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With a quick browse I found another few: http://thesaintsfc.proboards.com/ http://www.ohwhenthesaints.net/ http://www.southampton-mad.co.uk/ There's a Flash-based site out there too but can't remember the URL.

I think there's certainly some truth in that. When a colleague and fellow Saints fan met Bridge at an event late last year Wayne told him that he his heart wasn't in the move to Chelsea and that Lowe was pulling the strings on the deal. I'll let you lot extrapolate the potential worthiness of that statement from the bull**** (because of course I'm sure the salary had nothing to do with it!)

I'd be up for a kickabout if there's definitely going to be a few others. Could be good to get it going as a regular thing?

That's a fantastic contribution, but might I suggest that it's worth advertising it on as many places as you can easily do so (without paying)? Other Southampton FC forums and the Gumtree website may help to bring forward additional interested parties? Wouldn't want to see such an awesome collection selling for a pittance

Given how sensibly Oxlade-Chamberlain was grafted into the first team (granted he got a lot of playing time quickly, but was also regularly taken off early or rested), I'd say that Adkins and his team can be trusted to blood the youngsters in the best way possible. It might be that it's only feasible to give that level of attention to one or two of them at a time, but I'm confident that if there's players that are good enough they'll get the experience they deserve.

That video alone was worth my £3.99. Not sure how I managed before Player to be honest!

Haha, apologies if any offence was caused. I went to the 'proper' uni so banter was pretty common. Have a few good mates that went to Solent so I know first-hand that the generalisations about its students aren't true (as if they ever are!) The ones that live down my road seem intent on hammering the stereotypes into my brain however

Carlton Place. There's some nice pubs around the Polygon area, but the rest of is full of Solent Uni and town chav-type abominations.

If you ignore the pics with my ugly mug in them, I got a couple of fairly decent ones from Saturday. This should be a public link so you ought not need Facebook access, but let me know if there's any issues. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.745259749192.275303.286107279&l=a74536bc12 Was going to get my shirt printed up before the Walsall game but the queue was mental, so sorted it out pre-Saints Day match

Great post - always nice to get a bit of a 'behind the scenes' outlook on the day Hung around for quite a while at the end but didn't realise that all of this was going on. Going off on a tangent, does anybody know why Rickie had that headband thing (bandage?) on in the first half? He didn't seem to be wearing it after the break (or maybe the beers were really starting to kick in by then!) Absolutely perfect day for me, crowned a few hours ago by marching home from the pub through the torrential rain with my better half, belting out as many Saints chants as you could care to mention. We got a few bemused looks, but nearly as many people joined in

Given the way he was celebrating after the final whistle, that first sentence doesn't surprise me! Don't get me wrong - it's fantastic that the fringe players are all on the bus too, but he's not had a minute of involvement Seems 90 degrees is a bit of a player hangout. My girlfriend and I were around Carlton Place/Bedford Place but we lamed out and headed home before midnight. Nearly 12 hours of drinking will do for one day

Cortese was in the Itchen as the players came out with the tinpot trophy. As it all started to die down he walked back past towards the corporate area so I gave him a tap on the shoulder and said "thank you"

Come along and spend the entire match booing them then.

I'm assuming there's not going to be a strict formation as such, since there's currently three right backs and only two midfielders (well, three if you count Tessem, but that only leaves one striker!) Presumably more announcements to come... Hell, it's going to be a long, football-less Summer so any excuse to get down to St. Mary's is a welcome one as far as I'm concerned. If people are concerned about it 'weakening' Saturday's celebrations that's just churlish. Nothing to say that you can't still go all-out - no doubt the current first team will be! It's a generous optional extra and nothing more. I personally plan to use it as a bit of casual fun to take my mind off of the inevitable hangover monkey of 'King Kong' proportions that'll be residing on my head

A quick thought - if there's not to be a collection on Saturday, would it be worth trying to organise something for the 'All Star' match on Sunday? I'm sure there's plenty of fans that would be willing to contribute but won't hear about this via Facebook/Twitter/the forum and it's pretty much the last chance before the new season.

Living in the city centre has made me a bit lazy with matchday preparations (usually just roll up about 15 mins before KO ), so I'm open to suggestions as to where the best pre-game atmosphere is likely to be. Guide Dog? The Alex? King Alfred? Somewhere on Oxford Street? All of the above? My girlfriend was nearly as chuffed as me today(!) so she's a shoo-in for my second ticket. Intend to get out of the house and onto the booze for midday at the latest (wherever we start out) and grab an extra cheeky pint at the ground if there's time to spare. Apparently I'm getting an all expenses paid meal afterwards (courtesy of my aforementioned partner), then back out to wherever the night takes us It's going to be a massive party regardless, but it'd be fantastic to wrap the season up with one more win. Sunday will almost certainly feature a painful and hard-earned hangover to end them all!

Altering it to 'Saints' would make sense, but it's happened all season so I doubt the chants will change for one match...

Though it's unfortunate that the club dragged their heels, the first home game of next season will roughly tally with the anniversary of Markus' passing and as such would be a fitting time to unveil the flag (especially if progress has been made towards the 5-year plan by then).

Donated, tweeted and posted to Facebook Sounds like it's going pretty well so far. Decent effort on the site by the way - there's a good framework there to add more content as you get it.

Agree with the consensus of the thread, but even if you could get everybody on here to agree to it there'll be a majority of people at the Plymouth game that don't read Saintsweb. Plus some people will do it anyway, because they're hooligans Regardless, let's get the 3 points first...

Haha, need a third option in that poll. Nearly there though!

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Hope that we have plenty to celebrate and that the capacity crowd will be up for the occasion I plan to make a long day out of it either way!

He's let in so many goals and messed up so many times that we have a +41 goal difference... I don't think anybody in their right mind would compare the two goalkeepers mentioned, but that doesn't take the achievement away, relative to our current position. Yes, Kelvin is beaten too often at the near post, but counter that with the number of intelligent, athletic saves he pulls out and I think you can say it more than evens itself. Perhaps the reason that fans of other teams occasionally call us arrogant is that some of us come out with nonsense like this. Like players in many other positions on the pitch, if he was that high above League One ability, he wouldn't be playing for us. Until we're promoted we're still a third division club, let's not forget that.

Surely we'll do OK for attendance? Take tomorrow (oh, today now actually) for example - if we can't bring in 25k or more on a sunny bank holiday, at the business end of the season with this much to play for, it's kind of a sad indictment of our fanbase. Our current average for home games this season apparently sits at just under 22k (http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/D2/attend.html) and you would imagine that the buzz of a promotion push would raise above that for the last two. I don't know, maybe that's too harsh a comment, but if we keep on as we are, the potential for a party atmosphere at the final home game will surely be too good to miss out on.

I'm pretty sure I could make it next week too, although it depends whether my posts being ignored so far in this thread is merely an oversight or intentional!