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Sorry for your loss sir. Your dad sounds like a top bloke, a proper character Hopefully we can beat them on Sunday to give him a good send off. ❤️

Ah merit , great point - kind of how top level sports works pal. You do know It's not a 6 year olds infants sports day where everyone gets a medal. Or get to play in a tournament and be filled with wonder at playing in a proper stadium. You kind of have to earn it at that level.

can you explain why its a good business decision to let them come if every time you do it you're losing money?

This was your business reason to do it. Even if they're losing money they hope young people enjoy it.

Okay it wasn't ridiculous, it was fucking stupid Another one to add to the collection, like the one about a business reason being to lose money hoping kids have a good day out 😂

No i didn't because i have a life. and your "business point of view" was the club hoping young people enjoy the day out 😂 Here's the rub, hope is not a business reason.

when Saints are getting regular crowds 10% of the capacity then you might have point. Until then you dont.

I assume thats what Arsenal do. They had 3 crowds of over 40k last season and one of of 50k at the Emirates. They also had crowds of less than 4k regularly so i believe they mix it between the Emirates and Meadow Park which makes absolute sense. Just out of interest the average WSL attendance across all clubs last season was 6.8k. Of all teams 10 of the 12 clubs averaged less than 7.5k. Arsenal were highest at 28k almost 3 times bigger than the next club (chelsea), helped by the 4 massive attendances they got with the 50k one seems to be more at that single game than half the WSLs team got in total all season. Even they had a number of attendances below 4k. I was surprised how poor the attendances were given and the huge promotion we've had of womens football the last few years. The pattern seems to be the same for all the top womens clubs, a handful of very big attendances across a season for the one off game with averages outside of that around the 3-4k for all other top clubs, conference level crowds. For the rest barely even Conference South/North levels.

Wait until they bring in equal pay when they’re paying Russo, Kelly and all £300k a week on 4000 crowds

Really? Why? I’ve always quite liked Forest about as similar as a club you can get, same for Derby and Leicester but I’ve never really like them for some reason

Absolutely mental but sadly inevitable since Nuno publicly came out and said he had a bad relationship with the chairman.

I used to be quite good mates with a couple of fellas up at Millwall but we’ve lost contact over the years another bullshit he came out with was up there, him and his little gang ran into a larger group of Millwall before the game and he was apparently begging them to give them a pass as they were outnumbered, unbelievably the Millwall lot left them alone after the game when he was in a larger group and safely tucked up in a police escort he was doing the trampoline giving it the “come on then” shouting out how Millwall had shit themselves earlier You can imagine how that myth has grown into how a small group of Pompey fought off a massive group of Millwall Rorkes Drift style I really don’t believe how anyone takes him seriously

1996 was a bit of a non event on and off the pitch. It was an incredibly one sided game and we ran out easy 3-0 winners with them miles off the pitch they had 1500 tickets and sat there in silence for most of the game, not quite the band of fanatical ultras who never stop singing they’d have you believe nor have I ever seen them be such. The mighty 657 I believe got off the train by the station pub other side of Northam bridge a group of them did manage to make it into town but were chased off by Saints without too much resistance.

Plus they hate the fact the DEF is, was and always will be a far superior mob to the 657

Im probably with you, even some of theirs said they were surprised at the level of hatred and numbers out that day. A few that were in the escort from the station said they had no idea the police had cleared a large group of Saints from top end of town before they got there, would have been carnage if they hadn't. Same after the game with the police keeping the got nothing scummers back who were trying to get at them up the back streets of Britainia Road. 2002 When England played at SMS was also interesting, Skates giving it large in the build up what they were going to come up and do, in reality a pathetic little mob who spent the whole day hiding then asked for an escort to the stadium.

Im surprised this wasn't picked up more at the time. One of their main faces lets a film crew follow him and his band of merry men around all day, talking them through it whilst going on about how Southampton got nuffin, it was beyond ridiculous. It was Mcintyre as well who had recently done the undercover doc on Chelsea. A few other lies he/they told, in the book Derby Days claims that 30 Portsmouth youth batter 100 saints mob at the Bargate in 1996, no one has ever heard of such and incident. He also claimed they had it up at Millwall and a skate got smashed round the head with a paving slab and just got up and told the police he didn't want an ambulance and just walked off - that how hard they are. So let me get this straight, police turn up whilst theres a a full share tear up going on, see blokes fighting, dont make any arrests and just walk up to a bloke who's had a paving slab smashed on his head and let him and everyone else walk off. Utter bullshit

Its tragic they have to make this sort of stuff up, they've done it for years as we know. It's also funny how whenever there is any post about Saints or about them on facebook you can guarantee in the first two or three replies will be one of them making a comment about scummers or on one of their posts about how great they are. It's a deeply ingrained inferiority complex. Sadly for them this isn't a myth, no made up stories about poor attendances with no evidence to back it up. 2731 and for a first team league cup game when both teams were in the championship. Im sure there will be some excuse for it like there was in the mid 90s and they were regularly getting 8,000, that was down to the owners lying about the attendances so they didn't have to pay the tax on it was the excuse they came up with for that one 😂

I wonder if there is some bellend on Tottenhams forum arguing that their women should not play at Orient as their players aren't good enough role models for them.

Yep and same for England. However if you dare to say anything that doesn't toe the party line of how amazing it all is then you immediately get jumped on by those who are desperate to jump on the bandwagon of any cause going. Any even suggestion otherwise is having a problem with it. Look at this thread, a few people raise the rightly valid point that it probably costs the club to play matches at St Marys and would it be better to play them elsewhre at a smaller ground, you know like what Chelsea, Man City, London, Everton, Spurs etc all do and you get jumped on for being a dinosaur talking bollocks 😂

at least they're accelerating the end to asylum hotels so there will be plenty of space to put them in.

Record number of illegal migrants crossed the channel this weekend. Smashing the gangs going really well

That London City Lionesses are run by dinosaurs who talk bollocks

It is the obvious answer to so that. Maybe they could do an arrangement with Eastleigh or Totton to use their stadiums which would be suitable for most matches and it seems to be what other clubs do. They’d also make some profit on it rather than is make a probable loss Chelsea play at Kingsmeadow and Man City play at their academy stadium so it’s not some radical, misogynistic suggestion that it might be a good idea we do similar highly amusing that if anyone suggests it though they’re dinosaurs talking bollocks 🤣🤣🤣🤣

YES!!