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Pat from Poole

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I have missed two home games this season ,Millwall because i was on holiday and MK Dons in the league, due to having a training day with my work. I just wondered what everyone elses reasons were for not going to games.

 

 

Married with two kids, my wife works Saturdays. Wembley was my 10th game of the season, of which 5 have been home games, so I don't think I've done too bad.

 

I used to be an uber-fan once, I missed two away games in the Souness season, but then I was single then. I would suggest to you that a heck of a lot of Saints fans at Wembley last week have got families and cannot get to that many games, they're still Saints fans even if they don't go to every game. I'm guessing by your stance that you are not in that situation.

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Right people.

I have been a Saints supporter for 49 years (my first nmatch was away to Leyton Orient at the age of 6) and a ST holder from the age of 13 (I lived in Kent until I was 37). From the time I was able to afford it, I went to all the away games as well and then I met my missus. We both went to all the away games until we got married, and I went to them all until my first child was born, at which time we were running a pub.

Nowadays I go to all the home matches and as many away matches as I can justify. I have four children and maybe there are reasons that mean many people like me cannot make many away matches.

Does that make me less of a fan?

I would appreciate any sensible comments...

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saint_jas

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My reason..

 

I simply cannot afford it, lived in Plymouth for 21 years and Nottingham for 12 years.

 

I try to make the odd game close by either locations (parents still in Plymouth... not sunk delldays sub yet :p .... )

 

 

But sod it devonports gun crew better than pompeys!!!!

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saint_jas

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I live in Plymouth and work at PAFC, whose games coincide with the majority of saints games.

hmm you aint being a boyball for Plymouth Argyle????

I used to be one of those, due to dad being season ticket holder... Oh the rainy days when no one used to turn up and manning half the pitch.... for f ing resreves. all I can say tommy tynan legend for the argyle then....

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At least she can count, Stew.

 

Oh, come on, give him a break. It can be difficult to distinguish between the fingers if there is webbing in between. Give it time - if he manages to reproduce eventually even his genetic material will evolve.

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I have been watching Saints since August 1962 when my parents returned to Southampton but followed the team before that.

 

 

I left Southampton in 1964 to go to Uni in London but returned to Southampton regularly to watch them and was a season ticket holder for the a year in the 70s.

 

 

Watched them at all the London Grounds - Ealing to Crystal Palace is not easy midweek by Public Transport and had an awful experience at Watford in the League Cup when 4 1 up from the first leg we got well and truly thrashed.

 

 

Now retired and living in Berkshire I follow them on the Interenet and still go to watch a few times a season last game I saw was against Hartlepool

 

I now enjoy watching teams that I have never seen before but I am not sure whether MK Dons counts as I remember going to Plough Lane and seeing Boyer score a goal in a Cup game

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they're still Saints fans even if they don't go to every game. I'm guessing by your stance that you are not in that situation.

 

no i'm not, i'm a saints fan and go the vast majority of games

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Turkish, i thought you always said its better to have 100 And sing then 1000 and sit in silence?

 

yeah i suppose you are right, at least out of those 100 they would know which club we supported as we'd all be walking around in scarves and bobble hats waving pictures of Matthew Le Tissler over our heads singing oh when the saints go matching in, i'd rather be in a group of 100 and go to matches than in a group of 1000 and talk about.

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Because he decided to stump up a fiver, realising that b-anter would never return.

 

That's my guess.

 

You guess correctly my hunch backed friend. RIP Banter, so many egos, so much un PC, so much fun. I've decided to grace this forum once again with my wit and humour. I also want to be the first person to reach 1,000,000 posts to prove just what a super fan i am.

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I've been a fan since I was 12 but have never been a regular attender. A home game is a 200 mile round trip, I work long hours during the week and have a young family so being an "uber fan" isn't really an option. This however doesn't mean I'm not a true fan - our results dictate my mood for the rest of the weekend and even at 4-0 up last weekend I still didn't feel comfortable.

 

All those ****s who go on about 50k at wembley and less than 20k at SMS should drag their yokel heads out of their backsides and realise that for some of us we simply can't go every week. And yes I did try and get tickets for wembley but couldn't - that must make me a truly dreadful fan of the club!

 

Oh yes, I will be at SMS tomorrow with my son for his first game.

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Appy

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Tell you friends and family to schedule wedding out of the football season if they want you to attend. :)

 

Well to be fair they moved the wedding to a friday. So the game gets moved to the friday. LOL

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A 6,000 mile round trips is just a little excessive...

 

A 6,854 mile round trip is just a little excessive...

 

However, it was really great to see so many of the lads from way back when at Baker Street last weekend.

 

My, how we have aged! The sudden flood of memories of when we were uberfans - was almost a Tijuana Tim moment.

 

So many of us with our kids (ranging from 23 down to about 5) all in their shirts and all singing the RLSGM song......

 

Being treated with a degree of contempt from some, watching "terrified tourists" faced with "Horrid football hooligans" trying to squeeze through the queue of "old farts" waiting for the pub to open. Nowhere to have a pee, watered down beers, just bloody marvellous. Being moaned at by ticket collectors for being rowdy - hell, that was only the Zimmerframes being rattled....

 

Oh and of course Courage Best at only 2.05 a pint in Baker Street & Rudlles Country 1.95 a pint in Leicester Square.... Ah cheap beer, no wonder we used to drink so much of it.

 

You lucky people able to go each or most weeks!

 

Make the most of these days. Sooner or later life comes along and makes it damned hard to keep doing it.

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Married with two kids, my wife works Saturdays. Wembley was my 10th game of the season, of which 5 have been home games, so I don't think I've done too bad.

 

I used to be an uber-fan once, I missed two away games in the Souness season, but then I was single then. I would suggest to you that a heck of a lot of Saints fans at Wembley last week have got families and cannot get to that many games, they're still Saints fans even if they don't go to every game. I'm guessing by your stance that you are not in that situation.

 

Anyone who uses the old kids trump card is sick, I can't go to games cause I have kids bla bla bla. Well you should've thought about that before you released your web.

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I have missed two home games this season ,Millwall because i was on holiday and MK Dons in the league, due to having a training day with my work. I just wondered what everyone elses reasons were for not going to games.

 

Are you really Turkish?

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I've been a fan since I was 12 but have never been a regular attender. A home game is a 200 mile round trip, I work long hours during the week and have a young family so being an "uber fan" isn't really an option. This however doesn't mean I'm not a true fan - our results dictate my mood for the rest of the weekend and even at 4-0 up last weekend I still didn't feel comfortable.

 

All those ****s who go on about 50k at wembley and less than 20k at SMS should drag their yokel heads out of their backsides and realise that for some of us we simply can't go every week. And yes I did try and get tickets for wembley but couldn't - that must make me a truly dreadful fan of the club!

 

Oh yes, I will be at SMS tomorrow with my son for his first game.

 

Good man. That's the way to support the club bringing in the next generation of saints fans (not that my offspring have much choice in the matter:p)

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Having got over my chronic shyness/agoraphobia/lazyness/skintness of previous seasons when I only managed a handful of games, this season I will have been to 12 games by the end of the season. The reason I can't go to more games? Shiftwork, the biggest social life killer that I have ever experienced.

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Turkish

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Are you really Turkish?

 

no, its a funny name for an Englishman, I know. My parents to be were on the same plane when it crashed. That's how they met. They named me after the name of the plane. Not many people are named after a plane crash.

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Tac-tics

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no, its a funny name for an Englishman, I know. My parents to be were on the same plane when it crashed. That's how they met. They named me after the name of the plane. Not many people are named after a plane crash.

 

**** off.:D

 

I thought it was after Jason Statham in Snatch.

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I bet your the sort who thinks Papa Waigo is a wing back and asks where we are in the league and why we sing OWTS slowly, i"its not very catchy.

 

What number does he wear? I only know the players by shirt numbers.

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Guan 2.0

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Usually in Liverpool at uni, but off for half term, and trying to go to the game tomorrow. Trying to buy 3 tickets online, but when i go to register, it asks me for a customer number. I don't have one. That's why I'm trying to register...

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Charlie Wayman

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Lowe's & Wilde were my reasons for skipping the best part of a whole season before. This year I've missed a few since the turn of the year once it became obvious that we would not get near the play-offs and we had nothing to play for.

 

Not sure about tomorrow after yet another dismal performance at Brighton and (I'm still raging over) the crap tickets I was given for Wembley.

 

Even 'though I love Saints I'm not sure about this particular set of Saints, who don't float my boat enough to ensure I'll never miss a game. There just isn't enough home town passion about them as there was in the past; I miss a Channon, Le Tiss, Paine type of hero - they are the people who got me there every week rain or shine.

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I've decided I am definately not going tommorow.

 

I also won't be giving my season ticket to any of my mates to use, even if they pay me.

 

you should take the cash and out it towards replacing all that Ben Sherman ****e you wear.

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Geographical, financial or something better to do usually involving the fairer sex.

 

In an ideal world Southampton would play outside my house for free every weekend with 1000 bikini clad F1 type pit girls giving out free beer. Then I would go to every game, oh yes!

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To save time I will repost my response to last years post Charlton thread of the same genre

 

"I never cease to be amazed at the self righteous fan police. Whilst I am sure that not all of them are under 25, single, no kids, living within the city, the tone and style of their posts would indicate this profile to be the most prevalent. If attendance is a key guide I am a plastic only 3 games this season, despite over 45 years of support behind me. Why so few visits, I have a round trip of 160 miles to home games, I have family who don’t all share my passion and I also enjoy the egg chasing game and am a season ticket holder at Bath (I missed Saturdays top of the table game to support my football club in its hour of need) I took my eight year old, his 8th game, who said on Saturday when I explained the problems we have, "they can have all my money", he hasn’t taken his new shirt off since Saturday. He is of course currently a plastic, but watch out the self appointed fan police, in 10 years time he will be in the Northam setting the rules for the married over 35’s with kids who live outside the city and don’t quite share his youthful and admirable passion for our fantastic club, you never know some of you may have grown up by then and will be one of his targets."

 

PS. 8 games this season inc Wembley + Cheltenham Freindly

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Geography and kids. Rarely in Southampton these days. I have two kids who seem to eat cash. Can't afford to go to every game. Haven't been to a home game for years. However, I do go to away games that are up this way.

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I couldn't afford a season ticket when they came round this year so I just go to the odd games that I can afford.

 

I have the cash to go to either the Leyton Orient game today or the Charlton game next week. The Charlton game looks better so I'll be doing that.

 

To be honest with you I wouldn't want to go to every home and away game without fail even if I did have the cash, there is more to my life than just football.

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