doubleonothing Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 http://bit.ly/PDUkJf Yup, Bompey now "officially" consider us their biggest rival. We consider them to be our third biggest rival.. Would you rank Bompey or Brighton in our top 3 rivals, or would you consider the likes of Reading or Spurs? (And 73.9% of fans say they would miss their rivals if they cease to exist) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Garrett Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 I always look out for Bournemouth scores, hope they win every week, especially when we normally have players on loan down there. Definitely not a 'rival'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 They really are cute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 (edited) I guess not all teams have that natural historical rival, and so have to desperately manufacture one. I love our derby. Always a great game. Teams without a proper one are missing out. Just listening to my Reading supporting friends in the past talk about 'Aldershot Town' as if there is a serious rivalry there makes me laugh. Edited 24 September, 2012 by Saintandy666 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 It's only like the fake hate we had for Tottenham in the early 00's. It was quite simply embarassing at times with some fans signing how much they hated Tottenham every week when they didn't even notice or care about us. Christ, didn't we even have the club make the embarassing "Be a Gooner for a day" t-Shirts when they played them in an FA Cup game? Utterly cringeworthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 And Bournemouth are only third on our list simply because we have to list 3 so people will probably just umm and err and be like 'well, Bournemouth I guess?'. We have one rival and that is Portsmouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?39948-Football-rivalries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancake Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 Paging Trousers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 Yawn. Due to their unsustainable spending, their main rivals will soon be Weymouth and Dorchester Town anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 (edited) http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?39948-Football-rivalries I didn't need an Atlas to see that most of these " rivalries " are based purely on geography. Of course the nearest side ..in your league.. constitutes a " derby game "....of sorts, but not always. With last year's derby game v. Pompey , (I can't recall the stats. exactly)... but we hadn't played them nearly as often as many people think, as we weren't in the same league for nearly 20 years before the war. .and about 15 years after it. AND in many cases it was a "friendly rivalry " and not the " hate campaigns" that take place today. After we went up (in 1966) they went down...and the games became much less. I don't think we'd met Bournemouth ...in a League game.. since the late 1950's until our couple of games in L1. So I'd hardly call them rivals..and not Brighton either, for much the same reasons. Without reaching for a record book, and purely by guesswork....I'd say that since say 1960...we'd played Norwich, Newcastle, Sunderland, Middles'boro, Notts. Forest and Bolton most often..and usually in Div 2 .(Championship) ...and in the 27 years in old Div.1 / Prem. ...probably(?) ....Arsenal, Tottenham, Liverpool, Everton, Man Utd and Leeds. Difficult to say who I regarded as rivals, but in Div2. the games mentioned were competitive and entertaining... .and winning over any of those Div.1 clubs - as we were often low down in the league ....and every win was nice...but in retrospect... I never expected to beat Arsenal (well not so often) but a victory over Spuds always felt good.....and everyone hated Leeds. Edited 24 September, 2012 by david in sweden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melmacian_saint Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 Brighton, Bournemoth, Aldershot or whoever else exists in the South apart from Pompey are not our rivals. Proof of that is we have a history of cooperation when it gets to players. Several former and actual Saints players have played for Brighton and vice-versa (Hammond and Harding the most recent clear examples), and same with Bournemouth (if they really were our rivals would they have accepted to be the starting point of our Academy's rising star in Lallana?). Just local fans excited by recent league clashes, which for most are very if not completely unusual in their lifetime. And trying to find London clubs to get a rivalry going is just ridiculous. Reminds me of the Brighton-Palace hate, one if not the most nonsensical rivalry in sport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Balls Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 Always like to see Bournemouth win Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dellman Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 I want all the 'locals' to do well, except our one and only real rivals who are close to extincton anyway. The club I love to hate is not local at all, it's Leeds I can't stand. We must never forget Kelvin last time we played them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latter day saint Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 can we please for the love of god stop calling them Bompey ! why use a name that sounds anything like the skates ? not even on the same planet in terms of rivalry FFS ! Bournemouth, Cherries (pmsl) or even Boscombe if you must. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobM Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 I only consider Portsmouth our rivals. Rivalry needs history, it needs both sides to give a damn and, oddly, it needs respect. Brighton only came close to a rivalry for one season, they then went backwards the next and are now history. Bournemouth fans seem to think we're a rival, out of some stupid resentment at us gifting them loan players and letting them off payments owed, but it's rare to find a Southampton fan who consider them any more than a local team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 "YOU'RE OUR SECOND FAVOURITE CLUUUUUB" from turning them over at their place still makes me laugh. We have already done this topic though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPTCount Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 never got the spurs stuff, just coz they took our manager, who was already a club legend there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAS Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 http://bit.ly/PDUkJf Yup, Bompey now "officially" consider us their biggest rival. We consider them to be our third biggest rival.. Would you rank Bompey or Brighton in our top 3 rivals, or would you consider the likes of Reading or Spurs? (And 73.9% of fans say they would miss their rivals if they cease to exist) Good to see Skates the 20th most offensive club to the neutral fan. No support, hated by the neutral. Where does this great club image and support come from on the tv? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted 24 September, 2012 Share Posted 24 September, 2012 We only have one rival. End of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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