franniesTache

Can i suggest a new title of, The squinnying about tickets thread?

Always annoyed the shit out of me that we just re-used the redomond song for KWP, even more so because my group were trying to get Prince's Raspberry Beret used for him instead. Then again it was original so had no fucking chance of catching. That Lemina one made me laugh, think we played Watford at st marys and they were singing it about one of their players, the very next game it was lifted and ripped off word for word for Lemina by our dins. We genuinely have one of the least creative fanbases in the game, god knows why but they can't sing anything unless it's a 100miles an hour, nicked from another club and/or mentions the blue few

Technically yeah but he'd often "drift" out to the left wing to launch an opposition player into the east stand benches, so that counts right?

Running joke at the time was it was interchangeable wasn't it? I can remember Benali/Pastrami/Salami/Red Army all being shouted at various points when that chant got going, back then fans didn't take stuff so seriously (and every chant didn't need to mention the skates)

Left midfield OOOOOOHHH Terry Hurlock? Right back Jason Dodd, Dodd, Dodd. Center Back could also be Jim Steele based on the song, also on song alone up front Brett Ormerod?

The game just needs to have been played, there's no way of the club knowing if the ticket was used, or who the ticket was used by. I know that from experience as i missed Palace away last season because i was ill but the ticket counted on my away history

We might've sold that amount for Liverpool and Sheffield United but i'd bet good money that both will have significant gaps in the away end on the actual day as people are buying just to get access to the skates game

The thing is you're getting angry about facts, the fact is the away fans can't hear the northam, it doesn't matter how loud it is it's completely silent from the other end, and like it or not away fans judge clubs on their home fans, and ours sound shit now to away fans. I'm not against the Northam, it's needed, and it's their for a purpose of it's own. But we also need other cultures and pockets, the same way at the dell we had the archers and milton, but needed under the east or the west stand benches. They're different cultures in the same ground. That's what we lost when we got rid of the Itchen North, it was different to the Northam. Hopefully the chapel block takes off and the club don't kill it, because it's decent and it's needed. And it's decent because it's not the Northam. This is completely fair and a completely valid point, it's not one i'm arguing against and it's one from a different place. And if the Northam provides that that's a good thing

Personally what i'd prefer to see is the club getting the nippers from the local estates and inner city back in the ground first, then look at the surrounding areas. Reducing ticket prices for people within x miles of the ground maybe? Or giving kids for a quid if you're from those areas, maybe even bring back the partnerships with local schools to encourage nippers to go.

The idea that some arbitrary area that happens to be within the boundary of Hampshire and happens to have a large number of people living in it means Saints would have between 900k and 1.2m people who would want to go to games is Portsmyth levels of insane bollocks 🤣

Yeah i mean those stats are frankly insane, they count everything in an SO postcode as "Southampton urban area", which if you think about it is fucking batshit. An urban area is a piece of land that effectively runs continuously with no real gaps. For our city - as anyone who's ever lived there will know - is basically from Park Gate/Warsash on the East, to Totton on the west, north to Easteigh and Romsey and south to Waterside and Hythe. And that's at a push. I reckon you'd could argue if you wanted that Waterside, Marchwood, Hythe, Park Gate and Warsash aren't really Southampton as there's a fairly decent gap in housing up to them. But to include just south of Andover which is almost 40miles away, and Winchester - the old capital of England and a city very much in it's own right - in Southampton Urban Area, or to claim that Arselford or Micheldever are, is to completely ignore the geography of the area and basically to claim Hampshire is Southampton (not that i'm personally against the old county name of Southamptonshire coming back, if for nothing else than to piss off the skates). I'd estimate at most the Southampton urban area (close to but outside the city boundaries but more or less connected by built up land) is an extra 100k. To claim it's 500k+ and the 6th biggest city in England? That's genuinely crazy shit 🤣

That kind of completely misses the point though, it's the away fans that will judge it not the home fans on the opposite end of the ground, and a hell of a lot of time you'd see the away fans comment on how good the support was when we had both the Itchen North and Northam hemming them in. Now we're just going to have them saying it's shit because you can't hear the Northam from the other side of the ground

That figure is bizarre and almost certainly wrong, the southampton urban area only had a population of 248,922 in the last census, an increase of 5.11%, i've no idea where the other 543,078 people are in those stats, maybe it covers the SO postcode? But then that goes as far north as Andover which i wouldn't count as Southampton (certainly not the urban area)

Yup that's exactly my point, in fact i think most away fans are going to walk away from st mary's saying it's a shit atmosphere because of that fact. I personally think moving the away fans is probably the single worst mistake the club have done.

It was the worst skate away end i think i've ever seen, so many replica shirts and very few lads, also the collective age looked about 13. Almost no needle from them and they seemed properly meek and wilted really quickly. Also what they did sing was pretty much the league two song book. Thought the bit of the chapel next to them was decent, not exactly loads of songs but did it''s job and was a good mixture of older and younger lads. I'm not normally a fan of them but thought the Beattie flag was actually pretty decent, but for the most part you simply don't hear the northam from the other end of the ground so there's nothing for the away fans to bounce off and i assume the same the other way round