TheAlehouseBrawlers

So do I. Just couldn’t see us getting anything against Bournemouth who are a very decent side, but this seems more doable. Probably a point each.

Impossible with the players we can put out on a PL pitch. More confident it could make a difference next season tho.

Seems a bit odd lumping in athose clubs anyway, just because they’re a long way down the same coastline (we’re closer to Birmingham than we are Plymouth). I wouldn’t think the Geordies, Mackems or Smoggies bring Norwich or Ipswich into arguments just because they’re on the east coast.

It's always been the same. When we rolled up at Southampton Central in 2005 and saw the mob that was waiting outside, a lot of the old Warrens fellas were out in force, we said there's no way this train is leaving on time. True enough, we kept getting told there was this problem at that why the the decrepit old rattler was delayed, you knew it was bullshit. The game wasn't far from kicking off when we finally pulled out and when we got there we were greeted by what looked like an army of Robocops who did a slow stop-start march down to the ground with a few toothless skates giving it the big one from windows along the way.. By the time we got in we were already 3-0 down. A day best forgotten - done most of them since the 70s, missed the league cup win in 2019, but was there in 1984.

The Daily Echo certainly missed out on a catchy headline there… “FLYNN DOWNES TOOLS” …amateurs

Probably won't happen again but this time I agree with the condescending club stooge - that was a shit reaction to Smallbone being substituted. Like most of this team, he ain't good enough for this level but doesn't deserve to be scapegoated. I like to think it was more a convenient conduit at the time to channel the fans frustrations on the day and for this wretched season. It's about as angsty as our crowd get these days.

Yep, cringey. One moment singing how they gonna shoot 'em, the next almost affectionately blaring that shit out. Someone earlier said how the Bournemouth fans were mostly quiet, no they weren't, they were almost non-stop and were understandably enjoying their 'cup final'. And they had a wide variety of chants (mostly generic but no different to to the rest of the country) with nothing, other than a 10-min spell, coming back at them. At least they did bin off that 'Pride of the South' banner in the Northam. What a mess.

Nope, woke up this morning (not feeling fine) and still struggling to see how this team transforms into one that can get something out of this fixture. To add to my feeling of uneasiness I see Brighton rinsed Chelsea last night...who's up at St Mary's next weekend? Hopefully that big 'Pride of the South' banner is safely wrapped up in some underground vault and the key has been thrown into the Itchen.

Maybe we should get Russell Martin back on the payroll to come in and give the sulkers a bit of a cuddle.

This has gone up to 550 tickets available now so more season tickets being thrown in, looks like some fans have given up.

They’ve recently revealed plans to increase capacity at their ground, apparently they can’t go higher so they’re looking at digging down. Was amusing to read how some of their fans were saying they could ground share with “the scummers” (that’s so quaint) while work is carried out. Hopefully we’d just tell ‘em to fuck off, 10k of their fans rattling around in St Mary’s will look ridiculous. They be better off sharing with someone closer like Poole Town, Dorchester or Salisbury. Far more suitable capacity while they’re on-the-road.

That game down there was an absolute shocker (in a sea of countless other shockers this season) and how RM survived that is anyone's guess. By not acting when it was glaringly obvious has led to the shitshow we've all endured in what is possibly the worst season I've ever known in the, well over, half a century that I've been going. The Ticket Exchange is open, currently around 350 seats up for grabs, and will be interesting to see if that grows if ST holders continue to chuck their seats back in. I don't think I've ever been concerned about facing fookin Bournemouth until this season. What a mess.

Yep, not quite as embarrassing but Leeds at St Mary's was another similar capitulation and score line. One more for the collection, 30 years ago at the Dell, 2-up against Spurs in the FA Cup at halftime, up-step Ronny-fookin-Rosenthal. Lost 2-6.

We stuck 8 past Cov at the Dell early 80s, midweek game if I remember correctly, won 8-2. Actually maybe confusing that with the midweek 5-5 game a couple of years earlier as I can also remember news filtering through that evening of, I think, HMS Sheffield that had been struck and sunk in the Falklands.

I don't know, it felt pretty raw just a few weeks earlier with Redknapp's first home game. 2-up against Boro with a minute left on the clock, they then scored 2 is as many minutes. The sign of things to come...