alpine_saint

Even by your plummeting standards, that post is pathetic.

I'd be delighted with 2-0... Let's not get greedy, though 1 more to make us GD-neutral would be nice.

Blimey, hope we hold on.........

Was just thinking the same thing. Is it that boring a match ?

No shiit.... What's the problem with Wotton then ?

Why was it unfortunate ? For as long as I can remember in detail (the 1979 League Cup Final when SFC broke my hear the first time), the media have appeared to me to be biased for our opposition. I listened to that match on the radio, and I swear the commentator and co-commentator were jerking off whenever Gary Birtles got the f**king ball. (if an innocent 9 year-old would have known what jerking off was at the time....) I remember Dave Jones being interviewed after one live Sky match and he said something along the lines of "Yeah, tricky game against lower league opposition, that's why you lot are here because you were expecting to see us get humilliated"

Whatever. I'd bet you'd be happy to discuss it sensibly if someone else started the thread. No wonder this place is so quiet nowadays.

when have I complained about TV coverage of Saints ? You've made it up. Sky seems to get a great kick out of turning up whenever a humilliation of SFC is on the cards.

You just know what is going to happen...

I see they've decided they want another slice of screening SFC misfortune - the Palace game. Is it Sky that has some sort of grudge, or do they think the averager Manyoo, Arse and Chelski fan gets off on this sort of thing on a Monday evening ?

Maybe the fact the whole financial world has gone into a colossal panicking nose-dive waiting for the US Congress to get its political game-playing thumb-out-of its-arse has something to do with it ????

The Head Trainer of Austria Kaernten is also Dutch - goes by the name of Frank Schinkels. So maybe I did see an Austrian bastardisation of Total Football...

I dont get a vote, and the missus tried to vote tactically against the Nazis by voting Green, only their vote collapsed so badly elsewhere it didnt work.

Missed this post. The attendance (Woerther See stadium capacity is ca. 30,000) was about 15,500, of which only about 150 were from Vienna. So the attendance is rougly comparable to SFC/SMS. However, I would add that football is not a national obsession here in Austria, that sort of fervour is saved for winter sports, and this is a pretty rural area. So I think the turn out compares favourably with SFC.

Hmm, that's not completely true, though. Just from recent experiences, I can tell you the following items are cheaper in the UK: Electronic goods (TVs, etc.) Childrens glasses (NHS-equivalent voucher is less and the glasses more expensive here) Labour cost for any sort of building work Car insurance (yes, really) But back to football, since we are swinging badly off-topic; I think English football is like the housing market - its got too big for its boots, over-expensive, quality has slipped, and a massive correction is well overdue.

Yep, the only thing missing was his ubiquitous "Burley's a better manager than Lawrie was" statistical regurgitation...

These are a couple of interesting points to discuss. I vehemently disagree with the conclusion you have drawn in 1). I have been to Saints matches since we went down, and now I have been to an Austrian Bundesliga match. The football is very similar - fast to the point of chaotic, physical, opportunistic, hopeful, somewhat lacking in real skill but making up for it with enthusiasm. I feel it is a little arrogant to assume that the quality must be better "because its England" I agree with 2). I did not have the same buzz watching that game as when I watch Saints, my overall feeling was one of polite interest but somehow detached from the experience. On the other hand, it made me more objective. That's whay these comments "go an support another team" if you dare to criticise SFC are so tediously stupid. I am certain the ticket cost/value-for money/overall experience subject is not just an SFC issue, but also a England-wide issue, but seeing as I am only concerned with SFC, I took it as the example.

You're moaning about free entry to football matches ? Bizarre...:rolleyes:

Same old boring shiit from SOGGY. Thank foook he's too tight-fisted to fork out a fiver, it means we dont have to put up with any more of his self-perceived wisdom today..

Only one post to go.....

Its hardly been one loss, has it ? And it was Doncaster Rovers, FFS..

If I wanted to take my family (wife, 2x kids) to see Saints play, I'd have to pay £56 to sit at the half-way line. I'd also have trouble finding a parking spot. The match I went to this afternoon, an Austrian Bundesliga match, which was fast, exciting, full of f**k-ups and clueless attacking (just like the CCC), would have cost my entire family £16 in TOTAL, because women and children under 16 are FREE. In addition, a whole field next to the Woerther See Stadium (used in EURO 2008 for group games involving Germany, Poland and Croatia) was given over to FREE car parking. I was also allowed to take beer into the stand, and loads of blokes were smoking around me. Yet the whole Austrian Bundesliga gets by on a financial shoestring. Loads of clubs have gone bust in the last 5 years. Maybe that's the attraction of it. A level (if broke) playing field..

Cheers, mate. I have heard nothing about the manner of performance today, but followed by WAP. I am delighted that we won 2-0, but am somewhat worried about the manner of victory against what was, according to the few posts I have read on here tonight, a very poor opposing team. Let's see if our new-found taste for victory extends to beating Norwich at home before rolling out the bunting and getting all euphoric, eh ?

Btw, it was all Austria Kaernten, only they got mugged by a single goal around the 70th minute mark.:-( Sounds like most of the Saints games I attended since relegation............

Because its not true I didnt go to games in England, only you've chosen to believe the hype perpetuated by Guided Missile and others (who started it simply because I was not an ST-holder) in order to have a convenient excuse to dismiss my opinion.