| 5 Things About Pompey Game 11:45 - Oct 12 with 531 views | SaintNick |
1. The Northam fanzone was rammed, I know some don't like fanzones etc, but they play a part in the game and on Sunday the Northam one was buzzing, the two bands who played threw in a few Saints songs including a rousing version of "You dirty skate B*stards we f*ckin hate you" I was surprised the plu wasn't pulled.
2. Mark Dennis gave a rousing speech in the fanzone, again I don't think it would have been approved by the club, but the fans loved it. Rickie Lamert's was not quite in the same bracket but well received.
3. This was one of the loudest and best atmospheres at St Mary's
4. Good to see a packed Chapel end, I suspect that it might well become the next Itchen North with all the issues that occurred, meaning that the club will end up having to take action of some sort.
5. Great atmosphere in town after the match |  |
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| 5 Things About Pompey Game on 12:34 - Oct 12 with 378 views | Chesham_Saint |
1. The Blue Few were no better than the average set of away fans. I could hear them occasionally from the Itchen North, but no more than I'd expect from say, Watford.
2. I did hear them booing JWP, so despite one or two on here deriding him as a skate, it's great that he gets under their skin and I'm delighted he's back.
3. A micro detail here, but the playing of 'Fortunate Son' before kick off with the lyric "Some folks are born made to wave the flag - they're red, white and blue" was unfortunate given the colours of the skate's kit.
4. The PA system seemed louder than usual - was this designed to drown out the skates' futile verbal insults before KO?
5. SMS acoustics are clearly shit, but to me we sounded bloody loud.
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| 5 Things About Pompey Game on 12:37 - Oct 12 with 361 views | PatfromPoole |
The Chapel doesn't usually sell out, so hopefully they'll leave us alone.
I actually saw more trouble for the dibble to deal with yesterday in the Kingsland, where it borders the away end. Some fun and games there after the game. |  |
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| 5 Things About Pompey Game on 12:49 - Oct 12 with 303 views | franniesTache |
| 5 Things About Pompey Game on 12:37 - Oct 12 by PatfromPoole |
The Chapel doesn't usually sell out, so hopefully they'll leave us alone.
I actually saw more trouble for the dibble to deal with yesterday in the Kingsland, where it borders the away end. Some fun and games there after the game. |
I keep saying the worst thing that could happen to the chapel is for it to become a thing.
As it stands right now it's just about perfect, a few rows of people having a laugh, winding up the away fans and doing something different to the northam.
For the lot who want to do performative celebrations and sing the same songs every game the Northam is the place to be, leave us alone and let us do our thing.
as for my five
1. The atmosphere was brilliant, i thought the whole ground turned up and made it exactly what it should be gor a game like that
2. The skates away support seems to be getting worse each time, they're so f*cking meek and all seemed to be about 7 stone wet through
3. Town before and after was great, was briliant to see so many old faces out including a few i'd not seen in years, real buzz to the place too, maybe not the underlying tension and menace without the bubble though and more of a party atmosphere
4. As annoying as the sending off was if you're not going to hammer them that's as good a way to win a derby as i can think of, down to 10 men for 60 mins, backs against the wall and just outfight them, in fact it felt to me like our players just wanted it more, which you couldn't say last season
5. I don't think i'd realised just how sh*t they are until yesterday, absolutely woeful side and we should definitely do the league double over them this season |  | | |
| 5 Things About Pompey Game on 13:24 - Oct 12 with 223 views | Southamptonfan |
1) Fantastic atmosphere. It was a proper derby atmosphere. The whole ground singing and great to see a huge crowd of fans in the Chapel rubbing it in next to the barriers at the end.
2) Mark Dennis is brilliant and well worth having him make a speech.
3) Trouble after the game with fences being pulled down. Seen videos of both sides of the fence and angry Pompey fans really angry to fight and hurt people. It did make me think about why the bubble is there. There would be chaos if the fans had mixed.
4) Ended up at the Engineers Arms after the game. Had a few drinks there. About an hour after the game, police cars and vans started turning up to the confusion of us all. News that the Pompey busses were coming, and that news emptied the whole pub onto the streets outside People got out of their cars, beeping horns, swinging scarves and flags. We gave the skates some stick, with beers in our hands. They were all frothing at the mouth on their busses, banging the windows, headbutting the window. The moment that hit home we had bragging rights. A wonderful moment that just about made the day.
5) Arguably Bragg shouldn't have started but starting a Saints fan in a derby makes sense. He is a young player I like. He will learn. It didn't matter. What a day it was.
We beat the skates 😂🤣😅 |  |
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| 5 Things About Pompey Game on 13:42 - Oct 12 with 165 views | shotters |
| 5 Things About Pompey Game on 13:24 - Oct 12 by Southamptonfan |
1) Fantastic atmosphere. It was a proper derby atmosphere. The whole ground singing and great to see a huge crowd of fans in the Chapel rubbing it in next to the barriers at the end.
2) Mark Dennis is brilliant and well worth having him make a speech.
3) Trouble after the game with fences being pulled down. Seen videos of both sides of the fence and angry Pompey fans really angry to fight and hurt people. It did make me think about why the bubble is there. There would be chaos if the fans had mixed.
4) Ended up at the Engineers Arms after the game. Had a few drinks there. About an hour after the game, police cars and vans started turning up to the confusion of us all. News that the Pompey busses were coming, and that news emptied the whole pub onto the streets outside People got out of their cars, beeping horns, swinging scarves and flags. We gave the skates some stick, with beers in our hands. They were all frothing at the mouth on their busses, banging the windows, headbutting the window. The moment that hit home we had bragging rights. A wonderful moment that just about made the day.
5) Arguably Bragg shouldn't have started but starting a Saints fan in a derby makes sense. He is a young player I like. He will learn. It didn't matter. What a day it was.
We beat the skates 😂🤣😅 |
Ref 3
Easy to give it the biggun when you’ve got a load of OB and a fence separating you. They’re as quiet as mice when they’re outnumbered, but quite happy to bully people when they know they’ve got more numbers
Where I live I’m surrounded by the gobshites, very quick to shut up when stood up to. I was on a train and one was gobbing off to an old chap, soon shut up when I piped up that I too was “dirty scum” he got off the train at the same stop as me and literally ran off across the car park. Obviously didn’t want to take me up on the offer of a tear up in the car park. Absolute cowards and that’s why I hate them so much |  |
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| 5 Things About Pompey Game on 13:43 - Oct 12 with 158 views | FredTheLeg |
| 5 Things About Pompey Game on 12:37 - Oct 12 by PatfromPoole |
The Chapel doesn't usually sell out, so hopefully they'll leave us alone.
I actually saw more trouble for the dibble to deal with yesterday in the Kingsland, where it borders the away end. Some fun and games there after the game. |
We could do with a few quiet games there after yesterday and the end of the Bristol City game. Bolton and QPR the next 2 so should give us that hopefully.
I do fear we're already past the beginning of the end though. | | | |
| 5 Things About Pompey Game on 13:49 - Oct 12 with 129 views | PatfromPoole |
| 5 Things About Pompey Game on 13:43 - Oct 12 by FredTheLeg |
We could do with a few quiet games there after yesterday and the end of the Bristol City game. Bolton and QPR the next 2 so should give us that hopefully.
I do fear we're already past the beginning of the end though. |
Just had a look on the ticket site and there are bloody loads of empty seats in Block 20 for the Bolton game.
Funnily enough, I seem to recall that the Itchen North often used to be the last part of the ground to sell out back in the day when the away fans were in the Northam.
Tickets for Saturday are not particularly cheap, I noticed. £30 a pop for an adult ticket in the Family Stand for a game against Bolton is a pretty punchy price TBF. | |
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| 5 Things About Pompey Game on 14:17 - Oct 12 with 37 views | Butty101 |
1 I thought the ref gave us nothing and could have booked a few more of them.
2 I had a £10 accumulator on saints to win, Larin to score anytime , Downes to get booked and both teams to score. Larin missed his only chance early on, Downes cut out any naughtiness and the defense tightened up :-)
3 the guy next to me loved Bananas and chomped 3 in the second half.
4 I was sat in the Itchen opposite the away fans and I didn’t think anyone was particularly loud or quiet.
5 we won with 10 get in ! |  |
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