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Thread | Why Is There So Much Hate On Saints Social Media
at 22:59 15 Dec 2025
All across the internet, all I seem to read his hate, many people seem to either love players or hate them there is no inbetween,, Tonda Eckert is either the future of SFC or he has already shown that he is clueless **** despite winning 6 out of his 8 games.
All this frothing at the mouth isn't good for the health. |
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Reply | No Bubble For Sunderland / Newcastle Derby
at 21:42 15 Dec 2025
There was trouble before the game back then, when a group of our youth marched up Goldsmith Avenue with a heavy Police presence and a fair bit of disorder with a police horse being punched.
The only reason why there was no issues with the train when it arrived was because it was held up outside Fratton Station and Goldsmith Avenue was cleared with all Pompey fans heading into the ground and so around 1,000 Saints fans walked down the road with not a Pompey fan in sight.
The problem was the game had already kicked off when we arrived at fratton Station, and most got in the ground with 20-30 mins already played.
After the game we were all held in for a long period and again with a wall of police officers surrounding us there was no trouble.
The problem with Goldsmith avenue is that it is the one main drag down to the ground and it is hard to police it in the fact that it is hard to walk a large group of away fans down a relatively small road surrounded by police due to the close proximity of the home fans.
I do think they are going over the top with this one, back in 2011 they got it right, no leaving for the game 4 hours before kick off, a flotilla of coaches bussed in quickly and easily arriving about 45 mins before kick off and then back on the road 20 mins afterwards. |
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Reply | Do you now expect a top six season finish ?
at 16:55 15 Dec 2025
I dont see why Saturday's result changed anything, if we had won it we would be 1 point behind the play off spot and would have the best record over the last 6 games than any other team in the division.
But we didn't win it so our record of 4 wins and 2 defeats in the last 6 games is only bettered by Coventry & Middlesbrough who have both won 4 drawn one and lost the other.
So why should we be any less likely to not push for promotion than we were before losing this game ?
Promotion campaigns are won not by knee jerk reactions but keeping calm and carrying on, if we keep up our current form we will make the play offs |
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Reply | World Cup through the years
at 14:58 15 Dec 2025
I know you will, probably tap me up for a loan 
By the way you owe your signing on fee for GPR for the last 30 years plus subs |
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Reply | No Bubble For Sunderland / Newcastle Derby
at 13:57 15 Dec 2025
I was at the meeting before the home game, I can't say that the fan groups were pushing for it, it was made quite clear that this was decided before fan groups were consulted, this was the two clubs and the police.
I saw a Newcastle's fans video of the game yesterday, it seemed that it was easier to manage than a game at St Mary's or Fratton due to the fact that TSOL has a metro station quite near.
It seemed that this was a focal point for Newcastle fans to gather and then they were joined by special train loads arriving at the station and escorted to the ground.
It seemed well policed and in fairness outside the ground there didn't seem to be the intensity for both sets of fans to get stuck into each other.
St Mary's nearest train station is Central and that is a good 1.25 miles to the ground right through the City centre, Fratton station is again about 3/4 mile from the ground and right on the road that most of the home fans take from the city centre.
Neither ground is logistically ideal for segregating fans coming by rail |
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Reply | Skates away ticket details announced
at 14:58 12 Dec 2025
I don't disagree with what you say, indeed I can't see why there have been several games with empty blocks, if the tickets are being spread amongst sponsors then it would be highly unlikely that every sponsor would be not turning up, there would be at least some who would.
The only answer on this one is that a headline sponsor has taken a block of tickets then just sat on them.
Essentially you are right if someone with 13 aways is missing out it is wrong, but you also have to consider that there are a few sponsors that are big away fans as well, I know someone who has corporate hospitality and goes to every away game and did do when he was just a normal season ticket holder, he has to get it through the club now, as he hasn't got the points on his season ticket.
The above would perhaps answer the question about sponsors not being allowed, some are bigger fans than the so called normal fans.
The answer is to have some sort of loyalty system for sponsors, trouble is how do you police it.
The most accurate answer I could give is that if there was one ticket left and you have a sponsor who is putting £75,000 a season into the club or give it to someone who is paying £500 as a season ticket holder, who do you want to make sure renews next season, I don't perhaps agree with that, but it is the blunt reality of the modern football game whether you are Southampton< Liverpool, Arsenal or Accrington Stanley ! Exactly |
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Reply | Being a Saints supporter
at 14:24 12 Dec 2025
I could say similar with a little adjustment
i'm from Southampton, generations of my family are from Liverpool, some even lived in Southampton nearly 100 years ago, but never became Saints supporters, my Dad & Grandad never started supporting Saints when they were down here and remained Liverpool fans till their deaths, my Grandad would send his copy of the Liverpool football echo to my Dad when he had moved back down here every week after he had read it.
If my Dad had lived to a ripe old age I would perhaps have never supported Southampton, I would not have been allowed to. I was never taken to the dell by my Dad and from memory he would visit the Dell just once a year to see Liverpool, possibly because he was going to the pub with his Saints supporting mates.
I do remember liking Saints as a team as they were local, I can remember going to get Ron Davies autograph at the Shell garage on Millbrook Road (still there now) when he did a personal appearance there, so I wasn't blind to the fact they existed, by late 71 I was taking an interest I considered them my second team, but from January 1972 they were well and truly my first team and from that moment on I would attend games either with fellow 10 year olds from school or even by myself if the opposition were poor and no one else wanted to go.
Imagine giving a 10 year old now his bus fare and the price of paying in on the turnstiles with perhaps a little bit for a can of coke etc now, you would be pulled up for child neglect, I even went to a night game on my own aged 10. |
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Reply | Spors
at 14:13 12 Dec 2025
In fairness to Spors he didn't go to the press when we were playing badly, make excuses and claim everything was fine, nor did he start saying things about backing the manager and his job was safe etc, he kept quiet and seemed confident that he would get things right.
He bided his time and now it is going well, he can now explain his strategy and how it has worked, lets be honest 6 weeks ago no one on here was saying give the job to the U21 manager (whatever his name is), Spors probably couldn't get a word in with the amount of people telling him what "had" to happen.
He has let actions speak louder than words, I was going to say a little more about certain players, but as we know they have also let actions speak louder than words |
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Reply | Skates away ticket details announced
at 14:07 12 Dec 2025
You are not wrong Pat, although to be fair I don't really care about the middle class coming into football.
It used to be like going on a long haul flight, someone is stupid enough to pay £5,000 to sit in First Class to New York, so I can go for £500 quid or something like that.
Football is the same, so to answer Cocklebreath's question, I have tried to get an answer from the club on many occasions and they usually refuse to comment, but off the record it is something like if you have a major sponsor who wants a few tickets for away games you have to oblige, likewise if someone is paying you £75k for an executive box then likewise the club are probably going to give him some.
Up to fairly recently this has rarely been a problem, but now the major sponsor is locally based P & O Cruises so they will have high ranking employees who support Saints so they will pull a few strings so to speak.
In fairness it is a surprise that more tickets are not being given to sponsors, back in 1984 for the trip to Pompey Townsend Thoresen ferries sailed from both Southampton & Portsmouth working in the shipping industry there were loads of their employees who got tickets through the company from both clubs, so this isn't a new thing |
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Reply | Being a Saints supporter
at 13:59 12 Dec 2025
As many from here already know I came from a Liverpool background with all my family from Liverpool until my parents moved down here just before I was born.
Although my Dad did spent come of his childhood from age 9 and teens here after my Grandad moved here with Canadian Pacific shipping line during the late late 1920's and 1930's
I was solely a Liverpool fan up till age 9 as with my Dad having died and so being the outsider at school as most supported Saints, I can't remember a Manchester United fan at all in my school, I went to the Dell in January 1972 and have barely missed many home games since.
Even back in 1975/76 when I was probably the biggest Saints fan in the entire school, if Liverpool got beat I would be given loads of stick for being a Liverpool fan, if Liverpool got beat at the Dell I would have the p*** taken for the week after, despite the fact that half the people doing so would have been stood next to me in the Milton or Archers Road ends supporting Saints as I was doing.
15th January 1972 V Manchester United in the FA Cup 3rd round was my first game a 1-1 draw, I was 10 |
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Reply | Skates away ticket details announced
at 13:49 12 Dec 2025
In fairness the Everton away support will be more locally based than Liverpool's away support, so by definition will have a more volatile element than Liverpool's
As you have said a large part of Liverpool's non Merseyside based support these days doesn't see Everton as their rivals, so it follows, that a larger part of Everton's support is males of a certain age and culture rather than nice middle class families from the home counties |
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Reply | Skates away ticket details announced
at 09:36 12 Dec 2025
Its sad that the Merseyside derby is so segregated these days, although before the game the away side seem to drink in their own pubs and then march to the others ground en masse, I'm not sure it is kettled, just that the police escort them to prevent rrouble.
Up to the 1990's there were plenty of Everton fans in the Kop & Liverpool fans in the Gwladys street without any problems, I remember seeing on TV in the 1980's games where Liverpool were en masse in the front section of the Gwladys street with Everton in the rear, no segregation and no trouble |
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Reply | Music fan nerdy stuff
at 21:58 11 Dec 2025
I havent seen the Charlatans live, but I have sat in a pub in Liverpool in December 2021,with two members of the band, a member of The Farm and Nasher out of Frankie Goes to Hollywood watching Liverpool play in the Champions League.
All friendly fellas who didn't mention music once.
Turned out the Charlatans were recording in Liverpool |
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Thread | Norwich Away
at 12:24 11 Dec 2025
Who is going to this one and how you getting there, it will be an early start |
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Thread | Pompey Ticket Booked
at 12:21 11 Dec 2025
I had best set the alarm for the middle of the night on the 25th January
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Thread | 5 Things About West Brom Game
at 10:01 10 Dec 2025
1. I thought we were superb first half and complacent the second, but as I said in the preview, the main thing was to get 3 points and we did.
2. We made the wrong substitutions and too early
3. It was nice to see Iain Dowie at the game, funny how having no hair makes you look a lot different, certainly in his case.
4. Hopefully we will learn from this game, if we do then we will keep winning.
5. Gavin Bazunu deserves credit for his form in recent games, he kept us in this one in the second half, he is benefitting from Tonda Eckert and the confidence in the team |
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Reply | Southampton V West Bromwich Albion The Verdict
at 08:58 10 Dec 2025
Where did i say it was the fans fault ?
Pat from Poole summed it up perfectly
"Most around me spent the majority of the game on their phones.
"I gave up in the second-half. Don’t see why I should lose my voice when everybody else just sings when we score and not at any other time. Apart from that Scouse shite.
"The team deserve a whole lot better."
The atmosphere in the ground was dreadful, I actually made the point that both the fans & the players were complacent, they sat back and thought the game was won.
I also made the point that in the dying minutes those that were still in the ground raised the roof and stirred up the players, I also said that the main thing was we got three points.
Everyone who was at the game has said that the atmosphere was dreadful, should we just ignore that and pretend it wasn't happening.
I am really not sure what your problem is here
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