Sour Mash

Cup wins are a lot more than pure luck. We're still a fair way from having a team as good as Everton's.

Clearly little demand for tickets.......

No need to get so angry just because you've been proven to be wrong.

Do you think every club in the league should be aiming for a Champions League place next season?

The Dell's atmosphere actually got better when it went all seater, as the roof on the Archers Road end made a huge difference, so you're wrong on that as well.

It is currently pretty unlikely to happen wouldn't you agree?

Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be is it? Big games the atmosphere is good in this country, go to any big derby game, cup match or end of season decider. It's dull for a lot of other games, same as most places and still better than everyone jumping up and down together while someone bangs a drum over and over again like on the continent.

That joke has never really been funny.

Exactly. I think Barry has watched a couple of big Champions League games and assumed every match must be like that.

Who has mentioned grounds? Just that if you go to Anfield for a big European night, you'll get a great atmosphere, if you ther for a dull league game against a "small" team, it'll be rubbish. Not that much different in Germany.

Same as the German grounds then really.

Goodison was silent when we went there this season.

How many Tarquin's or Jeremys are there in the Kop or Gwadlys Street ends? They're still pretty quiet for a lot of regular home games, same as Germany.

Modern Bundesliga crowds are nothing like English crowds from the 1960s - modern German crowds are dressed head to toe in expensive merchandise bought from their club shop and follow an orchestrated, unspontaneous set of songs, nothing like the terrace wit and banter that used to set our support apart from the rest.

Most German teams sing the same songs to the same tunes. Plus all orchestrated and choreographed with a bloke with a loud hailer stood at the front, banging a drum doesn't reflect or respond to anything that is actually happening on the pitch - sounds like the sort of thing the Skates would try. Would hate that to ever catch on over here.

Loads of people already do German football weekends, more than come to Southampton. And seats are expensive, not too disimilar to the Premier League. The big terraces sell out well in advance, either season ticket holders or members, if you just pick a random game and try to get a seat you'll be paying circa £35.

I agree with most of that, can only see Bayern going on to dominate for the next few years more than any English club will be doing going forward. Outside of the top two, the standard is a bit hit and miss, Saints or Swansea versus Mainz or Stuttgart? The "yellow wall" is very impressive, but they don't make much noise for a dull league game on a Saturday afternoon, same principle the way the Kop turns it on for Liverpool's big European night's or games against the Mancs etc.

I'd imagine it'll be Switzerland again, followed by a couple of big European teams at home - seems to be the formula these days. Would be good if the club confirmed it's plans asap this year.

Defoe got off ridiculously lightly. He's another little freak.

How long you going for? Who with? General interests etc? Different for different people.

Le Tiss came on as a sub according to twitter, not sure which minute.

Why would anyone not want to celebrate St George's Day?

Know a few who got tickets for the final, wish I'd bothered to apply now, will be a brilliant night.

Mercenary? Why is Goetze moving to Bayern? Atmosphere? Lots of choreographed hand clapping and flag waving. Having said that Bayern and Dortmund have been excellent in these two games.

If you're the sort of person that goes out to celebrate St Patricks day, that really does speak volumes.