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saintkiptanui

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I had a lovely day today, hired a little boat out with my ladyfriend and pottered around in Christchurch Harbour, had a lovely meal in The Riverside, it's a Harvester, I recommend it.

 

I trust you all had a lovely day.

 

I had a splendid day, me and marlon King went women bashing, great sport.

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doddisalegend

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Yeah it was good. Best bit was some guy at half time won a saints greatest fan competition. First prize was an all expense paid night out on the lash with the first team and the girls from Tusk. All the guy had to do was reach the centre circle in five minitues. I didn't get his full name Stu something from North Baddesley. Sadly it seems he decide not to come to the match today.......

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CitySaint

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I can not stand this kind of thread every week. I went to every home game and most away games pre february 26th, when I had the chance to work abroad for 4 months, which I think any Saints fan would do, if they had the opportunity. I never realised to most Saints fans, it is incredulous that you would put a once in a life time chance to see Asia three months of 3rd division football. Yes, I am gutted I missed Wembley, but I paid for my season ticket and now my Father sits happpily in my season, keeping it warm for next year. Can people please just concentrate on what they are doing, fans come in various guises.

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StuRomseySaint

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Yeah it was good. Best bit was some guy at half time won a saints greatest fan competition. First prize was an all expense paid night out on the lash with the first team and the girls from Tusk. All the guy had to do was reach the centre circle in five minitues. I didn't get his full name Stu something from North Baddesley. Sadly it seems he decide not to come to the match today.......

 

To be fair, it would have taken me more than 5 minutes to run to the halfway line so I am not too dissapointed.

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OfnPanad

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An expensive divorce (still being paid for), living in the glorious hole that is Barnsley, having to work most weekends, current Mrs OfnPanad lives in Bangor (North Wales)...all in all it's a miracle I've been to any games!

 

Huddersfield (a), Torquay (h), Walsall (a), Tranmere (h), Poopey (h), Tranmere (a), Carlisle (JPT)

 

Not too bad I feel! Also recruoted Mrs OP and 2 of her sprogs to the cause :D

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The9

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I just wondered what everyone elses reasons were for not going to games.

 

I didn't go to Carlisle cos I didn't want to waste £100 on a train and an entire day.

Orient clashed with my grandad's funeral.

MK (and shortly Bristol Rov) in the league cos I'd already been there in the Cup.

Charlton cos I was on a stag do.

Exeter cos its nearer where I used to live and shouldn't take that long to go that far.

Stockport because I was visiting a sick relative.

Southend or Brighton because it was a bloody silly kick off time on a daft day (and been to Brighton before).

Leeds because I was going away for Christmas the next day.

Millwall, Brentford, Yeovil (coming up) and Norwich just cos I've been before.

Oldham because I couldn't be bothered and it was a bit far.

 

Will be going to Gillingham (new ground for me) and haven't missed a home match this season apart from Brentford on Aug 22 when I was at V Festival for the weekend. Went to all the JPT and FA Cup matches home and away.

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The9

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This season will set a record for me - three games (both Charlton games, and Gillingham away - a mate at work is lending me his season ticket for the Rainham End).

 

Not bad, considering most of this year I've been unemployed.

 

Have you tried becoming a footballer ? You'd get in for free then.

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paris

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I live in Paris and unfortunately don't have the funds to come over as much as i would like the two matches i did go to this season we won 5 - 0 and 5-1 ,if i have a change in fortune i'll go to more matches .....

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Golac's Cunning Stunts

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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.

 

Call yourself a fan? You really let a holiday and a training day at work get in the way of attending a Saints match? Very poor.

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As a Saints fan I reached some sort of mental metacrisis last week. I had booked a holiday in Germany last autumn which meant missing the Brighton and Orient games. It made me realise how intensely I had got my head into this season, having been to loads more matches than I have done for years and years, so felt that this was a chance to mentally distance myself. I needed to relax a bit.

 

So I decided not to look at the results while I was away. I travelled on the day of the Brighton match with some mates who are not into sport but spent the whole of that night's evening meal thinking about the game. That night I even dreamt that we had lost 2-0! However, by Saturday I had managed to get my 'holiday head' on and was barely thinking about Saints at all.

 

Come Monday and the Orient match I was slightly annoyed that the game was nudging into my psyche and not allowing me to fully enjoy the last day of my break. After the match was over i felt that we had most likely won and was quite relaxed that evening.

 

Coming back through Belgium and France on the train yesterday I saw a football ground in the distance and suddenly the butterflies were back, flapping wildly about in my stomach as I started to mentally count down to the fact that within a few hours I would know the results of not 1 but 2 games and would our season still be alive. The conversation in our group was bright, but I wasn't taking part, just staring out the window.

 

By the time we entered the Chunnel I was a bag of nerves again. In 20 minutes we would back in Blighty and I would have internet access again. As we exited the tunnel I took the plunge by looking at the League 1 table first. We had 57 points -I had predicted a draw and a win, and low and behold that's what must have happened. 8 points off the playoffs and up to 9th - not bad at all. Momentarily I was happy. Then weirdly, the next thought was a negative one - I bet we beat Brighton and then only drew with Orient.

 

So with some trepidation I looked at the results. But no, a last minute equaliser made me feel good about the Brighton game and of course told me indirectly that we had beaten Orient - butterflies gone in an instant. So all in all I was quite happy. My mate looked across at me and said 'Why are you sweating?' I told them what I had gone through and of course they all thought I was bonkers - much tutting and shaking of heads and cliches like 'It's only a bloody game ffs'.

 

There is definitely something wrong with me. I am having trouble coping with the expectancy of winning every game, something this Saints fan isn't used to - the tension far outweighs that which I experience when we were mostly losing. I guess it gives me a little insight into the feelings that the 'Big 4' fans go through season after season.

 

Luckily I have a strong heart!

 

Keep the Faith

COYS

 

ps. I encountered a Skate on a station on Germany on Sunday and couldn't resist asking him if they were relegated - he saw my pin badge and muttered 'not yet Scumboy, not yet'.

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I haven't missed a game home or away since 1977, a year before I was even born. I give a bloke at the training ground a tenner every day so that I can watch every training session from my secret vantage point. I wear full kit to matches and also enter the ground as soon as it is open so I can get the full matchday experience. I have four sons called Ron, Matthew, Terry and Ted. I am the most uber of uber-fans.

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Barry the Badger

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As a Saints fan I reached some sort of mental metacrisis last week. I had booked a holiday in Germany last autumn which meant missing the Brighton and Orient games. It made me realise how intensely I had got my head into this season, having been to loads more matches than I have done for years and years, so felt that this was a chance to mentally distance myself. I needed to relax a bit.

 

So I decided not to look at the results while I was away. I travelled on the day of the Brighton match with some mates who are not into sport but spent the whole of that night's evening meal thinking about the game. That night I even dreamt that we had lost 2-0! However, by Saturday I had managed to get my 'holiday head' on and was barely thinking about Saints at all.

 

Come Monday and the Orient match I was slightly annoyed that the game was nudging into my psyche and not allowing me to fully enjoy the last day of my break. After the match was over i felt that we had most likely won and was quite relaxed that evening.

 

Coming back through Belgium and France on the train yesterday I saw a football ground in the distance and suddenly the butterflies were back, flapping wildly about in my stomach as I started to mentally count down to the fact that within a few hours I would know the results of not 1 but 2 games and would our season still be alive. The conversation in our group was bright, but I wasn't taking part, just staring out the window.

 

By the time we entered the Chunnel I was a bag of nerves again. In 20 minutes we would back in Blighty and I would have internet access again. As we exited the tunnel I took the plunge by looking at the League 1 table first. We had 57 points -I had predicted a draw and a win, and low and behold that's what must have happened. 8 points off the playoffs and up to 9th - not bad at all. Momentarily I was happy. Then weirdly, the next thought was a negative one - I bet we beat Brighton and then only drew with Orient.

 

So with some trepidation I looked at the results. But no, a last minute equaliser made me feel good about the Brighton game and of course told me indirectly that we had beaten Orient - butterflies gone in an instant. So all in all I was quite happy. My mate looked across at me and said 'Why are you sweating?' I told them what I had gone through and of course they all thought I was bonkers - much tutting and shaking of heads and cliches like 'It's only a bloody game ffs'.

 

There is definitely something wrong with me. I am having trouble coping with the expectancy of winning every game, something this Saints fan isn't used to - the tension far outweighs that which I experience when we were mostly losing. I guess it gives me a little insight into the feelings that the 'Big 4' fans go through season after season.

 

Luckily I have a strong heart!

 

Keep the Faith

COYS

 

ps. I encountered a Skate on a station on Germany on Sunday and couldn't resist asking him if they were relegated - he saw my pin badge and muttered 'not yet Scumboy, not yet'.

 

You mean you didn't have to find out the results whilst you were in Germany?

 

Call yourself a supporter? ;)

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Pilsmer

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I've been to four games this season.

Orient away, Norwich home (league), Tranmere away and Wembley.

I'm sure there are plenty more die hard fans that me who didn't get to go to Wembley and deserved a ticket. I shouldn't feel guilty about this though, my mate sorted out some Club Wembley tickets and I jumped at the chance.

 

I live in London and I can't justify going down to Southampton on a regular basis to watch the Saints. I've never lived closer than 60 miles to Southampton so have never been a regular attendee. I suppose I've just become accustomed to supporting Saints in the way that I do.

 

There is a upside and a downside to being a sporadic attendee.

 

Upside - Every game I go to, no matter how big or small, is a proper event which often brings me together with family or friends who live far away and I haven't seen for a long time. The excitement is palpable from the minute we can find a game we can all get to and regardless of the result it is always the basis of a great weekend. I know that there are a lot of you that go to every game and still get just excited. Fair play to you.

 

Downside - We never seem to bloody win when I go! Wembley was the first time I've seen us win in years. After scoring 10 in two games I had high hopes for Tranmere and we end up playing crap and losing. A few years ago I had my Christmas ruined by a last minute goal by Mark Crossley on 23rd December at a freezing Hillborough.

When I was a kid my friend's dad used to take us to an away game for his birthday. We lived in Wiltshire and travelled to Leeds, Liverpool, Villa, Forest and Tottenham. Saints didn't score once in those five games and only let in two (One of which being Richard Dryden's OG against Villa at the end of a narrow escape season). With all that being said, I can't wait until I next get an opportunity to get down to St Marys.

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SNSUN

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I would like to go but the Police and Government insist that I should take a 3 year break from all football.

 

I reckon supporting Windsor and Eton FC takes up too much of your Saints supporting time. And makes you a glory supporter. Pah...:D

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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.

 

Travel time!:rolleyes:

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The9

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what have you actually done?

 

He's wound a load of people up about Michail Antonio, for a start.

 

Just to make Stevo look bad, I had a knee op and still got to the MK Dons home league match on crutches the next day. And I'm running around scoring left-foot 5-a-side goals while he's still got Beadle leg.

 

Though 28_F I'd been running around on it for 9 years by then and didn't have reconstruction like he did.

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