suewhistle Posted 19 May, 2011 Share Posted 19 May, 2011 When we go to Fratton, lets smash the place up. B***** that, why do Chainrai's ground improvement work for him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denzil Posted 19 May, 2011 Share Posted 19 May, 2011 Anybody who was there would never want to hear that song again This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HedgeEnder Posted 19 May, 2011 Share Posted 19 May, 2011 This. It still haunts me 'til this day - I never want to hear Saints fans sing that song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
um pahars Posted 19 May, 2011 Share Posted 19 May, 2011 It still haunts me 'til this day - I never want to hear Saints fans sing that song Which is why I can never understand why we try to sing "Southampton Till I Die". I'm sure others sing it as well, but I always associate that shtty ditty with Portsmuff as they definitely knocked it out before us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archstanton Posted 19 May, 2011 Share Posted 19 May, 2011 Which is why I can never understand why we try to sing "Southampton Till I Die". I'm sure others sing it as well, but I always associate that shtty ditty with Portsmuff as they definitely knocked it out before us. One team in Hampshire. Copyright Southampton F.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 19 May, 2011 Share Posted 19 May, 2011 Which is why I can never understand why we try to sing "Southampton Till I Die". I'm sure others sing it as well, but I always associate that shtty ditty with Portsmuff as they definitely knocked it out before us. Everyone sings it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THINWHITEDUKE Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 It still haunts me 'til this day - I never want to hear Saints fans sing that song And this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 I was there but I still find it to be a catchy ditty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wurzel Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 It still haunts me 'til this day - I never want to hear Saints fans sing that song And this again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wagon 84 Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 Erm, I cant tell if this is a joke or not. I'm going to guess not and that you're just the village idiot. 1. Sing it because it's like throwing it back in their face. It's called banter. 2. The words 'skates' doesn't fit as it's one syllable. The word requires 2 syllables. Hence 'pompey' and 'laughing' work!......'num nuts' LOLZZZZ!!!!111111111one We could use 'skates back down' but I like the laughing one more now anyway Golden **** are you one of those num nuts that sang "pay up pompey" ? Erm.. thoughts so.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyer Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 When we go to Fratton, lets smash the place up. Would anyone notice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_saints Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 "Pay up Pompey" was nowhere near as bad as people make out. Personally, I don't give a s**t how it came across on TV. What it did do though, was shut the skates up.....and they knew exactly what we were singing (The "money" hand gesture also helped) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 Golden **** are you one of those num nuts that sang "pay up pompey" ? Erm.. thoughts so.. Thats was embarassing, i watched the game at home the next day, well the first 70 mins anyway and at the start of the game when all the dins were singing "pay up Pompey", it was definitely Saints fans, i remember the moment, the commentator says "as usual, the fantastic Pompey fans are in fine voice" It just sounded to the world like it was them singing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 "Pay up Pompey" was nowhere near as bad as people make out. Personally, I don't give a s**t how it came across on TV. What it did do though, was shut the skates up.....and they knew exactly what we were singing (The "money" hand gesture also helped) Agree 100% - who gives a f**K what it sounds like on TV. Its as witty a chant as we've come up with: they got the message and, from where I was stood, it riled them. By the same dopey logic, nobody should sing OWTS when we play spurs in case its attributed to the other side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doddisalegend Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 Agree 100% - who gives a f**K what it sounds like on TV. Its as witty a chant as we've come up with: they got the message and, from where I was stood, it riled them. By the same dopey logic, nobody should sing OWTS when we play spurs in case its attributed to the other side. That's the way I saw it......I don't go to saints matches to look good on telly.....I went to that one to wind up pompey fans and from were I was sitting it looked like it worked a treat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 Agree 100% - who gives a f**K what it sounds like on TV. Its as witty a chant as we've come up with: they got the message and, from where I was stood, it riled them. By the same dopey logic, nobody should sing OWTS when we play spurs in case its attributed to the other side. But analysing it by looking at how the Skate fans saw it in terms of a wind-up is only seeing one side of it. The Skate players are used to hearing it as encouragement to them at Krap Nottarf to lift their game, so they might well not have been able to distinguish the difference between pay and play and assumed that their fans were in fine voice geeing them on. Also, as has been pointed out, the Skate fans will probably have been mistakenly credited with superb support on the telly, because their chant was heard loud and clear, when it was us making that noise. Much more effective for that reason IMO was the "Pompey's going down with no money in the bank" chant. And when we next get to play Spurs, I'll be happy with them singing OWTS, because it is our chant and all we have to do is have them sing it and shout Saints instead of Spurs at the appropriate juncture, to have our players and those watching on the box to think that it is we Saints fans in good voice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 Anybody who was there would never want to hear that song again Well I was, that's one of the reasons I want us to reclaim it, otherwise there's too much of a chance it'll spring up somewhere to annoy me, I want it to remind me of us thrashing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebastian firefly Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 Ha , course it was ! My brain is fuddled by the thought of THAT song. Please don't do it ... even so tony curtis should still pay for his crimes just like anyone else and i dont care that he is dead its no excuse pay up tony tight wad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 But analysing it by looking at how the Skate fans saw it in terms of a wind-up is only seeing one side of it. The Skate players are used to hearing it as encouragement to them at Krap Nottarf to lift their game, so they might well not have been able to distinguish the difference between pay and play and assumed that their fans were in fine voice geeing them on. Also, as has been pointed out, the Skate fans will probably have been mistakenly credited with superb support on the telly, because their chant was heard loud and clear, when it was us making that noise. Much more effective for that reason IMO was the "Pompey's going down with no money in the bank" chant. And when we next get to play Spurs, I'll be happy with them singing OWTS, because it is our chant and all we have to do is have them sing it and shout Saints instead of Spurs at the appropriate juncture, to have our players and those watching on the box to think that it is we Saints fans in good voice. Fair points - as you say what the blue few hear and react to is only side of it. If pay up pompey was our one and only chant, then it would be ridiculous for the reasons you say; but it wasn't - and in moderation seems the perfect wind-up. Re. spurs, agree its our chant, so not easy to confuse, though don't underestimate their sense of ownership over it and the extent to which others associate them with it. Indeed I know of parts of our own fanbase that deliberately wreck attempts to do a slow OWTS because its seen as a 'f**king yiddo song' I joke you not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 Which is why I can never understand why we try to sing "Southampton Till I Die". I'm sure others sing it as well, but I always associate that shtty ditty with Portsmuff as they definitely knocked it out before us. I don't sing it because I used to sing (Newport) "County til I die" at Somerton Park when I was a kid. I unexpectedly outlived the club but after the bankruptcy I came to Southampton and it would be somewhat hypocritical to sing it about 2 teams. But it's true, pretty much everyone's been singing it for at least 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRM Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 I don't sing it because I used to sing (Newport) "County til I die" at Somerton Park when I was a kid. I unexpectedly outlived the club but after the bankruptcy I came to Southampton and it would be somewhat hypocritical to sing it about 2 teams. But it's true, pretty much everyone's been singing it for at least 20 years. it's just a song, it's not making a vow never to cheat on a club, easter weekend a couple of years ago i went to wolves away on good friday and joined in with saints fans singing "southampton til i die" , the next day i went to Chester v Macclesfield in the Chester end with other Fulham lads i was up for the weekend with, we all joined in with "chester til I die" , the following day we went to Man City v Fulham and sang "fulham til I die" i don't think anyone is going to interrogate you for singing before about another club. that said, i don't like the song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 it's just a song, it's not making a vow never to cheat on a club, easter weekend a couple of years ago i went to wolves away on good friday and joined in with saints fans singing "southampton til i die" , the next day i went to Chester v Macclesfield in the Chester end with other Fulham lads i was up for the weekend with, we all joined in with "chester til I die" , the following day we went to Man City v Fulham and sang "fulham til I die" i don't think anyone is going to interrogate you for singing before about another club. that said, i don't like the song. I'm still not going to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 Indeed I know of parts of our own fanbase that deliberately wreck attempts to do a slow OWTS because its seen as a 'f**king yiddo song' I joke you not. Unbelievable! Apart from other clubs, generally in minor leagues, or in Rugby, who also have the Saints nickname, the song is probably more associated in British sport with us. How can some of our fanbase possibly associate it more with Spurs than with us? Cretins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LVSaint Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 Can we this time find out which seat peepee pants has before the game and ............electrify it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawillwill Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 But analysing it by looking at how the Skate fans saw it in terms of a wind-up is only seeing one side of it. The Skate players are used to hearing it as encouragement to them at Krap Nottarf to lift their game, so they might well not have been able to distinguish the difference between pay and play and assumed that their fans were in fine voice geeing them on. Also, as has been pointed out, the Skate fans will probably have been mistakenly credited with superb support on the telly, because their chant was heard loud and clear, when it was us making that noise. Much more effective for that reason IMO was the "Pompey's going down with no money in the bank" chant. And when we next get to play Spurs, I'll be happy with them singing OWTS, because it is our chant and all we have to do is have them sing it and shout Saints instead of Spurs at the appropriate juncture, to have our players and those watching on the box to think that it is we Saints fans in good voice. Are you seriously telling me that the players on the pitch couldn't tell the difference between the 3000ish Pompey fans singing it and the 27000ish saints fans? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
um pahars Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 I don't sing it because I used to sing (Newport) "County til I die" at Somerton Park when I was a kid. I unexpectedly outlived the club but after the bankruptcy I came to Southampton and it would be somewhat hypocritical to sing it about 2 teams. But it's true, pretty much everyone's been singing it for at least 20 years. As I said in my first post, many other teams do sing it, but Portsmuff sung it for a few seasons beofre we latched on to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 20 May, 2011 Share Posted 20 May, 2011 As I said in my first post, many other teams do sing it, but Portsmuff sung it for a few seasons beofre we latched on to it. Yeah but there's got to be a point where that just doesn't matter any more ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 21 May, 2011 Share Posted 21 May, 2011 Are you seriously telling me that the players on the pitch couldn't tell the difference between the 3000ish Pompey fans singing it and the 27000ish saints fans? Are you seriously telling me that the entire 27000 Saints fans were singing "pay up Pompey"? No, of course they weren't. Most of the Saints fans singing it were on either side of the Skate fans in part of the Northam and the adjacent Kingsland and Itchen corners. The players on the pitch are concentrating on their game and just hear it as background noise and I bet that they couldn't distinguish whether it was "pay" or "play" that was being sung, any more than it would have been distinguishable in the commentary box. Additionally, whenever we chanted it, the Skates also chanted it too, to make it sound as if it is all them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Without a Halo Posted 21 May, 2011 Share Posted 21 May, 2011 When we go to Fratton, lets smash the place up. Not a good idea as it is both illegal and childish, however it does beg the question what is there to smash up? Not Arf Krap is already a rubbish dump! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggers Posted 21 May, 2011 Share Posted 21 May, 2011 I recon you need to change your user name to Saint with a Halo, why does everyone on here take everything so god damn literally!http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/images/smilies/uhoh.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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