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It is still perfectly possible for us to beat Leicester in a one off game. I'd like to see Che back in the team, and not sure Diallo has earned his place, but difficult to drop him without disruption elsewhere (ie moving Armstrong back). But as someone has already said, it feels inevitable that it will just be an unchanged side from yesterday.

I was listening to some podcast or other and there was a discussion about things that the journalists notice now they are physically at games with no fans. Things that you'd never realise in a full stadium. And one journalists observation was that Ward Prowse is an absolute little shit. Pretty sure they used that exact phrase. Constantly giving lip out all match, like a Brad Haddin style Aussie wicket keeper, just constant stream of little digs dished out to opponents all match. And of course we've all seen little bits of his shit-housery from time to time. I know there are people that have just decided he's a vicar's son wouldn't say boo to a goose type, because they decided that many years ago and will never change their mind. But there is probably another side to the story. The other side being, you know, reality.

Brendan Rodgers went to Leicester, which was the most high profile recent post-old firm role. Strachan and Lennon went to the Championship. No Rangers managers have been anywhere as all shit. Doesn't really matter how well Howe does, he'd come back to England to take a job, at best, at a club like us/Palace/etc. He'll come back to England as the guy who relegated Bournemouth.

Long way to go to beat Dave Jones second season total of 41 points. That's the season we stayed up on the last day. Adkins/Poch delivered 41 points also. Obviously Dave's first season (48 points) feels a bit of a stretch now, as does Puel's (46). Still, at least he's entertaining us, or something.

We can only hope that we follow up a defeat with, er, another defeat?

More goals conceded than Sheffield United.

Jankewitz would have buried that.

How many would we have won by if Jankewitz had started the game? I reckon it would've been five or six.

Some kid who has been hyped up to oblivion by a few people on this forum is not going to make the slightest difference here. WBA will be about 20 times better than some U21 team this nipper has played against.

When was the last time we came back from three nil down to win?

We're going to win the cup We're going to win the cup And now you're gonna believe us And now you're gonna believe us And now you're gonna be-lieve us We're gonna win the cup

It's times like this that we miss Shane Long.

When was the last time we came from two nil down to win?

I knew we'd lose.

This one, for example, just does not work. Just a barrage of pop ups and bullshit you don't get with hesgoal.

So hesgoal.com seems to have moved entirely to Dutch commentaries now. Annoying, as was, up to a couple of weeks ago, the most reliable and faff free streaming service.

Great to see. Get the job done early so we can bring on the likes of Adams and Djenepo - if they can come on and score goal number five and six then they can stake a claim for a Wembley starting place too.

I thought you "couldn't give a toss" about this game, and that our team didn't deserve to go to Wembley anyway?

Have the people planning this expansion explicitly said that the objective is not a net increase in absolute flight capacity but an evening out of the flights across the nation so there are less in London and more in Southampton? If they are it sounds like either a terrible business plan or a complete lie.

So just to recap the SaintsWeb brains trust position is Qatar World Cup is bad, but complaining or protesting is a waste of time because nothing will change. Also complaining protesting about anything at all is virtue signalling by people for attention so that should stop also. But they still get to say that Qatar is bad and use that the put themselves above black players taking the knee in the ethical stakes. You could call it signalling their own virtue, if you will. I'm still trying to work out that if Gary Lineker or Naga Munchetty or other enemies of Guido Fawkes come out and say Qatar is bad will that be welcomed or scorned? I'm lying if course. I know exactly what will happen. If Lineker did nake a stand about Qatar, all that would happen is Guido and his fanbase would go into overdrive to point out that a) he drives a car with petrol made from oil b) he's been on holiday to the middle east c) he's done corporate gigs for Qatar companies etc etc etc. So complain about Qatar on here but for the love of God don't actually do or say anything tangible because that makes you a hypocrite. This is an absolutely triumphant SaintsWeb thread, a classic of the genre.

I think i remember that Leicester had a pretty ropey finish to last season as well. I think Rodgers has got a bit of a reputation of his teams tailing off. So that might work for us next week.

West Brom will be looking to finish third bottom now, and they will have a level of "what have we got to lose" freedom about them tomorrow. Still expecting to beat them though.

I believe the official SaintsWeb intelligentsia chain of events was that we lose every single game and Fulham continue their unstoppable form and then we play Fulham in mid-May, at which point they beat us (of course) overtake us and then consign us to relegation. I can only assume that is still on track to happen as some people were very sure of it only the other week.

I feel certain Ralph will absolutely not do that. Ings and Walcott have played one freaking game, why do they need to be rested. They need game time. And just dropping players to stop them getting injured is just pathetic and we won't do it. If KWP has a niggle or not 100% then maybe he won't play but the signs are he will play. But I think Ralph would be insane to do anything other than putting our best team out and try to go into the cup semi in something approaching good form.

Our Nigel doing his bit at Charlton. If he can get them into the play offs at the Skates expense, or failing that, knock em out, then happy days. Go on my son.