Saints - Probably the least amount of column inches of any top team ever!

[theyin]

I just can't handle it. We're top of the league but there's hardly anything to be found about our magnificent team. NC's transfer policy of keeping everyone schtum, whilst admirable, is for the punter, damned frustrating, especially in an international break when we're all looking for at least a snippet of news of what's going on. It's come to the point where I don't even care if it's blatantly made up, I just want to read about us in the papers/online.

Whilst every game and the aftermath is as exciting as we've experienced since the early/mid eighties, the inbetween time is as dull as ditch water.

Anyone else feel the same?

[hypochondriac]

What can you say in the international break? It is a boring time for all clubs.

[theyin]

It's not just the intl break, it's been since 09

[farawaysaint]

It's not just the intl break, it's been since 09

 

We've been top since 09? I must have slept through it all. Tell me, is Pulis still playing for us?

[scotty]

I rather like the way we've slipped under the media radar myself.

[S-Clarke]

I don't get everyones obsession with us having to be in the media, left right and centre ''Southampton are amazing!'' ''Best team in the league!!''

 

I know it's nice to read sometimes...but we have had some great write ups this year, why should they focus any more attention on us....?

[Leicestersaint]

The Guardian i particularly bad and i am thinking of changing my order to a quality paper that at least reports Saints games. Any suggestions?

[Hedgehog]

My friend gets the Daily Mail. Completely carp in relation to anything outside the Manchester teams,Chelsea and Liverpool, not even very good for the Premiership, and as for Championship and below, you would need a magnifying glass to find anything at all.

[MongoNeil]

We've been top since 09? I must have slept through it all. Tell me, is Pulis still playing for us?

 

Pulis? Who's he? You must have had a bad dream mate...

[Lighthouse]

Why would anyone actually care how much is written about Saints in the papers? For me going to a game and reading people's opinions on here is sufficient. I can live without reading some badly informed half page article from a lazy journalist who probably wasn't even at the game and get's most of his material from websites like this anyway.

[scotty]

The Guardian i particularly bad and i am thinking of changing my order to a quality paper that at least reports Saints games. Any suggestions?

 

Get the Pink sent to you by a mate or family member. Thats what I did when I lived up your way, kept me sane.

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

It annoys me when I listen to the Football Ramble that the minute they talk about the Championship they talk about Brighton who are in fifth! Then again, one of them on their is a skate so can't say I'm that surprised.

[Big_Bald_Si]

I'm happy we're not getting much of a mention. Until the media hypes us up, we're still underdogs doing very well. That's the way I like it.

 

Expectation levels being low/neutral in the media keeps us grounded, and puts less pressure on the players

[Charlie Wayman]

I just can't handle it. We're top of the league but there's hardly anything to be found about our magnificent team. NC's transfer policy of keeping everyone schtum, whilst admirable, is for the punter, damned frustrating, especially in an international break when we're all looking for at least a snippet of news of what's going on. It's come to the point where I don't even care if it's blatantly made up, I just want to read about us in the papers/online.

Whilst every game and the aftermath is as exciting as we've experienced since the early/mid eighties, the inbetween time is as dull as ditch water.

Anyone else feel the same?

 

You should know by now that 'no news is good news'.

 

Stop worrying, stroke the cat go buy yourself a Wispa and curl up with a good book. Even consider going for a walk in the countryside or along the beach. This way you'll get a more adult view of what life can offer and it's meaning and the sheer insignificance of football in the grand order of things.

 

Alternatively, watch old videos of Saints successes until 2 am tonight and book yourself an appointment with a shrink first thing Monday morning.

[Golden Balls]

I like not being in the spotlight and doing things quietly. Positive media attention leads to negitive media attention. Build you up to knock you down

[corsacar saint]

Its on the pitch that counts,not whats in the papers.After all what is written in the papers is only an opinion of the journalist appointed to watch our particular game.[Except for the echo,which is at present reported by a fellow Saints fan]. If the press do have an agenda against us,so be it,does it really matter.Lots of clubs are not liked by the press.

[MINIBARCELONASAINT]

I think there has been quite a bit on us actually.

Two or three newspapers have done academy articles on us since preseason

That BBC Blog, "The Adkins Diet"

And there was that video interview with Adkins

 

We don't need the papers telling us how good we are when we know it

[The Cat]

Get the Pink sent to you by a mate or family member. Thats what I did when I lived up your way, kept me sane.

 

Or buy the Football League Paper on a Sunday.

[Somewhere In Northam]

The Guardian i particularly bad and i am thinking of changing my order to a quality paper that at least reports Saints games. Any suggestions?

 

daily echo?

[djharvey]

I rather like the way we've slipped under the media radar myself.

+1

[Lets B Avenue]

I think there has been quite a bit on us actually.

Two or three newspapers have done academy articles on us since preseason

That BBC Blog, "The Adkins Diet"

And there was that video interview with Adkins

 

We don't need the papers telling us how good we are when we know it

 

Wasnt there an interview with Cortese a couple of weeks ago? Dont think it warrented much of a mention on here.

 

Keep it schtum.It only gets the Trolls all worked up.

[CB Fry]

I think there has been quite a bit on us actually.

Two or three newspapers have done academy articles on us since preseason

That BBC Blog, "The Adkins Diet"

And there was that video interview with Adkins

 

We don't need the papers telling us how good we are when we know it

 

 

Absolutely, there has been loads on us recently. Won't stop the divs making out that the "BBC are against us" and "the media have an agenda against us" and all that guff.

 

I always wonder how many of these people grizzling about newspapers and TV stations not giving coverage to "the championship" would read a two page interview with the manager of Coventry City, or watch a twenty minute profile about the Cardiff manager. I know I wouldn't. I'm not really bothered. Which is kinda why the Daily Mail and the Guardian aren't bothered either.

 

So don't pretend you want more coverage of "the championship" when what you really want is just loads of stuff about Saints. Which is fair enough, but also utterly unrealistic.

[captainchris]

My friend gets the Daily Mail. Completely carp in relation to anything outside the Manchester teams,Chelsea and Liverpool, not even very good for the Premiership, and as for Championship and below, you would need a magnifying glass to find anything at all.

 

Try the Times, every time I read it there loads about the lower leagues........

[saint_jas]

I honestly don't care if we are on the back pages or 1, 2, 3, 4 back from them.

 

Keeping winning or getting good away draws will satisfy me.

[whelk]

pathetic - Guardian has reported most Saints games - Sugesst you get the app.

Embarrassing the persecution complex that so many have - BBC have done plenty of pieces on Nigel and the success. Claridge doesnt hate us and the fact that we are not featured game on FL show is because we are one of 24 clubs

Brighton had much coverage at start of season but the media had an angle with new ground etc.

Every club appears to have the same issue with a number of fans who are so insecure they need to have their club mentioned above others all the time. Just ask Barry Blendenning!

[qwertySFC]

Quite a simple reason why the press don't cover SFC - unfortunately we are not a big team that warrants such a mass media coverage - Some may think we are but the reality is no one outside our catchment area is that interested - It's not like we have Champions league news or in the top four of the premiership and until that happens or we sign Kaka it will always stay the same

[Mattio]

Who cares anyway?

[hypochondriac]

Quite a simple reason why the press don't cover SFC - unfortunately we are not a big team that warrants such a mass media coverage - Some may think we are but the reality is no one outside our catchment area is that interested - It's not like we have Champions league news or in the top four of the premiership and until that happens or we sign Kaka it will always stay the same

 

That's the same for any championship team. I don't think we are shown any less than any other NPC team.

[Window Cleaner]

well I for one wish that we'd get a bit more noticed.

L'Equipe TV does NPC live matches every weekend now but Saints still haven't been on yet,which I find amazing. I mean Derby-Saints next Saturday would seem to be the pick of the games. But no, it's f*cking Pompey again in a stunning match against f*cking Barnsley,followed on Sunday by Leicester-Birmingham. I don't know when they made the schedule of matches they screen out but they've shown some real rubbish so far, this must be Pompey's 3rd or 4th screening.

[saintmatt]

I just turn to the Championship league table in every paper I read, that's coverage enough for me.

[suewhistle]

I don't know when they made the schedule of matches they screen out but they've shown some real rubbish so far, this must be Pompey's 3rd or 4th screening.

 

So it's going to be a real treat for the viewers when they finally show one of our home matches. Hopefully they'll be a few games on Italian tv later in the year and then to just hope there isn't a more popular Italian game on so that the bar will show it.

 

I'd second Whelk et al, there's been a fair bit available. I know we'd appreciate more but if you haven't seen what there is keep your eyes open a bit more.

[Window Cleaner]

So it's going to be a real treat for the viewers when they finally show one of our home matches. Hopefully they'll be a few games on Italian tv later in the year and then to just hope there isn't a more popular Italian game on so that the bar will show it.

 

I'd second Whelk et al, there's been a fair bit available. I know we'd appreciate more but if you haven't seen what there is keep your eyes open a bit more.

 

If they carry on showing Pompey every 2 weeks or so they won't have any viewers left by the time they notice us.

Just can't see anyone wanting to look at that rubbish.

[Window Cleaner]

Belay my last, I think we should be on against Reading on Oct 22, I've worked out that they take whatever Championship matches that are on the BBC and Sky Sports.So all you Europe based fans that can capt L'Equipe TV should be able to look in.

[whelk]

yeah completely agree that the Guardian is ignoring us completely

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/sep/28/cardiff-city-southampton-championship?INTCMP=SRCH

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/sep/21/southampton-preston-north-end-carling-cup?INTCMP=SRCH

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/sep/18/southampton-birmingham-city-championship?INTCMP=SRCH

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/sep/10/southampton-nottingham-forest-championship?INTCMP=SRCH

 

I gave up after this!

[adrian lord]

Saints have always been largely ignored by the media since I started following them in mid 70's, except for a periodic patronising feature about how well we are doing at the time considering we are a small club from leafy Hants etc. etc.

[Dr Who?]

We get loads of press about the club and the direction it is moving in. The good thing is it is all positive (at the moment).

[Dr Who?]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2011/09/the_adkins_diet_gets_saints_in.html

[70's Mike]

Long may we slip under the radar, especially Meridian

[theyin]

I wasn't on about match reports.

 

Hey, it may just be me. I'm 12,000 miles away, not much banter to be had re rumours from SMS so look to the media for something, anything to give me a fix. Wading through the negativity & sla gging off on here when someone comes out with a snippet, whether it's BS or not is tiresome tbh.

[September Saint]

The truth is that we are not a particularly glamorous team. This is not a glamorous division. It's not just us. I have friends at Fratton Park (well, someone has to) who are convinced the media ignore them. Compare that to when Newcastle were in D2 (aka Championship) and, to a certain extent, West Ham. That's life!

[Window Cleaner]

The truth is that we are not a particularly glamorous team. This is not a glamorous division. It's not just us. I have friends at Fratton Park (well, someone has to) who are convinced the media ignore them. Compare that to when Newcastle were in D2 (aka Championship) and, to a certain extent, West Ham. That's life!

 

not glamourous because we aren't top heavy with ex-EPL hacks you mean ?

[Rory]

What does Saints boast to interest a tabloid sports editor that the other 92 clubs don't? Why would anyone other than Saints fans want to read a "club doing well" story?

[CB Fry]

I wasn't on about match reports.

 

Hey, it may just be me. I'm 12,000 miles away, not much banter to be had re rumours from SMS so look to the media for something, anything to give me a fix. Wading through the negativity & sla gging off on here when someone comes out with a snippet, whether it's BS or not is tiresome tbh.

 

 

Hang on, what do you want? You want "rumours" in the media but at the same time you're grizzling about negativity and slagging off when someone "comes out with a snippet".

 

Any rumour is going to get a proper going over on here, even when they are based in facts - we had weeks of pompous idiots saying "the papers make stuff up" when they dared to suggest Alex O-C might be leaving.

 

So make your mind up - you either want rumours and the slagging off that entails, or you want a media blackout. You can't moan about both things.

[CB Fry]

What does Saints boast to interest a tabloid sports editor that the other 92 clubs don't? Why would anyone other than Saints fans want to read a "club doing well" story?

 

Quite. I note with interest no one complaining about "lack of coverage for the championship" has actually come forward and said they would sit down and read a two page article on Coventry City. Because they wouldn't.

[September Saint]

not glamourous because we aren't top heavy with ex-EPL hacks you mean ?

 

Anyone for Beckham?

[The9]

I have to say I genuinely could not give a flying monkey's about how many times the media reports on Saints, and I find it significantly less irritating than people who complain about bizarre media conspiracies against the club, when the reality is that the majority of people don't give a crunchy frog about any club other than their own, and the media generally only cater to the clubs with the most fans.

 

When we've won the Champions' League 3 years in a row and we don't get a mention in Match or our own FIFA16 cover, then there's a problem.

[saint_ed]

Wow you must have far too much time on your hands if you get worked up over not enough people making up stories about us, which ultimately will only lead to disappointment when they don't happen (transfers). Honestly, who cares how much we are spoken about.

[theyin]

Wow you must have far too much time on your hands if you get worked up over not enough people making up stories about us, which ultimately will only lead to disappointment when they don't happen (transfers). Honestly, who cares how much we are spoken about.

 

Not really, just would like to read something once in a while......

 

and finally after f... knows how long we appear on the BBC Gossip round up....hurrah. Couldn't give a toss whether it's made up, just good to read a rumour in the papers rather than the made up stuff on her by people who obviously "have far too much time" on their hands i.e. 1+K posts

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/gossip_and_transfers/9623403.stm

[Barry the Badger]

Not really, just would like to read something once in a while......

 

and finally after f... knows how long we appear on the BBC Gossip round up....hurrah. Couldn't give a toss whether it's made up, just good to read a rumour in the papers rather than the made up stuff on her by people who obviously "have far too much time" on their hands i.e. 1+K posts

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/gossip_and_transfers/9623403.stm

 

You would rather read a rumour made up by "the papers" than one made up by a Saintsweb member?

[Saint Lindford]

I just can't handle it. We're top of the league but there's hardly anything to be found about our magnificent team. NC's transfer policy of keeping everyone schtum, whilst admirable, is for the punter, damned frustrating, especially in an international break when we're all looking for at least a snippet of news of what's going on. It's come to the point where I don't even care if it's blatantly made up, I just want to read about us in the papers/online.

Whilst every game and the aftermath is as exciting as we've experienced since the early/mid eighties, the inbetween time is as dull as ditch water.

Anyone else feel the same?

 

With the media's drooling over everything Premiership or Champions League then the nPc is not going to get much coverage is it?

 

That said the Telegraph ran with this http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/southampton/8841618/Who-needs-Jose-Mourinho-Nigel-Adkins-will-not-rest-until-Saints-march-back-to-the-top.html

BBC with these http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15387077.stm and this http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2011/09/the_adkins_diet_gets_saints_in.html.

 

So all in all reasonable coverage