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2 minutes ago, redkev said:

Listening to that Scottish tart on sky 

Southampton this Southampton that ffs 

Ditto , just posted the same 

Mute volume, turn on BBC Radio Local. Sorted.

Just need about 38/40 like this tonight between August and May one year in the next year or three, and we can all .... forgive Brian.

3 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

I believe so with boys and brother. I offered a beer but heard nowt. Not sure he's ever seen Saints win at The Gate. Not in recent times anyway.

"It's a difficult place to go"

4 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Good effort that. Saints not at their best but who cares. Well played City!

Alan there tonight?

13 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

It's a stupid question.

The sort only a juvenile intern who isn't really a fan could ask - posting clickbait shite, with no genuine interest in the answer so long as there's social media traction.

So **** off non-fan whoever you are.

It's impossible to say one is better than the rest.

Hereford 86. Donovan 91. Pompey 76. The first ever game under lights against Wolves. The list is endless. Stupid bloody question

The night Gordon Owen tore Swindon a new one. Liverpool 77.

On it goes. Anybody who's actually been there as a fan for even 5 minutes wouldn't ask such a dumb ass question.

How about the night the Saints didn't go marching in 2024? 

I somehow doubt it but we live in hope.

Think Donovan was 68. Everyone in the enclosure had flowers in their hair that night ...

12 minutes ago, Curr Avon said:

Liverpool, a 2-1 victory against the champions in May '77, in our penultimate game, thanks to a brace from Garland, in front of 37,000 fans. Then on to Highfield Road and the rest is history.

38,000 actually. The quarter final in '74 was an orderly, all-ticket 37,000, whilst the league game in '77 was an unruly, who-s-counting-tonight?, free fer all with 38,800 odd, allegedly.

17 hours ago, Northern Red said:

I know we can ignore users, but I'd love a feature where we can mute phrases. 

"It doesn't work like that, mate"

If we had signed Bob Hatton from Luton, back in the day, then set out to sign say Micky Gynn from wherever he was (Posh, I think, GrahamC will confirm), then we could've had a recruitment based terrace song with a nod to Leonard Cohen:

"First we sign Bob Hatton, then we sign Mick Gynn"

although the football lads would probably have gone down the "take" road there, with a

"First we take the Tote End, then we take the ..... "

12 hours ago, italian dave said:

Back from Middlesbrough, and check in here expecting to find some happiness and some positivity after a great day…and what do I find? Just two new post match threads: one seemingly designed to provoke an argument, and the other headed “…..But”

Come on.

We’ve got a result no-one really expected for the second time in 4 days. We’ve romped to a two goal lead playing some great football, and then defended that lead successfully, only conceding one lucky-ish goal in injury time. We’ve done that after playing 120 minutes at a PL side only 4 days earlier, whilst Middlesbrough had a free week.

And, R####s lost at home.

Let’s just celebrate. Well done lads!

(And thanks @Olé for bringing a bit of positivity!) 

.... it's coming like a ghost town, Dave. Too much fighting on the Matchdaythtead .....

We've only managed two promotions from the second tier to the top division in 120 odd years, it's nowhere near enough and something of an embarrassment for a club of our support and standing. A promotion to the top level would provide the level of excitement and create the kind of memories that no L1 promotion will ever do. It would also cement a generation of support for decades to come, like many of the miserable old moaners on here that can remember 1976. It's absolutely worth hoping for and striving to achieve.

46 minutes ago, NcnsBcfc said:

Sammie Szmodics is our version of Adam Webster for Ipswich.

I'm sure Blackburn fans are probably completely confused how we jettisoned the top scorer in the Championship after such a short period of time. Albeit we did make some money off the Peterborough deal through initial fee and sell on, it'll be Blackburn that will reap the big rewards.

Sometimes things work out at one club and not another, bizarre isn't it. Must admit though there's not too many young players that have been released from City over the last 20 /30 years that have gone on to play at a higher level.

 

 

Which just goes to show how good our judgement is .......

Any relation to Blackie Gray?

What do I hope for? I'm not sure I should say, I think it better for now that I just be careful what I wish for ....

1 hour ago, Super said:

How can you compare him to Murray and Carey?

Let us count the ways ....

Atmosphere is not really about people singing specific songs, it's more to do with them just making a bloody racket in response to lively events on the pitch, encouraging the team forward, encouraging the team to attack, putting pressure on the officials, hounding an opponent. Just shouting come on or even something more guttural and primal. Just making some noise. Rrrrraaaaggghhh!!

Unfortunately, the limp style of modern football mostly centred around the halfway line going sideways and back between central defenders and wing/full backs and the keeper sends many to their phones, their daydreams or the concourse. 

What we need to get an atmosphere at AG is not more or different or old songs, what we need is action in the final third and a busy visiting goalkeeper and a visibly up for it and energised team putting the opposition on the back foot for sustained periods, their woodwork rattling as the ball pings about their penalty area.

But we don't see anything of the sort at AG for anywhere near long enough in any game, and so for long long periods of time we sit and stare as we pass it about just inside our half across the halfway line (with a bloke three rows behind you bellowing into the silence: "Get it forward!") or we watch the opposition with their £83m squad dominating the ball and bearing down on our back five and Max time and again. 

There's just not enough of the sort of football at the right end of the pitch that might wake us from our West Country slumber and get us out of our seats to make the sort of atmosphere that Leeds fans will make at Elland Road (like when they came back from 2 down to draw 2:2 with us a few years ago; when do we ever bombard the opposition like that at AG? Not even the time we came back from 2 down to Leeds to draw 2:2 at home but then we had "atmosphere" that night, as Leeds "f*cked it up") Because Leeds have £83m of players, and they have the ball; we have £8.3m of players, and we keep giving them the ball.

It's partly the modern style of overly coached "idealogical" halfway-line-and-back-to-the-keeper (then hoof!) football, partly having poorer players than the opposition and so not having the ball and so unable to pin them in and put them under pressure, and three parts Bristolian/West Country indifference. Plus smart phones. 

And the lack of belief that there's really anything going on here at the moment, the sense of going around in circles, and the sense of aimless drift.

Chelsea FFP - For facksake Pochettino 

1 hour ago, firstdivision said:

No one is telling you to be grateful. I was merely trying to give some context: one poster said we were in the doldrums. I remember drawing 0-0 with Chester in front of 3,000 at home in the 80s. That was the doldrums. 
And I wonder what would have happened if Dean Windass’ shot had flown over the bar.

It would've gone to penalties .......

1 hour ago, Gazred said:

Totally bonkers game.

There is nothing quite like AFCON.

Too emotional 

48 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

As you know, wrong band! With that reference - down down, you bring me down. Your face, it has no place in this conversation…

Woops, sorry; slap me on the patio. All the same, them Manc bands, mind

22 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said:

Nowt in there worth nicking!

No, get them to run the joint. Poacher turnt goalkeeper

Shop lifters of the West Country: unite, and take over the club shop.

55 minutes ago, joe jordans teeth said:

Let’s not start trying to cram songs of the smiths because Dave is a stats man as charming as he is 

Been calling Maidstone "Made of Stone" lately, so expect that one to pop up somewhere on here during the 5th round (keeps me amused)

1 minute ago, joe jordans teeth said:

Dave thought I’m miserable so why not make everyone else 

Yeah, he was happy in a drunken haze of football stats, analysis and video clips but he's miserable now

18 hours ago, 97Robin said:

28, ST since 6yrs old. Never felt this dis-engaged. "Manning ball" is awful anyone who disagrees is kidding themselves. Pearson should never have been sacked maybe not always pretty but played to our strengths and was effective. Thanks for the good times and the infrastructure but time to go Lansdown.

Stick with it, kidder. The week where it's us in the Prem scoring 8 in two games gets ever closer, by the decade. 

2 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

They're pretty different in fairness.

Twine central, creative- perhaps even to some degree along the front ie leftish of the 3 behind the striker.

Bird deeper, can occasionally drop to CB, creative but defensively sound but definitely deeper and more central.

Twine central (occasionally leftish) .... Bird more central?