# The Match Thread - The Ethos, The Rules, The Etiquette

**URL:** <https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-match-thread-the-ethos-the-rules-the-etiquette/1248>\
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**Created:** [29 January 2018 10:02 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-match-thread-the-ethos-the-rules-the-etiquette/1248 "2018-01-29T10:02:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fowllyd/32/74248_2.png) [@Fowllyd](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fowllyd)\
**Post date:** [29 January 2018 21:28 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-match-thread-the-ethos-the-rules-the-etiquette/1248/21 "2018-01-29T21:28:49Z")

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They’re OK, but all in all I prefer a llama. Or a nice alpaca.

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**Author:** ![Saint-CD](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/saint-cd/32/1877_2.png) [@Saint-CD](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Saint-CD)\
**Post date:** [29 January 2018 21:47 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-match-thread-the-ethos-the-rules-the-etiquette/1248/22 "2018-01-29T21:47:06Z")

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I want to dispute the rules (gulp …) as my first attempt at a match thread was the whopping 1 nil thrashing of Watford in the FA cup. Now I find that cup competitions are excluded from the rules. Pah, I laugh in the face of your etiquette bollocks. You’ll see when we turn over Brighton and march on to deepest darkest Black Country …

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**Author:** ![Cobham-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/cobham-saint/32/99252_2.png) [@Cobham-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Cobham-Saint)\
**Post date:** [29 January 2018 21:50 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-match-thread-the-ethos-the-rules-the-etiquette/1248/23 "2018-01-29T21:50:40Z")

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Down with the Soviet an’ all that stuff…!

Rules are there to be broken

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**Author:** ![BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/btripz/32/75839_2.png) [@BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/u/BTripz)\
**Post date:** [29 January 2018 22:42 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/the-match-thread-the-ethos-the-rules-the-etiquette/1248/24 "2018-01-29T22:42:35Z")

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You’ll see @saint-cd they have Glenn Murray, we have Jack Stephens

:lou_facepalm_2: :lou_facepalm_2:

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