TheAlehouseBrawlers

That was a pretty convincing victory yesterday, thought I'd just catch the highlights on the FL Show and relive it a bit - well down the pecking order and just the goals, and Swansea will feel it was "harsh (at 4-0) and then it got worse". As said "flying under the radar".

No it’s not, that’s even more braindead than all the constant skate shit heard from the dinlos. Sadly, take away the songs about the third division fookwits and there’s little else in the repertoire.

Plymouth and Swansea sold out a couple of days ago but the ticket exchange is open if anyone needs to offload tickets. Swansea away went on sale and lasted a couple of days, sold out to season ticket holders. Norwich away also close to selling out for NYD.

That Hansa support looks a bit geeky but good away numbers and noisy. In an ideal world you wouldn't need all the organised European stuff but there's nothing over here anymore, it's a mess - but it does piss off Klopp so that's one good thing https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67782829

Do they all phone each other in the morning to see what everyone's wearing?

I was having a little nose over on a Rangers board earlier and did see this... https://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/forum/304394/away-fan-friendly-pub/#21 I'm sure most will be drinking all over central London before tubing it to the Shepherd's Bush area

Not putting many off, mostly just single seats remaining scattered around the stadium - Boxing Day* (*Trousers to the front desk please) also close to a sell-out, would have been already if Swansea hadn't sent back so many tickets, Blocks 43 and 44 now on sale to home fans.

Oh fuck, another one......

Maybe he no longer has the 'zip' required for the PL but I'm convinced he could have a big impact at this level. Not against, in fact I'd welcome it, but I'd have thought we'd only get near his wage demands if West Ham are massively subsidising them.

It's taken long enough...and with that our set-piece coach is naffing off https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/23995177.southampton-coach-andreas-georgson-set-leave-club/

Most weeks I have a little browse over the opposition's forum to get a feel to how they see the fixture coming up, one thing you do notice, all messageboards have the same moaners, bullshitters and fuckwits. But one standout is that the majority of these Championship fans really dislike RM. Most don't rate him or his tactics and he's seen as arrogant and a bit of a *insert your expletive of choice* and only doing well as hie's got a big money squad. I like him, he's been through a bit in his time and I can understand rivals views - I can't lie, personally I don't find this football 'exciting', it's effective with these players most weeks in this division and you can't moan too much with results/league position but I did think I'd enjoy this season more than I actually am up to now..

He did while throughout playing for them against us but it stemmed from when he played for Blackburn, think Ossie got sent off up there that day. ”Bailey, Ba-ai-ailey, Bailey come and he wanna go home” Edit: fanimal said it better!

Great unbeaten run but...dull and boring. Great squad of players for this division but...dull and boring. Great crowd numbers home and away but...dull and boring. We're a match made in heaven.

Ahem...South Central ambulance these days

But as the title goes, songs about the city, Southampton, not Hampshire or anywhere else. Why would anyone want to sing that?

Or maybe their fans are a little less cretinous than some others and would never sing one of the most dinlo things ever to be heard near a football ground. Probably that.

Ooh, they were trying hard "hold me back Chardonnay, hold me back............"

I mentioned on another thread a few days back that Everton used to sing "We all agree, Duncan Mackenzie is magic" (someone has since pointed out to me that Leeds started it when he was their player) it got most of the ground joining in. 'Kyle Walker Peters' would fit quite nicely into this. Can't remember anyone doing it since and probably a bit naff these days but couldn't be more simple for our fans that seem to struggle with chants these day.

I must have been at a different game. Good win though.

They're usually pretty good when they've come to St Mary's (big day out 😉) and would think they'll be up for it tomorrow, particularly as there will be an ex-Swan in the home dugout. But (no different to us and plenty more) they're also lamenting their own home support these days. Got to fancy us but may not be particularly pretty to watch again. Side note; FA Cup third round draw on Monday, we're number 36, the skates are............oh..........

You beat me to it, was going to mention that after reading the ‘starter pistol’ post earlier but had run out of posts. A few years older than me but heard plenty of tales over the years. Good to hear he had a good send off and very appropriate his wake was up the Muni where he spent many hours with his docker mates.

We could easily have been 2, maybe 3, down at the break, yep we picked up and thankfully scored early which killed their game plan and you can't complain about another 3 point. But I want to feel the joy but watching us most games it's Puel levels of excitement and certainly not the way most of envisaged us performing in this league, particularly with the funds for players at our disposal. Shipping out Adams and getting in another (injury free/proven) striker is now a priority as it's beginning to look like we're not going to be able to rely on Ross Stewart turn out every week.

RM on the Venables tribute before kick-off: "He was a legend of the game and well ahead of his time when you see what everyone has said about him. To go and manage Barcelona back then as an Englishman is amazing. He gave me some of my best memories of watching football with his England team". I guess he was more English than Scottish when we dumped them out of Euro 96, he's just gone up in my estimation.

Back in the 70s Everton used to belt out… ”We all agree, Duncan MacKenzie is magic” it got most of their crowd involved - Kyle Walker Peters would slot in there OK - bit of a struggle trying to fit that mouthful into a chant!

That was definitely an early 80s thing for a very small bunch of our dinlos at the back of the Milton. What the fuck it had to do with Southampton and giving support to a football team only they would know.