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It's never really been a problem - a few years ago when I was just a member, not a season ticket holder, I got to loads of the London away games, even Brighton our closest game once (when Bournemouth were in the Champ) Definitely something they'll have to think about.

Bristol City tickets out tomorrow, 3400. Midweek game but suspect it'll go pretty quickly. And then Blackburn away on the Saturday afterwards. Anyone who wants a ticket will get one. After that it's the 3 London games all in a row. QPR is midweek so people may be lucky, but the Millwall and Charlton games on a Saturday will be snapped up rapidly. Charlton don't tend to sell out The Valley so if anyone did want to go in the home end that might be an option.

It's the same away from home, usually you can barely hear the home fans but that's because often their main end is usually the opposite to where the away fans are sitting.

Burnley also had an early season draw at home to their local rivals Blackburn if we want to draw a further comparison

Don't want to call it a must win but if we are going to be challenging at the top end we need to go on a decent run. This season though has got 2005-06 vibes where we draw every bloody game.

Burnley drew at home to Blackburn very early on last season; they got promoted with 90+ points and won the away game...

Just shows how smalltime they are. They'll happily accept a defeat as long as they put in a decent performance "ah well, they had too much quality for us on the day" I couldn't care less how we play. We just have to win. If it's a last minute dive to win a penalty and we don't deserve it, so what. Winning is the only thing that matters.

We'll find out tomorrow! It worked for the West Brom game tbh so hopefully we get the same outcome

I don't want them too hyped up. They have a job a do and need to focus on the tactical side of things and work on the instructions the coaches give them to help us win the game. The emotional side of things will come naturally. It will be a raucous, hostile atmosphere. If they're not up for it before, they will when the walk out the tunnel to the noise of 28,000 plus roaring them on.

Stronger winds and wetter than the start of the match though, that was the point I was making.

Looks like the weather won't be as bad as forecast. Think the rain and strong winds might come in around the second half.

It's a very open league this year. Ipswich started poorly but seem to have got their act together, gifted by a shocking Sheff Utd defence. Makes our point up there look more and more like a brilliant result.

Hopefully one of our new wingers can do regularly what Philogene has done today. Would be a massive difference maker

I'm coming down from London on a train around 7ish precisely for this reason. Might even be a few skates if they're heading to the Winchester drop off point. Could be a lively journey

I wonder if this is Solak's big pet project that he mentioned during the summer

https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/matchday-information-saints-vs-portsmouth

There's a big pyrotechnic show before kick off. Ceremonial burning of Westwood's wig

Fan zone is open at 9.30am, would be odd if they're not serving any beer at that time.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha Fantastic work.

There were a few rumours to the contrary but it's been confirmed alcohol will be available in the away end on Sunday.

I would go McCarthy (we all know it will be Baz) Mads Stephens THB Manning Downes Charles Fellows Azaz Fraser Archer Scienza to cause havoc off the bench, although hopefully we'll be 3-0 up by then

We had higher attendances as a League 1 team in the same season they were in the Prem. It's just a major embarrassment for them to even talk about it. I guarantee you, for every northern away game, we will take more fans than them. I can't find it but does anyone have that infamous picture of their fans at a Prem game at Wigan where they had barely 100 people? The next season we sold out the away end entirely.

Our record against 11 isn't great either

Supposedly the coaches are being taken down the M271 from Nursling https://x.com/Connor__Reed/status/1961727580047835578