Comments from Saints Fans on local paper site...

[Reinelt12]

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/9353059.Gus_targeting_St_Mary___s_spectacular/?ref=rss&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Interesting comments...

 

[SeagullSongs]

Taking any guesses at the collective IQ of the posters? Starting at 150.

When we talk about them, it's all just banter and a bit (lot) of calling Adkins a wanker, at least we're not racist...

 

[ozzygull]

Wow! They're not bitter are they

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

Taking any guesses at the collective IQ of the posters? Starting at 150.

.......

Going backwards!

 

[Shoreham Beach Seagull]

So Southampton do seem to care about us, oh

 

[Kazenga <3]

Thought we were insignificant and that they didn't care about us?

 

[Bean]

They seem very confident, setting themselves up for an almighty fall when we play them.

 

[Easy 10]

"If we get something it will be spectacular. We are going to be in every single newspaper and on TV talking about how we stopped Southampton, which is great.”



I do wish Gus would tone down the hyperbole a bit.
Winning at Southampton would not be a "spectacular" result at all. Desirable of course, surprising maybe, but we're not playing at Old Trafford are we. Yes they are top at the moment, but top of the same division we are in. Its just another League game.

He's making us sound like Torquay on a cup run.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Landsdowne saint says...
3:40pm Wed 9 Nov 11
'other teams were coming to us with nothing to lose' no one wanted to go to the Withdean for a start and you wasn't the team to beat last season we were,our rivalry reinvented your club along with a new stadium and the announcement Fatboy Slim is to play the Ammex lol

 

[Sitch]

Saints fans really are dicks.

 

[Icy Gull]

I am starting to dislike Southampton more than Palace...sorry about that

 

[Hungry Joe]

f*** me, they're worse than the mongs who post on The Argus website!

 

[Bean]

How can they say that they were the team to beat last season when we were top of the league for the majority of the season?

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Indeed, only seems like 6 months ago that we were untouchable, 10 points clear, 30 home league games unbeaten & winning the title with a month to play

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Lets not start this tedious guff with Saints fans again shall we, they're just another side in the league that we are in.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Lets not start this tedious guff with Saints fans again shall we, they're just another side in the league that we are in.

Why not? Have you become board monitor? There is build up to every game, this constitutes build up.

 

[les dynam]

blimey! what is that bloke on there waffling on about, something involving a rivalry, planning application and Fatboy Slim... i genuinely didn't understand him. can anybody translate village idiot to something approaching understandable please?

 

[Common as Mook]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Gus say something along the lines of them being outstanding and the team to beat?

Massively complimentary.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Why not? Have you become board monitor? There is build up to every game, this constitutes build up.

Becase it is TEDIOUS and inevitably some bore will come on here and tell us we are obsessed or something and it wont be long till we are invaded by Sains fans again in some binfest for the next two weeks. Maybe I'll just avoind any threads concerning Southampton.

 

[Easy 10]

How can they say that they were the team to beat last season when we were top of the league for the majority of the season?

In their eyes it was never down to league position - they percieved themselves to be The Team To Beat last season simply because they are Southampton FC - "a Premier League team on loan to the third division". Its an arrogant viewpoint, but there is an element of truth in it. Ask most L1 fans League who they'd most like to beat that season (outside of their own parochial rivalries), and Southampton would probably be seen as the biggest scalp, just based on their recent history of being in the top 2 leagues.