Saints 3 Brighton 0 - Post Match Chat

[Blandford saint]

Yes, I agree. I can understand for midweek games when you've got work the next day, but I'm sure most streaming out on Saturdays are not really in a desperate hurry. Last couple of games, Jos seems to have started it, the players have come over to applaud the fans around the ground and we should make sure they know how much we appreciate the great football they are playing.

[Give it to Ron]

As I say, can more than understand it mideweek, often have to do it myself, but can't believe THAT many people are in THAT much of a rush on a Saturday afternoon. It looks s**t and shows a lack of appreciation of the sort of effort and performances the side are putting in.

 

Not making any excuses for them - I stay and clap by the way but it can take ages after the whistle to get out of my block 34.

You can be stood for ages on the stairs plus getting over the footbridge.

Its something I think that needs looking at as haven't faced this at any other ground as bad as SMS for this.

[Mowgli]

Am sometimes guilty of this for midweekers - getting the 10pm back to London is a lung-buster at the best of times - even worse when there's a stack of injury time and/or you're in the itchen and they've closed off the northam car park.

 

You do know there's another train at 10:30pm? I honestly can't see why anyone would leave personally but each to their own I guess. Funny thing though, I am remember in an earlier thread on this (we do seem to revisit the subject regularly!) someone drawing the analogy that you would never leave the theatre before the end. Blow me, I was down the Mayflower a few months back and an elderly couple did just that - half way through the final scene, literally about two minutes before the last line!!

[Guan 2.0]

You do know there's another train at 10:30pm? I honestly can't see why anyone would leave personally but each to their own I guess. Funny thing though, I am remember in an earlier thread on this (we do seem to revisit the subject regularly!) someone drawing the analogy that you would never leave the theatre before the end. Blow me, I was down the Mayflower a few months back and an elderly couple did just that - half way through the final scene, literally about two minutes before the last line!!

 

The tube closes just after midnight, he's hardly being unreasonable in wanting to catch the last one!

[ericb]

Sad generalisation there. There are many ST holders around me who have been there since the stadium was opened, of course as we do not 'stand' in the Northam then we are not uber fans who 'get it'.

 

funny i guess you must've missed the sarcasm in my original post which was highlighting exactly the generalisation you talk about. If you'd seen the first post (i assume you did as you must've read the post) then you'd have seen Dubai Phil generalising an entire stand of people.

 

Oh and this uber fan thing is the most ridiculous ******** in the world, all the people that come out with seem like they have some sort of massive chip on their shoulder. If you think like that then i'm genuinely sad for you, a saints fan is a saints fan regardless of where they sit/stand (though i wish the chapel would make more noise!)

[dubai_phil]

funny i guess you must've missed the sarcasm in my original post which was highlighting exactly the generalisation you talk about. If you'd seen the first post (i assume you did as you must've read the post) then you'd have seen Dubai Phil generalising an entire stand of people.

 

Oh and this uber fan thing is the most ridiculous ******** in the world, all the people that come out with seem like they have some sort of massive chip on their shoulder. If you think like that then i'm genuinely sad for you, a saints fan is a saints fan regardless of where they sit/stand (though i wish the chapel would make more noise!)

 

Think that's an easy answer. There are no "gangs" of guys in the Chapel, possibly groups of 5 to 8 mates. They ALL want to sing in the Chapel but 5 lads together isn't going to make it happen.

 

On Saturday people around me wanted tos ing BUT by the time we could hear what the Northam were singing they either went atarushheadlongintoaveryfast chorus and then stopped. Or they just stopped.

 

Point is the Chapel join in BUT with a Slow OWTS they only hear the song half way through and by the time we start to join in the Northan have gone back into extra fast mode.

 

That NEVER happened at the Dell, OWTS was a set pace and everyone could pick up on it and join in but oh no gotta do it quick.

 

Even the Rickie song - by the time Northam is in full voice for only one verse we just about had time to sing rickielambertsouthamptonsgoalmachine.

 

Trust me - if songs get past just one verse then the Chapel would have caught up and be giving it large.

 

After all old folk aren't as fast as the yoof of today, they have to turn their hearing aids up to understand what is being sung then work out the words and oh bugger song finished

[Sour Mash]

Think that's an easy answer. There are no "gangs" of guys in the Chapel, possibly groups of 5 to 8 mates. They ALL want to sing in the Chapel but 5 lads together isn't going to make it happen.

 

On Saturday people around me wanted tos ing BUT by the time we could hear what the Northam were singing they either went atarushheadlongintoaveryfast chorus and then stopped. Or they just stopped.

 

Point is the Chapel join in BUT with a Slow OWTS they only hear the song half way through and by the time we start to join in the Northan have gone back into extra fast mode.

 

That NEVER happened at the Dell, OWTS was a set pace and everyone could pick up on it and join in but oh no gotta do it quick.

 

Even the Rickie song - by the time Northam is in full voice for only one verse we just about had time to sing rickielambertsouthamptonsgoalmachine.

 

Trust me - if songs get past just one verse then the Chapel would have caught up and be giving it large.

 

After all old folk aren't as fast as the yoof of today, they have to turn their hearing aids up to understand what is being sung then work out the words and oh bugger song finished

Absolute rubbish. Most of the Chapel doesn't sing simply because 99% of the time they don't want to. Nothing massively wrong with that, but no point pretending otherwise. Plenty of songs sung at a slow pace and more than one verse and are never joined in with. In fact for at least 50% of the ground you won't even see fans get to their feet if a contentious decision has been made right in front of them.