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I was upper tier and expected atmosphere to be quite flat compared to lower but was actually impressed, good noise around me and everyone seemed to be getting involved, probably helped by the fact that it was limited areas left when on members sale so a real mix of fans getting the singing going. I'd say losing a semi final to a late goal there absolutely should be a necessary edge afterwards, Highbury 84, get stuck in Saints

Even if we somehow beat Ipswich i think QPR at home last game is a gift for them and with their goal difference they know winning that is enough to stay ahead of Millwall. Millwall will beat Oxford. Hopefully Middlesbrough have a tough game at Wrexham and give us a chance to go back above them

Definitely a good player, any news on his injury? Was hard to tell in the ground what was wrong with him, did they say on tv?

If Ipswich win they are promoted (as good as) , I think it will be a cagey game and quite likely to be a draw , bound to be quite a few changes from the team that started the semi final , I'll go for 1-1

I wouldn't care too much about what they put on their forum, City support was shite as expected, saw a few of theirs who thought it would be funny to celebrate right in the faces of Saints fans outside at the end then quickly wished they hadn't so probably two sides to those stories. I thought our support was good to be honest, build up around Wembley was buzzing and felt like we outnumbered them 3 to 1 going up Wembley way, no bother pre match just really positive atmosphere, obviously the occassion meant more to us and that was reflected in the build up and the stands

On way home now, i know we're supposed to accept defeats to teams like Man City but feel absolutely gutted, taking the lead briefly gave us that hope that it could just be our turn

For a team that is "red and white" we always do yellow and blue really well

Might get chilly in the 2nd half, look out for me I'll be the bloke in black and white carrying a Saints for the Cup banner

Textbook, earlier train was fine , no issues

That's only true in the neutral area, we also have an allocation at that level sold by Saints where you can wear what you like. 239 was in our allocation? Edit - actually can see its part of neutral blocks but right next to Saints official area

I like your optimism , however if you look how WBA celebrated their win midweek mathematically securing survival i think its likely they are done for the season now. Millwall will win at Leicester tonight so by the time we take to the field at Wembley 2nd and 3rd could be 6 points clear of us.

They might have given 1,000 away or another theory a City fan i know has is they just took those off sale to concentrate last min sales into other blocks that will be more visible on tv. Either way there will be 23k - 24k in official City end, how many of those are regular City fans travelling from Manchester is another thing, as members could buy 3 each im sure there will be a fair number of tourists in their end who just want to see star players at Wembley. 60% of middle tier is "neutral" club wembley, mostly annual tickets owned by London based Corporates (includes all England games, fa cup semi finals, fa cup final, carabao cup and play offs) those seats are counted as sold but often go unused for less appealing games. Would expect a fair few Saints to be in those seats, lots were in play offs 2 years ago. Official attendance will probably by roughly 68-70k with actual numbers in the ground closer to 66k Biggest spread of empty seats is half of upper tier South side of ground which is same side as main tv cameras so won't be so visible on tv.

He's been with us 4 seasons now so 1 year left on his contract i think, there's no way I can see any team offering a transfer fee for him, might be able to loan him out again

I think hes been massively unlucky, how many other occurrences have there been this season of fa reviewing footage and taking retrospective action in the Championship?

A friend of mine had a similar issue and emailed the ticket office, they replied same day but that was a week ago when tickets were still available, would give it a try tickets@saintsfc.co.uk

Corruption

We could actually do with Wrexham beating Middlesbrough for us

Looking at remaining fixtures i think play offs will be Wrexham v Millwall Southampton v Middlesbrough With Millwall and Middlesbrough being home in 2nd legs

Fulham away i think was last one, in the fa cup

More likely Ipswich will come to us knowing a win for them will as good as promote them with their goal difference. Our aim now has to be to try to stay ahead of Middlesbrough and get that home 2nd leg

150 left now, shame its the £90 ones left as these would have been snapped up early on if available, price is high now for a casual fan or someone thinking of taking the family. Interestingly Chelsea haven't sold out their 33,250 initial allocation yet and any season ticket holder or member can buy THREE each, for me that shows even for a fanbase like theirs the prices are too steep. Not much travel cost or distance for Chelsea either. Like us Leeds have been given some extra tickets.

Yeah let's hope its not that bad, I think they put these stories out to put enough people off getting the train , then remainder who do go will find it ok, need to spead the numbers travelling across those trains. If you can get on a cross country to Reading thats a great route as well as will be plenty of trains from their into Paddington, then use Marylebone to Wembley Stadium station

Yeah you can transfer them to someone else with Saints ticket app, just need the email address their app is registered to

Looks like they've relaxed the purchase criteria to try to shift the last few tickets, can buy multiple per customer number https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/eligible-supporters-able-to-purchase-additional-tickets-for-fa-cup-semi-final

Its absolutely nonsense, they've laid on extra trains , they did the same for the play off final putting out stories like this, then on the day the train i got was half empty