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to be fair...the atmosphere/singing at sms/from saints fans in general is crap..

 

after nearly all away games, there are posts on here (very excitable ones) about singing "we're the left/right side".....

 

That is because, unfortunatly, the majority of our fans are 'happy clappers' who wear face paint etc. Teams like Stoke have a support largely made up of young-ish men, whereas Saints has been marketed as a 'Family Club' for years and hence kills any potential decent support as there are far too many middle class people there who just 'don't get it'. You can spot them a mile off: They are the ones who take in a full weeks worth of shopping in a Tesco's bag and scoff their way through it during the 90 mins.

 

I'm not against families at football by any stretch of the imagination, but some of them just arn't 'football people'.

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That is because, unfortunatly, the majority of our fans are 'happy clappers' who wear face paint etc. Teams like Stoke have a support largely made up of young-ish men, whereas Saints has been marketed as a 'Family Club' for years and hence kills any potential decent support as there are far too many middle class people there who just 'don't get it'. You can spot them a mile off: They are the ones who take in a full weeks worth of shopping in a Tesco's bag and scoff their way through it during the 90 mins.

 

I'm not against families at football by any stretch of the imagination, but some of them just arn't 'football people'.

 

:lol:

 

What a crock of ****.

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That is because, unfortunatly, the majority of our fans are 'happy clappers' who wear face paint etc.

 

No.

 

How many fans do you see at SMS wearing face paints? Seriously.

 

Also, how does a particular colour of paint on someones face affect the noise level which comes from their mouth? Pray tell.

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That is because, unfortunatly, the majority of our fans are 'happy clappers' who wear face paint etc. Teams like Stoke have a support largely made up of young-ish men, whereas Saints has been marketed as a 'Family Club' for years and hence kills any potential decent support as there are far too many middle class people there who just 'don't get it'. You can spot them a mile off: They are the ones who take in a full weeks worth of shopping in a Tesco's bag and scoff their way through it during the 90 mins.

 

I'm not against families at football by any stretch of the imagination, but some of them just arn't 'football people'.

 

What a load of bollerx! You could say there are too many yoof, chavs, ******ed farts etc, that things are sung just too fast (quite right), but I don't think I have EVER seen a painted face int he Northam. Have you? Have you been to SMS? When did you last see a paited face FFS (or maybe it was in the family centre, the focus of the singing in every club in the country, i guess you think).

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you only have to go to a home game and notice that all of about 4 different songs come from the northam..

 

Oh when the saints (at 100 miles an hour)

hello hello

when I was just a little boy

pompey fan on a string

 

 

that is about it...other songs makje a guest appearance but we are awful

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you only have to go to a home game and notice that all of about 4 different songs come from the northam..

 

Oh when the saints (at 100 miles an hour)

hello hello

when I was just a little boy

pompey fan on a string

 

 

that is about it...other songs makje a guest appearance but we are awful

 

When was the last time you made a guest appearance at a Saints game, home or away?

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That is because, unfortunatly, the majority of our fans are 'happy clappers' who wear face paint etc. Teams like Stoke have a support largely made up of young-ish men, whereas Saints has been marketed as a 'Family Club' for years and hence kills any potential decent support as there are far too many middle class people there who just 'don't get it'. You can spot them a mile off: They are the ones who take in a full weeks worth of shopping in a Tesco's bag and scoff their way through it during the 90 mins.

 

I'm not against families at football by any stretch of the imagination, but some of them just arn't 'football people'.

I am very pleased to know that as a middle class person of mature years, who has been supporting Saints for over 50 years (ST holder for 35 years) and who doesn`t actually sing much, is not a football person.

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That is because, unfortunatly, the majority of our fans are 'happy clappers' who wear face paint etc. Teams like Stoke have a support largely made up of young-ish men, whereas Saints has been marketed as a 'Family Club' for years and hence kills any potential decent support as there are far too many middle class people there who just 'don't get it'. You can spot them a mile off: They are the ones who take in a full weeks worth of shopping in a Tesco's bag and scoff their way through it during the 90 mins.

 

I'm not against families at football by any stretch of the imagination, but some of them just arn't 'football people'.

 

I'd say you're pretty much right there. Far to many of our 'songs' involve clapping, and looking around a lot of people seem to do that without singing. there is no "st marys roar" We don't really have the right type of fans to create good atmosphere. I've said it before, Spurs sing "oh when the spurs" much much better than we sing our version, leave out the clapping and slow it down.

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That is because, unfortunatly, the majority of our fans are 'happy clappers' who wear face paint etc. Teams like Stoke have a support largely made up of young-ish men, whereas Saints has been marketed as a 'Family Club' for years and hence kills any potential decent support as there are far too many middle class people there who just 'don't get it'. You can spot them a mile off: They are the ones who take in a full weeks worth of shopping in a Tesco's bag and scoff their way through it during the 90 mins.

 

I'm not against families at football by any stretch of the imagination, but some of them just arn't 'football people'.

I didn't go yesterday but I must say I am delighted that the ground sold out, it is a shame that all those young men who were willing to sing their hearts out properly in the approved manner didn't book their tickets well in advance; who knows what the improved atmosphere would have done for the team's performance?

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you only have to go to a home game and notice that all of about 4 different songs come from the northam..

 

Oh when the saints (at 100 miles an hour)

hello hello

when I was just a little boy

pompey fan on a string

 

 

that is about it...other songs makje a guest appearance but we are awful

 

When 'Pompey fan on a string' was sung by a group of about 3 people close to me in the Northam yesterday I actually thought at the time that this song hadn't come up as much recently! 'Oh when the Saints' is much better sung at normal speed than that slow, droany version which everyone speeds up at different times anyway which makes it sound pants with people singing all over the place, and 'Hello, hello' wouldn't make the top four which you seem to suggest, I don't think.

 

How about 'Red and White' or 'We love Southampton, we do' or 'Southampton til I die'? They hardly make guest appearances - they are sung at every home game! At least I remember belting them out this season at every match!

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When 'Pompey fan on a string' was sung by a group of about 3 people close to me in the Northam yesterday I actually thought at the time that this song hadn't come up as much recently! 'Oh when the Saints' is much better sung at normal speed than that slow, droany version which everyone speeds up at different times anyway which makes it sound pants with people singing all over the place, and 'Hello, hello' wouldn't make the top four which you seem to suggest, I don't think.

 

How about 'Red and White' or 'We love Southampton, we do' or 'Southampton til I die'? They hardly make guest appearances - they are sung at every home game! At least I remember belting them out this season at every match!

 

And 'Southampton Pride of the South', and 'Alan Pardew's Red Army' and 'We all follow Southampton'..... The list could go on actually.

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That is because, unfortunatly, the majority of our fans are 'happy clappers' who wear face paint etc. Teams like Stoke have a support largely made up of young-ish men, whereas Saints has been marketed as a 'Family Club' for years and hence kills any potential decent support as there are far too many middle class people there who just 'don't get it'. You can spot them a mile off: They are the ones who take in a full weeks worth of shopping in a Tesco's bag and scoff their way through it during the 90 mins.

 

I'm not against families at football by any stretch of the imagination, but some of them just arn't 'football people'.

What a knob. Pray tell what is a football people? Is Markus Liebherr a football people? You seem to think so as you mention him in your "location"- would have though that he was a bit too middle class for your liking. For your information middle class people don't go to Tesco, we tend to frequent M&S and Waitrose (or Fortnum and Mason on the odd occassion), Tesco is for chavvies LOL

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What a knob. Pray tell what is a football people? Is Markus Liebherr a football people? You seem to think so as you mention him in your "location"- would have though that he was a bit too middle class for your liking. For your information middle class people don't go to Tesco, we tend to frequent M&S and Waitrose (or Fortnum and Mason on the odd occassion), Tesco is for chavvies LOL

 

not a criticism, just an observation, we have a far smaller percentage of blokes and more weedy student types / meak looking bearded geography teacher types and women than a lot of clubs, plus our poor song selection so its hardly surprising we don't bellow out anthems as well as other clubs. just one of those things. I think the Northam was better in the early days of st marys. Occassionally our vocal support at away games can be good when there is a big turnout, watford last year for example. hopefully Hartlepool will be decent.

on another note did anyone see the Russian saints flag in Itchen corner? my eyesight isn't good enough to see what was written on it, but looked good.

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meak looking bearded geography teacher

 

Oi! Behave there's nothing wrong with Geography teachers as a species supporting Saints. I've been the former for nearly 30 years and knowingly supported the latter for 45. Personally don't sing much at matches I get to these days. Kind of grew out of it. Used to love it on Milton Rd in my teens though.

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Christ i better shave and start buffing up down the gym, popping steriods so I project the right image for my singing to motivate team better

 

...tenuous links people!!!

 

Or maybe we should ban women , children, intelligent men, students, old people, and let the Northam blokes shaft each other all afternoon long

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That is because, unfortunatly, the majority of our fans are 'happy clappers' who wear face paint etc. Teams like Stoke have a support largely made up of young-ish men, whereas Saints has been marketed as a 'Family Club' for years and hence kills any potential decent support as there are far too many middle class people there who just 'don't get it'. You can spot them a mile off: They are the ones who take in a full weeks worth of shopping in a Tesco's bag and scoff their way through it during the 90 mins.

 

I'm not against families at football by any stretch of the imagination, but some of them just arn't 'football people'.

 

Your sense of humour is getting better.

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Christ i better shave and start buffing up down the gym, popping steriods so I project the right image for my singing to motivate team better

 

...tenuous links people!!!

 

Or maybe we should ban women , children, intelligent men, students, old people, and let the Northam blokes shaft each other all afternoon long

 

 

what are you actually saying there? we don't have a passionate support, we do have a poor song selection and ones that could be decent get drowned out by excessive clapping, just the way it is. Our vocal support is better than the Fulhams / Charltons etc, which is something i suppose.

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I go to spurs a few times a season with family who are season ticket holders, was there today and I can confirm they do a fantastic rendition of oh when the saints, I almost feel embaressed.

When sung slowly it is such an atmospherhic song.

That said they do have microphones hanging down from the stands to increase the volume the cheating ****s!

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I go to spurs a few times a season with family who are season ticket holders, was there today and I can confirm they do a fantastic rendition of oh when the saints, I almost feel embaressed.

When sung slowly it is such an atmospherhic song.

That said they do have microphones hanging down from the stands to increase the volume the cheating ****s!

 

Good idea - should do this at SMS.

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Good idea - should do this at SMS.

 

Pointless. You'll just get the rustle of crisp packets from the Kingsland.

 

Regardless. What right does Thorpie-the-**** have to tell anyone how they should support their club?

 

If you don't like it, go and stand next to that bloke with the bell at Pompey - I guess he's a proper 'football person'....

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I go to spurs a few times a season with family who are season ticket holders, was there today and I can confirm they do a fantastic rendition of oh when the saints, I almost feel embaressed.

When sung slowly it is such an atmospherhic song.

That said they do have microphones hanging down from the stands to increase the volume the cheating ****s!

 

Tbh its this kind of thing really annoys me. It is OUR chant, yet other fans chant it.

 

We ain't exactly got a chant of our own tbh.

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Pointless. You'll just get the rustle of crisp packets from the Kingsland.

 

Regardless. What right does Thorpie-the-**** have to tell anyone how they should support their club?

 

If you don't like it, go and stand next to that bloke with the bell at Pompey - I guess he's a proper 'football person'....

 

 

Moron. Crisps get stuck under the dentures.

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Tbh its this kind of thing really annoys me. It is OUR chant, yet other fans chant it.

 

We ain't exactly got a chant of our own tbh.

 

Back at the Dell it was sung at the correct tempo and the whole ground could join in (except for the beast of the East Stand who sat behind me). The speedy version is really crap!

 

Perhaps I'm just getting old, but I appreciate that having been a season ticket holder for 31 years and attended every home and away game in consecutive seasons, I'm just not a football person. God bless those proper fans with their song about string.

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Tbh its this kind of thing really annoys me. It is OUR chant, yet other fans chant it.

 

We ain't exactly got a chant of our own tbh.

 

It is OUR song though....we just can't sing it very well!

 

The best way is to sing it verryyy slowww (in tune) for two verses the speed if up with clapping & left side right side.

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not a criticism, just an observation, we have a far smaller percentage of blokes and more weedy student types / meak looking bearded geography teacher types ......

 

You seem to have a fixation against geography teachers.

 

QUOTE (from a previous thread):

'saints support in general is full of soft weedy geography teacher types ...'

 

Did you fail your geography GCSE?

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You will never EVER get a 'roar' at SMS. Away games, only if you are lucky will ever get a sizeable noise from our lot. Half the time, if you attempt to start a chant people look at you like you are insane! On this point, you surely cannot tell me that I'm wrong.

 

Frankly, if you don't like the songs people sing then ****ing do something about it and come up with some new ones or try and start singing them yourselves, rather than leaving it up to the so called 'lunatic fringe'. You may suprise yourself!

 

Lets put it this way, I can remember going to the FA cup replay against Spuds at The Dell (when Rozenthal got that hat-trick), I must have only been about 12, but I can remember as clear as a bell, people behind me discussing the price of food, and since then I knew what type of person shouldn't be at a football match: If you want a decent atmosphere, you need to get rid of these morons, they sap the life from the place.

 

I'm no Stone Island/Burberry clad teen who only sings "Pompey fan on a string", but if these kids are the only ones who have the decency to try and create an atmosphere who are you lot to identify them as the problem for singing 'too fast'?!? My advice is try and ****ing keep up!! I'm not going to make an apology for my remarks and I'll stand by them; if you want a decent atmosphere at SMS or away from home, YOU have to make it, you cannot rely on everyone else.

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My advice is try and ****ing keep up!! I'm not going to make an apology for my remarks and I'll stand by them; if you want a decent atmosphere at SMS or away from home, YOU have to make it, you cannot rely on everyone else.

 

Agree

 

When we were in the Prem and at home, I thought the atmosphere was very good and very loud. Obviously it isn't the same now but to an extent the amount of singing is led by the team. If the team is playing pulsating stuff then there will be much more of an atmosphere. But against Brighton there was nothing for us to get up for in the Northam, so the amount of singing wasn't great. However, for example, this season against Bristol Rovers at home I think the singing was fantastic. If we continue to play well, and move up the leagues, then the singing will keep on improving.

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You will never EVER get a 'roar' at SMS. Away games, only if you are lucky will ever get a sizeable noise from our lot. Half the time, if you attempt to start a chant people look at you like you are insane! On this point, you surely cannot tell me that I'm wrong.

 

Frankly, if you don't like the songs people sing then ****ing do something about it and come up with some new ones or try and start singing them yourselves, rather than leaving it up to the so called 'lunatic fringe'. You may suprise yourself!

 

Lets put it this way, I can remember going to the FA cup replay against Spuds at The Dell (when Rozenthal got that hat-trick), I must have only been about 12, but I can remember as clear as a bell, people behind me discussing the price of food, and since then I knew what type of person shouldn't be at a football match: If you want a decent atmosphere, you need to get rid of these morons, they sap the life from the place.

 

I'm no Stone Island/Burberry clad teen who only sings "Pompey fan on a string", but if these kids are the only ones who have the decency to try and create an atmosphere who are you lot to identify them as the problem for singing 'too fast'?!? My advice is try and ****ing keep up!! I'm not going to make an apology for my remarks and I'll stand by them; if you want a decent atmosphere at SMS or away from home, YOU have to make it, you cannot rely on everyone else.

 

I accept that if I want singing and banter I just go in the Northam, there's usually tickets spare, why cant you?

 

Or you can go support another city

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not a criticism, just an observation, we have a far smaller percentage of blokes and more weedy student types / meak looking bearded geography teacher types and women than a lot of clubs, plus our poor song selection so its hardly surprising we don't bellow out anthems as well as other clubs. just one of those things. I think the Northam was better in the early days of st marys. Occassionally our vocal support at away games can be good when there is a big turnout, watford last year for example. hopefully Hartlepool will be decent.

on another note did anyone see the Russian saints flag in Itchen corner? my eyesight isn't good enough to see what was written on it, but looked good.

 

It was the Russian flag with SFC crest in the middle and the sign 'Russian Saints Supporters Club - Pride. Passion. Belief'

And as I wrote in the other thread there were 7 Russian Saints from Moscow at Northam yesterday.

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you only have to go to a home game and notice that all of about 4 different songs come from the northam..

l

 

That would be about 4 more than the rest of SMS then. Rolley eyed thing.

 

Jeez. Complain becaise the only part of the stadium that sings only sings 4 songs??????? get a Farken grip

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We're alright. Not bad, not good.

 

It's worth remembering that the (10-15K) home fans at the Britannia stadium gave it no more than a couple of half-hearted "Delilahs" when we played there the first season we came down, despite their large contingent of propa ******* footeh lads...

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It was the Russian flag with SFC crest in the middle and the sign 'Russian Saints Supporters Club - Pride. Passion. Belief'

And as I wrote in the other thread there were 7 Russian Saints from Moscow at Northam yesterday.

 

 

Quality, it looked like a good flag and the randomness of it probably would have impressed the Norwich fans, if you were in the Northam how did you get your flag over there? If you are going to Hartlepool (which I think I read somewhere) try and put it up in the ground wouldn't mind getting a picture of it. Will keep an eye out, do you all look like Nikolai Valuev?

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not a criticism, just an observation, we have a far smaller percentage of blokes and more weedy student types / meak looking bearded geography teacher types ......

 

You seem to have a fixation against geography teachers.

 

QUOTE (from a previous thread):

'saints support in general is full of soft weedy geography teacher types ...'

 

Did you fail your geography GCSE?

 

 

you know what i mean, the type whose passions are excessive recycling, and eco-friendly holidays rather than getting on the beer and singing at football. Nothing wrong with that. But explains why our support is not as vocal or creative as the Man Utds, Spurs, West Ham etc.

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It was the Russian flag with SFC crest in the middle and the sign 'Russian Saints Supporters Club - Pride. Passion. Belief'

And as I wrote in the other thread there were 7 Russian Saints from Moscow at Northam yesterday.

 

Great flag mate, fair play to you lads for coming over!

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While our support is better than a lot of teams, there is still massive room for improvement. Anyone who remembers blocks 3, 4 and 5 in the Archers Road before we moved or the Northam for the first few seasons at SMS will know that the Northam is currently a pale imitation of the atmosphere, noise and wit previously enjoyed. The rest of the ground is dead, completely lifeless. Combine that with the fact that a fair few other teams sing "our" song a lot better than us.

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