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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

In the case of my group it's because the Northam is full of inbetweeners type weirdos who engage in shit "bantz", sing songs about players cocks and generally act with no class or originality.

I'm not sure what's more challenging for Saints, winning games or coming up with original chants. Anyway since we're actually going to be playing those inbred, piss stained scabs next season how about this to the kinks dedicated follower of fashion? They see him here, they see him there His clothes are fucking piss stained & he's never washed his hair He's a dedicated follower of portsmouth Oh yes he is (oh yes he is) Oh yes he is (oh yes he is) Always dressing scruffy and his sister is his wife Ohh he's a dedicated follower of portsmouth

Looks like someone has screen grabbed a teams call there, that's a really stupid thing to do and they're almost certainly going to lose their job for that because it's very easy to work out who it is. I can't imagine risking your job like that to "leak" a kit that's going to be announced fairly soon anyway

I left Laurie off because i didn't see much of him as manager in person, 84 at home to cov was my first game so i'm just a bit too young for him. I actually liked Jones as a person, he was massively out of his depth as a manager but he called out our overly precious fans for being entitled and was genuinely funny at points. Plus he at least seemed like he had something about him instead of being one of those dull modern football drones who only talks about stats. Martin was the singularly most arrogant manager i think i can ever remember us having, he even had the arrogance to give people a powerpoint presentation of why "his way was the right way". Such a smug cunt, and wouldn't look out of place as one of those public schoolboys that waltzes around top companies thinking they're special but they've just got their because their dad owned the place

Likeable WGS Ball Nicholl Adkins Least likeable Branfoot Branfoot Twitchy Branfoot Martin

We managed to move our seats online for the renewal price from the Northam BANTA wall to the chapel block 21 pretty easily online, and with no fuss, so i don't think you need to wait to do it (in fact i had the option as a link out of the email they sent)

I'm surprised it wasn't more people given it's been The Greatest Era of the club ever. Couple that with the brilliant job Sport Republic are doing on everything except that football bit that doesn't matter and you'd have thought it would be 90% highly satisfied.

SJ is almost certainly hearing about this stuff from the same source i did i'd imagine. A consortium you say? But who would be interested in leading a consortium of a club by the sea

All the teams playing the three promoted sides. We need one of them to get less than 12 points so we don't look as bad as we've been

Apparently that prick Adrian Heath is going to be there, so for him alone i hope we ruin their party

We've got five of us together right at the back of Block 21, and about the same again in the rows infront. i'm assuming that the ones currently not available probably will come available once the renewal window passes as they'll be people who had season tickets there last season.

I thought that but when i checked back my season ticket in the Itchen North for our last season in the championship cost me £430 so it's actually an increase if you do a like for like. It's obviously not terrible pricing but given people are skint at the moment it's not great, and the extra 5% fee for people doing monthly payments is a proper kick in the bollocks to those folk

Renewed mine, I make it my 43rd consecutive season of going which makes me feel properly old. Moved to block 21 from the Northam Wall as i couldn't face another season in what seems like a creche for Soccer AM fanboys

Nah it definitely didn't. It "stemmed" from someone who if people knew who it was no one would be asking questions anymore. Also just because the club are open to buyers and have made it known they are up for sale doesn't mean it will happen. Because lets be honest, who in their right fucking mind would buy a football club?

Given we are in our golden period and that the board are doing a magnificent job on everything except for recruitment and managers i think it'd be foolhardy to expect anything other than a home banker here. So Saints 9 Man City 0 seems the obvious choice for a prediction. We are all so lucky to be watching such a golden era of the club, the best in our history and no doubts

Yes but on the flip side we have a new pub, a champagne bar coming and the best gulags this side of siberia outside the ground. All we need now is a picture of a train on the wall of st mary's, a championship spoon hide and seek game, an award winning radio station, and the best catering in a football ground in an SO postcode and we'll truly be in a glory era of the club

Jonathan Fulthrope, he's a lawyer who was interested in the club back in 2008, not the person i've heard named as interested but doesn't mean not involved

COT has even hinted about the future too, those that know will know. These rumours have only really been around a week or so - in public - but there was some sort of "change" to them at the weekend and they went from chatter around the club to "this actually sounds like something is happening", which is probably why Simon Jordan openly spoke about it on the radio.

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