What’s your unpopular opinion on Saints?

[CB Fry]

27 minutes ago, Dman said:

Sulemana would have been on the radar for the top clubs by now if he'd signed for a decent, solid and stable club like Brighton or Brentford (instead of teh basket case that is Southampton FC). 

If Sulemana was any good and scored/created goals helping us win and stay up then we’d have been less of a basket case.

[Gloucester Saint]

3 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

If Sulemana was any good and scored/created goals helping us win and stay up then we’d have been less of a basket case.

Yeah, those aren’t the figures to attract Barca, Arsenal, Real, the Milan’s, PSG, City, Liverpool 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamaldeen_Sulemana

Senegal’s answer to Franz Carr.

[St Louis]

22 hours ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Gonna get pelters for this, but...

I don't hate Pompey.

Mine is kind of similar....
Whilst I DO hate P*mpey (and I'll never forget them pelting us with rocks as we left Fratton in '04), but.... I would still prefer (and have FAR more respect for) someone who lives down this end of the country if they supported Portsmouth, than if they 'support' Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal, etc from their armchair.
My biggest bug bear is people who don't support their local team (or team their Dad supported, etc), I instantly dont look at them the same way, whereas I would respect someone who said they supported Portsmouth if they live that way.
However, I do take great joy in asking the plastic Liverpool fans "Are you looking forward to the World Cup this summer, who are you going to support?". The confusion in their face is priceless

Edited 6 hours ago by St Louis

[St Louis]

Oh, and I also much prefer the whole football experience of us being in The Championship (rather than Premier League)... no VAR, proper clubs with proper fan bases, no 'big 6' (or 8 or whatever it is now!), no SSN and mainstream media fawning over the only (big) clubs that matter, no turning up expecting to lose most weeks. I prefer the feeling of us being one of the better teams in a lesser league.
It's a weird paradox to be in though, as I also want us to win all remaining games to get in the Playoffs, and then win the final at Wembley to put ourselves through it all again.

Edited 6 hours ago by St Louis

[Sheaf Saint]

14 minutes ago, St Louis said:

Mine is kind of similar....
Whilst I DO hate P*mpey (and I'll never forget them pelting us with rocks as we left Fratton in '04), but.... I would still prefer (and have FAR more respect for) someone who lives down this end of the country if they supported Portsmouth, than if they 'support' Liverpool, Man Utd, Arsenal, etc from their armchair.
My biggest bug bear is people who don't support their local team (or team there Dad supported, etc), I instantly dont look at them the same way, whereas I would respect someone who said they supported Portsmouth if they live that way.
However, I do take great joy in asking the plastic Liverpool fans "Are you looking forward to the World Cup this summer, who are you going to support?". The confusion in their face is priceless

Fair.

I had a mate who grew up in Hedge End but supported Man U. Every time he got ribbed about it he would reply that it was because his dad was a lifelong fan. My response to that was always: "and if your dad was a lifelong fan of Scunthorpe or Grimsby Town, who would you support then?"

Needless to say, he never had an answer to that.

Edited 6 hours ago by Sheaf Saint

[Tamesaint]

Our academy  is overrated 

[Chez]

We are not the Scummers. As Darren Anderton knows, that lot down the road are the fucking scummers.

[Ted Bates Statue]

Roerslev was not premier league standard when we signed him and on the basis of his performances prior to his injury, not Championship standard either.

[Pamplemousse]

1 hour ago, Ted Bates Statue said:

Roerslev was not premier league standard when we signed him and on the basis of his performances prior to his injury, not Championship standard either.

Hard to assess, lots of players under Will Still didn't look particularly good

[Give it to Ron]

Ryan Manning is a good squad member

[Golac's Cunning Stunts]

it is harder to play against 10 men than it is to play against 11

[franniesTache]

As a team we are completely irrelevant to 99% of the teams in the leagues, and that is absolutely fine.

Claude Puel was a very good manager for us and even the "boring football" tag wasn't correct.

JWP is a skate and will never be a legend.

Our away support is pretty cringeworthy these days.

Silence at a game is preferable to a lot of the songs that are sung (stared in a chapel, songs about libraries, most songs about the skates).

To many of our fans take football WAY too seriously, it should be a laugh with your mates not an exercise in stat counting.

The way away tickets are dished out is completely wrong, it should be season ticket holders + x aways first, then members + x aways, until it gets down to general sale.

As a fanbase we have a losers mentality & will put up with glorious loses far too easily.

The fans singing about championship again ole ole ole last season are part of the problem with what's gone wrong at the club, if we don't show ambition & standards why do we expect the players to?

David Armstrong is one of the best players to ever play for the club and should be held up on the same level as many of our legends

[bpsaint]

24 minutes ago, Golac's Cunning Stunts said:

it is harder to play against 10 men than it is to play against 11

Why does it feel like that’s only the case when it’s Saints playing against 10 men.