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Thread | Hillsborough
by Southamptonfan at 13:22 1 Mar 2026
What a dilapidated, tired, worn out, old place. The turnstiles were old style,.with a steward checking your ticket. No fanzones, no burger vans, inside there was a Dell style tuckshop type hatch to get a drink and a chocolate bar. Stairs were fenced off as they were too dangerous. Paint peeling off the walls. The blocks weren't labelled, it was difficult to.find your seat! It was very doarse outside the ground, no.queues for anything, just fans looking numb and had given up. Chansiri what a tw@t.
In contrast, what a breath of fresh air their fans are. So interesting that with adversity, you get friendliness back. I have never been to a ground, and met fans who were so loyal, clearly love their club and would never desert them. No tourists, no arrogance, just what would call proper fans. And they sang loudly to.our left throughout the second half.
I went with Nick's Away Travel. I would throughly recommend. |
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Thread | Goal of the season?
by kingslandstand1 at 13:05 1 Mar 2026
Don't know if anyone is watching the Old Firm derby, but Rangers overhead kick 1st goal has to be a contender. Better connection even than Rooney's in the Manc derby
And as an aside, there was talk on here as to whether we'd take Oxlaid-Chamberlain back a short while ago. Well he's at Celtic now and done nothing apart from a few errors and taken off at HT |
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Thread | We won and we have been good recently so why......
by A1079 at 10:41 1 Mar 2026
.....did I come away from yesterday's game feeling disappointed?
I don't know if in my sub-conscious I expected us to completely roll over Sheffield Wednesday (I personally never take any game for granted no matter who the opposition is) and the fact we didn't left me feeling underwhelmed or whether it was because I felt the players just didn't seem to take the game by the scruff of the neck or because for all the size of our support our fans were largely like Church mice and barely made a sound. In the end I left the game thinking a win is a win but it was not fun to watch. It sort of reminded me of a game against Birmingham City many moons ago at home where they were all but relegated from what was then the first division (showing my age here) and we won 3-0 but the game was as dull as dishwater - job done, but not one to remember.
Our attackers seemed largely supine and ironically it was our defenders that saved the day when it came to scoring. We certainly missed Ross Stewart and Flynn Downes. It felt like the team were going through the motions. We got a couple of goals, got lazy and Wednesday got back into the game. A bit like QPR - we don't take teams to the sword when the opportunity to do so is there. Our touch of the ball at times was just not there and things were not falling for us but there seemed to be the lack of drive on the pitch to change it. I have never criticised Archer, but he really is struggling. When he came on everything seemed to go against him. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time - he even ,managed to stop us scoring what looked like a certain goal - obviously he didn't do it deliberately but at the moment he appears fated. I didn't realise how small and slight build he is. He just doesn't really fit in. I think he is trying but almost trying too hard. His confidence - assuming he has any, must be shattered.
It was a win and a win is a win and they say, if you can do it when you are not playing well it is a good sign. The game lacked intensity and that probably did not help. We are one of the few teams that Wednesday have managed to score against.
Onto the support in the stands. We had (I believe) circa 3,700 fans yesterday but for the large part you would not have known it. I don't think I have ever criticised our fans and I have often had a moan when Nick has been quick to put the support down, but yesterday the support off the pitch matched the lack of performance on it. Are we fans that only sing when we are doing well? Clearly things were not going as well as we had hoped on the pitch but we should be the 12th man and be there to get behind and try and lift the players and instead the majority of us fans just stood there in virtual silence save for a few outbreaks of patchy singing. Ironically, I went down to the concourse at half time and there was a brilliant atmosphere with a new song of "Saints away, huh huh, I like it" (to the tune of KC and the band "that's the way, huh, huh, I like it"). The fans were in good voice and enjoying themselves. I was hoping that would be taken to the stand for the 2nd half but for a couple tame attempts it did not materialise.
So, a good win, an important win (not least as those above us keep winning) but not a convincing one and on and off the pitch we will need to do better if we are seriously hoping to challenge the current top 6. I am not unhappy or anything, I am pleased how things have progressed over the last few weeks and overall we are moving in the right direction. I have never thought we would go up this season and I still don't think we will but we need to build for next season as the Championship will be much tougher than this year. We are going in the right direction but there is some way to go.
One side point - what a revelation Bree has been since his return - I never saw that in him before he went out on loan.
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Thread | Goals scored
by kingslandstand1 at 21:23 28 Feb 2026
When was the last time after 35 games were we the 3rd highest scorers in the league. Only Coventru and Ipswich have scored more and we have not had to rely on one particular player for that high number
We were all shouting for a proven goal scorer a few months ago (it would still be nice to have that target man, but we're not doing too badly right now |
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Thread | The crowd
by kingslandstand1 at 12:46 28 Feb 2026
Nick moans about our attendances, but watching the Leicester Norwich game, there seems to be quite a few gaps.
I see also they had a big demonstration before the game as well about the ownership |
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Thread | Watford at Bristol
by kingslandstand1 at 20:36 27 Feb 2026
Watford winning at present which os probably the better final score for us, putting them only 1 point ahead. City would be 3 points ahead and as I say that City equalise! |
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Thread | The by-election result
by PatfromPoole at 08:29 27 Feb 2026
Looks to me that we are heading for a coalition government in a couple of years.
Only question is whether it will be;
- Labour / Lib Dems / Greens, or;
- Tories / Reform
What a mess.
This could all have been avoided if Starmer and Reeves (who I voted for 2 years ago) hadn’t made such a shitshow of things. |
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Thread | TUI Top Tips
by SaintNick at 21:36 26 Feb 2026
COOKING burgers? Don't waste money on expensive frying pans. Simply fill the water nozzle on your clothes iron with cooking oil, set the dial to linen & iron the burger for 2 minutes on each side |
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Thread | Bree becoming a big cheese
by Jellybaby at 19:51 26 Feb 2026
I always considered Bree a championship journeyman, I was slightly surprised he was shipped out at the start of the season, but not particularly bothered and assumed his replacements would be upgrades.
But his return to the team has been part of the team's transformation - his extra height, his crosses, his goals, his calmness. He suddenly looks like one of our best players.
As positive as this is - it does make his loaning out seem completely ridiculous and costly point-wise.
Maybe it was the Nathan Jones effect on him that reinvigorated him! |
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Thread | Championship Play-off dates
by Whatsforpud at 15:00 26 Feb 2026
If we get that far, I see the play-off final will be on 23rd May. They haven't yet said what dates the semi-finals are on. Based on previous experience, when do people reckon they will be played. Need to organise my calendar. |
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Thread | Today In 2017 The EFL Cup Final
by SaintNick at 12:16 26 Feb 2026
Who was at Wembley 9 years ago today for the EFL Cup final, personally I think we lost that one the day that Jamie Vardy ran his bood down the back of Virgil Van Dijks leg a monh earlier |
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Thread | Rich "Squib" Scovell
by franniesTache at 11:57 26 Feb 2026
I know this board tends to attract a certain "generation" of saints so figured some of you might know him.
A mate text last night to say that Rich "Squib/Squibby" passed away this week, he was an old school saints fan who hadn't been much recently, a local cabbie and a huge england and aampshire cricket fan.
Lovely bloke and really sad to hear he's passed
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HC |
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Thread | Today In 2010
by SaintNick at 11:41 26 Feb 2026
We beat Walsall at home in League One
The score was 5-3 with goals from Jason Puncheon, Lee Barnard (2) Rickie Lambert & Adam Lallana.
For those that sing "Our Saviour Markus Liebherr" he wasn't being acclaimed by many in this game only 20,461 were present |
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