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Would assume they didn't open all the lower blocks at once, no way did we sell over a thousand in one day to non regulars.

Easily one of if not the best away ends of the season for me, and I'd have thought that even without the 3 late goals. Like you say we got our reward too. What I liked is that after the first goal there was no sarcastic 'gonna win 4-3' or 'we scored a goal' but instead a really raw and visceral 'come on you reds'. It showed that we collectively thought we could really get back into it and I think the players fed on it. I agree too that our support is often better with the smaller followings. QPR was another one of the better ones this season whereas most of the big allocation ones have been poor.

My favourite too though have to admit there's a bit of recency bias there. But I've never experienced anything remotely like those last ten minutes and am still in a state of shock/euphoria now. Thought the away support was class too, whilst a lot of stick was given at HT it didn't really turn at all until the third went in, and everyone seemed bang up for it again pretty quickly when the second half started.

I'm not saying we couldn't win them if we got there, just that for quite a while now it's always been one of the better sides across the league campaign that wins them. It's a good point though that 3rd/4th won't be as strong this year as most, albeit I'd still expect there to be a large points gap between 3rd and 6th. If we made it we'd certainly be the form team but I'm not sure that means as much as it seems sometimes. Sunderland were in rancid form last season. Either way I don't think we're good/consistent enough to make it personally. We'll have another slump at some point and that'll be that. Looking ahead to games is pointlees imo, just take each game as it comes and see where we are come Easter. It'd be the most typical Saints thing ever to go and lose at Leicester tonight just as the fans are getting excited about a play off charge.

Would prefer to win Saturday over tomorrow by far. Hopefully we can win both though.

I think the play offs have been won by the team finishing 3rd or 4th for about 6 years straight so it'd be surprising if we did win them. I still dont think we'll make it personally. Don't think we're good enough to go on the huge run needed.

Maybe one in L1? Think we had about 500 at Oldham midweek when we won 6-1. Played Rochdale midweek too that season I believe so that was probably a small following as well.

Really poor following. Probably been quite a long time since such a low one in the league.

I didn't get one. Must be getting sent out in batches.

Where is this survey?

People should have known as back then UEFA rules prohibited alcohol sales at matches.

4 weeks notice now according to this - https://www.efl.com/how-to-watch/tv-game-selection-process/ Be interesting to see the draw as quite a few all EFL ties and so if any of the winners draw each other it'll mean some Easter games being postponed. Be good if both us and Wrexham won and we drew them up there so gives more people the chance to go. Interestingly the QF draw will presumably be 8th/9th of March so could see them waiting for that possibly to announce Easter games.

Loads blocked out again. Definitely been higher this season. Not a huge problem for this game as it'll probably reach general sale/not sell out but if they take a similar number from the Wrexham allocation...

3 games? How generous 🤣 I think it looks a poor signing on the face of it but willing to give him an actual chance.

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.