Birmingham and Southampton Away

[bishbosh92]

Im going and hopefully will revenge our loss ealier this year!

they are really poor at home recently so i am pretty confident

[Rex]

Having admitted complacency led to the defeat at the Mad Stad - lets hope the actions speak louder than words for this game. We had the 'we never underestimate the opposition' comments, - lets hope the lesson has been learnt.

[The Cap]

Yeah let's hope so royalexile. A repeat of the performance away to Brizzle City would do nicely but as you say let's 'av it right, eh.

When stepping on the turf no team has the divine right.

[Victor Meldrew]

I so want the Reading of games v Wolves and Birmingham to turn up.
In our 106 season we were hammered at their place but got away with a 0-0 thanks to Sonko's greatest display for us.
In the game at our place we didn't play well but won ugly.
Then the other week we didn't turn up and lost.
So please put on a show lads for those of us that live down South.

[RobRoyal]

The most ironic thread in Hobnob history.

Yeah, f*cking Reading. Who do they think they are criticising other teams' support?

[Elliott]

Early prediction:

Saints 0 - 8 Royals

Doyle, Nhunt, Shunt, Doyle, Nhunt, Kebe, Cisse, Doyle!

[Victor Meldrew]

Early prediction:

Saints 0 - 8 Royals

Doyle, Nhunt, Shunt, Doyle, Nhunt, Kebe, Cisse, Doyle!

I would be happy with that but why settle for just 8 ?

[chandog]

Early prediction:

Saints 0 - 8 Royals

Doyle, Nhunt, Shunt, Doyle, Nhunt, Kebe, Cisse, Doyle!

another early prediction: Not that ^^^^

[JC]

Only 19,000 odd there today

And what is our average for this season?

[brendywendy]

theyre supposed to be a big club compared to us though

[bb0118]

Only 19,000 odd there today

And what is our average for this season?

Granted.. its not far off that. However in percentage terms of how many seats are filled compared to the grounds capacity..

Reading's so far average is 19,077 from a 24,200 capacity. This is 78.8%
Birmingham's is 18,744 from a 30,009 capacity. This is 62.4%

For what its worth, Norwich are top with an average 93.1% full for every home game
Lowest is Shef Wednesday with 48.1%

[T.R.O.L.I.]

certainly this game.....will not only bring some much needed revenue into the club, but also give supporters the pleasurable experience of seeing a St Mary's with many more supporters than empty seats."

Still don't see why they haven't given us some more tickets - we could and would have sold them and it's "guaranteed revenue" for them.

[weybridgewanderer]

certainly this game.....will not only bring some much needed revenue into the club, but also give supporters the pleasurable experience of seeing a St Mary's with many more supporters than empty seats."

Still don't see why they haven't given us some more tickets - we could and would have sold them and it's "guaranteed revenue" for them.

maybe the want the 3 points miore than the money and feel that giving us a bigger crowd to get behind our team would tunr it into more of an advantage for us

[Ian Royal]

Only 19,000 odd there today

And what is our average for this season?

Granted.. its not far off that. However in percentage terms of how many seats are filled compared to the grounds capacity..

Reading's so far average is 19,077 from a 24,200 capacity. This is 78.8%
Birmingham's is 18,744 from a 30,009 capacity. This is 62.4%

For what its worth, Norwich are top with an average 93.1% full for every home game
Lowest is Shef Wednesday with 48.1%

And I bet we would get more than 19k for a top of the table big game clash at home. Even if it was on sky and an early kick off.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

And I bet we would get more than 19k for a top of the table big game clash at home. Even if it was on sky and an early kick off.

...and Reading was the second biggest city in the country.

It was £30 for us to get in, so maybe they've kept premier league prices and a lot of fans have told them to get stuffed after two relegations in 3 seasons.

[rg6royal]

Isn't even a nice ground.

[Ian Royal]

And I bet we would get more than 19k for a top of the table big game clash at home. Even if it was on sky and an early kick off.

...and Reading was the second biggest city in the country.

It was £30 for us to get in, so maybe they've kept premier league prices and a lot of fans have told them to get stuffed after two relegations in 3 seasons.

Size of Reading has little to do with it.

We've already had attendences over that 4 or 5 times this season.

[Sun Tzu]

Only 19,000 odd there today

And what is our average for this season?

Granted.. its not far off that. However in percentage terms of how many seats are filled compared to the grounds capacity..

Reading's so far average is 19,077 from a 24,200 capacity. This is 78.8%
Birmingham's is 18,744 from a 30,009 capacity. This is 62.4%

For what its worth, Norwich are top with an average 93.1% full for every home game
Lowest is Shef Wednesday with 48.1%

Is this a stat of any meaning what so ever ?

We could have built a ground with one deckchair on the half way line and claimed 100% sell outs every week.

[floyd__streete]

We could have built a ground with one deckchair on the half way line and claimed 100% sell outs every week.

Which would still be preferable to having 38,000 seats.

[The 17 Bus]

Has anyone suggested we increase to 38K??