Fair comment.......but aren't you doing just what others are complaining about. Are you not actually complaining about other people and the way that they see you all. As for your snipe at the Chapel or any of the other stands you couldn't be more wrong. Granted we are not as noisy as the other end. Just remember the people who are quiet have every right to be, there is no law against it. It does not make them any less of a fan because they are not singing. Their Money counts just the same as yours does. I have some sympathy for your argument regarding "the special match fans" as I call them. However if you want to change their minds and get them to come each and every week. Abusing them when they do turn up is not the way!!!!!! The club needs their money as much as any other!!! I echo your comments in regards the people that can't afford to go and can only attend now and then. Finally I am a chapelite, if you think we don't shout and sing, perhaps you maybe able to explain to my wife why am so bloody hoarse after each and every game, also it has cost me plenty as sometimes my wife has taken me shopping after the game. To take advantage of the fact she can't hear me saying NO to an expensive purchase as Ive lost me bloody voice! We may not start the chants but we sure as hell join in with them!
Hi I'm not a season ticket holder but both my brothers are in the Northam stand, i got to as many games as possible where i have to sit in all area's of the ground, i have sat in the Chapel quite a few times and each time i have i have got bored, there is more atmosphere in an old peoples home, however i love sitting in the Northam it is non stop for 90+ minutes and yeah there are a few who think its funny to argue amongest them selves but they are the minority, This whole post has got blown out of proportion and is ridiculous.
Nah........... we don't normally have that problem.........More likely from calling the refs parentage into question.....
For me this is really simple. How you choose to support your team is your own business. If you like to scream and shout and sing and go bannanas go sit in the Northam & Kingsland. It is great to watch and is very often the heartbeat of the team. If you want to have a more quiet and considered approach, sit in the chapel. It is after all the family enclosure and for that reason the "academy" for young future fans. They can sit and observe and maybe one day go " sod this, I want to sing the whole game through, it's dull over here" and move over to somewhere else. I myself am a season ticket holder in the chapel. I have sat everywhere else in the stadium for cup games and quite honestly prefer it where I am. I'm not a screamer or a shouter, I I don't sing every song, but when we do get caught up in it and join in too, it feels very special. If we are singing then you know things are getting emotional. I'm often, though, just concentrating on the game studying what's going on and trying my best not to have a heart attack. I'm the same in normal life. But believe me there are very few people who care more than I do. In short (and I'm aware this isn't at all short) Let everyone support how they want to support. We are all different, we all handle different situations in normal life differently and we all show our support differently. Plastic fans, although quite annoying, maybe one day will be season ticket holders. Lets not discourage people. Lets control the controlables and as my user name would suggest... We all stand together. I'm on the bus, anybody with me...
Block 42 is going to really love this. block 44 is open vs wallsall, a mate just got some tickets there. rest of the ground pretty much sold out.
I have been in Block 42 from day 1 row dd so nearer the back than the front. I didn't hear any plastic jibes (I was busy supporting my team) & certainly wouldn't join in if I had. Like others on this thread i believe the Kingsland stand are showing the Northam up at the moment. I do get fed up with the Northam kop debate, I don't know one person in the Northam that wants it, we went there in the first place to be nearer the away fans. W
I personally wasn't going to get into whole debate. It has little to do with me really. I've got no idea what all this block 42 vs 43 stuff is. But for some reason you've decided to bring Chapel into it, and the fans that sit there. So what that we don't sing and shout at the top of our voices? So what that we don't stand up all match? We support Saints just as much as you, we love our side just as much as you. Not everyone person in this world is the same. Different people like different things, and so having areas of the stadium which are different from each other allows these differences to be catered for. And as for your comment about fans seemingly needing to attend JPT games to be considered really loyal, wiell my Dad and his mates have been Saints season-ticket holders for years. They were regulars at the Dell long before I was born. I consider them to be exceptionally loyal. But did they attend any JPT games last season except for Wembley? No, they didn't. They didn't care about the competition, and couldn't justify the extra expense. In my eyes this didn't make them any less loyal or any less a Saints fan. Wembley was an additional expense which they could justify. Games against Torquay and Charlton etc were not. I myself probably only go to 50% of cup games in total (I went to Bournemouth, Bolton, Blackpool and United this season for example), and I don't see what the problem is - and I certainly don't feel that means I'm not a true Saints fan. I have missed one home league game in the past four seasons, and I've got a ticket for Plymouth away this weekend.
I must admit that until this season I was the holder of three season tickets for the Chapel. Health and expense has meant no football this season and next will be much the same though I expect to manage a couple of games. love the Saints second only to my family and the two youngest fans have been on my case because we have not been this season. I admit that the Chapel is not as noisy as the far end but you have to remember that there are a lot of small children go in that end because of this simple fact. Kids like mine are not able to sing or chant as loud so give us Chapelites a break. Next time I go I will also be taking my 5yo daughter and so that means One adult maybe two(Mrs) and three kids. We sing and my 7yo boy makes up his own songs to sing as well so don't tar us all with the same brush. Please!!!!!
I didn't actually mean specifically the JPT - what I mean is the casual fans who sit there and say ''can't afford to go'', and then when we draw Man Utd they suddenly find the money - the people all clambering for tickets for the Walsall game, where the hell were they for the rest of the season? this isn't about people not having the time, its just people who only turn up when the party starts and not when the team really needed them. As for the comment RE: Chapel, I'm only giving as good as what was got, all these chapel enders jumping up and slagging off the northam, calling them drunk louts etc when they forget that if it wasn't for Northam Saints wouldn't have an atmosphere - imagine SMS without Northam... just the bloody chapel enders complaining. These are the same chapel enders who were shouting at people to sit down at the Wembley final and getting grouchy when people started to sing. Thats the point that I'm making, plastic fans, the sort who will return when we get promoted to the Premiership.
Oh come on red Army comrade..........to my knowledge one person expressed the view about drunk louts etc......and that was not a chapelite. In fact it was pointed out to this person not to tar all with the same brush something which all agree. The chapel was criticised by you and by others for being quiet, except you have added the bit about us moaning. It seems to me you have very little respect for other peoples views and classify things as a moan when you don't agree. I do not Know anything about people standing at Wembley however if you were obsructing peoples view who had paid good money to be there then you deserved all the abuse that you got. Believe me the people that moaned would have done so where ever the sat at St Mary's. As for chapelites getting grouchy over people singing I would find that hard to believe. Certainly the few hundred that I know and are aquainted with wouldn't have done so. As for the charge that chapelites are slagging of the northam there is not one chapelite has slagged the Northam off. The debate if you read it was about Northam and Kingsland slagging each other off and the term plastic fan was used. Brendy..... was right suddenly we were brought into the debate, about how much noise we do or do not make...I also made the point if we were so bloody quiet could any one suggest why I go home hoarse every game...... So your charge at us is most definitely unfounded. Go back and read the articles if you've a mind and you will find I'm right.
I was at Wembley where there was a standing/seating argument which went on for the whole game. I actually prefer to stand at away games but like my seat in the Itchen at home games. At Wembley I stood for parts of the game (which I preferred), but mostly sat. Some guys near me though were getting so angry about having to sit and were complaining about how they want the whole Wembley experience which meant they needed to stand - fair enough. However these men left early at half time for beers then came back late and missed the goal just after half time, and then left early before any celebrations. I don't know why these guys complained so much and ended up sending most the time in the concourse. I didn't notice anyone objecting to singing though. I was in bottom tier behind the goal, is this where you found the problems??
Sorry seem to have come onto the wrong site. My team is closing in on promotion and has a great bunch of supporters with a sense of humour.
I hate people who criticse any parts of the ground at St Marys. To those having ago at the Chapel - it has improved this season imo and they very often join in with the clapping, but many families and older fans sit there for a reason - it's cheaper behind the goal and they don't want to stand up all game at the other end. The Kingsland are sometimes louder than the Northam and have more imagination in the songs sung occasionally and the Itchen North are always trying to get songs going. There are many people who are passionaite across the ground, just because they sit in certain areas doesn't mean we should stereotype the whole of the Chapel as crap supporters and the whole of the Northam as knobheads etc. We all support the same team, so get behind them and enjoy our likely promotion!
