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Surely they're just saying Swansea have sold the full 3,200 away allocation. Just the normal half of the Northam then.

Lest we forget...

I don't know if he's gonna turn out to be the real deal but I reckon he at least deserves one of these...

Golden Posts.

As, apparantly, fartton will once again be meagrely attended by home fans and with 4000 fiesty Welshman making the trip maybe he fancies his chances. The magic of the cup appears to be over down there.

There was an article in last night's Echo about this - says the deadline for claims is 31/1/09.

...bit like the other 15,000 other "token" skates that turned up at Wembley last year but aint been around to help you fill fartton since? :smt023

Ya gotta admit, there's an uncanny resemblance...

...maybe they'll just pay 'sundunce' a little more to try a little harder...

Seems appropriate...

No brainer...c'mon you sp*rs. OK sp*rs have got 'Honest 'arry' but the skates have got...Johnnie-p*ss-pants-Westwood, Peter Storey, Fred Drainage, a ground full (ok usually not 'full') of six-fingered delusional mongs, Corp Ho, dodgy chairman................

It went as far as 3 different models being constructed and displayed in Southampton library, spectaular they were to, it was just a case of which one was going to be chosen...but we ended up with a toy warehouse!

The Dream-Team

...and another obnoxious skate, Freddie Emery Wallis (if memory serves) who was more obstructive. The thing that guaranteed it would never succeed was the fact that the bit of land involved, partly 'in' Southampton, was owned by 3 different authorites - Labour Southampton, Lib-Dem Eastleigh and Tory HCC. How were they ever likely to agree...particularly when, as previously mentioned, Lowe drastically moved the goalposts with a dramatic added "commercial engine". Now the nearby Rose Bowl was a totally different story...

I always chuckle at the one, along the lines of, us becoming..."the Man United of the south!" And although I can't guarantee he was responsible (but...) the strap line when moving to SMS..."We built it, You fill it" Well, we filled it and then.......................

Yeah but...I think you'll find they've already indentified this mysterious "Middle Eastern Businessman" on another recent thread...

Ohhh, yuusssss.... ...and I see they've sussed how to sneak Rupey outta SMS after we lose to Donny....

Well it's an era that many of us see as the greatest in this club's history...maybe you had to be there...

Remember us singing "Lawrie, Lawrie..." to 'Amazing Grace' but maybe we could be a little more original...how about (to, I think it was, 'Grocer Jack' from the 70s)... "Lawrie Mac, Lawrie Mac Is it true what Rupey says You wont be back? Oh Lowe, Just go-o"

Wow...a whole 10,000 home fans to watch their first defence of the cup...impressive...and they slashed prices!

Yeah but...only if you could fill it.:smt023 *should be pointed out that you regularly struggle to fill little ol' fartton's 21,000 capacity

What...and f*k off?

Getting everyone to boycot a game would be a powerful statement but...it'll never happen. There's always gonna be a few thousand that will go come-what-may. It would need to be a virtually empty stadium for the impact. Financially it would be damaging for the Wupert & Co. but probably not crippling. IMO the bigger impact for publicity would be for a mass walk-out at a designated time - but again I think, particularly if it was a good game, many would stay put. The most workable could be: Someone blows a whistle at, say, 4:15 and everyone just ups-and-leaves for 10 minutes in the concourses. This could be accompanied with a simple and continuous 'Lowe Out' for the duration. This gives the club a massive security headache as they've then gotta steward both the stands and concourses and the media will be waiting for it to happen. We can then all go back up and roar the 'team' on to make another point for the crucial closing stages. Ideally at a televised game.