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Champions-hip League ready. It's all the rage.

Someone offering 3 here https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?59144-3-spare-fulham-away As for chants, a few rounds of "You don't know what you're doing" wouldn't go amiss for the management in general.

Not the best example, Nicholl suffered brain damage from a career of heading a ball (like Jeff Astle and others), other than that I'd agree with you about the "nation of softies"/over-pampered footballers. Draw best I can imagine for us tonight.

For the League Cup Final we parked for free in the streets in Willesden close to Dollis Hill tube station. Just off the North Circular, 2 stops from Wembley - although it may not be quite so easy to find a parking space with most residents off for Christmas.

Alek Gross sitting on the bench may have been confused with Eric Black? He wasn't booted out but I believe he has left the club.

Eric Black left the club 3 games ago.

You'll just have to accept my word. I wouldn't think it wouldn't be too hard to find out if you want to.

It will be interesting because Black left the club over a week ago, not been involved since Man City. So you certainly can't blame him for Wednesday's capitulation. As hard as it is for some of our fans to accept, he's had little impact on tactics this season and the players got on well with him.

OK, then I'd say 3,000 is probably P5-P7 as the capacity for the Putney Stand is around 7,000. Looks like they may be holding back P3-P4 which would give us another couple of thousand - plus any availability in the neutral section (can only be P1).

Not according to this https://www.eticketing.co.uk/fulhamfc/EDP/Season/Index/460? Hopefully tickets will start selling fast tomorrow and SFC will request more before Fulham have a change of heart.

We've only been given (or accepted) 3,000. Neutral section for many then. https://southamptonfc.com/matches/2017-18/fa-cup/fulham-v-saints-2018-01-06/ticket-info

It's always full of Saints fans when we've played there, we'll likely fill just about the entire end as usual.

I agree, I think there's a decent player in PEH waiting to come out, I hope we persist with him. I'd like to see him at some point alongside Romeu freeing Lemina up to play a further forward creative role (presuming no-one's tapped him up while out injured!).

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ Not that anyone should be too surprised with the transfer window opening in a few weeks. It's going to get very tedious for most of us from now (oh look, Liverpool away tomorrow) 'til the end of Jan.

Not sounding good. And the last time one of our best players got injured in a seemingly innocuous challenge looked what happened to him when he had too much time on his hands. Let's hope Jurgen doesn't have his number.

That was a cracker, other than Millwall at home, so were all the other ties leading up to the final. Does Strachan still have his house near Warsash? If rumours are true and QPR decide to poach the fella currently in charge of that 3rd division outfit, wonder if Strach could end up there? Nah, too big a step down, even from the Scottish job!

After the game, my mate and me walked past a small bar with a handful of locals in there and decided to nip in for a quick one. Ian Baird came in with a couple mates briefly, that's how famous it got for us! But by the time we left some time later we had made new bestie mates with the Italians, found a lot of common ground in broken English and, all being of a certain age, reminisced about better days at the football. A couple of them had been at the San Siro, down the other end and said when OWTS was booming out it made "the hairs on their arms stand up!". Didn't have the heart to tell them that some of us are sick to death of it these days on constant repeat!

...who was heading off to Milan? Great few days away, one of the more memorable occasions in recent times. Where did that year go? (hope 'georgewearscousin' doesn't mind me lifting this image off Google) Southampton>Stanstead>Bologna>Milan

I'm clinging to the hope that Pellegrino is still relatively new to the job and finding his feet in the PL and soon(er rather than later) it will just click. And, clutching at straws, we usually do well against the Geordies down here. Difference this time may be the Benitez effect. With what's coming up shortly with the fixture list, 3 points is almost a necessity from each of the next 3 home games - just don't lose this Saints.

As you say, that was the game that got the Archers standing. It was the first season after Saints fans campaigning to get that end back for home fans but only being a dozen or so rows deep it was fairly easy for the stewards to enforce the 'no standing' rule, you see Saints fans sitting in the front rows at the start of that clip. But towards the end everyone stood and the noise went through the roof. I've still got "Alan Ball's Red & White Army" ringing in my ears over 20 years later...jeesh, 20 years!!

I think the total lack of atmosphere at most grounds nowadays really is helping kill the game for a lot of us. It's not just about singing, just getting involved and getting behind your team with a bit of partisan support. For me there's no better experience than going to football when there's ear-splitting noise from the stands. A good old-fashioned roar building and ringing around stadiums rarely happens these days. The fans are equally dull as the football being played out on the pitch.

Yep, and the crowd will just sit passively by in their usual dull way these days when a bit of pressure from the stands might just make the oppo creak. Like the old days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHOKhyhBjnY 1 down on 88mins but the Dell crowd inspired a comeback that crushed the Geordies in a few short minutes. The roar with every attack lifted everyone - just doesn't happen at St Mary's. Shame.

Actually that's a very good example for why safe standing should be implemented, that would never happen with a rail in front of every standing fan.

I signed this some time ago and I'm amazed it's still only 600 people that have put their name to it to date as it's had a fair bit of publicity. I can't believe so few want to see safe standing but this is probably more a reflection of the kind of the can't-be-bothered support Saints seem to attract, in the same way some struggle to get behind their team from the stands. Fair play to Andrew Pope in giving it a go.

Only if you become 'salisbury gooner/scouser/manc/chelsea/celtic/ranger/psg/etc' and the novelty would soon wear off!