Southampton Away - Bubble Trip?

[Green]

Still a bit unsure about the logistics of it.

What's to stop you getting off the coach outside the ground then not going in to ground but making str8 for the nearest boozer to start a fight?

If you just want to go there and start a fight in a boozer, why go to the hassle of buying and match ticket and getting the coaches? Get a train there and spend the ticket money on beer.

[LWJ]

Reading lads on tour.

[Rex]

Still a bit unsure about the logistics of it.

What's to stop you getting off the coach outside the ground then not going in to ground but making str8 for the nearest boozer to start a fight?

If you just want to go there and start a fight in a boozer, why go to the hassle of buying and match ticket and getting the coaches? Get a train there and spend the ticket money on beer.

TBF i think STAR need to have answers for ruck trucking in loads of undesirables who do not have match tickets.

[The Rouge]

Well Millwall bubble trips often just involve some police travelling up and down on the train with a few known faces.

[LWJ]

That's not a bubble match..

[WoodleyRoyal]

i assume the club would put the coaches on, and not star? i.e no star membership required?

[Alexander Litvinenko]

No STAR membership required, but a charge for coaches. And all names and addresses taken by Police and everyone vigorously searched.

But it ain't gonna happen for a game like this - if it ever does the world has gone permanently mad.

[stickywhisky]

Bubble trips aside, just thinking back to the game last season brought back some amazing memories, the party in the concourse before the game and half time was magic. Living in Southampton and witnessing what happened on the pitch while my Saints supporting friends were sat in the home end made it even more special.
There was one incident I was aware of after the game, a few Reading fans throwing beer around in Que Pasa but nothing out of the ordinary on a Friday night in Southampton TBH.... Now to introduce a bubble trip would make sure that special night would never be repeated, not to mention i'd have to go to Reading to get a coach back down here - can't see it happening

[The Rouge]

That's not a bubble match..

no, not strictly speaking - but they refer to it as a bubble trip so I think the term is loosely used. Its a kind of hard to escape bubble in that they are watched all day.

[SWLR]

Not related, but surprised they were well short of full capacity vs Man Utd.. is this a protest against the new shirts?

[Blakey's Right Peg]

The idea of this ever happening to us is amusing.

[Alexander Litvinenko]

The idea of this ever happening to us is amusing.

Exactly. Scaremongering, pure and simple.

[St Pauli]

But valid questions, and show just how utterly ludicrous these "bubbles" are. Everyone knows that anyone who's going to start trouble isn't that interested in going to the game and won't be wearing colours, so this is an expensive show of force that massively inconveniences the 99.9% who legitimately are there for the game and doing nothing effective about the 0.1% who want trouble.

Though I disagree with bubbles as well, there is something in the argument that it separates category B and C fans, and so reduces the likelihood of widespread disorder.

Category C actively organise and seek confrontation and violence and for them the game is often secondary.

Category B are there for the football but prepared to engage in violence when it kicks off, when they're attacked, or when they're pissed.

The mix of these two groups is a real headache for the police and separating C and B means disorder is less likely to happen, and when it does, those involved will be a much smaller group who are more easily contained/identified/arrested/charged.

[The Cube]

Surely all Southampton games are bubble matches, as they have no points.

Boom boom.

[peterroyal76]

One of the pubs in Southampton was smashed up by some Reading fans.

From what I've heard and read, "smashed up" is massively over-stating what actually happened.

I did't see any trouble, I saw a few lads giving it on the walk to the ground and a little scuffle at the station and that was it.

[leicsRoyal]

I was at the Burnley V Blackburn match a couple of years ago in the cup.

All Blackburn fans had to board the coaches at Ewood, at which point match tickets were distributed, and were escorted right outside the away end at which point the Police allowed one coach at a time to get off and enter the ground.
On leaving the area around the coaches was sealed off and there was no where to go apart from straight back onto the coaches.

There is a lot more hatred between Burnley and Blackburn than between Us and anyone else, let alone Southampton.