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Unfortunately Pample I get the point you’re trying to make, but I have to say I can’t see our fans doing fuck all about it anymore to be honest. Those days of the Branfoot era protests, Askham protests, Swing Lowe songs etc and the us against the world mentality are long gone. We’ve been served up such a load of shite at home for years now that St Mary’s has become a soulless bowl, full of apathetic ‘customers’ going through the motions, a sterile happy clappy social media driven match day “experience” free from intimidation for home and away fans alike. Closure of block 1, giving away fans more tickets than we have to, particularly for cup games, the kingsland “premium” section and the lack of action over away fans in the home end to name a few things show us what the club think of the old school vociferous support of previous relegation battles and protests during the bad times. The club couldn’t give a fuck about some visible empty seats and some boos at full time as they know that’s as bad as it’s going to get. A few of the happy clappy posts on here aimed at fans that are criticising the appointment of Jones are as idiotic as they are laughable. Most of us had question marks about him right from the off as his cv didn’t exactly set the world alight, and we remember all too well the story of Steve Wigley and how costly that was. If we went down to a battling 2-1 defeat today things wouldn’t seem too bad, but it’s the manner of defeat, and the opposition, that has convinced me Jones is way out of his league. He’s had weeks with this team to create a bit of identity and breathe new life into the side, yet we somehow look worse than before he took over. I’m at a complete loss as to why the squad were given 2 weeks off at the start of the World Cup break when they should have been grafting away on double training sessions Poch style working on their fitness. Why did we even go to Spain anyway, that’s another clusterfuck given they were meant to be going to sunny Miami but ended up spending a week in pisswet Spain, could have just stayed in the UK for that. I stand by my belief that Jones will be gone by march, at which point it’ll be far too late to save ourselves.

Based on that shitshow I’d say we’re even worse than before the World Cup. Jones had 7 weeks of coaching this lot and that’s the best we can come up with? Why on earth did our players get 2 weeks off at the start of the break? Those cunts should have been dragged up to the North of Scotland doing fitness training in the beaches Strachan-style. No knee jerk reaction about it, I’m convinced we are going down this season. We look worse than we did in 04-05 which is saying something. At least we had some decent players back then. Jones should not have been given this job, and by the time the board realise it and act it will be far too late.

Here we go then come on Saints you twats. Let’s hope the god botherer has asked the big man for a miracle.

Judging by all the empty seats for this ‘sold out’ game you’re not the only one. That was atrocious, absolutely fucking dogshit. Can’t wait to hear what the happy clapper members of this forum have to say about that as all of our fears appointing this league 1 manager are looking like being bang on the money. Bed wetters they called us. Pricks. I’m starting to think our Serbian owner is mates with Mandaric and has bought us for a laugh to ruin.

He played earlier funnily enough and had a shocker!! Not disagreeing though, his form when he came back into the side was decent, not spectacular but far better than we’ve seen from Bazunu. We’d be better off playing Caballero

Oh Bazunu, no excuse.

Oh fuck off

I won my tickets for tonight on the Carabao website and I still feel ripped off. Hard to know what to make of that, expected to see some sort of identity to our play but it was very much new gaffer same shit for the first 60 minutes. That being said their campaign has carried on these past 6 weeks whilst we’ve had a break so it’s no surprise that they seemed a bit more of a unit that first hour. Glad we won, that’s the main thing, looked better with the substitutions, hopefully I never see Maitland-Niles or Adam Armstrong in a Saints shirt again but don’t think that’s likely. Fair play to the imps fans for making that trip midweek so close to Christmas. Some of their chants were a bit Mickey Mouse but they put our fans to shame in the noise stakes.

Yep. Might even be the best World Cup of all time too tbf.

Didn’t know Shearer did his, that’s mental when you consider how good his goal ratio despite losing about a year out!! Hopefully Broja goes on to make a recovery, crazy how the same injury can have such varying outcomes for sportsmen and women.

Poor guy, sounded like the Nevillegasm for that Torres goal before I realised it was Armando screaming in pain. Was on the pitch when this happened to a team mate at Sunday league level, horrible to witness. Hopefully with age and technology on his side he recovers to fulfil a career still. I bare him no ill will for the way he dropped off under Ralph, he was probably as fucked off as we all were with the bizzare squad and formation selections.

Fuck sake, another tournament another what could have been story. Just our luck to support a club and country that underachieve so much.

Like that then is it FIFA? Don’t want England progressing? How the fuck that wasn’t over ruled by VAR is beyond me.

The power of a photo with no context. Have you seen the footage of the Dutch players goading the Argentina players on their walk to the spot? Fair play to them reacting this way I’d have done the same. Never thought I’d ever watch a game wanting Argentina to win but seeing that snake Van Dijk in the refs ear every 2 minutes tipped it in the Argies favour.

That’s a proper shit draw for us, I’m sure palace fans feel the same way to tbf. Shit seeing those non league or league 2 teams get pulled out and we’ve gotta go back to fucking Palace.

Make a change Gareth you fucking Donkey. Christ it’s like Ralph is in charge of this England team

I surprised Kevin Miller didn’t get the nod ahead of him 😂

Was he? I was always of the impression that Jones was a solid, if unspectacular, Premier League keeper.

Harsh on Jonah IMHO

I’m sure it wasn’t intentional but bloody hell of all the photos to use. Pure Partridge right there!!

Ahhh yes, Simon Clifford, the brains behind the mighty Garforth Town, wonderkid Jason St Juste, and their futsal inspired march into the football league. How is that going these days?.

Saints have just posted this online, good little watch if you’ve got a spare 10 minutes. Good to see Antti looking well, he comes across really modest too. There’s a decent one with Beattie too.

It’s could be if enough teams went along with it. It would be no different to the attempted Super League breakaway plans except fans would have gone along with it rather than opposed it. What exactly could FIFA have done if the majority of countries turned around and said they refuse to compete.

All the furore about this World Cup is a load of bollocks really. If the respective countries really gave a damn about the corrupt bid process, the laws of Qatar, dead migrants or the horrible fan environment they could have just boycotted the tournament and set up a breakaway international tournament not under the jurisdiction of Fifa. They would have soon backed down once the sponsors followed suit and their whole corrupt house of cards still would have come tumbling down. No amount of virtue signalling gay named planes or rainbow armbands is going to counter the hypocrisy of the competing teams even showing up in the country to play in the first place.

We should have held out for Potter 😂😂 Newcastle 3rd at Christmas then, and to think Howe wasn’t good enough to manage us according to some on here.