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Yeah that's the way you'd go anyway. Just be an even bigger queue than normal at the roundabout.

Properly anecdotal that stadium thing, easy to get across the feeling of widespread support when there's no structure to it.

Even a partial boycott would have an impact I think, a thousand empty seats in an away end for a local derby would get a lot of media interest. Problem is it would only work if people were still prepared to pay for the seats they're not using as otherwise other people will take them. The other option is to publicly arrange a visit to a pub on Portsea Island to watch the game, give the old bill something else to think about and stretch their resources.

So my initial email to FAB was on 14th January, stating that I'd looked through meeting notes and seen that the FAB were supportive of the clubs proposals for the bubble and asking following questions about it: I also in the same email asked about the FAB new membership process: Received the following response on 18th January: I then replied on 19th January including the following (left some general guff out which doesn't directly relate to issues raised etc): Apologies for poor grammar, not my strongest point 🤣 I received a reply a couple of hours after I sent that from a different FAB member stating that what the previous person meant by us receiving a bigger allocation was that we got a bigger percentage of the ground. They didn't respond to any of the other points. I also never did get a further email from them answering my questions about new membership process for FAB. Probably quite boring for most but thought worth sharing as some may find it interesting, think it largely confirms what a lot of us knew in that the FAB doesn't really offer any true representation of the wider fanbase.

At a meeting last summer it was suggested by someone present (not a current FAB member) that they didn't think a public vote was necessary.

I've got some email correspondence with them I need to share here, didn't bother last week as was part of the skate match thread. Will do it later this afternoon.

It 100% came from their end, I saw it thrown. The lad wasn't exactly hiding it either so should be easy to identify if they're that arsed about it. I agree that the ref was excellent and wish more were like it. Pissed me off when Harwood Bellis tried winning a cheap foul at the end in the corner and then stopped playing cos he thought it would be given. The ref hadn't given those all day long ao why take a risk like that when they're pushing for a winner?

The thing is while it's always worse against us that stand is always a problem in any big game they play. The media never mention it though so they get away with it and therefore it'll continue.

Agree with this massively. For all the people loving the Downes tackle I thought it was a daft thing to do at that point in the game. It was the only part of the game where we looked to have a semblance of control and were knocking the ball around relatively comfortably having just taken the lead. All of a sudden that happened plus a couple of other incidents with us getting involved in pushing and shoving and it gave both their players and crowd a huge boost and changed the momentum.

The City of Southampton expects... Stupid time to wake up for a game so close by. Loud and proud today my fellow mushes, let's try and stick with the team even if we don't start well and save the dogs abuse for the end if warranted. This is about more than the players on the pitch and let's remind them that our city and club is better than theirs in every possible way. Not feeling at all confident but at least we're not them myth spouting inbreds.

I've thought a lot about this and I wonder what they'd actually do if people broke out of the 'sterile area'. Is there actually a crime they could charge anyone with? Would they show common sense and let people out in an emergency? It's not been an issue so far due to every game being a draw so they've not had to deal with an angry away support but surely at some point there'll be a few who try it.

Surely will be red and white. Be good if everyone can be in their seats a good 20 minutes before KO tomorrow to get some atmosphere building. We're gonna be there for 2+ hours before so may as well give the lads some support during the warm up, there'll be plenty of time for drinking beforehand if giving them lot money is your thing.

I think there's proper coaches this time rather than buses so you'd hope there's toilets on board.

I think that last bit is bollocks personally and arguably another part of their myth that they care more. I used to use the hovercraft there a fair bit as well as take my nipper to the pier and regularly saw people showing their Saints allegiances.

Yeah, who are we to argue with the 'history of stuff'?