Absolutely. Why don't people get this. Besides, what is so difficult about 26,000 fans outsinging 5,000?
This is the deal breaker. Northam was constructed to enable proper segregation. Itchen wasn't. Besides, they're a testy lot in Itchen North. You wanna tell them they have to move ??
Yes don’t disagree but it was always weird to build the away seating as a complete end. A corner is definitely more logical.
As a fan of this successful side, I'm beginning to feel like an addict, desperate for my next fix of flowing football, combined with more goals than the opposition. I know that my next serving is on Wednesday, but it's still a couple of days away, so I'm getting twitchy (no, not Frank Lampard's uncle). What happened to the good* old days of being scared to go to games, as the chances of winning were limited to 'lucky results', against 'off form' teams? *Bad
Wolves looked tired yesterday. Maybe due to playing 3 days earlier Maybe the Spammers will be tired on Wednesday
Hoping the combination of tiredness and them fighting for a European place in the league will mean they wont give us the focus we deserve.
Every team we have ever beaten throughout history has been “off form”. It’s the very definition of Southampton FC in the eyes of the greater population.
Just been reading KUMB. They're not very confident at all. Combination of our excellent form and the fact we get 2 extra days in between games.
I had a read last night. There seems to be a different attitude from the last time I looked (some time ago) where they were a pretty dislikeable lot without a good word for anybody. What's changed? Has success mellowed them or a different crowd posting? They were reasonably complimentary about us and as you say not overly confident. If they keep this up I may start liking them.
I was chatting to a West Ham fan last night, before I had a chance to say I supported Saints, he was already talking "dark horse" Southampton up as potential SIXTH place finishers.
It's not just us, it's the sporting media's attitude with regards to the big clubs. From websites to match commentators and studio pundits. Every comment is made from the big club's position. I was reading the BBC's live text for Man Utd's game v Watford on Saturday and nearly every comment was made as if they were representing Utd. "Still time to get a winner", "need to get the ball forward quicker" etc etc, all from Utd's viewpoint. I get it that Liverpool and Utd have a large worldwide following but the BBC should be reporting for everyone but they don't and it's pretty ****ing annoying.
I don't know when this transformation came about but the fans comments from KUMB and BBC's HYS are all decent. You don't get to see much of Gold and Sullivan (I prefer Dildo Brothers rather than Porn Kings) these days and Noble soon to retire makes them all the more likeable imo.
Unless they have their FA Cup hat on (traditionally the trophy's lid) then it's Wee David vs Big Baddy Goalith. As it should be, they've always nurtured that "romance". So it's infuriating they've followed the clickbaity "Big Club" orientation of the net or the relentless season-long CL place fixations of Sky; rather than the match, the actual sporting spectacle at hand.
The BBC rather overdo the romance thing in the FA Cup purely because they are covering it. Everyone likes a bit of giant killing it's true but the Beeb's over promotion of their programmes is a bit pathetic considering what they actually put out these days.
I remember them dusting-off Gerald Sinstadt - for the FA goals round up. It would be a banquet of vintage phrases, detailing KIngstonian "firing in a riposte," or how the Southend striker - who had been on United's books - "dispatched with aplomb". Not a bomb.
