Southampton relegation battle

[rusty redeyes]

I hate the scummers with a passion and I'll be delirious with happiness when they get relegated.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

im desperately upset that ill be leaving soton this year. i need AT LEAST 1 season to gloat.

screw it, i think failing my 3rd year and staying there would be worth it!

I'll still be here to gloat!

 

[unnameable]

I've noticed recently how close Southampton are to the relegation zone in the Championship at the moment, not to mention getting stuffed 5-0 by Hull two days ago.

I've never felt the antipathy towards them as I do towards Pompey and that shyster Redknapp, but it would nonetheless be hilarious to see Saints slip into League One next season. Not sure why, as my memories of football don't stretch back to the Saints-Spurs stitch up in 1977(?).

They're just a nothing club, with an ugly plastic ground in a crap area of town, with very little to recommend them.

Another "big" club in League One? Yes please. Them or Coventry would be nice, as Col U and Scunny seem to have sewn up the other relegation places, and Sheffield Wednesday is a bit of a trek for next season.

The famous stitch-up was in 1978. We did what we had to do by beating Blackpool 2-1 at the Goldstone, whilst Saints and Spurs, needing a point each from the game between themselves, played out the entire game in the centre-circle.

 

[Frutos]

My Dad supports them, so I would LOVE IT, just LOVE IT if they got relegated.</kevinkeegan>

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I'll still be here to gloat!

I envy you even more now. Before it was just because you had breasts....

 

[Hiney]

I am quite literally PRAYING for Saints to be relegated.

Not for Jason Dodd, who I think is a decent bloke who is maybe working at a Chamionship club a bit to early in his management career, but for the LEGIONS of people I know in Southampton, many of my daughter's friends and for cocky Southampton fans everywhere who will not know where to put themselves as they SLUMP into the 3rd tier of English Football.

Even better, let's hope they WIN on the last day of the season and then watch them DISSOLVE in floods of tears as results from the other games sends them DOWN.

 

[Simster]

I am quite literally PRAYING for Saints to be relegated.

Not for Jason Dodd, who I think is a decent bloke who is maybe working at a Chamionship club a bit to early in his management career, but for the LEGIONS of people I know in Southampton, many of my daughter's friends and for cocky Southampton fans everywhere who will not know where to put themselves as they SLUMP into the 3rd tier of English Football.

Even better, let's hope they WIN on the last day of the season and then watch them DISSOLVE in floods of tears as results from the other games sends them DOWN.

My dad, my brother and my best friend are all life long Stains.

I will possibly do a SEX WEE if we're a division above them next season.

 

[Hiney]

Sophie's friend: "Brighton? Who are they? Are they in the Conference?" *collapses in fits at hysterical jibe*

Hiney: "No mate, We're in the same division as YOU, you insufferable little PRICK"



*amIhopingtoomuchforthisscenario?*

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Even better, let's hope they WIN on the last day of the season and then watch them DISSOLVE in floods of tears as results from the other games sends them DOWN.

Ah yes, that would make for a magnificent, and for once justified, SkySports JUDGEMENT DAY programme.

Particularly if preceded the day before (I assume the Championship finishes on the Sunday as usual) by swathes of fat, shirtless Geordies, bitter, salty tears rolling uncontrollably down their moobs, as they descend dramatically out of the lower ground floor exit of the Premier League. While a heavily disguised Kevin Keegan hastily sneaks on to the early morning flight from Newcastle to Malaga

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

The full name for TVS in the pre-Meridian days was TV Southampton I believe.

Its all historic as the predecessor to TVS was Southern whose studios were in Southampton so all the local sport and news was centred on Hampshire whilst the rest of the coverage area which included Wiltshire , Surrey , Sussex and Kent was basically largely ignored.

 

[Da Man Clay]

Sophie's friend: "Brighton? Who are they? Are they in the Conference?" *collapses in fits at hysterical jibe*

Hiney: "No mate, We're in the same division as YOU, you insufferable little PRICK"



*amIhopingtoomuchforthisscenario?*

But wouldn't it sound better as

"No mate, We're in the division above YOU, you insufferable little PRICK"

 

[Carrot Cruncher]

I'm unashamedly two-faced about the Stains. I'm all nicey nicey "Ooh, you'll be alright" to my mates and work collegues, whilst shouting things like "Holloway, you bumpkin wanker, f***ing stuff the c**ts" at Sky Sports news or laughing at last Saturday's 'result'.

Would love it if we leap-frogged them. I want to be able to wander round town asking random Stains, that as I'm lost, "do they know the way to league one" on the final sunday of the season

 

[clapham_gull]

Its all historic as the predecessor to TVS was Southern whose studios were in Southampton so all the local sport and news was centred on Hampshire whilst the rest of the coverage area which included Wiltshire , Surrey , Sussex and Kent was basically largely ignored.

 

[Zesh Rehman]

Will probably be Blackpool or Barnsley that end up going down!

 

[clapham_gull]

Very interesting stuff, I had no idea how near they were the drop.

There goal difference is the third worst in league and Shef Wed have got a couple of games in hand. Not bad Wednesday at relegation dog fights as well we know.

You can probably do a search on here and find a thread I posted about the comments they were making regarding relegation from the Premiership a few years ago.

I really wished I'd posted more actually, because they honestly thought they would storm the league. A few on there are still living in cloud cuckoo land.

Interesting as I say, because in retrospect I suspect most of the fans posting comments like that had only known the good times. Like a lot of Premiership fans (some on which I speak to on a daily basis) it seems football only really started in the 1990s and is available from multi angled views from our armchair.

 

[Zesh Rehman]

Interesting as I say, because in retrospect I suspect most of the fans posting comments like that had only known the good times. Like a lot of Premiership fans (some on which I speak to on a daily basis) it seems football only really started in the 1990s and is available from multi angled views from our armchair.

I guess Brighton fans are the opposite as our fans always go on about the late 70's and early 80's (understandably). Obviously we've had some great successes in the 90's and 2000's but they werent our real glory years.

 

[clapham_gull]

I guess Brighton fans are the opposite as our fans always go on about the late 70's and early 80's (understandably). Obviously we've had some great successes in the 90's and 2000's but they werent our real glory years.

I was going to post (but couldn't be bothered) that perhaps it's good that the younger fans have been able to see the bad times.

I was lucky enough to be around in the late 70s and 80s and it would be great for the younger fans to experience something like that again

( expect Wardy - you ain't gonna see nothing like that.... )

 

[Zesh Rehman]

I was going to post (but couldn't be bothered) that perhaps it's good that the younger fans have been able to see the bad times.

I was lucky enough to be around in the late 70s and 80s and it would be great for the younger fans to experience something like that again

( expect Wardy - you ain't gonna see nothing like that.... )

Id obviously LOVE to see us be in the top league and get to another cup final, infact id probably give my life for all that! But another Wardy? Already gone one better than that in my life time - ZAMORA.

 

[rosscrudos]

I have alot of time for southampton...I lived there for 8 years, and I remember when me and my mate were celebrating in the Rising Sun in Shirley in our brighton shirts after the game against hereford...so many saints fans came up to us and said "nice one" or "well done" etc.

Also the last game at the dell was really good as well.

I hope they stay up!