Football Special

Scouts - any particular positions you want us to focus on? Sports Republic- yep, anything except striker and goalkeeper, don't worry about those

Blimey, that'll end up with the womens team playing on the common again like they did in the 70s. Seems a shame having raised their profile but if they're not making income for the club then money talks

My sentiments exactly mate, nicely put, old video but reminds me of this

We should have signed him , paid him with spaghetti

I was reading the upcoming club world cup competition gives the winners $125M in prize money, pointless summer tournament in USA, fake football for fake fans , crazy amounts of cash involved, football is definitely broken

Would be decent if they did. Also 140 anniversary of the club, any excuse bring back the Sash kit, happy memories of 10/11 season

Agree. I would say one significant difference is the other clubs have a feelgood factor about them, Newcastle won at Wembley last week and this event almost became an extension of the party. Clubs like Newcastle and Arsenal where tickets are hard to come by for the men's teams have used the womens game to attract fans who might not be able to afford or get tickets to the men's. I think if St Mary's was harder to get to for the men's more might go to alternatives like this. It is a good cheap way to get youngsters used to going to live sport.

Same here, I think Merthyr will beat them to top spot unfortunately, then lottery of the play offs, hope they go up after losing to Salisbury on pens last season

It's been a bad season for Exempt fans

Steve Davis from Rangers must be up there with our best ever signings ,800k wasn't it, what a great player. Anyone remember the other Steve Davis from around 89/90?

I've been sent this link from someone at my kids football, gets you half price tickets for the ladies game v Pompey on Saturday if any use to anyone https://tickets.southamptonfc.com/selection/event/date?productId=10228646820599&advantageId=10228765664675&fbclid=IwY2xjawJJLPxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHTrXMS0un-ytwTAi7NUbenSItjcgE73UMbXuK345i2gXKOeK1EBCkRmZ5g_aem_uAOPnE-lcJ0DFIYBrfI0eg

Perhaps, but I understand from talking to someone at the club that they see this as a good additional revenue stream, particularly for A cat games, match already "sold out" so they then give a season ticket holders back 1/19th as an account credit not actual cash, say £30, then sell that seat for £50 plus booking fee , as long as they benefit financially it's good for them. The Brighton ex̌ample is not resale on exchange is it i think thats just season ticket holders who transfer seat to a mate and they charge for that

I do think that the club have a big PR job to encourage season ticket sales for next season, closest thing we could get to a refund is a big discount for renewal, fans are demoralised , will be an easy decision for some to not renew

Some fans have been doing their own "refunds" by selling back to the club on the ticket exchange, a mate of mine has over £250 credit on his account now so that will pay for a large chunk of next seasons , might even top up some more if exchange opens for other remaining games

He just needs time to implement his methods apparently! Reminds me of Russ saying "when things click we're going to be brilliant "

Agreed, maybe going out of Champions league and having a tough 90 minutes against the mighty Saints in the last week had taken it out of them

Did you explain that Newcastle are now owned by Saudi Arbaia so hardly some plucky underdogs?

Lost to table toppers Birmingham not a huge surprise but that's now EIGHT games without a win going back to NOVEMBER, whether interested in the ladies game or not it's another sign that Sports Republic are mismanaging the club. Now dropped to 8th in an 11 team league one place above the Skates who we play next week, better bloody win that

SR need to hold their hands up and acknowledge they've tried blagging their way into football ownership and have been shown to be completely clueless. They've had time to source advisors to help them in decision making but all the main calls seem to be traced back to Ankerson, Nathan Jones and Juric were identified by him , player recruitment embarrassing, other clubs must see us coming and delight in off-loading players at high prices

Picked using same statistical methodology as Jones I think, points gained per pound exceeding expected position vs budget but no actual analysis of how he manages teams and which players were at the clubs

Um excuse me , Aribo isn't the only one on three....

Charlton won again today, I dread to think of the reaction on here if we do play and lose to Jones next season, you couldn't write a twist like that

Probably a debate for another day but we've had a lot worse than Branfoot in my opinion, yes his style of play and stubbornness set him against the fans, but he kept us up and took us to Wembley, certainly a better era than now

I think this is it unfortunately Baz, setting a record that will likely never be beaten.

The match day programme has stickers to collect in each edition, today's is an absolute cracker - will definitely be a collectors item one day , I'm prepared to sell if anyone wants to make me an offer