| 5 Things About The QPR Game 11:10 - Feb 25 with 2246 views | SaintNick |
1. Im sorry to say it but a disappointing crowd of 26,422, especially since there were a good contingent of away fans present. In the same week two years ago, we had 26,834 to see us beat Hull, but with 2,000 less away fans.
2. The team is playing some entertaining football now and is unbeaten in 7 League games of which 5 have been won, we need the crowds to pick up.
3. It was good to see Rickie Lambert speak in the fanzone, although difficult to recognise with a beard, He got a good reception which was nice, however older players like Jason Dodd, Ian Turner & David Peach have not received such a warm reception perhaps reflecting the aaverage age of those in the fanzone.
4. We have some players in form and as the substitutions showed, some real quality coming off the bench
5. I hope that Cameron Archer doesn't get too much stick, it isn't working for him at the moment, but as he showed at Birmingham City, used properly and he can get goals |  |
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 16:30 - Feb 25 with 1613 views | TimSaint |
1. Charlton sold out, brought far more (3,000) and were louder on Saturday than QPR (1,722) last night. There were quite a few regulars in the home sections not there last night as well.
2. The team seemed to play a little too negatively at 1-0, content to keep the ball and not risk it too much. This took the atmosphere out of the crowd and had we got stuck in a bit more, created a bit more and went for it a bit more in general, it would have livened us all up a bit and kept the crowd with the team. It changed for the better with a goal right before the break - which changed the HT team talk and let us be a bit more attack minded in the 2nd half.
3. Caught the SRL and Dodd HT interviews recently and thought they got a decent enough reception, considering most fans were in the concourse having a beer. David Howells however was not so great, but then he hardly played for us, compared to SRL and Doddsy.
4. We needed the form players to shine against Charlton, but the Subs changed the game in favour of the opposition for that game. Last night was great seeing the subs coming on - I bet the QPR players couldn't believe it - and that was at the point where we had already won the game.
5. It would have been good if the likes of the subs Fellows or Archer had managed a goal or an assist, to boost their confidence for future weeks. It really isn't working for Archer at the moment, but I'm sure he will score before the season is over !! My Villa mate said he preferred to play on the left and cut in and hit it with his right. Maybe he could play in Leo's position from the bench ?
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 16:54 - Feb 25 with 1561 views | saints__fan__73 |
Re: the crowd Nick, who were you disappointed in? The fans or the club?
This isn't the 80s where tickets could literally be picked up for pennies. Tickets for league games are def not cheap.
When the owners have taken an established PL club that had only been relegated once from the PL and managed to get us relegated twice in 3 years and looking for a while this season as if going down to L1 was a distinct possibility, can you blame a bit of fan apathy?
Yes, we're on a good run (albeit still behind those football super powers Millwall and Wrexham) but I think you can see why fans choose to save some cash and watch from the sofa. |  |
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 17:31 - Feb 25 with 1513 views | SaintNick |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 16:54 - Feb 25 by saints__fan__73 |
Re: the crowd Nick, who were you disappointed in? The fans or the club?
This isn't the 80s where tickets could literally be picked up for pennies. Tickets for league games are def not cheap.
When the owners have taken an established PL club that had only been relegated once from the PL and managed to get us relegated twice in 3 years and looking for a while this season as if going down to L1 was a distinct possibility, can you blame a bit of fan apathy?
Yes, we're on a good run (albeit still behind those football super powers Millwall and Wrexham) but I think you can see why fans choose to save some cash and watch from the sofa. |
Tickets for the West Brom game coming up are £32 for adults, 20-25's £20, 16-19 year olds £15, under 17's £10 and under 14's £7
Compare that to Totton in National League South, an adult ticket is £15 in advance, but the kids tickets are not that much cheaper than Saints a 5-14 year old will pay £8, and an over 17 year old would pay the adult price of £15, the same as a 16-19 year old at St Mary's
I don't buy into the its too dear excuse, when other clubs in a similar position to us are getting bigger crowds | |
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 18:51 - Feb 25 with 1427 views | DorsetIan |
We had a great time. Bought seats late in the centre of the Itchen which turned out to be padded, walked unchecked into the hospitality areas at half time and then exchanged a few words with Joe Tessem on the way back to our seats.
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 18:58 - Feb 25 with 1406 views | saintmark1976 |
Sports Republic may have reported an attendance of 26,422 but that would have included season ticket holders who didn’t attend.
There were vast numbers of seats all over the ground which were unoccupied and if those actually at the game were above 24000 I would be very surprised.
Second game in four days.Televised live on Sky, played on an evening when the kids needed to be at school the next day, so to be expected given the circumstances. | |
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 19:06 - Feb 25 with 1390 views | dirk_doone |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 17:31 - Feb 25 by SaintNick |
Tickets for the West Brom game coming up are £32 for adults, 20-25's £20, 16-19 year olds £15, under 17's £10 and under 14's £7
Compare that to Totton in National League South, an adult ticket is £15 in advance, but the kids tickets are not that much cheaper than Saints a 5-14 year old will pay £8, and an over 17 year old would pay the adult price of £15, the same as a 16-19 year old at St Mary's
I don't buy into the its too dear excuse, when other clubs in a similar position to us are getting bigger crowds |
4th in the Championship attendance table so far this season. If we continue the good run of form, 1st place is not out of the question.
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 20:54 - Feb 25 with 1312 views | SaintNick |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 19:06 - Feb 25 by dirk_doone |
4th in the Championship attendance table so far this season. If we continue the good run of form, 1st place is not out of the question.
https://www.footballwebpages.c |
Im not sure that we can catch up with 1st place, we are an average of 2,000 per game less than Coventry so that equates to 17 x 2 k = 34k to make up.
With 6 games left we have to match Coventry's 30,000 and top it by roughly 5,600, the maths just dont add up unless we get in a temporary stand and add around 4,000 to the capacity.
I would also suspect that Coventry will fill their ground's 31.200 a few times in the run in to make it even harder | |
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 21:09 - Feb 25 with 1283 views | PatfromPoole |
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 22:36 - Feb 25 with 1195 views | 1teeminants |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 20:54 - Feb 25 by SaintNick |
Im not sure that we can catch up with 1st place, we are an average of 2,000 per game less than Coventry so that equates to 17 x 2 k = 34k to make up.
With 6 games left we have to match Coventry's 30,000 and top it by roughly 5,600, the maths just dont add up unless we get in a temporary stand and add around 4,000 to the capacity.
I would also suspect that Coventry will fill their ground's 31.200 a few times in the run in to make it even harder |
As I keep reminding my Coventry supporting mate all in good fun of course, Coventry have suddenly found an extra 7/8000 fans out of nowhere all because they are doing well. Prior to this season Saints support numbers wise has consistently been better than Coventrys when they have been playing in the same division. [Post edited 25 Feb 22:42]
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 22:39 - Feb 25 with 1188 views | FredTheLeg |
Regarding point one didn't we lose to Hull at home two seasons ago? And how could they have had 2k less than an away support which itself was less than 2k?
Thought it was a decent atmosphere in the Chapel last night and much better than the weekend. Would rather have less there and more noise. [Post edited 25 Feb 22:41]
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 22:49 - Feb 25 with 1153 views | Southamptonfan |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 16:54 - Feb 25 by saints__fan__73 |
Re: the crowd Nick, who were you disappointed in? The fans or the club?
This isn't the 80s where tickets could literally be picked up for pennies. Tickets for league games are def not cheap.
When the owners have taken an established PL club that had only been relegated once from the PL and managed to get us relegated twice in 3 years and looking for a while this season as if going down to L1 was a distinct possibility, can you blame a bit of fan apathy?
Yes, we're on a good run (albeit still behind those football super powers Millwall and Wrexham) but I think you can see why fans choose to save some cash and watch from the sofa. |
What is annoying about crowds is that in the PL, evening games were sell outs and some tickets in the stadium were £80 each. We also got thrashed every week. They can make the games then? Unfortunately, because we are only playing QPR, even season ticket holders don't bother turning up, I am a season ticket holder and haven't missed a single game. It is annoying that, especially when Saints are winning games, people can't be bothered to go. We seem to have a good 25 thousand loyal fans, and the rest disappear when it's cold, it's on TV or when we arn't playing a top team. As Nick says, it disappointing when there 30k plus for PL evening games.
And with so many empty seats, and since the away fans were moved, the atmosphere is really poor. Every away team is chanting "library" and the sparse fans next door sit there and do nothing. Although, it did get quite loud at 4 and 5 nil yesterday. [Post edited 25 Feb 23:23]
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 22:57 - Feb 25 with 1136 views | 1teeminants |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 22:49 - Feb 25 by Southamptonfan |
What is annoying about crowds is that in the PL, evening games were sell outs and some tickets in the stadium were £80 each. We also got thrashed every week. They can make the games then? Unfortunately, because we are only playing QPR, even season ticket holders don't bother turning up, I am a season ticket holder and haven't missed a single game. It is annoying that, especially when Saints are winning games, people can't be bothered to go. We seem to have a good 25 thousand loyal fans, and the rest disappear when it's cold, it's on TV or when we arn't playing a top team. As Nick says, it disappointing when there 30k plus for PL evening games.
And with so many empty seats, and since the away fans were moved, the atmosphere is really poor. Every away team is chanting "library" and the sparse fans next door sit there and do nothing. Although, it did get quite loud at 4 and 5 nil yesterday. [Post edited 25 Feb 23:23]
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As a regular away fan I can’t remember the last time saints fans didn’t sing “is this a library” when we were playing away from home and rightfully so because the home fans were quiet. Away fans up and down the country are usually louder than the home fans. | |
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 22:57 - Feb 25 with 1133 views | SalisburySaint |
1. 2,000 less away fans, than Hull game.
Thats amazing as QPR had 1,722 there last night, so did Hull bring -278 fans  |  | | |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 23:04 - Feb 25 with 1119 views | Southamptonfan |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 22:57 - Feb 25 by 1teeminants |
As a regular away fan I can’t remember the last time saints fans didn’t sing “is this a library” when we were playing away from home and rightfully so because the home fans were quiet. Away fans up and down the country are usually louder than the home fans. |
That's true and I suspect at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday, the Saints fans will be excellent, and we will dominate Hillsborough. But St Mary's is really quiet at the moment, and yet we have recently been getting excellent results. The Chapel is sparse with empty seats everywhere especially in the block next to the away fans, and do they ever sing over there? | |
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 23:29 - Feb 25 with 1069 views | franniesTache |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 23:04 - Feb 25 by Southamptonfan |
That's true and I suspect at Sheffield Wednesday on Saturday, the Saints fans will be excellent, and we will dominate Hillsborough. But St Mary's is really quiet at the moment, and yet we have recently been getting excellent results. The Chapel is sparse with empty seats everywhere especially in the block next to the away fans, and do they ever sing over there? |
I stand in the block next to the away fans in the chapel, it’s the most fun I’ve had at st Mary’s in years, it’s completely our own thing, not trying to hard and just having a laugh with mates (and confusing the away supporters by holding a mirror up to their noddy nature). |  | | |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 23:36 - Feb 25 with 1060 views | Southamptonfan |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 23:29 - Feb 25 by franniesTache |
I stand in the block next to the away fans in the chapel, it’s the most fun I’ve had at st Mary’s in years, it’s completely our own thing, not trying to hard and just having a laugh with mates (and confusing the away supporters by holding a mirror up to their noddy nature). |
I can see a group of Saints fans at the top.of the Chapel next to the away fans, maybe about 50 people? The rest of the block is empty in most games. It's like nobody wants to be there. I can imagine the banter between those 50 or so fans next to the away support being fun, but it's really quiet in the stadium. Can you hear the Northam from where you are? [Post edited 25 Feb 23:37]
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 23:39 - Feb 25 with 1050 views | franniesTache |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 23:36 - Feb 25 by Southamptonfan |
I can see a group of Saints fans at the top.of the Chapel next to the away fans, maybe about 50 people? The rest of the block is empty in most games. It's like nobody wants to be there. I can imagine the banter between those 50 or so fans next to the away support being fun, but it's really quiet in the stadium. Can you hear the Northam from where you are? [Post edited 25 Feb 23:37]
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I’d be amazed if it was even 50, probably less than 20 to be honest. It’s mostly just a group of mates having a laugh and not taking football to seriously, it’s not even constant singing it’s more just having a joke with your mates as it should be.
As for the northam most of the time you can’t hear them at all, occasionally when they get oh when the saints going you do, and you can see the clapping, but the noise doesn’t travel at all | | | |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 23:47 - Feb 25 with 1032 views | Southamptonfan |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 23:39 - Feb 25 by franniesTache |
I’d be amazed if it was even 50, probably less than 20 to be honest. It’s mostly just a group of mates having a laugh and not taking football to seriously, it’s not even constant singing it’s more just having a joke with your mates as it should be.
As for the northam most of the time you can’t hear them at all, occasionally when they get oh when the saints going you do, and you can see the clapping, but the noise doesn’t travel at all |
It just seems really quiet and even silent at times. The passion at Birmingham, Millwall with fans in all 3 sides of the ground fiercely supporting their team, is a totally different place. So many of our fans just sit there in silence and even when the Northam sings, it's not very fierce. It's a slow version of oh when the Saints, like it's being sang at church, hence you can't hear it at the other end. It's not fierce enough. Moving the away fans has destroyed the atmosphere. [Post edited 25 Feb 23:50]
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 23:53 - Feb 25 with 1012 views | franniesTache |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 23:47 - Feb 25 by Southamptonfan |
It just seems really quiet and even silent at times. The passion at Birmingham, Millwall with fans in all 3 sides of the ground fiercely supporting their team, is a totally different place. So many of our fans just sit there in silence and even when the Northam sings, it's not very fierce. It's a slow version of oh when the Saints, like it's being sang at church, hence you can't hear it at the other end. It's not fierce enough. Moving the away fans has destroyed the atmosphere. [Post edited 25 Feb 23:50]
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I’m not going to lie I hated it when I was in the new northam but I love the new set up now, we’re basically left alone to our devices and get to have a laugh and some back and forth with the away fans, and I don’t get annoyed by constant song about Pompey or that god awful started in a chapel dirge. | | | |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 07:13 - Feb 26 with 855 views | 1teeminants |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 23:47 - Feb 25 by Southamptonfan |
It just seems really quiet and even silent at times. The passion at Birmingham, Millwall with fans in all 3 sides of the ground fiercely supporting their team, is a totally different place. So many of our fans just sit there in silence and even when the Northam sings, it's not very fierce. It's a slow version of oh when the Saints, like it's being sang at church, hence you can't hear it at the other end. It's not fierce enough. Moving the away fans has destroyed the atmosphere. [Post edited 25 Feb 23:50]
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A lot of it is down to the acoustics of the stadium . As I’ve mentioned before I’ve had a season ticket in every stand since the ground opened. When I was in Kingsland/ Northam corner you couldn’t hear the Itchen North much in the early days, you could see clapping but not much noise. When I was in Chapel I couldn’t hear Northam much. When I was in Northam I couldn’t always hear away fans that were right next to us.!! I’ve been in Itchen North for a few years now, the Northam is loud from there as you would expect but you can’t hear chapel and you can see away fans in Kingsland corner clapping and bobbing about but you can’t always hear them. | |
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 10:17 - Feb 26 with 662 views | Butty101 |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 07:13 - Feb 26 by 1teeminants |
A lot of it is down to the acoustics of the stadium . As I’ve mentioned before I’ve had a season ticket in every stand since the ground opened. When I was in Kingsland/ Northam corner you couldn’t hear the Itchen North much in the early days, you could see clapping but not much noise. When I was in Chapel I couldn’t hear Northam much. When I was in Northam I couldn’t always hear away fans that were right next to us.!! I’ve been in Itchen North for a few years now, the Northam is loud from there as you would expect but you can’t hear chapel and you can see away fans in Kingsland corner clapping and bobbing about but you can’t always hear them. |
I would add I’m surprised QPR were allowed to play this n that kit. On TV they looked identical |  |
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 10:31 - Feb 26 with 645 views | PatfromPoole |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 23:36 - Feb 25 by Southamptonfan |
I can see a group of Saints fans at the top.of the Chapel next to the away fans, maybe about 50 people? The rest of the block is empty in most games. It's like nobody wants to be there. I can imagine the banter between those 50 or so fans next to the away support being fun, but it's really quiet in the stadium. Can you hear the Northam from where you are? [Post edited 25 Feb 23:37]
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I moved over to the area you are referring to just after Christmas.
I had previously been a ST holder in the Northam, but the Millwall home game was the final straw, just mutes on their phones everywhere. No support for the team whatsoever.
I love it in Block 20 of the Chapel. No idiots on phones, and no Scouser songs. It will be the new Itchen North in time, hopefully even better. | |
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 10:55 - Feb 26 with 612 views | SaintNick |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 22:57 - Feb 25 by SalisburySaint |
1. 2,000 less away fans, than Hull game.
Thats amazing as QPR had 1,722 there last night, so did Hull bring -278 fans |
I couldnt see half of the Away fans from where I was sat, I was assuming that QPR had brought about 2,500 as it was a near trip for them | |
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 11:58 - Feb 26 with 517 views | hedgeend61 |
| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 10:17 - Feb 26 by Butty101 |
I would add I’m surprised QPR were allowed to play this n that kit. On TV they looked identical |
I said that to my daughter at SMS,
ridiculous allowing that caper
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| 5 Things About The QPR Game on 12:13 - Feb 26 with 484 views | SaintNick |
I didnt think it clashed at the game, although to my eyes it looked a little bit yellow & black at times not pink and black.
After seeing the tv replays I didnt think it clashed, we have too much white in our kit to have done so | |
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