Saint Garrett Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 2? I saw nearer 202 there. Didn't seem to be much trouble going down but the police were treating it as a major incident. The QPR fans were celebrating a rare away win, fair enough. Fair enough I couldn't really see from where I was and didn't hang around to watch! Not that sad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elias Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 I can't help thinking that some people here haven't been to any away games this season. Compared to most other teams our support is decent. We tried getting behind the team today, but they gave us precious little to work with by butchering every promising move with poor decision making. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomobz Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 Welcome to the premier league!! AMF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alehouseboys Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 Compared to most other teams our support is decent But that just highlights how bad vocal support is in this country these days. Where our manager comes from this is the norm.. ...in big open stadiums. He must have been scratching his head after yesterday and having been to the "passionate hotbed" of the North East last weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomobz Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 I never understand why every media stream in the country uses phrases like ''the passion of the supporters'', ''twelth man'' etc... and the tabloids even have a picture of a Liverpool flare at Wigan being celebrated as good support, but every steward and police man involved with football wants fans to sit on their hands. Atmosphere's in the PL are crap and it's directly due to over policing and the fact that football supporters get longer prison sentences for having a smoke bomb than a rapist would get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aintforever Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 Support was terrible. Apart from the Northam there was nothing. It's the same almost every week. Apart from a bit of the Kingsland near Northam and occasionally a handful in the Itchen near the away end you have to wonder why the rest of the stadium bother turning up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 Is that a Pope I can see in the Northam in that video? i'm sure the usual fashion gurus will have a hissy fit over it but that's pretty amusing. Why is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 Why is it? There were 4 of 'em, never knew why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 the group of about 20 14/15 year olds acting like dicks by The Alfred was embarrassing. Initially it was just 2 coppers holding them back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solentstars Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 the group of about 20 14/15 year olds acting like dicks by The Alfred was embarrassing. Initially it was just 2 coppers holding them back. Saw them little kids they looked complete walleys what a sad life they must have. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solentstars Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 The crowd was so quiet and negative today it was unbelievable. The most dismal atmosphere I can remember in a long , long time. Agree and the northam singing silly childish songs about standing up if you love the saints and embarrassing cringeworty songs about harry made us sound like dicks unlike the saints away support is pretty good. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint86 Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 The crowd was so quiet and negative today it was unbelievable. The most dismal atmosphere I can remember in a long , long time. I'm sorry, I didn't realise I was required to cheer Ricky Lambert when he can't even be arsed to jump of the floor because he was against a bloke bigger than him. I cheered the few players who deserved it, Morgan, cork and JayRod. Lambert should have been off quicker than grease lightening, was his worst performance in a long while. And the simple truth is, Harry Redknapp played the fans and won again. He made this match about the fans harrasing him, not about jeering qpr players and not about supporting our team. And by and large, are fans fell for it.... To my mind that is Arry -2-0- Saints. The team was complacent, which is the managers fault and the fact that no one briefed him as to what the fans were going to be like. There is a reason why we never put the boot in, and its because the fans always focus on the opposition, not our team in the grudge matches. And people can **** off if they think they can come online and moan at other fans... I have a season ticket and live in Bristol. If saints play **** I am more than entitled to moan about those players.. And the very simple fact is that Arry had the better tactics and won the mind game war..... Made it all about him and not about the match. Why in gods name fans on here think it was more important to shout abuse at someone who lost his job at a champions league team, lost the england job, and is going to get relegated - when our club is now in the way up... I will never know. Saggychops is in the past, beneath and behind us. If our fans had remembered that rather than yelling abuse at him we may have seen a better performance.. But after 30+ mins, that was the worst saints game I have seen in very long time, many players were **** and couldn't be bothered, and when that happens they need a kick up the backside, from the fans and the manager. Getting on their backs is the natural way to do it... Unless you like paying their wages for them to **** around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 Been very quiet all season at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Duckhunter Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 I thought the Redknapp stuff was pretty poor, nothing original or funny. Just singing "we ****ing hate you" made us look a bit 2 bob in my opinion. There wasn't really the raw passion, the real hate against him. Hate to say it but that awful day at Fratton, that was a atmosphere of real hate that affected his players, ours was just going through the motions. Should have stuck to supporting team rather than get side-tracked by Redknapp, it makes us look a bit silly when we lose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilko Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 Some of you are living in a parallel world. There was not enough abuse meted out to Redknapp. Proper football fans dish out abuse to those by whom they have been wronged. Most of the Saints fans just sit in silence then moan about negative atmospheres and a lack of 'getting behind the team'. **** Redknapp and **** all you Saints fans who think we shouldn't abuse him. It's people like you who make me tire of watching football and all the sanitised happy-clappy ****e that goes with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appy Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 Some of you are living in a parallel world. There was not enough abuse meted out to Redknapp. Proper football fans dish out abuse to those by whom they have been wronged. Most of the Saints fans just sit in silence then moan about negative atmospheres and a lack of 'getting behind the team'. **** Redknapp and **** all you Saints fans who think we shouldn't abuse him. It's people like you who make me tire of watching football and all the sanitised happy-clappy ****e that goes with it. I don't think anyone is saying we shouldn't have given Redknapp dogs abuse, just when we were losing, the team needed our support (it's a 2 way thing I know) and we still focused on Redknapp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Duckhunter Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 Some of you are living in a parallel world. There was not enough abuse meted out to Redknapp. Proper football fans dish out abuse to those by whom they have been wronged. Most of the Saints fans just sit in silence then moan about negative atmospheres and a lack of 'getting behind the team'. **** Redknapp and **** all you Saints fans who think we shouldn't abuse him. It's people like you who make me tire of watching football and all the sanitised happy-clappy ****e that goes with it. But yesterday was just going through the motions. He did not get anywhere near the abuse he got in '05 at Fratton and nowhere near anything that would have made him uncomfortable. That day all the hatred towards him translated itself to the players, who shat themselves, made him make mistakes tactically and generally cost us the game. Yesterday was a stroll in the park and we would have been better off creating the atmosphere we had against City, ie getting behind the side, and forgetting about Twitchy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graffito Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 I suppose we ought to be pleased that we're not hate filled morons like the skates but the galling thing about yesterday is that we all, manager, players and fans, let Redknapp off the hook. He played the media perfectly leading up to the match and he got away with, yet again he got away with it, just like he always seems to get away with it whereas collectively we took our eye off the ball. It's unlikely he'll save them but if they go down fighting, Redknapp's reputation wont suffer and he'll remain at QPR or someone else will take him on. Their going down anyway isnt much consolation. The only satisfactory outcome from yesterday, on and off the pitch, would have been to have stuffed them. It was there for the taking and we fked it up. The opportunity for pay back has gone now but we can concentrate now on the far more important business of staying up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILLY Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 Support was terrible. Apart from the Northam there was nothing. It's the same almost every week. Apart from a bit of the Kingsland near Northam and occasionally a handful in the Itchen near the away end you have to wonder why the rest of the stadium bother turning up. I'm in the Itchen corner Block 3 and I thought the Northam were poor today. We were louder in the Itchen. The problem is the location of the away fans. When an away club takes their full allocation they take over the Northam and it gives them an advantage to out sing the home fans. They need to move the away fans to the Kingsland Corner, adjacent to the Northam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solentstars Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 I'm in the Itchen corner Block 3 and I thought the Northam were poor today. We were louder in the Itchen. The problem is the location of the away fans. When an away club takes their full allocation they take over the Northam and it gives them an advantage to out sing the home fans. They need to move the away fans to the Kingsland Corner, adjacent to the Northam. No they don't the chapel is the home end. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BILLY Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 No they don't the chapel is the home end. Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2 You're ******* joker! Shame the Chapel never ******* sing then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solentstars Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 You're ******* joker! Shame the Chapel never ******* sing then! So what its still the clubs home end Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teamsaint Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 I'm sorry, I didn't realise I was required to cheer Ricky Lambert when he can't even be arsed to jump of the floor because he was against a bloke bigger than him. I cheered the few players who deserved it, Morgan, cork and JayRod. Lambert should have been off quicker than grease lightening, was his worst performance in a long while. And the simple truth is, Harry Redknapp played the fans and won again. He made this match about the fans harrasing him, not about jeering qpr players and not about supporting our team. And by and large, are fans fell for it.... To my mind that is Arry -2-0- Saints. The team was complacent, which is the managers fault and the fact that no one briefed him as to what the fans were going to be like. There is a reason why we never put the boot in, and its because the fans always focus on the opposition, not our team in the grudge matches. And people can **** off if they think they can come online and moan at other fans... I have a season ticket and live in Bristol. If saints play **** I am more than entitled to moan about those players.. And the very simple fact is that Arry had the better tactics and won the mind game war..... Made it all about him and not about the match. Why in gods name fans on here think it was more important to shout abuse at someone who lost his job at a champions league team, lost the england job, and is going to get relegated - when our club is now in the way up... I will never know. Saggychops is in the past, beneath and behind us. If our fans had remembered that rather than yelling abuse at him we may have seen a better performance.. But after 30+ mins, that was the worst saints game I have seen in very long time, many players were **** and couldn't be bothered, and when that happens they need a kick up the backside, from the fans and the manager. Getting on their backs is the natural way to do it... Unless you like paying their wages for them to **** around? You make some good points, Although for the life of me I cannot see how our fans concentrating on the opposition stops our players putting the boot in. whatever, despite what you say , (and fwiw I have a season ticket and travel from Salisbury) our support was awful. I pay my money, and If I want to pay £600 a season and sit in silence, that is my choice. I think for the first time ever (40+) years, the crowd reaction actually made me wonder if I was spending the afternoon in the right way. Not the players (who were pretty poor) but the crowd. Where I sat, it was just silent, apart from me , some idiot slagging off Fox, and about 3 lads a few rows back. Anyway, I will **** off now, Saint 86, if you want. or is it OK for you to moan about other fans and their opinions, but not OK for them to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilko Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 But yesterday was just going through the motions. He did not get anywhere near the abuse he got in '05 at Fratton and nowhere near anything that would have made him uncomfortable. That day all the hatred towards him translated itself to the players, who shat themselves, made him make mistakes tactically and generally cost us the game. Yesterday was a stroll in the park and we would have been better off creating the atmosphere we had against City, ie getting behind the side, and forgetting about Twitchy. The atmosphere at Fratton in '05 was the sort of atmosphere we should have created for Redknapp, but we failed spectacularly. In the absence of that, we didn't get behind the team either. It was all just a bit fluffy bunnies, as it usually is at St Mary's. I stopped regularly attending home games a few years ago and the three I've been to this season have reminded me why. Against Wigan I was threatened with ejection by a steward, despite the fact I was two rows from the back of the Itchen and there was nobody within about 10 yards of me. Against Sunderland the atmosphere was crap and yesterday the atmosphere was rubbish, despite the fact we were playing not only one of our rivals in the relegation scrap, but also against the man who took us down and treated us all with contempt. I just don't see the point. I was generally disenfrachised with football despite the heroics of last season, but the sacking of Adkins made it a lot worse. The lack of passion in St Mary's yesterday just further proves that I shouldn't bother spending £200+ per month on days out to the football. I can watch it at home for free and create just as good an atmosphere with a cup of tea and a few pieces of toast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melmacian_saint Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 Apart from the excessive Redcrapp singing, something wasn't right at SMS yesterday. Very grey atmosphere from the first minute. I was in the Itchen/Chapel corner and towards the final minutes saw a guy a few rows in front of me literally tell two mates behind him who were discussing QPR's second goal and our poor performance to each other to shut up. They had been talking normally throughout the game. The moaner's mates were all please with his attitude towards the other two as well. Incomprehensible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotsaintsfan Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 What was the chant "Harry Redknapp we're ... at you ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appy Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 What was the chant "Harry Redknapp we're ... at you ?? We ****ing hate you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Garrett Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 We f*cking hate you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 Don't worry Scotsaintsfan, I quite like you even if they don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appy Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 Don't worry Scotsaintsfan, I quite like you even if they don't. Lawl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotsaintsfan Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 Don't worry Scotsaintsfan, I quite like you even if they don't. Lol :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junction 9 Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 We moved from the Dell, doubled our capacity and got quieter. I wonder what will happen after the expansion in the new mega stadium? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red&white56 Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 There used to be a sentiment that when the opposition fans started singing we would sing up to try and drown them out. Now we seem to like listening to them. What also puzzles me is that we can send out 3000+ fans to away games and put up a good racket, but back in St.Marys we can't get the same fans together to create the same noise... Leaving the stadium on Saturday I almost made a vow to only go to away games, because that's the type of support I like to be involved with, but I didn't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
70's Mike Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Solution is simple all those on here who moan about the support arrange to sit together and then we could out sing anyone apparently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latter day saint Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Solution is simple all those on here who moan about the support arrange to sit together and then we could out sing anyone apparently this would do it but people will say they don't want to move seats. think it was in the summer a poster started a thread about organising some sort of "Ultra" group to improve the atmosphere & it went down like a lead ballon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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