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Reply | Princewill Ehibhatiomhan
at 13:12 13 Feb 2025
Fits to the smiths tbf
Prince William, Prince William, Ehibhatiomhan
Prince William, Prince William, Ehibhatiomhan [Post edited 13 Feb 13:13]
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Reply | European matches and ticket advice please.
at 13:01 12 Feb 2025
I lived in spain for a bit and in that time did all the madrid clubs, the barcelona region clubs and zaragoza.
In the main it was incredibly easy to get tickets, most Spanish games - bar big games like derbys or tourist clubs - don't sell out and in general attendance at spanish games isn't great.
The exceptions to that are the two big clubs, Barca and Real, which is down to the huge numbers of tourists at games (if you think tourists here are an issue then it's on another level for those two), and the basque clubs which have a support much more similar to english support in terms of actually turning up to games.
If you're happy to avoid the two big clubs then you can just buy tickets direct from the club you're going to, and in a lot of cases can even do that on the day.
When i went to see Getafe i'd estimate about a third of their ground was empty and it was incredibly easy to get tickets, i just walked up on the day.
I'd also suggest you avoid the organised package tours for Spanish clubs as they're a total rip off aimed at fleecing tourists, if you're booking a hotel it's often easier just to ask the hotel to sort tickets for you. |
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Reply | 5 Things About The Burnley Game
at 09:41 12 Feb 2025
As long as they don't sing about grown men's cocks and take part in god awful banter i'd much rather sit with zombies to be honest.
The utter mouth breathers in the northam is unbearable [Post edited 12 Feb 9:42]
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Reply | 5 Things About The Burnley Game
at 14:51 11 Feb 2025
Yeah i think we've decided we're probably moving too, the "red wall" is f*cking awful and frankly i'd prefer to sit in silence than be surrounded by the people in it. |
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Reply | As it stands, Is there any more point in Southampton F C being a football club ?
at 12:57 10 Feb 2025
Put this elsewhere but this is my opinion on it all.
It's been death by a thousand cuts really, I liked Ralph for large periods but by the end he was completely spent, the mistake with him was not getting rid sooner - especially as he said he was off at the end of that season and became a lame duck.
We should've sacked Ralph at the end of the season and spent the summer getting the right man in. We didn't so it went to shit.
Then we brought in Jones, some of the stuff he did i actually still don't think was as terrible as people made out, he kicked the players up the arse which needed doing and he called out our more self entitled parts of fanbase which needed doing, but on the pitch he was fundamentally not even close to being good enough.
Unfortunately once again we waited far too late to get rid of him, which should've happened after the Forest home game when it was obvious how bad he was.
Then we brought in Selles who just felt like SR had basically given up, held their hands up, said "f*cked if we know" and put him in. The major mistake there was bringing in a person who'd never managed a club and expecting them to learn their trade at possibly the worst time you could learn your trade, during a catastrophic relegation battle where what we needed was someone who had been there before (but probably wouldn't have been popular with our more hipster elements in our support).
So obviously we went down and sacked him, that brought in Martin. I still think Martin was the wrong choice from day one but luckily we had a squad good enough to get us up anyway.
I think it was obvious to anyone with half a brain that if Martin continued with his footballing style we'd be torn apart every week, he took a team that conceded a ton of goals and created a small amount in the championship, but managed to win because we had better players, into a league where we'd concede loads of goals, create very few and have significantly worse players.
It was a recipe for disaster.
In my opinion a good owner would've said thanks for promotion and here's your P45 the day after the play offs, but i could sort of understand the logic that said give him a chance in the premier league.
The issue once more came about because we didn't just give him a chance, we hung on way, way too long, put the club in a position that meant we couldn't rescue it, destroyed the players confidence and made us deeply unattractive to any other manager.
So when the finally sacked him and brought in Juric they basically had to bring in a "Mark Hughes" style coach. Juric probably wouldn't have been my first choice.
We had two choices in reality, give up on the season completely, look at the long term and build going forward. For me that choice would've been spending what was needed and getting Rohl in, and given the way Rohl plays it would take time for that to bed so doing it now wouldn't be the worst thing, because if we do sack Juric and go for him we'll potentially f*ck up the start to the championship season.
Or option two get in a pragmatist like Juric who will spot fix the worst things - an inability to attack, playing players in the wrong position, the beaver like approach to damn building through slow, ponderous, insane passing and the woefully poor fitness levels of the squad. But know we'd probably still go down and know that we've got ourselves a fairly bog standard, nothing special but competent manager.
SR obviously went with option two, the big question now is if it goes wrong will they finally learn to act faster. I very much doubt it, and i'm not that confident about coming straight back up next time round either. |
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Reply | 10 Greatest Players In Saints History Ranked
at 13:27 5 Feb 2025
I didn't say Stokes was one of the best, i said he was a legend. Because he scored the goal that one us our one and only trophy (and no i don't count the JPT, play offs or Southern league trophies).
There's a universe difference between Stokes winning us the FA Cup and Armstrong winning the 3rd play in the second division trophy |
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Reply | 10 Greatest Players In Saints History Ranked
at 11:23 5 Feb 2025
I have a fairly strict opinion on this,
A legend is a player or person who's had a significant and sizeable impact on the history of southampton football club, so Ted Bates, Lawrie, Mick Channon, Matt Le Tiss, Bobby Stokes, Ron Davies.
By the nature of the word - legend - there should be very, very few.
Then you have cult hero, there's loads more of these, they're the Franny types or Holmes and Lambert. Some of them are good players some of them have just done a lot for the club or city, but they didn't really have a monumental impact on the history of the club. |
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Reply | 10 Greatest Players In Saints History Ranked
at 10:57 5 Feb 2025
Not the worst list i've ever seen, i'd probably have Mark Wright in there somewhere though as he's the best center back i've ever seen play for us.
Controversially i'd also argue Shearer shouldn't be there, he wasn't with us that long in reality, in fact it feels like he's in there for what he did after he left rather than at the time.
I'd personally have Holmes or Danny Wallace in there ahead of Shearer.
My list would be,
1. Matt Le Tissier
2. Mick Channon
3. Terry Paine
4. Ron Davies
5. Alan Ball
6. Mark Wright
7. Rickie Lambert
8. Virgil Van Dijk
9. Danny Wallace
10. Kevin Keegan [Post edited 5 Feb 11:25]
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Reply | Top 3 potential ground name changes
at 13:01 4 Feb 2025
The Cooking Cauldron (WE HATE POMPEY)
The Marcher-on (WE HATE POMPEY)
The Theatre of Influencers (WE HATE POMPEY)
The Allez Allezians (WE HATE POMPEY) |
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Reply | 5 Things About Ipswich
at 15:12 3 Feb 2025
1. The bus replacement was surprisingly efficient and barely added any time to the journey
2. Has to be one of the best aways for pubs/locations, we drank in a couple of absolutely lovely old fashioned pubs not far from the marina and a small brewery that would be great in the summer months
3. Why do our fans sing about going to the championship as if it's something to proud of? Absolutely no pride in our city and celebrating failure, i find it really strange and embarrassing
4. Portman Road is cracking ground, a proper football ground and it's shame there's not more like it left in the country
5. We got very lucky to win, really didn't think we deserved it but for some reason had a feeling even after they equalised we were going to sh*thouse a win. Definitely as a game had the feel of two championship sides. |
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Reply | Are Saints Fans
at 11:23 31 Jan 2025
yes the person making the joke is definitely the one that needs to cheer up  |
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Reply | Are Saints Fans
at 15:40 30 Jan 2025
One of my favourite things is seeing the dads and lads going to the game together, no bullsh*t, no hype, just generations following in the footsteps of those before.
Same thing with the pubs pre-games where you have 2/3+ generations of families in the same place, that's the community side of the game i love and the bit i lament the most because it's dying out. |
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