Just a thought...

[Legod Third Coming]

I have been unlucky with this club. I started going when our team numbered four England Captain's and the European Footballer of the Year in its ranks.

 

My first match as a teenager in the stands with pals was a comprehensive demolition of Liverpool - the easiest 2-0 victory you will ever see (Wallace outjumping Alan Hansen... lol).

 

For at least five years, I was regularly able to watch us beat Liverpool - narrowly miss out on two cup finals - and delight in victories over team floundering around the mid-table mark (Arsenal, United, Everton, Leeds)...

 

Great times.

 

By contrast, a pal started to watch Chelsea. I went with him to watch them play Pompey at Fratton Park. Both teams were at the bottom of Division II - Chelsea escaped relegation to Division III by a whisker. It was some of the worst football I have ever seen.

 

I wouldn't swap our respective teams - ever. But while our journey has been steadily down (minus the odd blip), his has been the reverse.

 

People like me feel our position badly. We've tasted ambrosia (of a sort) and now we have a diet of sour milk.

 

But, as sure as eggs are eggs, you cannot kill a club with a century of tradition. We will come again.

 

It may not be next season, or the season after. Or even several after that.

 

But we will come again and all those young people like my pal, who start supporting a club on its knees do have the great opportunity of seeing it rise.

 

Stick with it and so might we. Better still, HELP to RAISE it.

 

We may never stand on the shoulders of giants. But we will be back, in our own way. And perhaps, like my good Chelsea supporting pal, will have the opportunity to stand at the back of the ground, smiling and sing:

 

"Where were you when we were sh!t?"

 

Answer. We were here. Where we've always been. Where we always will be.

[eurosaint]

You've been on the happy pills again Steve but I like your spirit !

COYS.

Ps. How come you came for the 3rd time ??

[Harry Bloggs]

I have been unlucky with this club. I started going when our team numbered four England Captain's and the European Footballer of the Year in its ranks.

 

My first match as a teenager in the stands with pals was a comprehensive demolition of Liverpool - the easiest 2-0 victory you will ever see (Wallace outjumping Alan Hansen... lol).

 

For at least five years, I was regularly able to watch us beat Liverpool - narrowly miss out on two cup finals - and delight in victories over team floundering around the mid-table mark (Arsenal, United, Everton, Leeds)...

 

Great times.

 

By contrast, a pal started to watch Chelsea. I went with him to watch them play Pompey at Fratton Park. Both teams were at the bottom of Division II - Chelsea escaped relegation to Division III by a whisker. It was some of the worst football I have ever seen.

 

I wouldn't swap our respective teams - ever. But while our journey has been steadily down (minus the odd blip), his has been the reverse.

 

People like me feel our position badly. We've tasted ambrosia (of a sort) and now we have a diet of sour milk.

 

But, as sure as eggs are eggs, you cannot kill a club with a century of tradition. We will come again.

 

It may not be next season, or the season after. Or even several after that.

 

But we will come again and all those young people like my pal, who start supporting a club on its knees do have the great opportunity of seeing it rise.

 

Stick with it and so might we. Better still, HELP to RAISE it.

 

We may never stand on the shoulders of giants. But we will be back, in our own way. And perhaps, like my good Chelsea supporting pal, will have the opportunity to stand at the back of the ground, smiling and sing:

 

"Where were you when we were sh!t?"

 

Answer. We were here. Where we've always been. Where we always will be.

Well said! Having followed Saints for twenty five years I am as depressed as everyone else about our predicament. But eventually things will improve just as they have for my 'other' club Exeter City who nearly went bust a few years ago but are now pressing for promotion to League One. In it's darkest hour the club was taken over by a Supporters Trust and thanks to fantastic fan support have dragged themselves out of the Conference and are doing well. It can be done and I've no doubt that Saints will turn the corner eventually, we just have to be patient and , as LeGod says, we WILL come again.