Hmmm...

[simonsays]

But you never lost your ground or had to ground share like we did at gillingham, your state of affairs have never been like ours, not saying your situation was good but far from nonsense.

 

Posted by BHA 04/01/2011

Your at near capacity, whereas we sell 3 times what you do on average. You cant win an attendance argument so you may wana clutch at another straw.

But your grounds bigger so you will end up with more! win an attendance argument i can my girlfriend is from Brighton who she suppurts but lives with me in manchester so i actually support united. So if you want an argument about attendances then fire away

 

You really are a sad individual.

[scotty]

Posted by BHA 04/01/2011

Your at near capacity, whereas we sell 3 times what you do on average. You cant win an attendance argument so you may wana clutch at another straw.

But your grounds bigger so you will end up with more! win an attendance argument i can my girlfriend is from Brighton who she suppurts but lives with me in manchester so i actually support united. So if you want an argument about attendances then fire away

 

You really are a sad individual.

 

its quite amusing that a man u fan is wasting his time on a saints forum arguing about brighton. Just out of interest, how many posters on here regularly go on other teams fansites for a wind-up?

[BHA]

Posted by BHA 04/01/2011

Your at near capacity, whereas we sell 3 times what you do on average. You cant win an attendance argument so you may wana clutch at another straw.

But your grounds bigger so you will end up with more! win an attendance argument i can my girlfriend is from Brighton who she suppurts but lives with me in manchester so i actually support united. So if you want an argument about attendances then fire away

 

You really are a sad individual.

 

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[rocknrollman no2]

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Edited 27 March, 2011 by rocknrollman no2
Wrong quote

[rocknrollman no2]

Posted by BHA 04/01/2011

Your at near capacity, whereas we sell 3 times what you do on average. You cant win an attendance argument so you may wana clutch at another straw.

But your grounds bigger so you will end up with more! win an attendance argument i can my girlfriend is from Brighton who she suppurts but lives with me in manchester so i actually support united. So if you want an argument about attendances then fire away

 

You really are a sad individual.

Wow this has to be a first??

A Man Utd fan actually living in Manchester?lol.

[BHA]

Wow this has to be a first??

A Man utd fan living in Manchester.lol.

 

:yawn:

[Colinjb]

Wow this has to be a first??

A Man Utd fan actually living in Manchester?lol.

 

Surely a Man Utd fan trolling a Saints forum while posing as a Brighton fan is a little more unusual.

[Thimble]

Ok one more response - Gus Poyet has done a fantastic job for you but will have a number of opportunities to join a bigger and better supported club with a much stronger squad with his record - hence he will leave. It may be you will continue to do well without him but other clubs records show that is often not the case. Before you resort to the other twaddle that BHA supporters like to publish on this forum which I thought was for SFC, we deserve to be in this league due to the inept way the club was being managed. We have now had investment in the squad and it is much better than yours but you are top and we are not and that is a great credit to you. I hope you do well next year and when the reality check comes it is not too severe as ours was.

 

In terms of the game at St Mary's you were crap and we should have buried you but we did not and unfortunately for us this was not the only game.

 

I am pleased you enjoy posting on our forum - I have not looked on your but surely it cannot be that bad you use ours.

 

Correction - Gus is doing a fantastic job...It is not over yet and won't be for a while. Of course Poyet will leave at somepoint, that is inevitable but he will stick around for a number or years at least for a few good reasons. I have to agree with you though that league tables do not lie and clubs are always where they deserve to be. We have spent the thick end of 20 years down in these lower leagues and fully deserve to be here...But it looks as though we are finally leaving bottom 2 divisions behind and it should be a bloody long time before we return. Now you find yourselves here and being honest I can understand why you lot might be ****ed off with that...But bigger clubs than yourselves have been here and there is even a bigger club in League 1 right now and they are having a right **** time of things!

 

I am not sure what reality check we will get next year and obviously we will not get the results we have been getting this season but if we can consolidate ourselves in mid-table I will take that...Then we can push on from there. As for the game at your place, we were crap in the first half and you were all over us...At half-time I was genuinely concerned that if things carried on as were going you would win. Those concerns soon evaporated early in the next 45 as the threat you posed in first period was just not there after the break, for some reason you gave up getting tight!

 

North Stand Chat can be hit and miss and I do enjoy coming on here every now and then for a butchers...What I do find amusing though is that you lot tend to bicker with each other constantly...

[The9]

A club like Brighton, 10pts clear at the top of the league and on the verge of Championship football, shouldn't be hunting for comments that are 5 months old in order to find motivation to go up. It's a small-time mentality and they should be better than that.

 

Good luck to them, they are up, and I will be interested to see how their 'passing from the back' style goes down in a league that is even more physical, faster, and obviously better. A friend went to Stoke vs. Brighton in the FA Cup and said Brighton tried this and got humiliated, so it will be interesting to see if they try to mix it up a bit or stay with it.

 

I went, they got murdered and only managed two passes in a row when 3-0 down and Stoke had stopped bothering.

[The9]

Srtange post! We are not "an average to poor team" as you suggest we are just better than everyone else...We play the best football and are streets ahead of any other team in this division. Not sure why you me mention the support either as we pretty much sell-out every game, give or take a few seats, in the worst 'stadium' in the top 5 divisions...Also, we have had some comical away attendances this season although I not blaming the away fans for that...In fact when I am away with England I actively encourage opposition fans not to come! Following on from this, at last check we were in the top 4 for away followings in League 1 this season...

 

I have to say I am not sure how correct the 21 points from the last 15minutes of games is but we have got late winners this season. This is mainly due to us having to be patient in games and wait for the break-through as teams are just 'parking the bus' when they play us...They are doing this even when they are at home which shows how much they want to stop us playing because they know if they get involved in a passing match against us then we will destroy anyone...

 

Interesting input given that your lot started timewasting within the first 10 minutes at St Mary's. What does that tell you ?

[beardy]

Interesting input given that your lot started timewasting within the first 10 minutes at St Mary's. What does that tell you ?

 

You're an idiot. That's what it tells me.

[Seagull]

A club like Brighton, 10pts clear at the top of the league and on the verge of Championship football, shouldn't be hunting for comments that are 5 months old in order to find motivation to go up. It's a small-time mentality and they should be better than that.

 

Good luck to them, they are up, and I will be interested to see how their 'passing from the back' style goes down in a league that is even more physical, faster, and obviously better. A friend went to Stoke vs. Brighton in the FA Cup and said Brighton tried this and got humiliated, so it will be interesting to see if they try to mix it up a bit or stay with it.

 

What is a small-time mentality? I've never heard of this phrase before. Maybe only fans of "big clubs" use it? I'm going to contradict myself a little here but 1) there's a fear of complacency here, thinking the job is already done, so I don't think finding some extra motivation is ever a bad thing. 2) You're blowing it out of proportion a little (although, granted, we started that by putting it on website). Hunting for comments? Not really, it's often mentioned online and was mentioned in the programme so the players saw it before the game. Hardly Gus going out hunting for all comments about us. Need the motivation? Probably not, he's asked it by interviewer, he probably laughed at the comment when he read it and forgot about it, but its a standard reply in an interview.

 

Our style of football. Well fortunatly we won't be playing Stoke in the league last season. We have however played Portsmouth and Watford in the FA Cup and beat them both and played excellent passing football in both games. Plenty of sides lose at Stoke, it doesn't matter whether you play passing football or not. The goals we conceeded had nothing to do with passing the ball about. It was more down to playing a good Premiership side away from home! Additionally, I'm sure if/when we go up, we'll look to sign better players who can play that style at a higher level. Gus has already said we're looking at 7/8 new players for next season.

 

 

Typical BHA and those Seagulls seem a tad obsessed about us... they should just be enjoying the great form that Poyet has got out of them and not really worry about the rest.

 

We talk about you because you're our promotion rivals. When we won League 1/2 a few years ago our challengers were Reading and Chesterfield. We spoke about them all the time too. There is some ill feeling too, from the game near the end of last season when our youth product ex-captain Hammond celebrated his goal by mouthing off at our fans who had nothing but respect and applause for him before that incident. Then there was the terror in the summer of potentially losing Calderon too you and then Adkins silly comments. It all builds it up, it's all part of the 'soap opera'/story of the season, it'll all largely be forgotton in a year or so's time when we're battling with someone else.

 

 

Indeed. They are as good as up and are awaiting the champions corination, yet they are more bothered about us. Strange.

 

Simply not true.

 

Think the Brighton obession with us is a compliment, much like cherries, and nothing to get annoyed about.

 

Bournemouth players and team we all singing about playing us when they got promoted last season - it wasn't about reaching league 1 it was about saints.

 

Brighton have been very impressive this season (results rather than style!). Its good to see a club doing well and positive. However, rather than enjoying being top, or looking forward to the inevitable championship season, the thing they are focussing on is being higher than us.

 

Says a huge amount about our stature in football and I like it.

 

We are enjoying being top, we are looking forward to the new stadium and next season and we're not actually that bothered about being above you. It says nothing about your stature, its about you being our promotion rivals this season. As I've posted above, we'll move on, it's normal. We've been like this with Reading and Chesterfield in previous years.

 

Bring on the 'its the away fans' retort. Despite their being home seats empty regardless

 

Well to be fair every home game for ages has been a home sell out. Perhaps one or two empty seats where people haven't turned up but on the whole, yeah, its been small away followings.

 

Ahh.. have just done the research....

1. yes -rich owner but maybe if we both go up and we're vying for the same players you would think we're in a better position just because of recent history.

2. If BHA have a poor season it would be interesting to see how many season ticket holders renew... for me you're either a football fan or you're not. I went to the ****ty old dell for 'Rumbleow (sp) cup games v whoever on a wet and windy night in the family centre on top of Milton Rd.

****ed on for 2 hrs with a poor view.

MOST people go because they love their team.....

 

1. I think you have more financial clout than us but that doesn't equal success, as we've seen this season. For a start, we might not want the same players. We've set a huge world wide scouting network. We've pinched Watfords much aclaimed Head of Football to help run that and set up our new youth academy.

 

2. Yes it will. Although there's loads of examples of clubs who have climbed through the leagues and seen attendances rise, Reading, Wigan, Hull, Swansea, Cardiff, Doncaster, etc etc. End of the day, the better you are, the more people who turn up. The longer you're successful the bigger core fan base you'll get, the longer you'll hold onto them if you struggle.

 

I am afraid you have to hand it to BHA - an average to poor team with poor support but very well managed and a model of consistency with very few opportunities missed and I think I read they have gained 21 points in the last 15 minutes and extra time of games. This is why they are going to be Champions this season and deservedly so. I think we will beat them at their place and we will still be a poor second and we all know why with the list of second rate performances we have managed this season..

 

I posted on here a few weeks ago saying you had better individuals/bigger star names etc than us but that we were a better team as a sum of the parts (or something like that) which most of your fans agreed with. To say we are average to poor though is joke. Ankergren (promoted with Leeds last season); Calderon (one of, if not the best right backs in the league), Greer (Swindons captain last season and superb), El-Abd (in the leagues official top 10 players), Painter (signed from Swansea whom he won promotion from this league with); Bennett (signed from Wolves, incredible season, subject to big bids from Norwich in January), Sparrow (signed from S****horpe, has won promotion from this league), Kishishev (Do I really need to say?), Noone (brilliant winger signed from Plymouth for 300k); Murray (Errrr....), Wood (Played in World Cup for New Zealand, loads of appearances for West Brom in Championship). That is not an average to poor League One side.

 

If we beat them then the only reason we will be behind them is due to a few poor home results, most of which were in the first four home games of the season.

 

Maybe - but to put our season into context.. the last 4 winners of League One, after 37 games..

 

PLD W D L F A PTS

Brighton 37 24 8 5 68 27 80

Norwich 37 24 7 6 77 38 79

Leicester 37 22 12 3 69 31 78

Swansea 37 23 8 6 67 32 77

S****horpe 37 21 11 5 58 27 74

[Seagull]

Tell you what, fair play to Brighton, they have been excellent this season

 

However, I will be very VERY surprised if poyet is still manager come Xmas.. They don't have the pull as a club to get someone equally good..

 

Good luck to them

 

I can't predict the future but Gus has said it would take something very special (suggesting Chelsea/Madrid) to tempt him away. He said he didn't want to do an Ince and jump up to early. He said he wants to build something here and take us as far as possible. Possibly just saying what we want to hear but he sounded genuine. We've got the momentum and backing to push on for the Premiership - thats the aim - it might not happen - but if we are challenging at the right end of the table next season, to take Brighton from League One to the Prem would be a much bigger achievement on his CV than League One to Championship. You don't get that opportunity very often, and to throw it away for a mid-table Premiership club who would sack him after a few games if he started poorly, why bother? So long as we are moving in the right direction, he's happy to stay.

 

I'm not sure you are "streets ahead" of Saints or Peterborough but you are clearly more consistent across the whole season. We have been pretty much equivalent since our upheaval at the start of the season, I think.

 

Anyway, as others have said, it's nice for another localish club to come up with us. Far prefer away matches just along the coast or in London than in some northern dump. I hope you lot stay up next year and can find a decent replacement for Poyet.

 

Probably not but I've never seen a football league side as dominant as ours before. Dominance in terms of controlling a game, dictating the pace and not letting the opposition get hold of the ball. I fully appriciate, based on our performance at St Marys it's very hard to imagine that, but its true. We've destroyed Peterborough twice this season although I suspect you'll be our toughest opponents of the season when you visit.

 

Pretty easy to understand really - man for man BHA do not have anywhere near a top finish squad but make up for it in many other ways. The 'last 15 minutes' came from Sky after one of the BHA games - I do not trawl other clubs web sites for information. In terms of 'parking the bus' you should recall the BHA game at St Marys - you cannot destroy the opposition with passing if you do not emerge from your own half. BHA deserve to finish as Champions and even with a new stadium will struggle when Poyet goes at the end of the season.

 

Nothing wrong with parking the bus. The difference this season is we've beaten pretty much everyone who's done it to us and others (notably Huddersfield) haven't. I don't think we came to St Marys to park the bus. Did we time waste, yes. Did we need to, yes. You were swarming all over us, but we stood up to it. It looked worse than it was though. It's very, very normal for us to slow the game down and time waste. We even do it when we're winning. I know that sounds like an alien concept but its all part of the game plan. We starve the opposition of the ball, we dictate the tempo, we get into their heads. They get rash, we stay calm, and we pick them off. It might sound boring to you, it took some of our fans time to adjust, and we've had to change our style a bit as sides have cottoned on to it a bit, but its genuinly a joy to watch. There is a touch of arrogance about it, we do laugh as we pass it to the keeper and the opposition striker gets ****ed off as he has to chase it down. But it works, our tactics are great, we do feel superior to others in that respect, and we fully deserve to.

 

Why is your stadium so small?

 

Not a dig, just wondering what the rationale is? Was there no room to build a bigger one?

 

We could only get planning permission for 22.5k. Besides, most oppositions fans thought that was too big before. Room for easy expansion if we can prove transport system works.

 

Interesting input given that your lot started timewasting within the first 10 minutes at St Mary's. What does that tell you ?

 

Not much really. You're a very good side, we know that. You pressured us, so rather than try a hopeful pass forward and lose possession, we retained the ball and went backwards. That's probably why we've got a brilliant defence record and rarely lose football matches.

[SuperMikey]

Seagull, go to bed mate!

[SuperMikey]

Well to be fair every home game for ages has been a home sell out. Perhaps one or two empty seats where people haven't turned up but on the whole, yeah, its been small away followings.

 

Tbf, the Withdean has had small away followings because there's no capacity to cater to them. If you had the room, i'm sure we'd take between 3-4k for our game at your place coming up in a few weeks. It's a shame really, because with a few thousand travelling Saints fans it'd really be a cracking atmosphere, but i'm sure our 900 will do their best to out-sing you all!

[Thedelldays]

I'm sorry, the idea of "gus" having some sort of love affair with Brighton and only the likes of Madrid and chelsea could tempt him away is laughable. Really is.

 

Football management is a very shirt lived per club career.. Right now, his stock is very high... Let's be honest, Brighton simply are not a draw for very good NPC clubs. They may well be very mediocre next season after a good start and gus will not be as rated.

 

I could not see him turning down a wolves, forest, Cardiff etc..

[Lallana's Left Peg]

What is a small-time mentality? I've never heard of this phrase before. Maybe only fans of "big clubs" use it? I'm going to contradict myself a little here but 1) there's a fear of complacency here, thinking the job is already done, so I don't think finding some extra motivation is ever a bad thing. 2) You're blowing it out of proportion a little (although, granted, we started that by putting it on website). Hunting for comments? Not really, it's often mentioned online and was mentioned in the programme so the players saw it before the game. Hardly Gus going out hunting for all comments about us. Need the motivation? Probably not, he's asked it by interviewer, he probably laughed at the comment when he read it and forgot about it, but its a standard reply in an interview.

 

Small-time mentality: When a club doesn't focus on what it does and says and more on what other clubs do and say. What is so important about what Southampton say to Brighton? Man City fans were accused of small-club mentality recently because despite their prospects and money they didn't change their mentality as fans and instead of focussing on the future of their club they were still thinking like fans of a club who got angry over what others said about them etc.

 

Brighton have prospects and are walking the league, yet are using comments that are 5 months old - small-time mentality, as I say.

 

As for the comment itself, why on earth was it in the programme in the first place? The club clearly looked for the comment if not Poyet himself, yet if you are prepared to cut Poyet some slack because he was asked a question by an interviewer and responded, then why not Adkins who made the comment in the first place? Or doesn't that suit the agenda?

[Simster]

Is anyone else bored with this Brighton-Southampton pìssing contest?

 

We're not a small club, but we're not as big as Southampton. We are a better football team though, and I think part of the reason for Poyet finding quotes like Adkins' ridiculous "if they can keep up with us" effort is to ensure his own team maintains motivation. Lets be honest, Southampton are the biggest threat to winning the title and that is still the case now with you a massive 15 points behind. It may look like a walk in the park now, but that's because we've won seven straight. In the last week of February, Bournemouth *snígger* were going to go above us for one game, but then their game at Bristol Rovers got called off. What a shame. *snìgger* Before then, and with a busy March, the wheels might easily have fallen off, and nobody in the staff at Albion considers the job is done yet. I do though.

 

Personally, I've always found Albion/Saints to be a fairly friendly rivalry, although given my own personal circumstances this is hardly surprising as Southampton are my second team unless they are a direct rival - my brother is a Saint (and on here), my family is split down the middle between the clubs, my best mate is a Saint, and I lived in Winchester for 3 years and went to VI Form there, and then lived and worked in Southampton/Eastleigh for another 2 years. Until you rocked up in division 3, there were far more people on NSC who detested Pompey than did Southampton.

 

Next season, it'll probably revert to a more friendly rivalry if we both go up, because both sets of supporters will only look for each others fixtures as a second or even third consideration. For you, it'll be all about beating the blue shìte down the road. For us, the Palace scüm.

[Crab Lungs]

I feel my sinuses aching and another rant on the horizon... careful, Brompey...

[LostBoys]

I can't predict the future but Gus has said it would take something very special (suggesting Chelsea/Madrid) to tempt him away. He said he didn't want to do an Ince and jump up to early. He said he wants to build something here and take us as far as possible. Possibly just saying what we want to hear but he sounded genuine. We've got the momentum and backing to push on for the Premiership - thats the aim - it might not happen - but if we are challenging at the right end of the table next season, to take Brighton from League One to the Prem would be a much bigger achievement on his CV than League One to Championship. You don't get that opportunity very often, and to throw it away for a mid-table Premiership club who would sack him after a few games if he started poorly, why bother? So long as we are moving in the right direction, he's happy to stay.

 

 

.Probably not but I've never seen a football league side as dominant as ours before. Dominance in terms of controlling a game, dictating the pace and not letting the opposition get hold of the ball. I fully appriciate, based on our performance at St Marys it's very hard to imagine that, but its true. We've destroyed Peterborough twice this season although I suspect you'll be our toughest opponents of the season when you visit.

 

 

 

Nothing wrong with parking the bus. The difference this season is we've beaten pretty much everyone who's done it to us and others (notably Huddersfield) haven't. I don't think we came to St Marys to park the bus. Did we time waste, yes. Did we need to, yes. You were swarming all over us, but we stood up to it. It looked worse than it was though. It's very, very normal for us to slow the game down and time waste. We even do it when we're winning. I know that sounds like an alien concept but its all part of the game plan. We starve the opposition of the ball, we dictate the tempo, we get into their heads. They get rash, we stay calm, and we pick them off. It might sound boring to you, it took some of our fans time to adjust, and we've had to change our style a bit as sides have cottoned on to it a bit, but its genuinly a joy to watch. There is a touch of arrogance about it, we do laugh as we pass it to the keeper and the opposition striker gets ****ed off as he has to chase it down. But it works, our tactics are great, we do feel superior to others in that respect, and we fully deserve to.

 

 

 

We could only get planning permission for 22.5k. Besides, most oppositions fans thought that was too big before. Room for easy expansion if we can prove transport system works.

 

 

 

Not much really. You're a very good side, we know that. You pressured us, so rather than try a hopeful pass forward and lose possession, we retained the ball and went backwards. That's probably why we've got a brilliant defence record and rarely lose football matches.

 

Ok we are clearly not going to agree on anything and I would worry if we in Southampton ever believed our own PR. For all the bickering on here, we know how we got here as a club, we know why and most importantly we know what a mammoth task it is to get back to where we were. I am afraid you guys on the wrong forum do not. I propose you come back on this forum around December when Gus has long gone to a Prem club and even with your above average squad as you put it you are languishing towards the bottom of the Championship.