doddisalegend Posted 11 November, 2011 Share Posted 11 November, 2011 SFC biggest and therefore most hated club in the South. FACT and I love it. We've been the biggest club for donkey's years I don't remember much hate when we were in the PL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 11 November, 2011 Share Posted 11 November, 2011 We've been the biggest club for donkey's years I don't remember much hate when we were in the PL. There's always been a jealousy. Only now as we get closer to reclaiming our rightful position of premier league superiority is the bitterness resurfacing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 12 November, 2011 Author Share Posted 12 November, 2011 http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?219253-Comments-from-Saints-Fans-on-local-paper-site.../page11 some interesting views on here now! post 205 someone genuinely surprised that anyone doesn't realise Brighton is a bigger club than us. post 226 about how we won't keep up! I know we all are blinkered towards their club, but amazing that people there aren't expecting more from the league 1 champions, with the great manager who has spent loads more than us but they still can't play decent football or keep up with many teams who have spent less! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted 12 November, 2011 Share Posted 12 November, 2011 (edited) post 205 someone genuinely surprised that anyone doesn't realise Brighton is a bigger club than us. He really uses some bizarre logic. - Out of the last 45 years Saints have been in the top flight for 35 of them. - Brighton on the other hand...? 4 years in their entire history. - Saints have 9 FA Cup semi final appearances, 4 FA Cup final appearance, 1 FA Cup win, one League Cup final appearance and runners up in the top flight once. Plus achieved a European place on 5 occasions (participated in 4 European campaigns due to English clubs being banned). Brighton on the other hand? He also mentions Saints only having 15k whilst at the Dell in the Premier League. I'd love to know how he thinks you can get more than 15k in a 15k capacity stadium. In the same way Brighton were restricted to 9k at the Withdean. He also overlooks Saints attendances whilst at St Mary's, averaging over 30k for every season between 2001 and 2005. They can't even sell out the 22k capacity Amex each game, despite having 18k season ticket holders. Edited 12 November, 2011 by Matthew Le God Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 12 November, 2011 Share Posted 12 November, 2011 They are a mediocre small club wanting to play with the big boys and are, to be honest, a bit crap. No doubt they will spending Saturday rolling around pretending to be hurt whilst losing and afterwards blame the ref'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanHammond Posted 12 November, 2011 Share Posted 12 November, 2011 I'm not sure it's about the clubs it's more about the managers. Brighton fans have taken a strong dis-like to Nigel and lets face most of us don't think a great deal of Poyet. Being resonably local (which allows for more away fans) just adds a bit more to the match. It's not rivallry like saints/pompey or Brighton/Palace but there is a bit of neddle between the two sets of supporters which if you ask me is a good thing. The atmosphere at SMS is always better if the home and away fans are up for it. Is about the size of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 12 November, 2011 Share Posted 12 November, 2011 http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?219253-Comments-from-Saints-Fans-on-local-paper-site.../page11 some interesting views on here now! post 205 someone genuinely surprised that anyone doesn't realise Brighton is a bigger club than us. post 226 about how we won't keep up! I know we all are blinkered towards their club, but amazing that people there aren't expecting more from the league 1 champions, with the great manager who has spent loads more than us but they still can't play decent football or keep up with many teams who have spent less! Unbelievable some of the stuff on there post 213 "Would put them with Big Sam's WHU as two teams who can't play fast technical play with skillful dribbling / passing etc - both rely on physical play, cynical play and percentages" - he certainly knows his football ha ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeanHammond Posted 12 November, 2011 Share Posted 12 November, 2011 Unbelievable some of the stuff on there post 213 "Would put them with Big Sam's WHU as two teams who can't play fast technical play with skillful dribbling / passing etc - both rely on physical play, cynical play and percentages" - he certainly knows his football ha ha! I believe that was a Brighton fan quoting a Southampton fan who posted it about Brighton in this thread. My head hurts.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 12 November, 2011 Share Posted 12 November, 2011 I believe that was a Brighton fan quoting a Southampton fan who posted it about Brighton in this thread. My head hurts.. F**ks sake, just checked snd you're right I think. So we've both got plenty of berks that post absolute s***e on these boards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFCDan Posted 13 November, 2011 Share Posted 13 November, 2011 To be fair a lot of the fans on there are responding with comments in the ilk of "Don't be a moron, we have no reason to hate Adkins/Southampton and look at the league, we're in no position to try to get one over" etc, it's just a vocal minority of morons as with most fanbases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avenue Saint Posted 13 November, 2011 Share Posted 13 November, 2011 Lol that "liamsfc" told them how it is on there. Shut them right up ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 13 November, 2011 Share Posted 13 November, 2011 (edited) Unbelievable some of the stuff on there post 213 "Would put them with Big Sam's WHU as two teams who can't play fast technical play with skillful dribbling / passing etc - both rely on physical play, cynical play and percentages" - he certainly knows his football ha ha! I believe that was a Brighton fan quoting a Southampton fan who posted it about Brighton in this thread. My head hurts.. F**ks sake, just checked snd you're right I think. So we've both got plenty of berks that post absolute s***e on these boards. To be fair, I think they are a cynical, percentage-playing side (not overly physical though) and they weren't even playing better football than us last season based on what we saw in our two matches, never mind this season. So not sure where the berk stuff comes from, it's a reasonable assessment. Also, I will be more bothered about this fixture than most purely because of the rivalry they created last season, their general demeanour towards Adkins and the fact that we are now very much in the position to throw their mean-spiritedness right back at them. Edited 13 November, 2011 by The9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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