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Altering it to 'Saints' would make sense, but it's happened all season so I doubt the chants will change for one match...

Though it's unfortunate that the club dragged their heels, the first home game of next season will roughly tally with the anniversary of Markus' passing and as such would be a fitting time to unveil the flag (especially if progress has been made towards the 5-year plan by then).

Donated, tweeted and posted to Facebook Sounds like it's going pretty well so far. Decent effort on the site by the way - there's a good framework there to add more content as you get it.

Agree with the consensus of the thread, but even if you could get everybody on here to agree to it there'll be a majority of people at the Plymouth game that don't read Saintsweb. Plus some people will do it anyway, because they're hooligans Regardless, let's get the 3 points first...

Haha, need a third option in that poll. Nearly there though!

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Hope that we have plenty to celebrate and that the capacity crowd will be up for the occasion I plan to make a long day out of it either way!

He's let in so many goals and messed up so many times that we have a +41 goal difference... I don't think anybody in their right mind would compare the two goalkeepers mentioned, but that doesn't take the achievement away, relative to our current position. Yes, Kelvin is beaten too often at the near post, but counter that with the number of intelligent, athletic saves he pulls out and I think you can say it more than evens itself. Perhaps the reason that fans of other teams occasionally call us arrogant is that some of us come out with nonsense like this. Like players in many other positions on the pitch, if he was that high above League One ability, he wouldn't be playing for us. Until we're promoted we're still a third division club, let's not forget that.

Surely we'll do OK for attendance? Take tomorrow (oh, today now actually) for example - if we can't bring in 25k or more on a sunny bank holiday, at the business end of the season with this much to play for, it's kind of a sad indictment of our fanbase. Our current average for home games this season apparently sits at just under 22k (http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/D2/attend.html) and you would imagine that the buzz of a promotion push would raise above that for the last two. I don't know, maybe that's too harsh a comment, but if we keep on as we are, the potential for a party atmosphere at the final home game will surely be too good to miss out on.

I'm pretty sure I could make it next week too, although it depends whether my posts being ignored so far in this thread is merely an oversight or intentional!

The hash tags are just used to start or contribute to a trending topic, like ours is #saintsfc. If you search for '#saintsfc' you'll then find a load of tweets by people talking about us. Twitter can be as banal or absorbing as you make it really - depends how much time you're willing to invest and who you follow. If anyone wants to follow a fellow supporter I'm on there as antonydjames

Likewise from me, if newcomers are definitely OK Can put me down as a definite - haven't played for a couple of months so I'm aching for a decent kickabout. I was looking for a TSF football thread a while ago and was surprised not to see one so hopefully this can become regular again.

If the fixture had been during our unbeaten run I'd have been more likely to back us to nick in and take the three points, but recent performances have looked uninspired and (dare I say it) weary. Personally I think we should have sneaked the win in the fixture at St. Mary's, but they're an intelligent and disciplined side that could well pick us off. Anything other than a loss would be a bonus in my eyes as I don't think there's any question of them taking their foot off the gas.

Bearing in mind that we were just above the relegation zone at the point Adkins joined (unless my memory has completely failed me), I think we should absolutely be thanking our lucky stars that we're battling for what we are at this point. Second place would be bloody brilliant and quite possibly deserved, but only if we can deliver the necessary results in the final five games. I love how people talk in definitives on here - as if there's no chance we'll sneak up if we stuff up second place. Anything could happen in the next few games and probably will FFS! Let's just get behind the lads and see where it takes us.

Fully agreed. He showed a level of desire that had been massively lacking in the majority of the team towards the end of the second half. Could be an important attribute in the last few games. The thing that gets me is that he's physically diminuitive, but always makes a nuisance of himself regardless of that.

Somebody had better intercept that delivery of cyanide pills now... Let's be fair, it didn't look good at 2-0 down, but there was definitely the sense in the ground that if we got one we could sneak another. A mental 11 minutes and very tense end to the game, but the buzz afterwards was worth all of it.

It's interesting that the boo boys have gone a bit quiet on him! Fickle? Never

Yep, it was really fun today Personally I'm always up for singing all game, every game but it's tough when nobody around you is up for it. Today was a nice change from the average game. There has been a bit of tendency in recent home matches to berate the team when they're struggling rather than to get behind them, so it was heartening to see us take the lead not long after St. Mary's started rocking. As for the slow version of OWTS, I thought some very commendable efforts were made - not least when the same donkeys kept banging the backboards to try to speed it up. Pretty sure that it was sung slowly about four times in a row at one point, which isn't half bad considering that twice is normally a struggle!

How many of you declaring this to be the end of our season were actually at the match tonight? A simple question, not intending to inflame.

Completely agree and that was sort of implied in what I originally said - incidents were missed that affected both teams. Of course that's neither here nor there really - you're taught as a nipper to play to the whistle and we'd have done well to remember that bit of advice

I missed this comment before, but you're right - he was using Lambert like a ladder! Thought the linesman on that side had a fairly bad game, seemed to miss a few things against both teams.

Not to mention the usual d*ckheads in the Northam that jumped straight on the team's back the second Swindon got a bit of possession. Are we really getting that arrogant that we don't think teams are capable of having a bit of a run at us? It was only for 10 minutes either side of half-time, we controlled all of the rest comfortably. Makes you start to wonder whether some people actually support the team at all - Adkins has already picked up on the negativity of sections of our fans. People don't seem to have got it into their heads that sometimes you have to dig deep. The crowd does make a difference and as soon as the jeering and so on started we got pegged back. I felt to be embarassed stood in the middle of it, truth told.

Totally agree - the ironic cheering was moronic and counter-productive to the spirit of a new player and the team as a whole. Arguably a game like today against a team as poor as Carlisle is a good time to bed the guy into the way the team plays. A bit of match sharpness wouldn't hurt either given that he's not had many minutes of first team football until very recently. Having read the thread I'm glad that I'm not the only one that's hacked off with portions of the Northam 'gang.' I've near enough always sat (er stood) there because it has consistently been one of the loudest areas of the ground and I have to admit I tend to favour the noise, chanting and so on when done the right way. What isn't appreciated is the million-mph banging of the backboards, irrelevant of current chant (I swear there were people with at least a vague notion of rhythm at some point, weren't there?); telling away fans to **** off every time they dare to pipe up; chants of "LET 'IM DIE" whenever an opposition player goes down; the frightening amount of racism and homophobia spouted; the stunning arrogance shown towards 'small' clubs and inability to accept that we're a League One club until we prove over a full season that we deserve not to be; the constant need for a scapegoat on the pitch; the obsession with singing about just how damn much we hate Pompey at the start of a match (how about piping up with something positive about our own club first?)... Sadly I could go on but plenty of points have already been raised in other posts. To suggest that the entire stand is like this is a daft generalisation little better than implying that all football fans are thugs and hooligans. However there sadly is a sizeable minority of so-called-fans that fit the profile and they seem to be concentrated into quite specific areas. I took my girlfriend to the Notts County game (sat at the back of Block 42) and was disappointed and ashamed with the picture of Saints fans that she took away from it On more than one occasion today I cast an envious eye over to the Kingsland North - there was one song going on at a time, rather than pockets of people trying to chant over each other and there seemed to be far less abuse in general coming from that section. Those of you that sit there on a regular basis - is that indicative of most matches? Given that I'm not a 'true' enough fan to hold a season ticket (read: not well off enough to buy one without a payment plan), I might just have to transfer across for the Swindon match...

Bring Me The Horizon are at the Guildhall on April 27th. Sound might be atrocious given how bad it often is in there and the heaviness of the band, but I can't turn down a chance to see them on my doorstep Decent support too (Architects, Parkway Drive, Devil Wears Prada).

Sounds plausible and reasonable enough to be honest. Though I was initially filled with dread when all of this speculation started, we've survived selling players in the past and hopefully are in the position to this time too. If the lad wants the move and a club's prepared to pay, it's almost certainly better for all parties involved to go for it (assuming that we can squeeze Premiership club X for every penny they're worth). That said I think it's crucial that a few bob of it goes straight onto a substantial bid for solid League One player who would walk straight into the first team. Strength in depth please!