Ted Bates Statue

Good choice to play I'm Still Standing at the end, bonus that it would have pissed off the Watford fans.

The forum has declared already that he will not recover from his injury or his transfer fee, much less score a goal for us, so I will have to question whether RM knows what he's talking about.

Sky have had an app available on Oculus Quest for a few years now which lets viewers see the action from different parts of the stadium. It looks very cool but they don't really promote it, and I've never bothered to actually shell out and try the live experience. Edit - it's been discontinued as of this January.

Aha, what with all the excitement about the privilege of once again facing a local and traditionally lower-division side, I was wondering if there was a major trophy to be won. I'm with you on the perspective of 2012. Even though we drew with them last time, we were comfortably gliding towards promotion so it didn't exactly feel like a tragedy to give them a big nudge into the league below.

Before I take a generous helping of schadenfreude, can I double check that we aren't at risk of getting slapped with something similar in the not-too-distant future?

I think it might not be the worst thing to allow Saints to consolidate in this division. Reading were the most recent team to get relegated from the WSL and they were way off the pace, as are Bristol City this season. Until the worst team in the WSL can get closer to the rest of their peers, I can see the argument for not expanding the promotion/relegation slots just yet.

Every now and then I get a hint that such internet figures were compiled by a friend of a friend of Donald Trump's accountant. It's not like you can obtain them with a FOI request.

Well done saints, almost thought we might win there but you managed to get the joke done in the end.

We went up to the premier league on Nigel Adkin's magic bus, so I'm all about getting on board Russell Martin's rocket ship to get us over the line. Unfortunately it's April Fool's day and experience tells me that our team will once again generate the punchlines. Good luck to all of you travelling today.

Thanks for that. I never saw any of his playing career but it brought a smile to my face knowing that this genius played for us. He should stick to football, it's what he was good at, after all. I've never seen before the clip of the cheeky chip over the keeper at 21s - if that's not peak outrageousness, then I don't know what is.

but their support is amazing and they have won so many trophies, as some of our own supporters remind us with great enthusiasm

Playoff finals are typically considered to be poor entertainment due to the extremely high stakes nature, aren't they? If we end up in the playoffs again it would be a case of having failed to achieve promotion in 2 years. I'd rather not think about it right now, thanks.

Couple of wins and we would be three points off top. We have an inferior GD, but winning a couple of our six-pointers would take care of that issue. It's possible, but realistically most don't expect us to even achieve the two wins we need to get within touching distance of the leaders. Fingers crossed I'll be proved otherwise.

no worries, it's not your fault someone sat on the keyboard when they were filling out the lad's birth certificate. His surname is literally a countdown conundrum

I understand they wanted to leave and we wouldn't stand in their way, but I do wonder how we would be doing if we had kept JWP and Tella. Given our September slump after their departures, it's not outrageous to say we would have taken a few more wins. ah well, our fate is still in our hands (to throw it all away in the next ten games)