastry shop, this fabled MEGALOPOLIS OF SPORTATAINMENT GREATNESS (tm) will be attracting michelin star restaurants, we will see the re-homing of the Ivy to old norham road, clubs will flock from Ibiza to set up residency in the britannia road warehouses, when we flatten golden grove and northam estate they will be rebuilt with luxury yurts and short stay complexes that all have their own sex pond and butlers. The south of france will lose the Cannes Films Festival as it will move to the newly appointed AREA OF CULTURE that is derby road, with the meridan water filled with super yachts eager to observe the greatest moment of gentrification ever known. The hustle, bustle and glamour will be the focus point of new signings, eschewing boring places like Milan, London, Paris, Barcelona and Madrid in favour of the greatest sport and cultural complex known to man. If you build it. They will come.

Except that's not true for either of the two stadiums you mention. In Manchester the Commonwealth stadium hasn't led to regeneration of the area, the Northern Quarter closer to Picaddily was already being gentrified before the stadium was built and was largely down to a council scheme in the 90s and second much bigger period after the bombing of the arndale center. The City of Manchester stadium is actually a fair bit away from the main gentrification of manchester and has a large a road that goes past it, with the immediate area still fairly run down and without a huge amount there in the way of shops (unless you count big Asda's). As for the Olympic stadium and Olympic park, well Stratford shopping center was there prior to the Olympics, Stratford high st still has "character" (shorthand for pretty stabby) and west of the lea Hackney Wick had already started to be gentrified about 5 years before the Olympics due to Hackney being popular and artists being priced out who moved to the empty industrial units there. Then if you go south of the Olympic park you have victoria park which is one of the biggest parks in East London and gentrification has nothing to do with it's use (funnily enough the old big breakfast house is on the corner there). Having spent a fair bit of time in that area pre Olympics, during and now the only really significant change i can think of post the stadium being built is the swingers club that used to be opposite Crate has now turned into a pub, which is a shame as it used to be hilarious sitting at Crate and laughing at the people sheepishly trying to go in without being seen. So yeah both your "examples" are utter horseshit, and to think that it would re-generate Northam, Golden Grove or Derby Road/St Mary's is naive at best, unhinged at worst. If football grounds and events venues could do that then so many of the shops, clubs and pubs on Old Northam road wouldn't have shut down when St Mary's moved there would they?

Ah yes Man City's staidum that was built for the Commonwealth games and came with investment in sports facilities into an area already being redeveloped, and The Olympic stadium that was built for the Olympics including landscaping an area of east london that was already getting significant investment because London was moving east (via a huge olympic investment fund) are perfect examples of how grounds that weren't built for football can be examples of football grounds gentrifying areas 🤣 Next you're going to tell me that Salford changing is down to proposed plans for Old Trafford and nothing to do with Media City and the investment in Salford there. In fact i'm going to revise my question of do you live in Southampton, to have you ever left your mum's bedroom? Because you've clearly never been to London or Manchester. Oh and btw i worked in Manchester and lived in East London so know that neither had anything to do with Man City or West Ham....

I see we've entered the completely mental period of the summer where people are advocating for the removal of Sotonians from their homes to accommodate a shopping center or hotel at a football ground in a city that doesn't attract a huge amount of tourism. I swear to god some people don't live in any form of reality, because "gentrifying Northam and Golden Grove by adding a hotel to St Mary's" is about as realistic as the council's old plans to build a monorail to ocean village. Honestly it's like some people have never even lived in Southampton 🤣🤣🤣 I'd love someone to name a single area in the country that's been gentrified by a football ground too

yeah i think you're right he had a pre-existing back injury that the insurance wouldn't cover. Also remember something about him refusing an op too but it's so long ago that could be my memory playing tricks.

Came into the thread to say Ekeland and was glad to see so many others already had. I've always wondered what we'd have done had we kept him as him and Matty looked the absolute dogs together.

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i've met loads of footballers down the years and got to know some of the Saints players relatively well, but of the most random ones i'd say mine is probably playing pool and hanging out with the early 90's Barcelona squad managed by Johan Cruyff