Tomobz

This thread has reminded me why I don't regularly view this forum anymore

I have a lot of time for this. This is a great thread!

Seconded big time. Football isn't about being disappointed if you don't do the treble in a season. I feel sorry for the armchair fans of the 'big clubs' because they don't get the ride we get. Travelling the length of the country to grounds like Prenton Park with a thousand other like minded people to follow your team because you're proud of your city and where you come from is what it's all about. Witnessing a dramatic fall from the big time over a short period of time but still keeping faith and going to 40 games in league one regardless because it's your football club and the result doesn't matter is what it's all about. Going to Preston on a tuesday night and getting done 5-1 but not caring because you've had a cracking day out with your mates in a place you wouldn't ever visit otherwise is what it's all about. Going into random pubs at away days and being able to have a real discussion with opposing supporters about football and not having some pompous City supporter who has only followed the club 3 seasons tell you that your club is **** is what it's all about. Paying a days wages for a ticket to watch us get done 4-0 at the Etihad Stadium by a bunch of arrogant players who earn more in a week than I will earn in 10 years in not what it's about.

I was thinking this too actually, I've absolutely loved the football league, it has been an awesome ride so far and the monotony of the PL would suck after the rollercoaster last 6 years. So here are my simple reasons. Real football. Real supporters. Real grounds. Real passion. And not being swamped by overpaid, over rated, arrogant players and ignorant, non football educated supporters. Against modern football!

Agreed, with goal difference being so great, a point is effectively as good as a three because west ham still in reality need to win two more games than us... We are still in a very strong position with five left to play. Up the saints!

Just thought I had better add because I know people will jump on that straight away and it is misleading. I haven't been to both dinners myself, my friend went to the first one and I went to the second.

He's familiar because myself and my friend are part of a group of supporters who regularly go together to games and were both fortunate enough to have been to both dinners and Neil is one of our group. I wasn't expecting that post to end up here as I posted it on my brothers facebook wall and it was intended only to be read by my friends so I guess as it's made it's way to a public forum with diehard fans, I had better elaborate on the evening a bit more! First thing, Nicola was incredibly approachable when he came and individually welcomed us all to the Boardroom at St Mary's, as also was Jordan Sibley who also attended the dinner. Nicola was very open and honest about answering basically any question that any supporter put forward and encouraged discussion about all goings on in the club. As said in the other post, he was incredibly inspirational and ambitious about the direction that the club is headed and in where he wants the club to go, I think basically there is no limits to what he would like to achieve and he is setting about putting the entire systems and workings of the club in a position where we are capable and able to be one of the biggest clubs around. I really cannot state enough just how enthusiastic he was about the direction the club is going and how much he seemed to enjoy the challenge of turning the club from the pits of league one, where we were a couple of seasons ago, into a dominant force in English football. The ticketing pricing thing is just something that I personally wanted to get a clear message about as after following saints up and down the country through the demise and climbing of the football league, it would suck to be priced out of the glory years. I raised many points about this which Nicola was interested in discussing. I went there not really knowing whether I would be able to afford to go to a decent number of games during a premiership campaign but after the discussion I left in full confidence that Nicola would not take advantage of loyal supporters and that he would consider the entire fanbase when making decisions about pricing policy's. This made me happy. He spoke in great detail about the Saints Foundation too and the aims of this set up, if people haven't read about or found out about what this organisation is doing around our city they really should. It will make you even more proud to be red and white!! I can't really add any more at the moment as am just off out, but I hope this information is of interest to people. I want to add again that after having an active role in the organisation of the Rupert Lowe protest a few seasons ago, having a chairman of Cortese's nature is a breath of fresh air and I believe pretty much every football supporter in the country would give their right arm to have him in charge of their football club. Up the saints

i sit kingsland north with a group of others, we've had season tickets for years. for home games we normally turn up late, go down ten mins early, come back up 5 mins late and leave between 85 - 90 mins. what can i say, we like a beer. we also average 30+ games a year, but we are definitely jcl plastics

haha yes but have you met our fanbase? the easily repeatable jank chorus is right up our street

to black and yellow by wiz khalifa. ''ah, yeeeeeah you know who it is. steve de ridder, steve de ridder, steve de ridder, steve de ridder''

bearing in mind that any new song doesn't catch on and 99% of the support don't know the words to the older classics, then you better start dealing with these songs being the only ones in our hymn book

then they're giving out mixed answers...

i can confirm that blocks 1/2/3 will not be open for season ticket purchases but will for sell out games (pompey, brighton etc)

this thread is why there needs to be seperate safe standing areas at football. people go for different reasons, some purely to watch their team play and others purely for the banter, smash up and atmosphere. who's to tell the other crowd what is right or wrong?! just give people the option and avoid aggrevating other fans. simple

gonna be a good league for us next year. as you say not too far to travel and with sheff u, scunny and preston relegated that's 3 less long trips. looking forward to possibly upton park the most as never done that

you are a bellend

only because he was injured so much. shearer didn't play much for us but i bet you would class him as a past great? richards was class, he was an ex saint, and he passed away tragically at a young age. we should have remembered him in some way today but didn't. it isn't right and is disrespectful. let's not get into a debate about how good a football player he was please. pathetic

****es me off a treat. if we didn't start those chants from the back of 37 nothing at all would have been done, said to remember a past great. disrespectful and totally out of line

not completely true. i got that rubbish barnard one started last year in block 41 when smashed off my tits by just singing it over and over again with my brother and mates until people joined in. no one sang it for about 5 mins but in my battered state i didn't care and eventually people started singing it. i now regret that though cos that song is jid

they weren't adhering to that rule. i asked at the ticket office early that day if i could buy a ticket for the hudders game and a saints one at the same time and they were fine with it. like i said we decided to sit with the northerners though so didn't bother

there's a few in there mate. i went to cherries hudders the other week and could of easily picked one up for the saints game but decide to sit with the northerners. they had quite a few left that day which sold out real quick so i am guessing a few saints have snapped them up

st mary's atmosphere is actually decent for football league grounds. when you follow us away you notice how rubbish everyone elses supporters are. was sat in huddersfield end for bournemouth hudders last week and that was dead for a big game

i know a lot of saints sitting home end. will be a good laugh in there, lets get another dellhurst!

went to huddersfield v bournemouth. was loads of saints in there, i saw 30 odd so must have been loads more. some good bundles when hudders equalised late to give us some awesome results from yesterday