PROTEST

[OldNick]

On 04/01/2026 at 18:19, Willo of Whiteley said:

Many options:

Don’t go. Don’t spend money on tickets. Stop buying merchandise, food, drinks etc outside the ground.

Tennis balls on the pitch. Gets media attention - and SR don’t like that.

Stickers with SR out planted on every door, rail, seat around the ground.

Boycott the start of the game, maybe four minutes to mark four shambolic years under SR.

Chants from home fans not calling out the group, but individuals, “Fuck off Rasmus” for example.

Large protests outside the main entrance of St Mary’s on a match day.

Constant booing from the stands.

We are at a point of the season where we ned the ground and atmosphere to be positive, Hull and Sheff Utd will be lapping this all up. 'so lads keep it tight, the fans will turn on the team the rest will fall into place' I saw yesterday that we are the 9th most disliked fanbase lol, I ownder why, perhaps the entitlement

[OldNick]

2 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Saw this during 08/09 first hand eg fans physically fighting each other at the Doncaster home game. The club stirs it in places like this as well, Lowe did and I’m sure Rasmus et al won’t be beyond doing it either, 

that was one of the lowest points of supporting Saints seeing that day. Didnt achieve anything, 

[Turkish]

On 04/01/2026 at 17:29, CB Fry said:

I am writing an open letter as quickly as I can FFS

It’s in the echo 

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/25741876.angry-southampton-supporter-details-five-steps-right-direction/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAPJz-dleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe0p6qjhWzUNHSykjzC4LGSDIeIjHhSuMoChEVmc8keKOhI_idlKa1es0-FcA_aem__p5WiP6uJphZOU4O6p-btg

Move the away fans next to the Northam? I thought they being there was part of the problem?

[sockeye]

44 minutes ago, OldNick said:

We are at a point of the season where we ned the ground and atmosphere to be positive, Hull and Sheff Utd will be lapping this all up. 'so lads keep it tight, the fans will turn on the team the rest will fall into place' I saw yesterday that we are the 9th most disliked fanbase lol, I ownder why, perhaps the entitlement

many think that we didn’t deserve to be in the pl and stunk up the league for many years, plus we are all middle class poshos and that portsmuff are a real fanbase

Edited January 6 by sockeye

[SaintNewForest]

7 minutes ago, Turkish said:

It’s in the echo 

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/25741876.angry-southampton-supporter-details-five-steps-right-direction/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAPJz-dleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe0p6qjhWzUNHSykjzC4LGSDIeIjHhSuMoChEVmc8keKOhI_idlKa1es0-FcA_aem__p5WiP6uJphZOU4O6p-btg

Move the away fans next to the Northam? I thought they being there was part of the problem?

In the eyes of the club, cos it got in the way of their precious dell pub, increased corporate offering and fan zones. 

The atmosphere has really suffered by moving them away from our vocal support. 

[Turkish]

4 minutes ago, SaintNewForest said:

In the eyes of the club, cos it got in the way of their precious dell pub, increased corporate offering and fan zones. 

The atmosphere has really suffered by moving them away from our vocal support. 

There were some on here that believed the reason for our poor home form was because the away fans were in the Northam. If we had a Kop end we could drown out the away fans and turn SMS into a cauldron of noise where we would become invincible. I guess this is all part of the great fix and will come?

[Saint_Jonny]

12 minutes ago, Turkish said:

There were some on here that believed the reason for our poor home form was because the away fans were in the Northam. If we had a Kop end we could drown out the away fans and turn SMS into a cauldron of noise where we would become invincible. I guess this is all part of the great fix and will come?

To be fair, since the change in configuration at St Marys we've won what.. 5 games out of 30ish in that time? 

The team and management have been utter shit. Stadium layout and fans have nothing to do with it. 

[franniesTache]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

There were some on here that believed the reason for our poor home form was because the away fans were in the Northam. If we had a Kop end we could drown out the away fans and turn SMS into a cauldron of noise where we would become invincible. I guess this is all part of the great fix and will come?

I can't believe the Northam Wall(tm) isn't one of the most feared ends in the country, we were told by people from salisbury, the isle of wight, basingstoke and bournemouth that it was EXACTLY what the club needed, and that anyone who suggested it probably wouldn't work because it's not the culture of Saints and we don't have 8k fans that want to stand and make noise was told how wrong they were.

Personally i can't believe that ripping off a liverpool song every five minutes and singing OWTS too fast, or telling people how much they hate the skates hasn't led to an improved atmosphere and better results.

Maybe someone should do a vlog about it, because that's sure to fix everything

[Tom & Gerry]

The Northam wall is a good thing when the team are playing well and a bad thing when they are not.

[franniesTache]

3 minutes ago, Tom & Gerry said:

The Northam wall is a good thing when the team are playing well and a bad thing when they are not.

Not sure how you can say that as we've not experienced them playing well since it's been done...

[Willo of Whiteley]

There’s a lot of gobby twats in the Northam. I stopped standing in there after the guy decided the right thing to do was call the ref a “f***** bald c***” every thirty seconds, that was whether he made a decision in our favour or not.

[Dr Who?]

On 05/01/2026 at 00:49, Sunnyside Saint said:

Careful now! 

[Turkish]

1 hour ago, franniesTache said:

I can't believe the Northam Wall(tm) isn't one of the most feared ends in the country, we were told by people from salisbury, the isle of wight, basingstoke and bournemouth that it was EXACTLY what the club needed, and that anyone who suggested it probably wouldn't work because it's not the culture of Saints and we don't have 8k fans that want to stand and make noise was told how wrong they were.

Personally i can't believe that ripping off a liverpool song every five minutes and singing OWTS too fast, or telling people how much they hate the skates hasn't led to an improved atmosphere and better results.

Maybe someone should do a vlog about it, because that's sure to fix everything

Talking of Vlogs what happened to that little gimp that used to do one? Not seen him spouting off for a while.

I think we need more aggression coming from the Northam.  It's alright singing songs about hating Pompey but when was the last time we told a ginger player they looked like a wotsit? When did we last tell a slightly overweight player they ate all the pies? There is nothing that upsets an athlete more than being fat shamed by some obese middle aged bloke with a football shirt over a hoodie and their massive gut protruding over their shit trainers.

If we got get that sort of venom back in our fan base rather than polite booing St Marys might turn into more of an intimidating environment for away players.

[Tom & Gerry]

51 minutes ago, franniesTache said:

Not sure how you can say that as we've not experienced them playing well since it's been done...

Because the Manager always says how great the atmosphere was on the rare occasions that we do win.

[franniesTache]

1 hour ago, Tom & Gerry said:

Because the Manager always says how great the atmosphere was on the rare occasions that we do win.

What's a win?

[LuckyNumber7]

5 hours ago, SaintNewForest said:

In the eyes of the club, cos it got in the way of their precious dell pub, increased corporate offering and fan zones. 

The atmosphere has really suffered by moving them away from our vocal support. 

The atmosphere was non existant before the change. It hasn't got any worse.

The main issue is we have been so shit for a prolongued period of time, that there is a real malaise among the fanbase.

[Gloucester Saint]

22 minutes ago, franniesTache said:

What's a win?

SMS certainly lacks in the way of chicken dinners.

[Themotherfunky]

Any news? Or is it just all fart and no shit? 

[Willo of Whiteley]

By the sound of it - fuck all

I’d expect nothing else from our fans.

All that said, when we inevitably concede today, I’m sure the songs will start.

I’m hoping for some chanting around the five at the back

[die Mannyschaft]

14 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

By the sound of it - fuck all

I’d expect nothing else from our fans.

All that said, when we inevitably concede today, I’m sure the songs will start.

I’m hoping for some chanting around the five at the back

No one there. Matt Le Tiss was there taking photos but that's it.

[Farmer Saint]

How did the protest go?

[Gloucester Saint]

45 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

How did the protest go?

😂 I wasn’t expecting anything to be honest at home, the away fans have all of the fibre about them. Unless the manager changes before next weekend a 5-0 hiding or so at Fratton will liven even the blanket and flask brigade so watch this space after that happens.

Because we will get battered playing that ponderous shit there unless SR makes a change tomorrow. After the Sheff Utd game is too late. 

[Football Special]

We're such a strange fan base, to be fair most of the songs at the game were against the board and team so that was the protest. 

22-23k of us are stuck with season tickets 

I've never thought this before but a full boycott of the Leicester cup game probably best chance of a protest , just leave the ground empty 

[S-Clarke]

People tried to get it going today, it did for a spell - at 0-2 down. 

But then morons around just clapped because we passed the ball or won a throw, I can't remember - but the momentum stopped. Our supporters are as zombified as the club, it's demoralising to see.

There were a couple of women on social media a while back who were attacking anyone who was after Martin, I feel they are the absolute personification of the majority of our fanbase right now. Absolute wet fucking fannies. Just like the first team, match made in heaven you'd have to say.

There are genuinely people who are still thinking SR are fine for the club. That's frightening to me.

Edited 33 minutes ago by S-Clarke

[Gloucester Saint]

4 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

There were a couple of women on social media a while back who were attacking anyone who was after Martin, I feel they are the absolute personification of the majority of our fanbase right now. Absolute wet fucking fannies. Just like the first team, match made in heaven you'd have to say.

There are genuinely people who are still thinking SR are fine for the club. That's frightening to me.

They’re almost certainly both on here and we know who the user names are. 

[S-Clarke]

1 minute ago, Gloucester Saint said:

They’re almost certainly both on here and we know who the user names are. 

I knew Fabrice was a woman.

[Gloucester Saint]

2 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

I knew Fabrice was a woman.

Weaves as many pointless circles on this forum as the actual football player did on the SMS pitch. Fernandes himself is a cut above any of the pricks we have now with the possible exception of Fellows and Leo, and even the latter is regressing badly in a toxic environment. 

The other username begins with a W.

Edited 23 minutes ago by Gloucester Saint

[Dark Munster]