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I wouldn’t be adverse to the old Southampton city crest being used on a shirt, maybe even a third kit. Some teams with adidas as their supplier have had retro style thirds kits made, with the trefoil and a retro club badge, I’d love to have seen something like that for us.

Not something I’d really noticed before but you’re right, it is rare occurrence. 2017 was the last time our first two home games were back to back Saturdays. Hadn’t happened before that since before the 80s if ever.

The first 4 of your 5 points all come down to expenditure, and as the club have wasted money on the wages of Gavin Bazunu, Damien Downs and a 2 year contract extension for Alex McCarthy to the tune of 40k a week then no I don’t buy this line that the fans should have to foot the bill for your points you raised, especially as the increase in ST prices amounts to about £550k in total. Let’s not forget the club wasted approx £825k in paying the wages of Oriol Romeu to do fuck all for 7 months, and paying off the contract of yet another failed management experiment, so cry me a river about “inflation”. Lastly was I not entertained last season? No, not till December time, the first 4 months were a shambles that the fans had to endure, and then the following 5 months as entertaining as they may be were null and void, because some people representing our club chose cheating rather than doing things the right way, with no care nor thought for the shit storm that would follow if caught. lastly, before getting high and mighty about name calling, perhaps consider not calling those arguing about the price increase a “lazy victim” first eh.

There’s a detailed post on the fab F.A.B thread which states Hampshire police had already drawn up plans prior to a meeting with fans and the respective clubs safety teams and the bubble was their decision. Whilst the FAB might not have pushed back on the bubble as a whole they did raise complaints about the timings of the whole thing. Given they were patting themselves on the back about the whole thing I’m sure Hampshire will be forcing the bubble again next season. They can’t afford anymore bad publicity.

Doesn’t matter what the fans want, Hampshire Police will call the shots on the bubble decision.

Watford moved for tv to Sunday 1.30pm Fuck off Sky.

Both games against the Skates to be pushed back to the following day. Wouldn’t be surprised if Hampshire police have a say in the Boro game time and date too.

You missed the bit about him helping go after ex servicemen, particularly those that fought in the troubles and in Iraq, and then appointing the lawyer who was proven to have lied as his Attorney General.

It’s a good observation but to be honest it’s not a weight class that has a lot of those big knockouts we love to see. Doubt we’ll see another fight at St Mary’s this year due to the pitch damage such events bring. Will probably see him back at the BIC towards the end of autumn, or very likely on the undercard at a bigger Queensberry event, possibly even Fury vs Joshua if it happens.

Great fight, great atmosphere. Brilliant advert for the sport, won’t have trouble selling tickets for another fight at St Mary’s.

www.fawanews.sc/Boxing_Garner%20vs%20Magnesi.html

Yeah the chapel was never on sale from the outset tbf but it does look like they’ve since netted off the kingsland/northam corner and probably moved anyone there into the Northam. They were giving away free tickets on a seat filler site I’m subscribed to such was the lack of interest. Still, fans have been in a good voice and a good few chants of OWTSGMI. Plenty of familiar faces in the crowd too.

Some stadium this. Fuck knows why they never thought to put a retractable roof on Wembley. Turkey must be pig sick being eliminated already, utterly dominated both their games apart from the only stat that matters.

Only just heard about this, seems an interesting decision, apparently to prevent players getting tired from playing three matches in the first week of the season? Personally don’t mind that tbf, having a close to zero stakes competitive match instead of a friendly ahead of the campaign starting is probably better prep. Dare say it’ll get more bums on seats than a midweek first round tie. edit: it’s just dawned on me that it’s entirely possible we could open the season with a cup match against the blue few. I suspect the old bill may encourage a pre recorded draw to prevent certain ties being pulled out the hat.

Hopefully the two derbies return to the December/Easter sort of dates of previous years September was too early for a game like that.

Was Twat a pointless answer though?

You’re right, that’d be tearing my nose off to site my face though. I just want these owners to stop treating us paying fans like a bunch of mugs.

You’re right Nick, I’m so thankful that the club take my support for granted they can shit on my promotion dream, increase my season ticket price, and make it seem like they’re doing ME the favour. The point about promotion costing us more is moot, we’d be paying for a premium product and paying the wages for a better level of player. As it stands we don’t know who our manager is going to be and which players are going to still be here, so we could be paying more for an inferior product to last year. I commend every single one of us that invest their time and/or money supporting this club, it’s a rollercoaster to say the least, but for me that increase has left a sour taste regardless of how small it is.

There’d be no moaning if the club hadn’t just shafted the fans out of promotion. For a bit of perspective Oriol Romeu cost the club £825k for his short pointless stint last season. But yeah, let’s hit the long suffering fans in the pocket instead to raise some funds.

I have a wife and two kids, that I love more than anything in the world, but I also love Southampton football club, almost as much and as such tens of hundreds of hours of my life is spent on watching and following Saints either in person or at home. All of that time invested last season travelling home and away in the hopes of seeing this side challenge for something, which they did, was then cruelly taken away from us by a handful of selfish people and our club became a national disgrace and joke as a result. Now said club want to increase the ticket prices for those loyal fans, because they know they’ll pay it, despite their incredible support and yet to you, anyone who criticises that decision is a “lazy victim” to do so. what an utter bellend response.

If it’s such an insignificant increase Nick why bother with an increase at all. Of course I want us to be competitive, but a net gain of £500k from ticket increases to a club that spent £12 million on Gavin Bazunu is pretty negligible. Could have froze prices this season and doubled the increase next year and nobody would have batted an eyelid.

Looks like a landlady writing up the specials board.

Cameraman looking for the fitties.

100% he would, he should have looked at some the players that have come through our academy and waited a few years. Probably had someone in his ear advising him to move.

It’s a good price that I can’t argue with, what I really struggle with is that after a disastrous Prem campaign and near record relegation, our fans massively backed the side with ST numbers, only to be served up 4 months of Will Still shite, and then after bringing the noise for the run in and the playoffs we find out the club have cheated and our effort as fans was basically null and void. Then instead of a PR exercise to win back the trust the club are like “yeah it’s an increase, but aren’t you lucky it’s not more!” Just find it all a bit poor to be honest, think our loyalty gets abused by the owners, and we’re not angry enough about it.