St Mary's Stadium

[stevegrant]

16 minutes ago, Saint Fan CaM said:

If the ground capacity is 32500 (for example) does that mean they’ve sold more than 31500 ST’s? I find that hard to believe, but if it’s true then it’s little wonder that a stadium expansion is being talked about! 😉

If we've sold 31,500 season tickets, where are the away fans going?

[Lee On Solent Saint]

16 minutes ago, stevegrant said:

If we've sold 31,500 season tickets, where are the away fans going?

Can't have sold that many. I get an email everyday about buying one still!

[jemanson]

On 25/06/2025 at 14:09, Turkish said:

What's the current situation for Vegan foodstuffs in St Marys? Do we offer this?

Since you asked ...

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In reality, it's a cold, grey-brown, rubbery lump of something unpleasant in a stale bun ... in keeping with the entertainment served up on the pitch.

 

 

 

 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Why Blackburn?

That Stuart Ripley transfer casts a long shadow. 🙂

[suewhistle]

On 26/06/2025 at 00:28, SW11_Saint said:

Worth remembering that two of the biggest developments in the City - West Quay and SMS were green-lit and initially developed under a Labour controlled City Council. So although some developments have faltered - due to lack of private investment I believe - they have delivered when the partnership investment is there. That’s the key. 

Councils have very little margin for discretionary spending these days, and their legal obligations to meet SEND and adult social care requirements (inter alia)  are putting many councils, of all political colours, into danger of bankruptcy.

But we can all agree that Southampton hasn't made best use of its assets, whether that's due to the council or ABP or developers wanting everything handed to them on a plate. 

The problem with the rail link is that to get to Central you'd have to do a back shunt from near the maintenance works on what is a busy stretch of line. But going straight out heading North would be easy enough, and take a very large proportion of the traffic. Particularly useful for away fans but not so good for business in town. Might be the sort of development if St Mary's were ever chosen again for an international tournament. 

The ticket sales seem to have held up remarkably in the circumstances, so there does seem to be a healthy underlying demand for tickets which must be the basis for any stadium expansion. Plus a few more tourists in Rento Takaoaka shirts will help the bottom line! It will be interesting to compare the crowd figures with our neighbours down the road.. 

 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

8 minutes ago, suewhistle said:

Plus a few more tourists in Rento Takaoaka shirts will help the bottom line! 

 

Is there a danger that an foreign increase in the rento Takaoaka market will result in locals being priced out of the buyo Takaoaka market, destabilising the other redevelopment plans?

[Saint Fan CaM]

6 hours ago, stevegrant said:

If we've sold 31,500 season tickets, where are the away fans going?

It’s quite possible you missed that I was being a tad facetious in my question, hence the winky. 😂

[Matthew Le God]

Season tickets have sold out again and they've opened a waiting list to get one in future seasons...

 

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

We’re going to need a bigger stadium 😂 

 

Sorry, just fishing. 

Edited July 31 by Behind Enemy Lines

[Pamplemousse]

Brighton are expanding their stadium so we need to keep up to make sure we still have the largest ground in the region...

[SaintNewForest]

Forgive me for being cynical, but I don't believe for one minute we've sold out after last season at the same number of available season tickets. 

They've either lowered the available ST threshold, or they've just decided to cut off sales now and dress it up as "sold out" to give themselves a pat on the back.

Club don't care whether a seat is a season ticket or match ticket, so makes no difference to them.

[die Mannyschaft]

On 27/06/2025 at 15:58, stevegrant said:

If we've sold 31,500 season tickets, where are the away fans going?

Can't be more than 23 to 24k season holders.

[Pamplemousse]

Anyone who went today, what were the new food/drink items like? And what was the cost?

I saw a photo on Twitter, can't say I'm a fan of the new screens, they look a bit bulky and in the way.

[Disco Stu]

On 21/10/2024 at 20:02, Disco Stu said:

It was a good idea after giving the entire Northam end to the home fans but its been executed so poorly. Feels like a missed opportunity to make a real impactful banner to reveal every game rather than something that's so cringey. All the best tifo banners use symbolic imagery not cheesy slogans like "Pride of the South" or "We March On" that sound like they've been thought up in a corporate setting.

Generic. Terrible font. No impact. Forgettable.

FFS!

Well done to the club for getting a new Tifo designed. Much better effort.

[skintsaint]

A bit disappointing as it's not very diverse. 

[Mattio]

On 02/08/2025 at 22:01, Pamplemousse said:

Anyone who went today, what were the new food/drink items like? And what was the cost?

I saw a photo on Twitter, can't say I'm a fan of the new screens, they look a bit bulky and in the way.

Barely any long queues for drinks at half time, weird system with tickets from McDonald’s style self serve machines but it seemed to work. Can’t talk with regards to the food

[Ivan Katalinic's 'tache]

On 02/08/2025 at 22:01, Pamplemousse said:

Anyone who went today, what were the new food/drink items like? And what was the cost?

I saw a photo on Twitter, can't say I'm a fan of the new screens, they look a bit bulky and in the way.

My son and I tried the SFC chicken - taste was pretty decent and good size quantity-wise too. Think it was £14 for the chicken burger, lattice fries and a drink which isn’t cheap but I have been robbed for worse in other establishments.

[Badger]

Wrexham forum commented that little response from Saints fans either side of the away section. 
 

Perhaps to be expected, aren’t they next to the Family Stand etc in that corner ?

Not on that side of the ground myself but interested to hear comments from anyone who is.

How does this bode for the skates match ? 

[Badger]

Comments re Saints fans nr away support yesterday, was it seems despite the best efforts of this bloke:

 

[tdmickey3]

3 hours ago, Badger said:

Comments re Saints fans nr away support yesterday, was it seems despite the best efforts of this bloke:

 

Looks like mad Nate on pork pies

Edited Sunday at 20:42 by tdmickey3

[franniesTache]

18 hours ago, Badger said:

Wrexham forum commented that little response from Saints fans either side of the away section. 
 

Perhaps to be expected, aren’t they next to the Family Stand etc in that corner ?

Not on that side of the ground myself but interested to hear comments from anyone who is.

How does this bode for the skates match ? 

We've moved over to the chapel this season and to be honest with you all my group are sat on our hands a little bit because we don't want it to get stopped before we have our game against the skates.

Saying that it's really interesting now being that side of the ground because you realise how little you can actually hear the Northam end. If I hadn't seen the posts on here about it being a "great" atmosphere i'd have thought the Northam was silent all game because you basically don't hear them from where the away fans are. Which means the skates are going to go on about St Mary's being a library and calling us quiet.

The chapel itself i thought was decent, a far few standing at the back, a complete lack of soccer am "banter" and none of the noddy shit sung in the Northam. It's so much better than the Northam creche and hopefully that little section will grow with time as more move over

[Football Special]

I thought Wrexham were decent as well, made more noise than most that come to St Mary's 

[EssEffCee]

1 hour ago, Football Special said:

I thought Wrexham were decent as well, made more noise than most that come to St Mary's 

Best away support at St Mary's for ages I reckon. Very rarely were they quiet and lots of song variety.

I quite enjoyed myself at the back of the chapel even if it's bound to be a work in progress. Pleasantly surprised at the lack of action from stewards in trying to sit us down.

[Matthew Le God]

2 hours ago, Football Special said:

I thought Wrexham were decent as well, made more noise than most that come to St Mary's 

 

40 minutes ago, EssEffCee said:

Best away support at St Mary's for ages I reckon. Very rarely were they quiet and lots of song variety.

It was like being at Rorke's Drift, but with the Zulus winning (like they did at Isandlwana)

 

Edited 13 hours ago by Matthew Le God

[iansums]

Impressive array of flags in the Chapel on Saturday.

[Matthew Le God]

Saints will open in October a 12,000 sq ft entertainment space located in Chapel stand. Includes a 9-hole mini golf course, climbing walls, racing/golf simulators, pool tables, arcade machines, TVs for live sport and more.

 

Edited 12 hours ago by Matthew Le God

[OldNick]

3 hours ago, Football Special said:

I thought Wrexham were decent as well, made more noise than most that come to St Mary's 

I think 3 seasons of success gave them hope and enthusiasm, we had come off the worst season and relegated and so our support on the day was 'here we go again' but once we were given somethingthe Northam and the rest of the ground was awesome

[franniesTache]

2 hours ago, Football Special said:

I thought Wrexham were decent as well, made more noise than most that come to St Mary's 

Thought they were very noisy but you'd expect that from a side that are the heighest they'd been for two generations and on the back of multiple promotions

53 minutes ago, EssEffCee said:

Best away support at St Mary's for ages I reckon. Very rarely were they quiet and lots of song variety.

I quite enjoyed myself at the back of the chapel even if it's bound to be a work in progress. Pleasantly surprised at the lack of action from stewards in trying to sit us down.

Agree that the back of the chapel was decent, felt like the early days of the Itchen North, i just hope it doesn't become flooded by nippers on cheap gear wanting to gesture at the away fans, think it'll take some time to catch on too which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

In terms of the Wrexham fans i definitely thought they were load but their songbook was pretty damn generic, like so many others it was the standard songs nicked from liverpool, songs about libraries and a weird version of the song we used to sing about ricky lambert that didn't seem to scan properly.

Thought they were at their most impressive when they sung land of my fathers to be honest, that was really damn loud 

[Turkish]

18 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Saints will open in October a 12,000 sq ft entertainment space located in Chapel stand. Includes a 9-hole mini golf course, climbing walls, racing/golf simulators, pool tables, arcade machines, TVs for live sport and more.

 

😂 This is gonna be shite

[sockeye]

17 minutes ago, OldNick said:

I think 3 seasons of success gave them hope and enthusiasm, we had come off the worst season and relegated and so our support on the day was 'here we go again' but once we were given somethingthe Northam and the rest of the ground was awesome

Agreed, the ground came alive with the equaliser and the winner was glorious, crowd exploded

felt good to silence the wrexham fans

[Pamplemousse]

St Mary's is fast becoming the entertainment district of the city. All we need is an arena. 

[OldNick]

3 minutes ago, Turkish said:

😂 This is gonna be shite

I feel that at least the club are trying new things, although health and safety and the ambulance chasing lawyers are going to love those low girder supports

[for_heaven's_Saint]

1 hour ago, Pamplemousse said:

St Mary's is fast becoming the entertainment district of the city. All we need is an arena. 

And a decent football team...

[adrian lord]

On 10/08/2025 at 18:02, Badger said:

Comments re Saints fans nr away support yesterday, was it seems despite the best efforts of this bloke:

 

Looks like a Sontaron, minus spacesuit. I believe you can kill them by firing a crossbow bolt into a hole in the back of the neck of their spacesuits.  

[franniesTache]

2 hours ago, Turkish said:

😂 This is gonna be shite

Climbing walls, darts and shooting ranges, The Chapel Paramilitary training center is being built.

Soon we will have the junior Saints better drilled than most armies and the legacy of fear of the DEF will be maintained for generations.

The club will train them, then turf them out into the gulags ready to scale the walls and slaughter the away fans.

WE MARCH ON (the enemy)!

[iansums]

2 hours ago, Turkish said:

😂 This is gonna be shite

Well it’s not aimed at you, nor I for that matter but if brings in additional revenue then good. SR have got an awful lot wrong on the football side but are making a lot of improvements in and around the ground.

[tdmickey3]

4 hours ago, OldNick said:

I feel that at least the club are trying new things, although health and safety and the ambulance chasing lawyers are going to love those low girder supports

You love everything don’t you Nick… Bless

[Holmes_and_Watson]

2 hours ago, adrian lord said:

Looks like a Sontaron, minus spacesuit. I believe you can kill them by firing a crossbow bolt into a hole in the back of the neck of their spacesuits.  

Pretty much everything is killed by a crossbow bolt to the back of the neck. I hope you've not being firing at visitors again, claiming there was a Sontaron invasion. 🙂

[Saint Fan CaM]

I sat for the first time for years in the central Chapel on Saturday. The away supporters was very good and until our equaliser I was surprised at how quiet the Northam crowd were by comparison…I really expected there to be much more noise. Quite disappointing really.

This idea of a games area is a bit meh. I had a look at the underside of the Chapel roof on Saturday and was surprised to see the paintwork in a really poor state of repair in places.

Edited 4 hours ago by Saint Fan CaM