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Maggie May

Maggie May

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No, not a corner that led to a header off target (2024/25 joke lol).

Let’s try and be positive about Southampton FC. Let’s share what we love about this club and city. We moan, we hurt, but we wouldn’t have it any other way.

Here’s one aspect I love. Former players describing us as “we”:

Le Tiss and Benali are the an archetypal “wes” for obvious reasons. 

But I can’t help loving it when players like Beattie, Tessem and Shane Long call us “we” on broadcast duty. 

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Divergent

Divergent

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Having had to move seats this season we don’t get soaked anymore when it rains. That’s about the only positive I can think of. 

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woodsaint1

woodsaint1

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Already looking forward to us being very busy on the transfer front - not that I've any faith in SR getting the recruitment right, but at least we'll get to see the back of some of the 'talent' that have been stinking out SMS the past 9 months. I didnt think I would hate any group more than our 22/23 team, but this team has outdone them.

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kitch

kitch

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11 hours ago, BarberSaint said:

It'll all be over soon.

 

In 9 games' time we'll look forward to getting a team to get promoted to start our yo-yo journey.

Bold of you to assume we'll come back up!

rallyboy

rallyboy

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We're experiencing the worst excuse for a campaign in Premier League history, but it's so predictably pathetic that it stopped hurting and became comedic about six months ago when we gave up all hope.

This will be the least surprising or upsetting relegation of our lifetime.- and we can still look forward to banging a hilarious nail into smug Leicester's coffin too.

Yeah, Jamie, let's see you with your little ratty finger over your lips when that happens! 

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ChristopheVAFC

ChristopheVAFC

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My friends, I bring you these few words which I hope will bring you a little positivity for the coming weeks and next year.

I would also like to express my respect to all Southampton fans for the current season.

I remember coming here in March 2024 and discovering a beautiful city, visiting Saint Mary's Stadium and seeing 2 games in 3 days.

I personally look forward to returning to your beautiful city and hope to have the opportunity to chat with some of you during my next visit.

Be proud of your club my friends, you have a great history and I think you'll be reliving some great moments in the near future.

I have no doubt that things will go much better for you next year.

Don't give up, folks!

COYS !

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hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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This is likely to be the worst we will ever perform in the premier league. Statistically if we ever get back here we probably won't ever be as bad again. 

Next year will be loads more fun and we can enjoy being a big club and expect to win most games. Multiple games a week mean that any poor performances are soon forgotten as you have a new game to make amends a few days later. 

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Whitey Grandad

Whitey Grandad

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6 minutes ago, aintforever said:

This has to be the first time ever in my life I have looked forward to a Cricket season.

For me this is the first time that I don’t mind three months without football.

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Oh no Mick Mills

Oh no Mick Mills

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My only away game I went this season was Ipswich, I took my 11 year old son and his mate and they had a great time on the coach joining in the banter with a group of teenagers who were sat in front of us.

Tall Paul's 87th winner was pretty special and we all enjoyed giving the Ipswich fans stick considering how they had done us recently with late goals.

In a season of endless doom and misery. This was a great away day. 

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franniesTache

franniesTache

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The RED WALL is the envy of the world, in no single place has there even been such a high concentration of vloggers, wools & inbetweeners BANTA! 

It can't actually get any worse.

We are putting local pubs out of business with the gulags in the most efficient manner possible.

We have broken everything, which surely means we're doing a brilliant job

Turkish

Turkish

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12 minutes ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Do we have free tampons in the men's toilets yet?

one of the biggest failures of the SR era IMO

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swannymere

swannymere

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I love this club, i love the fans are realistic about their expectations of what a club our size can achieve in the modern game. I love how nobody throws their toys out ofd the pram because of a few seasons of underachieving.

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SotonianWill

SotonianWill

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SR are the best thing to happen to this club. They have opened my eyes as to how the worst things of my life are actually the best. We are blessed with life itself. 

ant

ant

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Digging deep here, but at least Ted Bates doesn't have to see us in this state. 

I believe we were 8th in the Prem on the day he passed.

Holmes_and_Watson

Holmes_and_Watson

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Yesterday, all I could come up with was not risking a neck injury, having to look upwards on the PL table.

I think I love what fans of most clubs love.

Home grown talent breaking into the side. Followed by the inevitable doubts as they learn, which are all forgotten when they do really well.

Seeing an international squad and seeing our players in it (prior to that being a sign they were joining Liverpool)

The lame excuses bigger clubs use when we beat them.

Not so much beating them though, as under Lawrie we were a really good team.

A strategy that pays off. From Lawrie's veteran stars mixed with our very best talents, to the players that came through under Dave Merrington's coaching.

I'd like to think we'd not have the lunatic levels of entitlement, the big clubs have. But that might be something all clubs end up with. SR have made lots of poor decisions, but we're not Reading or one of many clubs with/ who have had horrible owners.

I like being the underdog club. Although quite happy, it turns out, to have a big budget in a lower division.

We're still in a really good place to do well next season.

Systems that deliver more than the sum of their parts. Peak Ralph, Peak Poch, 180 minutes or so under Martin.

Alan Ball centering everything around MLT. Especially considering what went before.

Being part of a support, and a club. Brought home even more when we've been much further down and going into admin.

And the hope before the first ball of the season is kicked.

 

Toussaint

Toussaint

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16 hours ago, Maggie May said:

No, not a corner that led to a header off target (2024/25 joke lol).

Let’s try and be positive about Southampton FC. Let’s share what we love about this club and city. We moan, we hurt, but we wouldn’t have it any other way.

Here’s one aspect I love. Former players describing us as “we”:

Le Tiss and Benali are the an archetypal “wes” for obvious reasons. 

But I can’t help loving it when players like Beattie, Tessem and Shane Long call us “we” on broadcast duty. 

The city is a stinking dump and the football team are the worst ever. But other than that you make a good point.

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Lighthouse

Lighthouse

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6 minutes ago, miserableoldgit said:

Six Nations finished though.....

That was good for a couple of months and it tends to be followed fairly swiftly by the IPL, which I think starts this weekend. If you pick a couple of teams to get behind, it’s usually a decent watch.

USaintA

USaintA

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I love that there's a railway station, airport, and ferry terminal, so there are plenty of ways to get the hell out of there.

Saint Fan CaM

Saint Fan CaM

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As a City, there’s so much to like in contrast to the shithole down the road. The football has been shite…SR incompetent. But if you love football then inevitably you pin your colours to one mast and ours is Saints…the red & white. Despite each successive failure, I start watching each next game with hope that something will go right. And I know that one day it will.

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John B

John B

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10 hours ago, Wade Garrett said:

Looking forward to watching players actually play for the shirt next season rather than this circus of shitcunts we have at the moment.

Bloody Hell Wade you have become a bit touchy feeling I thought players just played for their wallets

OldNick

OldNick

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21 hours ago, swannymere said:

I love this club, i love the fans are realistic about their expectations of what a club our size can achieve in the modern game. I love how nobody throws their toys out ofd the pram because of a few seasons of underachieving.

I love a bit of sarcasm on here

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OldNick

OldNick

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I think the Northam Wall will become a major part of us rising from the flames. The matchday atmosphere that has been lost this season will be back next and there will be a buzz agin outside the stadium pre match 

Charlie Wayman

Charlie Wayman

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12 hours ago, Wade Garrett said:

Looking forward to watching players actually play for the shirt next season rather than this circus of shitcunts we have at the moment.

Assuming the shirt is worth playing for now.

Sod positivity, been there done that, got the T-shirt. Now we are down and nearly out we've got something to get up for every day, another chance to have a bloody good moan about our lot and the comic cuts characters that run and play for our club. Life without a moan could be unbearable.

franniesTache

franniesTache

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1 hour ago, OldNick said:

I think the Northam Wall will become a major part of us rising from the flames. The matchday atmosphere that has been lost this season will be back next and there will be a buzz agin outside the stadium pre match 

It will provide a constant booming of songs stolen from other clubs, followed by renditions of we sing our songs, whilst also proudly declaring it's hatred for portsmouth by people from sallisbury.

The stuff of dreams.

OldNick

OldNick

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40 minutes ago, franniesTache said:

It will provide a constant booming of songs stolen from other clubs, followed by renditions of we sing our songs, whilst also proudly declaring it's hatred for portsmouth by people from sallisbury.

The stuff of dreams.

No different than other clubs fans. Only a few clubs have songwriters aka Man Utd. No doubt sung by fans from all over the South who take their time to visit. Im not a snob about where a fan comes from, ( although I am a Shirley boy of birth)always been delighted to embrace fans from all over the world who have been tarnished by supporting Saints.

I dont stand in the Northam by the way, but do enjoy watching the Northam celebrate rather than spending all afternoon flicking V's at the away fans

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mitch01

mitch01

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Totally disastrous season. 

But we have some young players who I am looking forward to watching in our team next year (if we aren't stupid enough to sell them like SAA):

- Ronnie Edwards
- Welington
- The new and improved Shea Charles
- Kayi Sanda
- Jay Robinson
- Dipepa
- Akachukwu
- Matsuki
- Takaoka

Obviously they won't all be in our plans for 2025/26 but there's lots of talent there from what I can tell. Our youth recruitment seems to be pretty good, which is another reason to be positive, though we haven't really seen the fruits of this yet. 

Sell Ramsdale, THB, Dibling, Bednarek, ABK, Sulemana, Aribo. Try to keep Fernandes, Downes and Onuachu. Sprinkle in some of the above and some more good young players, and a new manager to re-set things. Forget this year ever happened. Could be fun.


 

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