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Saint Fan CaM

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Yup, normal service resumed. Even if we’re somehow winning the officials will find a way of making us lose - Liverpool must prevail at all costs. But we won’t be anywhere near good enough. We’ll sleep walk to a humiliating defeat and we’ll all be thinking we can now concentrate on the league and survival. Oh.

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Football Special

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23 minutes ago, SaintsBarry74 said:

Imagine lifting this cup - we'd be making history next season as the first 2nd tier side to qualify for Europe.

There's been plenty of others, Wigan, Birmingham both won cups and relegated in same year then played in Europe as championship club

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Football Special

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7 hours ago, Turkish said:

Last time we played Liverpool at home at this stage of the same competition we lost 1-6. Anything better than 1-6 would proven Martin is better the. Koeman 

That was an awful night, in fact still have PTSD from both 1/4 finals Koeman got to in this comp, 

Spurs at home the Sunday night before so this will be Wednesday 18th Dec 

Football Special

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8 hours ago, Mr Brightside said:

Looking forward to it. Hopefully tickets will be sensibly priced. 

You'd hope so, just before Christmas,  I can't see huge demand considering our bad form, expect the real winners will be the half and half scarf sellers. 

Badger

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2 hours ago, SaintsBarry74 said:

Imagine lifting this cup - we'd be making history next season as the first 2nd tier side to qualify for Europe.

We played in the old Cup Winners Cup (1976/77) whilst in 2nd Division. 

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Kenilworthy

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Just now, Badger said:

We played in the old Cup Winners Cup (1976/77) whilst in 2nd Division. 

And Birmingham after they beat Arsenal. West Ham after they won the cup in 1980. Sunderland in 1973

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Football Special

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1 minute ago, CB Fry said:

Millwall qualified for the Uefa Cup for being losing FA Cup finalists in the mid 2000s.

Think it was that game and the thought of Millwall on a European tour that lead them to scraping European qualification for FA Cup losing finalists where the winning side had already qualified via the league. 

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Winnersaint

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18 minutes ago, Badger said:

We played in the old Cup Winners Cup (1976/77) whilst in 2nd Division. 

The Marseille and Anderlecht games were like nothing else I ever experienced at The Dell in terms of atmosphere.

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Turkish

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3 hours ago, SaintsBarry74 said:

Imagine lifting this cup - we'd be making history next season as the first 2nd tier side to qualify for Europe.

We’ve already done that in 1976 FFS

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Turkish

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2 hours ago, Football Special said:

That was an awful night, in fact still have PTSD from both 1/4 finals Koeman got to in this comp, 

Spurs at home the Sunday night before so this will be Wednesday 18th Dec 

It started so well too. Steven Caulker at the back doing Steven Caulker things, Steklenberg as glovesman who let in pretty much every shot on target that prick Daniel Strurridge scoring two and Origi getting a hattrick typically I think they were his first goals of the season. It was hailed as a Klopp masterclass 🤦

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44 minutes ago, Kenilworthy said:

And Birmingham after they beat Arsenal. West Ham after they won the cup in 1980. Sunderland in 1973

Wigan also won the FA cup then went down in recent years, thus playing european football in the championship. 

moorw003

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3 hours ago, SaintsBarry74 said:

Imagine lifting this cup - we'd be making history next season as the first 2nd tier side to qualify for Europe.

Aside from the already mentioned teams that prove this wouldn't be the case, Ipswich Town also qualified for Europe in the season they got relegated in 2001/2002 and therefore played in the UEFA Cup in 2002/2003.  Back in those days, UEFA used to give I think it was 1 place to the 3 highest ranked leagues in Europe for etiquette and fair play.  In 2001/2002, England were awarded a fair play spot, and Ipswich Town were the highest ranked fairplay team that hadn't already qualified for Europe from the premier league. I believe they went out in the second round to a Slovakian side on penalties.

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Turkish

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9 hours ago, SouSaint said:

Can someone put "ends here" after wembley in the title for accuracy. 

Except it doesn’t no one clarified which season did they.

Turkish

Turkish

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2 hours ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

"The road to Wembley ends here, Liverpool"

Fighting talk. I like it.

Nathan Jones saints beat Man City in the same competition Mara scored. Saints to win with Sulemana and Tall Paul bagging?

Football Special

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On 31/10/2024 at 12:33, Turkish said:

Nathan Jones saints beat Man City in the same competition Mara scored. Saints to win with Sulemana and Tall Paul bagging?

You never know! More likely a reenactment of the 1-6 quarter final defeat though 

Football Special

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13 hours ago, egg said:

It's a cup 1/4 final. £30, and £10 for kids, seems reasonable to me. 

Suppose so, hopefully we sell out , just seemed a jump double the price of Stoke in the last round in a competition that devalued itself by fixing the draw to ensure big clubs made the later rounds 

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8 minutes ago, Football Special said:

Suppose so, hopefully we sell out , just seemed a jump double the process of Stoke in the last round in a competition that devalued itself by fixing the draw to ensure big clubs made the later rounds 

Fair point, although I suspect we'll ignore that if by some miracle we make it to the final! 

Football Special

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1 hour ago, warsash saint said:

Does it???  

https://x.com/AlfieHouseEcho/status/1854452088710852972?t=Qm4z5PrGg2OFsgUpxIvpBg&s=19

Seems to be quite a lot of criticism of the pricing, I think club know the half and half scarf brigade will be out in force so don't care really. Should have been £20 season ticket holders and members, then £30 for others 

 

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/24706653.southampton-fans-disappointed-carabao-cup-ticket-prices/?ref=rss

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Badger

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14 hours ago, Pamplemousse said:

The first year of Donald Trump's first term was 2017 and we reached a League Cup final.

History is going to repeat itself, but hopefully with a different outcome in the final.

Perhaps Rishi will get him a ticket and invite him to the final 

Jack

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Yeah I think that’s steep considering it was half the price in the last round, and both sides will be making changes you’d think. If it had been Palace in this round I’m sure the prices wouldn’t have been as high. Big cash grab from the club 

egg

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1 hour ago, warsash saint said:

Does it???  

Yes. You're allowed to disagree, and not pay your money, but to me it's a fair price. 

EssEffCee

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I don't think the price is that bad in itself. Albeit it's clearly an increase on previous similar games.

The bigger issue is surely that there's no older person concession? A very sad trend in football currently.

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13 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

I don't think the price is that bad in itself. Albeit it's clearly an increase on previous similar games.

The bigger issue is surely that there's no older person concession? A very sad trend in football currently.

Pensioners should be at home not out at night. As when they get home they are all too skint to put on the heating so even more will die of hypothermia.

 

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whelk

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Haven’t read the whole thread but presumably there are some who want us to throw this as a semi final will distract us from the league?

whelk

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On 31/10/2024 at 09:08, coalman said:

Liverpool's kids will be up for this one. 

Whatever happened to all lot that produced gushes of praise from Carragher and Neville when they beat the ‘blue billion pound bottle jobs’? 

tdmickey3

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On 08/11/2024 at 02:24, whelk said:

Haven’t read the whole thread but presumably there are some who want us to throw this as a semi final will distract us from the league?

We throw every game TBF

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spyinthesky

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On 31/10/2024 at 08:37, Winnersaint said:

The Marseille and Anderlecht games were like nothing else I ever experienced at The Dell in terms of atmosphere.

In my opinion Marseille was a bit 'meh' but the Anderlecht game was special, especially as the Referee was a prize cock.

All looking good until Jim Steele made a mistake and Anderlecht scored the away goal to win the tie.

Best atmosphere I can remember at The Dell was the 1963 replay v Nottm Forest when we came back from 3-0 down with 12 mins to go and draw 3-3

East Kent Saint

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On 07/11/2024 at 13:03, EssEffCee said:

I don't think the price is that bad in itself. Albeit it's clearly an increase on previous similar games.

The bigger issue is surely that there's no older person concession? A very sad trend in football currently.

Grumpy old men , like me , don't appreciate the tippy tappy style that many clubs have adopted . The two incidents where the defender has picked the ball up so the keeper can take a proper goal kick shows that the players don't understand it either😄

The club obviously want to discourage fans who expect our team to RUN up the other end and bang the ball in to the oppos goal on a regular basis , which is now an outdated concept 😄

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wild-saint

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On 08/11/2024 at 02:22, whelk said:

Pensioners should be at home not out at night. As when they get home they are all too skint to put on the heating so even more will die of hypothermia.

 

 Pensioners should be paying full price as they are seen as working adults until they are 99 by Labour. Starmer will change the pensionable age to suit then no one can complain about concessions. 

macca155

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26 minutes ago, wild-saint said:

 Pensioners should be paying full price as they are seen as working adults until they are 99 by Labour. Starmer will change the pensionable age to suit then no one can complain about concessions. 

Tragically I come into that bracket. I have a work pension on top of the state pension, so frankly I should pay full whack. Can't see the problem, there are lots like me. Those on benefits or just state pension should get some discount.

However what would help is some reserved car parking. for old farts like me, near the ground.

Hauling my arithtic bones over the Itchen bridge is becoming tiresome.

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EssEffCee

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1 hour ago, spyinthesky said:

Out of interest what are the arrangements for away fans at Cup Games?

Club said they'd go to further into the Kingsland for FA Cup games. Be interesting to see how it works segregation wise given the permanent barriers they've put in place for the away end, assume we'll lose some seats for netting.

Never mentioned anything about league cup but it's not that many extra tickets (10%), unsure if they would fit in the away section. Unless they're just not going to bother and cite safety concerns.

Has anyone in the adjacent chapel / kingsland blocks had to move for this?

TheAlehouseBrawlers

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33 minutes ago, EssEffCee said:

Club said they'd go to further into the Kingsland for FA Cup games. Be interesting to see how it works segregation wise given the permanent barriers they've put in place for the away end, assume we'll lose some seats for netting.

Never mentioned anything about league cup but it's not that many extra tickets (10%), unsure if they would fit in the away section. Unless they're just not going to bother and cite safety concerns.

Has anyone in the adjacent chapel / kingsland blocks had to move for this?

They've got the standard 3,000...which will piss them off when they see all the empty seats nearby. Every cloud.

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EssEffCee

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25 minutes ago, TheAlehouseBrawlers said:

They've got the standard 3,000...which will piss them off when they see all the empty seats nearby. Every cloud.

They'll cry for fucking ages about that. Superb.

If this was always the plan re the league cup I wonder if the club cleared it with the EFL.

Football Special

Football Special

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1 hour ago, EssEffCee said:

They'll cry for fucking ages about that. Superb.

If this was always the plan re the league cup I wonder if the club cleared it with the EFL.

I believe FA Cup rule is 15% capacity but league Cup is 10%? But no obligation for us to offer more. Must admit thought we'd give them extra as we won't sell them, two years ago v Man City tickets were cheaper and crowd was only 22,996 including 3k City in the same round. Having said that Man City's own end was on general sale and only just sold out so no demand from them whereas Liverpool will sell theirs easily and have loads of local glory hunters in the home end 

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