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You're right, he is a quality player, excellent in my opinion, and I wouldn't say it's so much that some don't rate him but just that a price tag that goes with that quality is too high for someone who's only available for a limited amount of games. If we are committed to buying then I'm still content that we've got him in the squad and hope he finally gets a break from the injuries that have blighted his career. Big ask though....

'Storm Bert'n'Doris' is due to hit Southampton from the west just after lunchtime, will be a bit gusty early on but fizzle out as the afternoon rolls on. No lose game for our friends from Dorset today, win or draw they'll be cock-a-hoop for years, lose and they can live off the 'fact' that Saints fans celebrating wouldn't be for securing staying up but that it means so much for us to turn them over.

If it doesn't finally sell out it will still be over 31,000. Other than about a dozen seats low down behind the goal in the Chapel it's only single seats dotted around which are a bit harder to shift unless you've got no mates. Stupidly overpriced but they probably won't be fussed about that if it does sell-out (in a heads-in-the-sand kind of way).

Surprised to see so many tickets still left for this, overpriced for opposition but vital game so expected to have sold out by now. Their recent away form is far better than home results so hopefully Ralph (and the fans) will get them pumped up to push us over the line.

One available on the Saints Away forum https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?60894-1-X-Newcastle-Available#.XLgR--hKjIU

He was as high as a kite throughout most of his football career though. His head is fooked.

Always worth contacting the club and explaining your situation as they often put late tickets up that staff haven't taken up. Hopefully they'd be sympathetic.

Just a nod to tradition. For the first 5 years of our existence we had white shorts (well longs to be more exact!) but from the late 1800s until 1950 it was blue shorts, and mostly blue socks. Now I wouldn't want to see a p*rtsea island shade of blue, just a nice dark colour. And we had blue in our kit long before them, their traditional colours were salmon pink.

You're right, but where we had sold over 40,000 to known supporters before they went on open sale, they were letting theirs buy up to 9 tickets from the off. Anyone who fancied a day out in the big city jumped on the bandwagon. Still, if it gets them off that little island of theirs for a while, it's probably a good thing.

It's simple isn't it? Third shirt down but in red and white, shorts in the dark blue (as the stripes in the pic) and white socks.

2 have just gone back up on sale on the OS - must have been a couple of returns. https://tickets.saintsfc.co.uk/PagesPublic/ProductBrowse/StandAndAreaSelection.aspx?stadium=SJ&product=PA18NE&campaign=&type=H&productsubtype=AWAY&productIsHomeAsAway=N&_ga=2.11502579.610234270.1554725341-1129185940.1554725341

Thought it would be interesting to get Man City fans take on our match with the scallies last night and stumbled across this https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/what-a-difference-city-fans-2014-v-pompey-fans-2019.339670/ "Pikey c*nts from Portsmouth on Sunday" "Portsmouth are a joke. Regularly got 8-10k back in the day. I went there once with city and it was empty" "Compare that to the Portsmouth fans, who were allowed to but 6 tickets per season ticket holders meaning there were loads of day trippers there who have never been to a game, it was edgy before the game, with Pompey fans throwing cans at the Sunderland fans, and gobbing on them from the bridge at Wembley Way, and after the game, loads of coked up Pikeys wanting a confrontation, goading the Sunderland fans, singing Northern Monkey ******s etc"

Maybe the 'Early Bird' discount is returning.

Just the team - that's when I first started going regular. When I signed up to this forum I was going to pay homage to and name myself after the 'Alehouse Brawlers' but around that time a few on here were getting a bit agitated with any posts refering to the 'bad old days' so I thought it best to tone it down a bit as a newbie!

Think that was the first ever televised match on a Friday night - straight on the lash right after! Little more than a thousand scousers there that night.

Needless to say, wrong thread!

Never a bad time to pop this one up unfortunately, only blind faith suggests we'll get anything out of this game

I'd imagine the authorities will be a bit on edge over the reckless way the skates have sold tickets, letting fans have up to 9 tickets each, they haven't got a clue who's going. Probably 20k of their "boycotting" fans and another 20k daytrippers who've rarely been to a game of football in their lives, let alone at "the old girl". And when you consider their hooligan element (that grew in the 70s/80s infiltrated by the likes of NF and C18 and attracting any wannabe-little-Hitlers) and the area they'll be flooding on Sunday, what could go wrong?

The Sala story was a tragedy but it certainly gained the Welsh a few points when their "forever a Bluebird" effect kicked in, and to our detriment when they walked away with 3 points down here. But, of course, it's now "he was never a Bluebird" so we can certainly rule out any bad luck for them on that account. Tomorrow should revive good memories of Brighton in the sunshine in 2011, with Fonte popping up with a late winner.

...but do need to let fans have up to 9 tickets each to shift their Wembley allocation...

Hopefully the English Football League are going through the fine print of the paperwork from 1920 and can find some loophole to send them packing back to the Welsh leagues where they belong.

Yep, lovely stadium, fantastic 'home' end, that's what £1billion gets ya! Apparently, It's cost them £60m just to play at Wembley that's 2 x St Mary's Stadiums!

Sold Out.

As you say, just a recent manufactured rivalry by young whippersnappers. Bournemouth has always been home to a lot of Saints supporters, thousands of Southampton folk were evacuated down there in the war, many stayed and no doubt bought their kids up as SFC fans. Most of us are only fond of the place, lovely area, great beach and happy memories from childhood going down in the summer. And chucking money in their buckets to help save them The modern game? Where do you start? The obscene amounts of money paid to footballers and charged to fans. Other than the occasional one-off matches, the sterile atmosphere inside stadiums everywhere, same boring chants, I've even grown to dislike OWTS these days as it's done to death badly and on almost constant repeat by a mostly small crowd of fans in the corner. And I miss the blood-curdling roar that you use to wrap around most stadiums back in the day.

Remember just about every Saints fan inside the Dell swinging their scarves above their heads singing "Que Sera" when it was becoming a reality that we really were going back to Wembley for the third time in less than 3 years. This was when Wembley had this magical aura about it, unlike today when every Tom, D1ck and Harry gets to play at the ultra-modern soulless place, further killing it's magic and sense of being the Holy Grail for football supporters when they chuck FA Cup semi-finals there and even league games with Spurs. The snow continued all the way up to the 1979 League Cup Final too on March 17.