Legod Third Coming Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 Just a word to say. Best team to visit us (play us) this year. And best fans by a mile. Delighted to see them cheer and applaud Lambert as his name was read out. Shows a bit more class than some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bourno Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 Just a word to say. Best team to visit us (play us) this year. And best fans by a mile. Delighted to see them cheer and applaud Lambert as his name was read out. Shows a bit more class than some. Agreed. When they sang they were very loud, although there were periods of the game where we did manage to keep them quiet. I was very impressed with their appreciation of Lambert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saints_is_the_south Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 Thought the atomsphere was generally good from both sets of fans last night, Northam especially for about the first 15/20 mins was excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chez Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 very good atmosphere. Makes me miss the really big crowds of old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stattmeister Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 And the bit, at the end where ungoaded they sang "the saints are going down, the saints are going down blah blah blah"...??? And before the game, when they sang "We are going up, we are going up"? Maybe they've been watching a little too much Derrin Brown, but they didn't half love themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nathan Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 I completely disagree. They had the most fans brought to SMS for a while, but were silent for large periods of the game. They only ever sung one song, and if you can't sing loudly when you've beaten a team away from home in the 95th minute, then there is something wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slickmick Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 I completely disagree. They had the most fans brought to SMS for a while, but were silent for large periods of the game. They only ever sung one song, and if you can't sing loudly when you've beaten a team away from home in the 95th minute, then there is something wrong. Agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 its easy to celebrate when you win a game like that if we'd scored the final goal and not them St Mary's would have well and truly rocked I was bit disappointed though as some bald four-eyed in-bred Bristolian OAP had offered to meet me after the game - with his 10 or so mates along for the ride of course - and he never showed up that's what happens when you hang around on street corners (outside the King Alfred's) before the game waiting for your mates to turn up with the tickets! all I can say is its lucky for him I was outnumbered 10 to 1 - and lucky for me the bouncer from King Alfred's scared them off although according to one of his mates I was OK coz I was a 'shirt'! I think he had a bit of a strop on coz the bouncers wouldn't let him in the pub! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesus Reigned Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 Just a word to say. Best team to visit us (play us) this year. And best fans by a mile. Delighted to see them cheer and applaud Lambert as his name was read out. Shows a bit more class than some. Agreed, nice touch to applaud Lambert. Maybe Adebayor could take a leaf out of his book regarding how to conduct yourself when you're about the play the team you've just left.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianoneils slidingtackle Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 I was sat at the other end of the ground and thought the Rovers fans were very quiet for the numbers that they had, the Northam did us proud until all the enthusiasm evaporated out of the team towards the end... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denzil Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 Their fans were crap and they were crap. We should have been about 4 - 1 ahead by the time they levelled at 2 - 2. :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archstanton Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 They were nothing special, loud at times but silent after both conceded goals. Their team lifted them rather than them lifting the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedAndWhite91 Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 Didn't think much of the Rovers fans who tried to climb the segregation, threw bottles and wanted a ruck!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
70's Mike Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 what i have noticed this season is the number of away fans who bring cameras to the game, last night the rovers fans were queing up to have a picture of the front of SMS, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedAndWhite91 Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 what i have noticed this season is the number of away fans who bring cameras to the game' date=' last night the rovers fans were queing up to have a picture of the front of SMS,[/quote'] It's like what a Rovers fan told me on the train "Southampton away is our most anticipated game... You have magnificent facilities and a Premiership stadium... Our fans want to see it" Etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 Not as loud as City when they've come here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macthesaint Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 Hated them and their bleedin song.The old cut throat gestures are wearing a bit thin now. Definetly going to their place for a revenge night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docker-p Posted 30 September, 2009 Share Posted 30 September, 2009 A good turn out, but apart from the occasional song about a bird called Eileen (?) not much else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustMike Posted 1 October, 2009 Share Posted 1 October, 2009 goodnight irene i think the song is. will ask my gloating rovers mate what its all about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianoneils slidingtackle Posted 1 October, 2009 Share Posted 1 October, 2009 The trouble with these teams is that we will only get about 1,000 tickets for the return match, as the ground only holds about 11,000. Not that are able to get anywhere near that attending on an mormal match day..!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonraker Posted 1 October, 2009 Share Posted 1 October, 2009 Rovers have been singing it for 50 years adapted from a Leadbelly song We're loyal supporters, We're faithful and true, We always follow, The boys in blue We all made a promise, That we'll never part, So Goodnight Irene, Goodnight Irene, I'll see you in my dreams... ... Irene Goodnight Irene, Irene Goodnight, Goodnight Irene, Goodnight Irene, I'll see you in my dreams I think it is one of the best club anthems, it basically says we fans put the club first, a sentiment most on here would endorse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianoneils slidingtackle Posted 1 October, 2009 Share Posted 1 October, 2009 They may of been singing it for fifty years but I dont remember it being sung when we used to play them in the 70's etc... in any case i think its like a lot of modern myths about supporters etc, ie Pompey being loud and loyal is the first one to spring to mind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kadeem Hardison Posted 1 October, 2009 Share Posted 1 October, 2009 And the bit, at the end where ungoaded they sang "the saints are going down, the saints are going down blah blah blah"...??? And before the game, when they sang "We are going up, we are going up"? Maybe they've been watching a little too much Derrin Brown, but they didn't half love themselves. I know! I've never seen a team exaggerate their own ambitions whilst denegrating the opposition's chances of success at a football match before! It was mental! They got it way off the mark too - don't they know that we are "by far the greatest team the world has ever seen"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissyboy31 Posted 1 October, 2009 Share Posted 1 October, 2009 They may of been singing it for fifty years but I dont remember it being sung when we used to play them in the 70's etc... in any case i think its like a lot of modern myths about supporters etc, ie Pompey being loud and loyal is the first one to spring to mind... I went to one of the very 1st FL Trophy finals back in the early '80's. BR were playing Tranmere and we bought some guys spare tickets for the BR end. BR had nearly 50,000 there for that game as opposed to TR's 12,000. The sang Goodnight Irene just about the whole game and Wembley rocked. Unfortunately for them, TR won the game and the trophy. I believe it has something to do with the old gas works at Eastville but could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Samuel Posted 1 October, 2009 Share Posted 1 October, 2009 They were a good set of fans, though at the time it was horrible waiting to get out off the Northam whilst they were celebrating their last minute goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Tone Posted 1 October, 2009 Share Posted 1 October, 2009 Rovers have been singing it for 50 years adapted from a Leadbelly song We're loyal supporters, We're faithful and true, We always follow, The boys in blue We all made a promise, That we'll never part, So Goodnight Irene, Goodnight Irene, I'll see you in my dreams... ... Irene Goodnight Irene, Irene Goodnight, Goodnight Irene, Goodnight Irene, I'll see you in my dreams I think it is one of the best club anthems, it basically says we fans put the club first, a sentiment most on here would endorse. Don't think anyone really knows why they sing it. It goes back many years. Bit like Stoke and 'Delilah'. But to be fair they do sing it loud ....drowned out the northam from where I sit in the kingsland, and not just when they scored. K. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenevaSaint Posted 1 October, 2009 Share Posted 1 October, 2009 Didn't think much of the Rovers fans who tried to climb the segregation, threw bottles and wanted a ruck!! I watched them celebrating and it occured to me that the police and stewards wouldn't have been so generous if Saints fans had acted like that in the Northam. There were several well onto the netting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genk Posted 1 October, 2009 Share Posted 1 October, 2009 I watched them celebrating and it occured to me that the police and stewards wouldn't have been so generous if Saints fans had acted like that in the Northam. There were several well onto the netting. Yea pis*ed off saints fans were asking police why they were letting them do that. Does it not make sense to have some police on the other side aswell? Was awful having all those fans gloating in your face, stuck trying to leave the stadium from row MM. I just laughed it off myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Mullet Posted 1 October, 2009 Share Posted 1 October, 2009 I know! I've never seen a team exaggerate their own ambitions whilst denegrating the opposition's chances of success at a football match before! It was mental! They got it way off the mark too - don't they know that we are "by far the greatest team the world has ever seen"? LOL, love it! Brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mao Cap Posted 1 October, 2009 Share Posted 1 October, 2009 I went to one of the very 1st FL Trophy finals back in the early '80's. BR were playing Tranmere and we bought some guys spare tickets for the BR end. BR had nearly 50,000 there for that game as opposed to TR's 12,000. The sang Goodnight Irene just about the whole game and Wembley rocked. Unfortunately for them, TR won the game and the trophy. I believe it has something to do with the old gas works at Eastville but could be wrong. It was a reference to the river that ran along by the old ground - "Goodnight Irene" is some kind of old country and western (?) song which includes the lyrics "And sometimes I get the notion/To jump in the river and drown". The story goes that it caught on after one particularly bad defeat. Gas support on Tuesday was loud in parts, but I reckon Millwall were better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted 1 October, 2009 Share Posted 1 October, 2009 They struck me as a load of carrott sucking c*nts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
70's Mike Posted 1 October, 2009 Share Posted 1 October, 2009 They struck me as a load of carrott sucking c*nts. fair summary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 2 October, 2009 Share Posted 2 October, 2009 It was a reference to the river that ran along by the old ground - "Goodnight Irene" is some kind of old country and western (?) song which includes the lyrics "And sometimes I get the notion/To jump in the river and drown". The story goes that it caught on after one particularly bad defeat. Gas support on Tuesday was loud in parts, but I reckon Millwall were better. "Sometimes I live in the country Sometimes I live in town Sometimes I have a great notion To jump into the river and drown" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_hill Posted 2 October, 2009 Share Posted 2 October, 2009 Well I wouldn't worry too much either way. They've been weaker than their rival team for most of their lives. We've been the best team in Hampshire for 90% of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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