Football Banter Archive August 26 2011

26 Aug 2011 21:31:44
...Southampton are a big team, weve had some proper legends play for us and were been around longer than most the clubs in any division........,.,,.

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Southampton founded in 1885
Wolves founded in 1877

Wolves were also one of the 12 founding teams of the football league. So your point about you being around longer than most clubs in any division is invalid to the discussion of which is the bigger club.

26 Aug 2011 21:02:34
Southampton - Massive club (1 FA Cup win)
Leicester - Massive club (3 League cup wins)
QPR - Massive Club (1 League Cup win)

West Brom - small club (5 FA Cup wins, 1 League cup)
Wolves - small club (4 FA Cup wins, 2 League Cups)

Lets just stop all the crap being spouted & get on with supporting whichever club we profess to be supporters of

But you forgot to say Southampton were the last of these clubs to win silverware - the Johnstone Paints Trophy only last year,

The mighty jpt, not much to brag about, but good trip to wembley

The paint pot isn't considered silverware, it's gloss, nothing more.

26 Aug 2011 19:14:11
why do leed and southhampton think that there a massive club just beacuse there have a big stadium so they get more fans in

Leeds is a big club,not because size of stadia.there big because the city is one of the biggest in the country with a massive population.southampton on the other hand, is a small club with a loyal fan base,they could never be as big as leeds due to a lack of population,its that simple

Southampton is one of the biggest citys in England..

Wolverhampton is a mere suburb in Birmingham

I prefer Northampton to Southhampton.

26 Aug 2011 19:04:10
can anyone tell me of a football team (outside of prem) with a bigger catchment area than bristol

Good question mate as i can remember john hall wanting to buy city before he bought newcastle stating that they had a massive potential to go along with big catchment area only problem was he also wanted rovers as well and make one team

Yeah, leeds has a bigger catchment area than bristol. garyd MOT

You complete fool,leeds catchment is tiny compared to bristol.how many teams are near leeds,sheffield wed,sheff utd,bradford,Scunthorpe,york, burnley,huddersfield,doncaster,barnsley,roterham,manchester utd,manchester city, the list goes on,in fact i would say your catchment is your city 440,000.now to bristol,how many teams in 50 mile radious answer 2 swindon town,cardiff city.so im guessing population of whole of somerset,gloucester part of wiltshire and population of bristol whitch alone is 430,000,is just a bit biggeryour talking MILLIONS

Nottingham is the biggest in the country

How many clubs within 50 miles nottingham,lets see;mansfield,coventry,derby,stoke,port vale,macclesfield,chesterfield,leicester,sheffield,birmingham,villa,wba, and on and on.your catchment is smaller than leeds plus your city is not as big as leeds.

You'd think Bristol City would be better with such a wonderful catchment area wouldn't you? Sell a great product (a winning team) build a huge stadium, fill that stadium, buy new players, get better - it's easy innit...

Bristol City currently sell a rubbish product, can't fill their existing stadium (god knows why they're building a new one) and, as a result, have to sell their best players - therefore they get worse.

26 Aug 2011 18:48:34
1) southampton filled st marys last season in the fa cup and in in div 1 thats why the chairmans wants to double the capacity to 65k ready for the prem

2) how many fans will wolves get if there in the champ next season 20k? how long have they been in the prem 1 or 2 years?

3) we took 4 to 5k away support last year to some games again in div 1 more than most prem teams can manage

4) now ur starting to worry me pompey have no training ground or academy a shack for a stadium and bring in about 14k home support,

5) saints were 25th best supported team in england last year again playing in div 1, we tried to take 65k to wembley in 2010 and that was for a johnston trophy final , look wolves were a big club but that was in 1950 anyone remember that?

Success brings the fans which ever league ye in if ye lucky enough to get in premiership ye fans will drop away if ye lucky to stop up as they wont like to go and watch ye struggle as for going away with big followings after a year and again if ye survive you will be lucky to take the same as what fulham and wigan take mate

Southampton in a 65000 stadia is quite simply ludicrous.i have a question to the loud mouth saints fan,what was the average attendance the year you got relegated,answer 17800.the same year norwich got relegated with an average 25,000.wake up to reality your not a big club,you never have been,and you never will be.the one thing you have got is a great family feel on matchday with no hostility towards away support,every time ive been there your supporters have made me feel welcome.

26 Aug 2011 18:39:23
Ipswich should definitely out-do millwall this year. Spending lots of of money in the last two seasons has brought them great success.

Thats why they got smashed by posh

Norwich got smashd by colchester and then what happened? no 1 cares about millwall anymore, your a nuffin team

26 Aug 2011 18:28:28
With all the recent additions to their squad, Ipswich are far better than Millwall. FACT.
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YOU lot need it FACT what is your next result 8-0 to them

26 Aug 2011 18:25:06
All you idiots that beleive banter put on here from rival fans are just as big idiots as they are. Most saints fans no we are not a bigger club then Wolves, infact we are not as big as any prem club. The prem is far bigger the the championship in terms of wealth. However, When Saints do get to the premiereship they have the potential to be bigger then Wolves, we are now a debt free club we own our stadium outright with no debt, we own our training facilities which we are currently expanding outright no debt. So the point i am making, with the money offered to premiereship clubs these day from tv revenue, with no massive expenditures Saints have a good chance to establish themselfs when they get there, also Saints stadium has the option to increase te capacity.

St. Mary's was built for expansion that's what the big poles round the edge are, the problem is that before we can expand we have to improve the roads around the area otherwise there will be too much traffic etc

26 Aug 2011 18:08:08
Portsmouth football club rumoured to sign a Hungarian defender. Steve Cotterill says he's 99.9% sure he will sign before tomorrows match with Cardiff. Cotterill is also seeking another 3 signings before the end of the transfer window on Wednesday. RELIABLE SOURCE.

26 Aug 2011 17:28:08
Average attendance 2010 - 2011
Wolves: 27696
Southampton: 22160
Utilising the reasonable assumption that turnover is a function of fan base (and for the sake of clarity excluding TV revenue):

Wolves turnover: £25Million (£61M including TV revenue)
Southampton Turnover: £14.281 Million (£14.821M including TV revenue)
Wolves are a bigger club

What absurd logic. Southampton played that season in L1 where away attendances are often less than a few hundred. Wolves played in the Premiership and attendances have to be swelled by full houses when the bigger massively supported clubs come to visit.
Not a level playing field.

26 Aug 2011 16:16:52
Im a Leicester fan, so a complete neutral on the Wolves/Southampton Issue.
Firstly, how can people say Soughampton are a bigger club than Wolves? Wolves are playing football in the PREMIER DEVISION not the Championship
Wolves are currently ranked 17 places higher in england (going by the current league table) than Southampton.
And if I remember rightly wern't Southampton nearly out of business a few years ago? Im pretty sure that Wolves are secure as most top flight clubs. I understand you want to hype on about your club (afetr all, as I said Im a Leicester fan) but Wake up. Southampton have got off to a great start, but its a long season ahead and Im sorry the stats dont lie.

Will Loughborough

this was posted by a poorly disguised Dingle....can smell them a mile off....eh Will?

Whats with all the stuff about us being in administration we are being run completely differently by a chairman who turned down running ac milan.

26 Aug 2011 15:12:05
haha, i know somebody at west brom, no chance of dorrans leaving and wba have no interest in lallana as from southampton as he is not in the same quality as the players we are interested in. like hargreaves.

Year if hargreaves isn't injured the whole time. anyway all of the lallana interest was made up by pompey fans

26 Aug 2011 14:25:53
Will, 'size of club' is not measured by league position you tool. Wolves are a better team than us - that is all that shows. 'Size of club' is to do with fan base. And our fan base is significantly bigger than Wolves. If you want to talk about facts then look at the average attendance figures when we were in the premiership and compare them to wolves. They are significantly higher. Add to this how long we spent in the premiership - we were not just a yoyo club like wolves. And the ambitions of our current board and the finances now behind our club making us the club with the 4th highest financial backing in the UK. And our youth system which is second to none, and our facilities. We make wolves look like a shed, in a slum, with less support than us. Granted they currently have a better first team but that is not a measure of size.
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To this idiot... Russia have a massive fan base, doesnt mean there any good. Lets face it if you live on the south coast its portsmouth or southampton, the midlands have loads of teams. Wolves are the 11th most successful club in England, Southampton are 41st, Level with Oxford University LOL. Wolves have a 98% average attendence. Seriously Southampton fans be quiet, this is getting embarrassing for you

What is this successful club league table i would like to see it

26 Aug 2011 13:23:35
Nick Maynard will be a Leicester City player by the end of the month, the club have big ambitions unlike Bristol City who will do well to stay in the division. Say all you like about how Bristol beat Leicester 1-2, but at the end of the day, it's a teams whereabouts in the league come may is what matters, for example, we thrashed Leicester 6-1 and beat them 1-0 away, this doesn't mean we are a better side, just better on the day. However IF maynard for some unlikely reason doesn't move to leicester and remains a Bristol city play, then my apologies. (Pompey fan view)

26 Aug 2011 13:21:33
With all the recent additions to their squad, Ipswich are far better than Millwall. FACT.

26 Aug 2011 12:21:05
Sir Alex has again opened his mouth at the apparent unfair treatment of Man UTD. Ferguson, 69, said: "The FA may realise who has produced more players for their country than any club in the world.

"Maybe they will realise how important we are to England instead of treating us like s***."

This is complete disrespect shown to the FA

Its about time the FA got tough on these type of manipulating Managers and started deducting points.

26 Aug 2011 11:38:15
Following a bust-up over first team opportunities, Alex Bruce has been told by Simon Grayson that he has no future at Elland Road and will not be training with the first team.

Bruce has fallen out of favour at Elland Road, and it was also revealed that he refused to watch his team mates when not selected for the squad on a match day.

This is only the next player in a number that Grayson has fallen out irreparably with, including Alan Sheehan, Mike Grella, Federico Bessone and Paul Dickov.

26 Aug 2011 10:56:38
Some of the least intelligent stuff i've ever ready ...
Your not anywhere near as big as you think you are you will not be top of the championship come the end of the season and you will not go up ... complete moreons.
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You seem to know so much about where teams are going to be come the end of the season, tell me who they are and i will have a bet....Talking of intelligence you should learn how to spell you "MORAN"

...and shouldn't you learn how to spell 'READ'?

{Ed022's Note - The worrying thing about all the above playground insults is that both of them spelt MORON wrong... Jeeez!! Get a grip the lot of you.}

Haha,good old Ed,keep em in after school.

26 Aug 2011 09:58:11
25 Aug 2011 14:43:14
When will Bristol City fans understand that they are a small time club who are heading back to league one - where they should be. Nicky Maynard is in the process of completing a deal with Leicester City but it is unlikely to be complete by Saturday. Martyn Waghorn will not be involved in the deal. Before everyone starts saying it is a leicester fan making up rubbish, I am a Southampton fan, so Bristol fans need to get real, a move for Maynard to Leicester is only an upwards move for him Southampton will sign two more players by the end of the window on another note.

SAINTS TILL I DIE


Are you all stupid? Nicky himself has said he doesnt want to play for Leicester Let it go....stop slagging City off, its Nicky that doesnt want to go We will sell him to a prem club on deadline day...simple

26 Aug 2011 09:36:39
Some quotes today on the rumour site that prove how stupid and delued southampton fans are (to do with lallana and the size of there and other clubs).

- Lallana is worth 21 million
- Why would Lallana move to Arsenal, he would only move to a big club?
- Why would he move to Wolves, Saints are as bigger club as wolves.

Some of the least intelligent stuff i've ever ready ...
Your not anywhere near as big as you think you are you will not be top of the championship come the end of the season and you will not go up ... complete moreons.

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Wow you don't understand sarcasm do you ?

26 Aug 2011 09:17:32
25 Aug 2011 23:18:47
Some quotes today on the rumour site that prove how stupid and delued southampton fans are (to do with lallana and the size of there and other clubs).

- Lallana is worth 21 million
- Why would Lallana move to Arsenal, he would only move to a big club?
- Why would he move to Wolves, Saints are as bigger club as wolves.

Some of the least intelligent stuff i've ever ready ...
Your not anywhere near as big as you think you are you will not be top of the championship come the end of the season and you will not go up ... complete moreons.

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1) Lallana IS worth 21 million to us, that is our valuation of him and we are entitled to it.

2) Arsenal are not a 'big club' in the sense they have lost all their players and are unsettled and under troubled times - why would he want to move into all that rather than be the best player at a decent sized team which he supports and with the prospect of promotion?

3) Southampton are a bigger club than Wolves, when we were in the premiership we were averaging higher attendances than them significantly, granted we are currently in the championship so the modern current perspective is that we are 'smaller' but if you look at the big picture we are a bigger city, bigger fan base and a richer club.

4) If you are going to spout rubbish about people being 'morons' learn to spell and use grammar and come up with well thought out, literate, un-biased posts.

Sorry for this, but this is a rumours club, not a forum for you to slag off our club or support.

26 Aug 2011 09:16:04
Just seen Adam Lallana in Greggs with Mick McCarthy at the Mander centre. he was purchasing a sausage roll. It's a bit early if you ask me but each to their own. Anyway this must prove that his move to Wolves is on now that Doyle is going to Arsenal. Never mind Southampton, when will you ever learn. Never day never, that's twice in as many months now

26 Aug 2011 09:10:59
Im a Leicester fan, so a complete neutral on the Wolves/Southampton Issue.
Firstly, how can people say Soughampton are a bigger club than Wolves? Wolves are playing football in the PREMIER DEVISION not the Championship
Wolves are currently ranked 17 places higher in england (going by the current league table) than Southampton.
And if I remember rightly wern't Southampton nearly out of business a few years ago? Im pretty sure that Wolves are secure as most top flight clubs. I understand you want to hype on about your club (afetr all, as I said Im a Leicester fan) but Wake up. Southampton have got off to a great start, but its a long season ahead and Im sorry the stats dont lie.

Will Loughborough

26 Aug 2011 09:01:51
25 Aug 2011 23:05:12
'Adam Lallana to Wolves is unlikely for a number of reasons.

Firstly I seriously doubt Saints would sell him as he central to the way Saints are playing and their current unbeaten form on the pitch.

Secondly I doubt Wolves could afford him to be honest. Most Saints fans would value him above Oxlade-Chamberlain. It would take a bid of £8-10 million to even get a response from SFC.

Thirdly he's good friends with Andrew Surman so I doubt Wolves managed by Mick McCarthy would be on his list of clubs to go to. Drew hardly had the best of times at Molineux.

Fourthly he a born and bred Saints fan so its going to take something special to make him leave St Marys.

Fifth - Wolves are not a bigger club than Saints - and probably can't afford to pay him that much more than Saints can at the moment anyway. Plus Saints have as much chance of being in the Premiership in 2 or 3 years times as Wolves.'

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This guy needs to stop browsing the internet whilst taking his medication

Wolves are Premier League
Are far bigger than Southampton
Wolves are the best run club in Britain, but yet we cant afford your 'loyal' unproven player that wouldnt even get in our team? Ive heard it all now

26 Aug 2011 08:24:45
Every Lallana rumour is a wind up, most probably by Portsmouth fans, nevertheless, Saints fans have done a brilliant job of becoming the most likeable and modest fans around.
Baldock won't happen as its too late in the transfer window, MK are playing well and he has come through their youth
As a saints fan I expect us to try to sign a cb before the window shuts, ive heard audacious cuellar rumours - we can all dream

25 Aug 2011 23:23:42
Saints fans seem to get all worked up over the thought of losing Adam lallana,its a bit scary,similar to when a guy thinks another guy is moving in on his girlfriend.

Saints fans definitely live in La-La Land.

25 Aug 2011 23:29:19
Adebayor the money chasing mercenary has joined spurs,he didn't look happy while sitting in the stands tonight,this is a guy who thinks he is good enough to play with the best ,he will spend most of the season trying to get a move to Madrid or Milan,the ego has landed at white hart lane.

25 Aug 2011 23:19:37
Are people just making up lallana rumours to wind me up

Yes, is it working?