Match Day Thread Southampton v Swansea City Sunday 12th January 16:30 pm

Exactly. It's incredibly short sighted of the club. Early cup game with a good chance of winning is an opportunity to get kids hooked for life.

For a family of four to go to a PL game you're looking at a oner or more in most cases and that's simply unaffordable for many people. These games should be used to give those people a chance to be at a match.

Crowd will be embarrassingly low today. Hopefully they'll learn their lesson.

 

SR learning from their mistakes...hmmm, that's optimistic

 

Yeah I know! Though I doubt it's Rasmus/Kraft making these decisions.

It'll be interesting to see what the prices are should we get through and draw another lower league team at home.

 

If you have Sky can you watch it on BBC Wales?

 

For sake of comparison Leicester charged a tenner for their game against QPR yesterday and sold 24k home tickets. We'll probably be barely above half that amount.

 

And their ground is identical to ours, apart from being blue.

 

Yes,it's on BBC Wales Channel 968. Plenty of tickets available in the Chapel and Northam if you have a late change of mind, I could be on my own at the end if it goes belly up!

 

Even down to the car dealership across the road and the river nearby.

 

I thought both clubs had a say in FA Cup ticket prices or have I imagined that?

 

Definitely was the case historically. It changed about 5 years ago I think but I've got a feeling it got changed back.

 

I believe so.

 

Today's the day it all clicks. We put *insert opposition name here* to the sword and then go on a run to ensure league safety and cup supremacy.

I may have said all this before but I truly believe it this time.

 

Ah, lunchtime drinking. Always seems to be worse on a Sunday.

 

As far as I can tell Leicester played a pretty full strength team, their subs looked like their normal subs too and they were rewarded with a big win against Championship opposition. It's exactly what we need too really, obviously would just take any win, but scoring a few goals feels like it would really help confidence of a few players. If we **** it up today, then our already rock bottom confidence will be impossible to pick up again this season.

 

BBC Wales on Virgin Media has MOTD showing ArsManU and finishing at 1715 so I’m not convinced it’ll be on there. Can’t find it on iPlayer either ‍♂️

 

BBC One Wales is showing Arsenal v Utd. BBC Two Wales is showing Saints v Swansea.

It'll also likely be on the BBC Sport website.

 

Yep & that’s where we should have been. Everything SR touch turns sour. Do they have any idea about what they’re doing!?

 

No. No they don't. Everything about the club stinks under their ownership.

I'm stupid enough to be going today, but only because I miss the "day" of it as it were as I don't get to go much these days

 

Thank you. I finish work too late to get there unfortunately.

 

It’s on BBC2 Wales, which doesn’t look like it’s on Virgin. Only looks like BBC1 is on there