hutch Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 ... as the top club in the South. I know we're focussing our attention on the circus unfolding down the road. But did anybody notice that we stepped over Brighton and Exeter in the league last week? Yeovil will be next, probably on Saturday. But that still leaves Torquay, Reading and both Bristols as well as the Skates. I shudder to think that they were all above us. With a bit of luck, by this time next year they'll all be below us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scummer Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 ... as the top club in the South. I know we're focussing our attention on the circus unfolding down the road. But did anybody notice that we stepped over Brighton and Exeter in the league last week? Yeovil will be next, probably on Saturday. But that still leaves Torquay, Reading and both Bristols as well as the Skates. I shudder to think that they were all above us. With a bit of luck, by this time next year they'll all be below us. Torquay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joensuu Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 Torquay? Perhaps he mean't Swindon or Plymouth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 ... as the top club in the South. I know we're focussing our attention on the circus unfolding down the road. But did anybody notice that we stepped over Brighton and Exeter in the league last week? Yeovil will be next, probably on Saturday. But that still leaves Torquay, Reading and both Bristols as well as the Skates. I shudder to think that they were all above us. With a bit of luck, by this time next year they'll all be below us. That depends on whether you base your assessment as to which is the top club purely on league position or on historical prowess. In recent history, i.e. the past thirty or forty years, none of them, including the Skates, had a record of success at the top level to match ours. And don't Swindon count as a Southern Club? They even have a stint in the Premiership for a very short while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scummer Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 And don't Swindon count as a Southern Club? They even have a stint in the Premiership for a very short while. It's interesting what people count as southern actually. Looking at a map, Swindon is further north than a number of the london clubs, as well as Southend, Gillingham, and Cardiff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutch Posted 10 December, 2009 Author Share Posted 10 December, 2009 It was Plymouth. Geography wasn't my strongest subject. And I forgot about Swindon. I expect to above them too this time next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsland Codger Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 For some of us, even Southampton is North ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 For some of us, even Southampton is North ... I had to laugh at us chanting Southerners at the match against Torquay. Mind you, we could reasonably categorise them as South Westerners rather than Southerners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 ... and Bristol? That leaves us better than Bournemouth (a team that has to put schoolboys in the squad because they are in even bigger trouble than we were last season) and Brighton (a team that plays in a borrowed athletics stadium), but not as good as a side that can't afford to pay it's players. We can feel well proud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docker-p Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 Anything north of A34/M3 junction near Winchester is 'North' and thus grim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsdinho Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 Anything north of A34/M3 junction near Winchester is 'North' and thus grim Sorry, you are wrong.... Anything north of Romsey is officially northern Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 Feels weird that places like Reading and Swindon are considered Southern. Gillingham and Southend would be classed as London I expect. Always hear about Reading and even Oxford on South Today. Will always consider Saints to be the top club in the South overall. Portsmouth haven't lasted as long as we did (assuming they are going down, I think it's inevitable). We will see the promised land soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 Using the Watford Gap as the traditional North-South divide puts Northampton into the southern region. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derry Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 I don't think I would want to swop our debt free circumstances together with the owner's proposed capital investment and steady progress with any club outside the Premier league and certainly not Portsmouth. I think looking at the big picture, we are far better off than most Premier clubs who are existing, fuelling their massive costs with tv money and debt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sperm_john Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 im in northampton and they all consider themselves to be southern up here, no lie, or atleast, they call themselves 'from the midlands' but they definitely definitely dont consider themselves northern, just makes me laugh when i hear some of them say they are southern, er no mate, im from southampton, thats southern! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandy_Top_89 Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 I find peoples definitions of southern and northern kind of amusing im from Nuneaton, but everyone else in my family is from Manchester, Doncaster and Kinross. So the end result is i get slated as northern my all of my friends here, and i get slated for being southern by my family (or English from those in Scotland, but id say they have a fair case lol). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Garrett Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 In sheffield they only just count themselves as northern. Get called northern when home, yet up here i'm southern! I know a lot of people from derby/nottingham and they consider themselves as midlanders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norwaysaint Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 I think you're all southerners, including the scottish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 I think you're all southerners, including the scottish. This is actually wrong. The awfulness that is the north starts at the northern fringes of Regents Park, and the acceptable parts of Britain are mostly in a band between the park and the River Thames. Anything south of that is also dark and horrible - Southampton and Bonchurch excepted. This means our only real competitors are Chelsea (QPR, West Ham and Brentford being quarantined islands of crap.). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tac-tics Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 ... as the top club in the South. I know we're focussing our attention on the circus unfolding down the road. But did anybody notice that we stepped over Brighton and Exeter in the league last week? Yeovil will be next, probably on Saturday. But that still leaves Torquay, Reading and both Bristols as well as the Skates. I shudder to think that they were all above us. With a bit of luck, by this time next year they'll all be below us. Are you drunk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat from Poole Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 It's interesting what people count as southern actually. Looking at a map, Swindon is further north than a number of the london clubs, as well as Southend, Gillingham, and Cardiff. Anything north of Ferndown is northern to me. I think that based on the size of the club our rightful place is somewhere between 10th in the Prem and 10th in the CCC. Having a very good manager is the key difference and will put you nearer 10th in the Prem. However, if Liebherr and Cortese are in for the long haul, we could emulate our highest placing under Strachan. It will hopefully be an enjoyable ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted 10 December, 2009 Share Posted 10 December, 2009 Anyone heard of east and west, or does that Tom Tom thingy not recognise them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cambsaint Posted 11 December, 2009 Share Posted 11 December, 2009 Many years ago when we formed The Wessex Liberation Organisation, we named the metropolitan abomination as "The Slagheap of the South Midlands", which is I consider still an accurate epithet, and Basingstoke was considered as the line where the North began, and of course we still regarded Winchester as the capital of England and Wessex. We did play on acronyms of OSA as we were Old Symondians (that's in the days when it was a proper school that tried beat a classical education into you), but we never found one we liked. However it is heartwarming to see that a topic that was dear to our hearts when Saints first joined Division One and England won the World Cup is still active today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint in Paradise Posted 11 December, 2009 Share Posted 11 December, 2009 All of you lot, and in fact most of the World, are all Northerners compared with me and where I live There is also a bloke called "Tirau Dan" who posts on The Echo website and even he is further North than me :smt040 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutch Posted 11 December, 2009 Author Share Posted 11 December, 2009 No, not all, SIP. And no, I wasn't drunk, just geographically challenged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
del boy Posted 11 December, 2009 Share Posted 11 December, 2009 Torquay? Torquay is nearly on the equator - we must be above them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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