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6 minutes ago, Winnersaint said:

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Got to avoid those away days social media accounts, full of inferiority complex skates, Leeds, Geordies all desperation to tell everyone how amazing their support is , can tell seeing 3,204 Saints fans selling out at Newcastle really wound up the Skates ...but but but scummers never travel blah blah etc 

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Geordie fans telling anyone they are embarrassing is hilarious, we all remember those fat cunts who take their shirts off in all weather's causing those that witness it to try and avoid vomiting  

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On 18/08/2024 at 09:46, EssEffCee said:

Pretty decent yesterday I thought or better than I expected at least. First half was excellent but felt really subdued second half.

Solid 6.5/10 I'd say.

I didn't go saturday because the trains were a bloody rip off (plus i've done newcastle away loads), but have we finally binned off that god awful library bollocks? I think we sung that at every single away ground last season, which just goes to prove how fucking dumb it is

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24 minutes ago, franniesTache said:

I didn't go saturday because the trains were a bloody rip off (plus i've done newcastle away loads), but have we finally binned off that god awful library bollocks? I think we sung that at every single away ground last season, which just goes to prove how fucking dumb it is

Only heard it once and only around 50-100 joined in which is a huge improvement.

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For what it's worth, I sat in the home end with the Geordie's on Saturday, directly opposite end of the pitch to the Saints fans (before anyone moans, I was offered a free ticket by friend who's an ST there).

I hate to confess, but from where I was I didn't hear a peep from Saints fans, apart from one round on OWTS early in the game. The red card ramped up the atmosphere big time with the home fans and I hate to say it l, was pretty deafening compared with a typical atmosphere at SMS. Geordies do seem more passionate about their football than southerners on average - don't be offended by that. I think it's partly a combination of their new found hope following the sports washing takeover, combined with the fact that life is so grim up there that football is all many people have up there...

Having said that, the friend I was with said it was pretty uncommon to hear the away fans due to their ridiculous position within the stadium, so don't think it's a particular reflection on our support. The sound just gets lost that high up. I'm assuming if I was sat a bit closer I might have heard more.

As an aside, my other reflection is that northerners are thick as pig shit and couldn't see to tell the difference between Bereton-Diaz and Sam Edozie...

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26 minutes ago, Appy said:

Bournemouth starting at 18+ aways 

A lot higher than i expected but i should still be ok for a ticket, wonder how many are in the 18+ group? Can't imagine a massive amount as you tend to recognise people when you do aways and I doubt there's much more than 200 odd that do most games

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Glad they’ve started it high, means there won’t be a scramble tomorrow morning for me. Will imagine it’ll go a fair bit lower though. Brentford went to 12 I think, and that allocation was only 400 more.

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41 minutes ago, franniesTache said:

A lot higher than i expected but i should still be ok for a ticket, wonder how many are in the 18+ group? Can't imagine a massive amount as you tend to recognise people when you do aways and I doubt there's much more than 200 odd that do most games

There were four more games last season so that probably comes into it as well

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Generally they will set the first threshold of aways at a level such that it will always go to the second threshold.

Which means that there will be less than 1,300 fans on 18+ aways.

But I suspect not that many less, would guess there is between 1,000 and 1,200.

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1 hour ago, LGTL said:

Glad they’ve started it high, means there won’t be a scramble tomorrow morning for me. Will imagine it’ll go a fair bit lower though. Brentford went to 12 I think, and that allocation was only 400 more.

Doubt it will go lower than 17 aways TBH.

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7 minutes ago, Pat from Poole said:

Generally they will set the first threshold of aways at a level such that it will always go to the second threshold.

Which means that there will be less than 1,300 fans on 18+ aways.

But I suspect not that many less, would guess there is between 1,000 and 1,200.

It'll be less than that as a certain amount is reserved for players' family/friends.

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25 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

It'll be less than that as a certain amount is reserved for players' family/friends.

Oh yeah, I remember the West Brom away play-off game, when they seemed to have a large proportion of one whole block reserved…

More reason to sell a few more players over the next couple of days…

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29 minutes ago, LGTL said:

Don’t understand why the club don’t announce the rough numbers in each category for these types of games. Would save people trying to guess. 

They have enough difficulty keeping the number of away game credits up to date as it is.

Cardiff hasn’t been added yet, and won’t be until overnight tonight. I rang the ticket office to query this earlier on.

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31 minutes ago, Pat from Poole said:

I heard we sold around 2,500 for last night's game, but there were only around 1,700 there.

So clearly a lot of people seeing it as a cheap game to get an extra credit.....

Yep. Confirmed to me by a steward.

The BBC has the total attendance at 7225 but there can’t have been nearly 5000 home supporters.

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3 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

Bournemouth sold out on second window as expected.

How was our support on Saturday? Sounded decent through the screen until the 2nd and 3rd goals.

Pretty good. Also helped that Brentford may have been one of the quiestest home stadiums I've been to for a while. Most of their fans in the area support other teams and have only started going now they're in the Prem.

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7 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

Bournemouth sold out on second window as expected.

How was our support on Saturday? Sounded decent through the screen until the 2nd and 3rd goals.

I've seen a couple of Brentford matches this season and on Saturday was in the opposite corner, where a pigeon was providing some of the early drama in persistently encroaching onto the pitch.

Saints fans were in very good voice especially first half, maybe not quite as loud as Palace a couple of weeks ago but that lot are very heavily organised with their singing nowadays. A few pompey songs after the standard 10 mins but I thought it was encouraging to note that after at least the first two goals conceded, I could clearly hear OWTS cutting through the Brentford cheers. No surprise to hear "we scored a goal" at the end, but otherwise sure it got a bit quieter in the last 30 minutes whereas a couple of seasons ago there was non-stop "we never win at home and we never win away" which might have helped lift my spirits more. Pretty sure we can take squatters' rights over that one. I expected a muted reception for Adam Lallana but he was welcomed back with "He's one of our own". 

Brentford's West Stand were a bit louder than I expected, giving BBD grief right from the start and then for the second half got straight on Ramsdale's back with "shit David Raya" to which he applauded them like a returning hero. Later, "he's got the score on his back" and I sensed he was feeling a bit rattled, or perhaps I was projecting. It was hard to put up with their "olé's" during injury time just to emphasise that we'd got fucking schooled, with a bonus lesson in proper possession football.

I think the make-up of most football club support is generally the same wherever you go in this country. 3 stands buzzing with idle chit-chat, various individual empty vessels bitching and moaning until going 2 or 3-0 up, most only getting vocal for the goals or refereeing, one home stand behind a goal balancing out the away fans if you're lucky. Palace fall into this category too.

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15 hours ago, warsash saint said:

Why the question??  BUT YES, i have been to ALL 16 aways with my nipper!!!

Fair play, you’ve probably lost out to someone who has been to less then. We’re heading the same way as Liverpool & other clubs,  where ST holders end up being the distributors of away tickets. 

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3 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Fair play, you’ve probably lost out to someone who has been to less then. We’re heading the same way as Liverpool & other clubs,  where ST holders end up being the distributors of away tickets. 

I know i have - met one at football training last night who only attended 2 aways last season but managed to get one from a season ticket holder 🤬

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There's been a high (or low depending on how you look at it) bar this season for the worst possible chant our fans can come up with, from stealing that bloody Allez, Allez, Allez crap from liverpool to nicking songs from United, but this one surely must win the @Turkish award for completely and utterly shit chant of the year.

It mentions the skates, it over uses the term scummer (seriously we need to stop doing that) and it doesn't come close to scanning as a tune. In fact things like this make me want to stand in silence (and nowhere near our own fans)

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Sounded dreadful last night on the TV. Everton fans were basically silent but could barely hear ours either. Not sure if that's how it was in the ground of course but it sounded like a pre season match.

Credit to everyone who travelled up there for a midweek game mind.

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25 minutes ago, EssEffCee said:

Sounded dreadful last night on the TV. Everton fans were basically silent but could barely hear ours either. Not sure if that's how it was in the ground of course but it sounded like a pre season match.

Credit to everyone who travelled up there for a midweek game mind.

Not much to sing about. Like a training game at times. 
not exactly in fine voice but 100 times more than the scousers. 
first time I’ve been to Everton. Worse than the dell for views of the pitch. 
UTS

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The Everton fans were very, very quiet even after they scored. I was expecting the whole ground to be a lot more toxic (even the Ashley Young sub didn't get them going for long), though listening to their fans around the ground afterwards, I think there was just a general sense of resignation of their demise. As Saints fans, I guess we've had that feeling in the past.

Our fans were pretty rubbish too in all honesty. Difficult to get an atmosphere going with limited excitement on the pitch and lack of home atmosphere I guess. There weren't even that many renditions of OWTS, just the hilarity of "is this a library", "football in a library do do doo" and "we forgot that you were here" on timid repeat.

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City selling really well after going on sale yesterday. Bottom tier all gone and only a couple left in middle tier.

Surprised by that really even with our increasing numbers. Wonder how many 'spares' will suddenly become available...

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On 18/09/2024 at 11:18, Matty's Caddy said:

Not much to sing about. Like a training game at times. 
not exactly in fine voice but 100 times more than the scousers. 
first time I’ve been to Everton. Worse than the dell for views of the pitch. 
UTS

The away end is terrible at Goodison, although the three tier main stand from 1971 still impresses even today. At least you were in the lower tier, the upper tier was really tired out when I last went. 

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Why on Earth did Wolves start on just 4? Ridiculously low number to start on given how well sales have been going.

Hardly any left already. Gonna be some angry people who have missed out I think.

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23 minutes ago, EssEffCee said:

Why on Earth did Wolves start on just 4? Ridiculously low number to start on given how well sales have been going.

Hardly any left already. Gonna be some angry people who have missed out I think.

Agree - I got mine about 10am and there really weren't that many left. Surprised this didn't start at 9/10 aways.

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53 minutes ago, Football Special said:

They keep adding new blocks so there's actually plenty left still 

Went to Wolves 2 seasons back & swear it has to be the worst away stand in the country ...said i would never go again .... bought 2 tickets this morning :)

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2 minutes ago, warsash saint said:

Went to Wolves 2 seasons back & swear it has to be the worst away stand in the country ...said i would never go again .... bought 2 tickets this morning :)

Cracking ground, one of the noisiest in the league and proper old school support instead of noddy shit. Saying that the away end is proper shit, the city is a dump, there's nowhere decent to drink and the subways are sketchy as fuck.

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On 09/10/2024 at 10:02, EssEffCee said:

Very true! Though I'd have preferred closer to one of the corners as the middle blocks are furthest from the pitch.

Wolves sold out now at any season ticket holder stage, didn't make it to members , good going taking just over 3k up there 

As mentioned terrible place for pubs , spent ages trying to get in one last time, heard of a few lads who ended up in a pizza restaurant,  shared a couple of pizzas with a few bottles of Peroni , not a bad option better than drinking in the ground 

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7 hours ago, Football Special said:

Wolves sold out now at any season ticket holder stage, didn't make it to members , good going taking just over 3k up there 

As mentioned terrible place for pubs , spent ages trying to get in one last time, heard of a few lads who ended up in a pizza restaurant,  shared a couple of pizzas with a few bottles of Peroni , not a bad option better than drinking in the ground 

Two years ago, it was easy to get away tickets as Saints Plus members, now they're like hen's teeth. 

Can't believe so many season ticket holders keep putting themselves through this. Share the suffering around the fanbase, I say.

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1 hour ago, OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint said:

Two years ago, it was easy to get away tickets as Saints Plus members, now they're like hen's teeth. 

Can't believe so many season ticket holders keep putting themselves through this. Share the suffering around the fanbase, I say.

Looking at the TV fixture changes announced today I'd imagine some of the more inconvenient kick off times combined with our certain relegation will result in a gradual drop off of away travellers 

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9 hours ago, Football Special said:

Wolves sold out now at any season ticket holder stage, didn't make it to members , good going taking just over 3k up there 

Blimey, I was looking to get tix for that. If i cant even get a Wolves ticket basically my Plus membership is worthless. Except maybe if we get to an FA Cup semi or LC final.

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2 hours ago, OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint said:

Two years ago, it was easy to get away tickets as Saints Plus members, now they're like hen's teeth. 

Can't believe so many season ticket holders keep putting themselves through this. Share the suffering around the fanbase, I say.

A lot of them don't even go. Buy the tickets, get the credit and sell them on. 

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