The Cat

Juventus losing at Verona who are in the relegation zone. They have been awful since Alcaraz joined (obviously not his fault, he hasn't really played)

5th to 10th so tight. Only 3 points between them all as it stands.

Interesting that you have one nut sack which is more intelligent than the other.

Still not convinced he meant that. Reckon it was a cross that happened to go in.

I'd do the lot of them if they get promoted

He was on the bench yesterday, but presumably won't be when Adams is back. In a way I'd rather keep him on the bench in place of Sulemana who is the most frustrating player we have.

It won't be winner takes all because a draw would be enough for one of the teams if we're both a few points above Ipswich. Stupid commentators.

You hear about groups of fans randomly going to matches abroad. There was a load of German fans at some U21 game over here a few weeks ago. Would be fun to get a bunch of Saints fans over to Northern France for a game. Ferry from Portsmouth then on to the game.

Interesting comparing his comments on Smallbone and Mara compared to those on the match thread where there were plenty of posts moaning about them both. We do have an abundance of top quality players in attacking mid and barring a raft of injuries we will have a crazily strong bench for the rest of the season. Feel a bit sorry for Dibling as he's unlikely to get much more game time now everyone is fit, just hope for his sake we can be comfortable enough in some games to bring him on.

Very good last night. Lots of singing, and everyone joining in. A new one for Mara and the Walker Peters one sung more than normal. I liked the "just the one, just the one game unbeaten" chant at the end.

I think it went like this, although took me ages to work out the second line. Sekou ole ole ole He comes from Bordeaux He scores goals y'know Sekou ole ole ole

Well that was some crazy round trip in the car, chaos on the way up. At one point when the M5 was at a standstill I didn't think I'd make the game. Thought we were superb, as were our fans. The first 30 minutes was like Swansea away in terms of performance, and against a much better team. The second goal and then the save from Bazunu were such great moments. A West Brom fan I know messaged me after the game and said he hopes we get promoted because Saints and Leicester are by far the best teams they have played this season.

There was a big upturn in bother post lockdown when all the kids who hadn't been to away games came out getting coked up and acting all moody. I know for a fact that we had some of the most troublesome supporters in that season. It's dropped off a bit now, partly because last season we were so shit, and partly because in the Championship there's less home fans around when we go away.

Ha, I'm sure some of the older fans who need to use an actual toilet at half time are somewhat baffled by the queues of young lads waiting to use them.

There's a lot of fans aged 17-21 which is a great thing to be honest because they are bolstering our support to numbers that many are surprised we are taking. They just have a different approach to songs and sometimes seem more intent on trying to annoy home fans rather than getting behind the team and the players. Partly this may be due to lockdown interrupting the previous culture, partly because kids these days seem to love getting one over on other fans. You only have to look at social media football chat to see how that's developed in the past few years. It's not that fans have never acted like that, it just seems more prevalent now.

I understand the Lambert song getting a run out last night because he played for Bristol Rovers but no need to sing about Gabbiadini. If you like the tune just lob in some new words and make it about a current player. We left when the 3rd went in. Some nipper started antagonising everyone by mouthing off about how we were crap fans for leaving and should stay to the end. Pretty sure attending hundreds and hundreds of games and flying around Europe to watch Saints has put enough credit in my bank that I can leave a midweek away game 10 minutes early when I have a 2 hour drive home and need to be up for work at 0630. Nice to know I'm a crap fan though!

Agreed, absolutely rubbish last night. Everyone's favourite library song got multiple run outs. Your ground's too big for you - ok because we sell out every week do we? No, we don't. Bristol's a shithole. It maybe a bit rough around the edges but it's indisputably a far better city then Southampton. School in the morning was because of that nipper twatting about in the home end. All sung with no irony despite the fact it's half term. Some song for Edoize along to Gimme Gimme Gimme by Abba. The Stuart Armstrong chant a load of times even though only about 20% of the support know the first few lines and then the rest join in at the end. Janny, Janny B was a new low. Some kid trying to kick the seat out when we went 2-0 down. Some older bloke nicely asked him to clam down and then the kids Dad started shouting "don't fucking tell him to clam down" Top class support. Well done everyone.

Best thing about the first half was the 12 year old nipper in the home end giving us a load of shit and pointing at his Stone Island badge.

Probably a bit late but I'm in the Bristol Beer Factory and it's really good in here. Loads of great beer. Good atmosphere. Home and away fans.

"Absolutely. A surprisingly arrogant set of supporters given that other than one FA cup in the mid-70s and a football league trophy they've won **** all. Which for a club of their size and given the amount of time they've spent in the top flight is a bit shit." Obviously we have some bellends who support us but as a fanbase are we really that arrogant to give this person that impression? It's not like we were telling everyone we were going to win the league this season, in fact a lot of people thought we'd end up being a bit crap. They are right about the number of trophies we've won, we all know that.

Good win for Coventry earlier putting them back into the playoffs. Is that post allowed Alex?

Cedric is still alive then

I've just turned on after seeing the score so expect no more goals.

It's the way of the modern world unfortunately. No one is given time to get it right, just kneejerk reactions that a player isn't good enough with no thought that they are all different and some require longer than others to get up to speed. This is followed up by people so entrenched in their original view they find it hard to admit they were wrong. Mara is doing all he can at the moment, hopefully he can build on this and force his way into the team for a run of games and kick on from there.