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  1. While it's understandable to some degree after the recent turmoil we've it's a pretty damning indictment of some of the fans. My better half is a geordie and I've been to many Toon games over the last 15 years and I can't ever remember the same negative abuse being heaped on the Newcastle players.

  2. Totally agree! Isn`t it?

     

    Saturday is all about celebrating the bright new dawn.

     

    Be there for Southampton Football Club, not the present team (or lack of it).

     

    COYR

     

    Players come and go but the club, the history and fellow fans are what it's all about for me.

  3. As others have said - a decent, genuine, honest & hardworking guy. Unfortunately out of his league and events have eventually conspired against him.

     

    Probably a shock that he got the bullet, but then again probably a shock that he managed to land the job in the first place.

     

    I wish him well in whatever he does and thank him for his efforts.

     

    Well said Micky.. He did his best in spite of the appalling circumstances that unfolded during his time here. Shame so many others weren't as committed in they're roles. Good luck Mark..!

  4. What the FL is doing verges on blackmail. Pinnacle and the club are in a perilous position and the FL are taking full advantage, it is an abuse of power/undue influence by the FL. Pinnacle should accept the terms and move on. They can then challenge the legality of what the FL are in effect forcing on them, ie waiver of rights of appeal.

     

    It seems to me that if this is illegal in law then any agreement to waiver the right of appeal would not be legally enforceable by the FL and the club could then pursue their appeal.

  5. I'd be interested in seeing a demographic of the potential fanbase of SFC. IMO, it must be huge. There are obviously many factors that would dent that potential, League One football being a biggun; and the population is rather spread out over the central southern area, so distance also becomes a major factor, for the less committed fan.

     

    In the Premiership days, St Mary's was able to be filled practically every home match, and often tickets were as hard to come by as in the 15,251 Dell days, for the supporter who could/would only occasionally attend. Those supporters are out there still. They are just doing something else with their Saturdays.

     

    There's a lot of us out there. I have up to a 2 hour journey from Sussex for a home game is like an away fixture everytime I make the trip and there's others who travel further than that.

  6. It was a different world back then. You had clubs like Derby and Ipswich winning the league, and Forest winning the European Cup.

     

    The gap between the big city clubs and the more modest ones like us was much narrower. I can't see those days ever returning unless football finances are given a major overhaul.

     

    I agree. They're were the dominant team like Liverpool, Leeds, Man Utd but there was never the massive chasm between the handful of top clubs and the likes of us that exists today.

  7. First time I have seen that clip and he deserved a longer ban than that, absolutely shocking what he did.

     

    Nasty piece of work.. should have got more than the 10 game ban. Haven't seen anything like it, not even in the days of Norman 'bite yer legs' Hunter...

  8. I don't think that those were the actual words used.

     

    I think it was more a case that relegation has seen the value of the club fall. Which I guess means that the offers received have not been as lucrative as they would have had we stayed up - though stand to be corrected if I have mis-interpreted.

     

    That's the way I took it. Surely all parties will have been prepared for a lower valuation of the club after relegation so they will have to be ready for lower offers, if and when they are made.

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