Steel City Saint

Just feel sick. The inevitability of a last minute West Ham winner...

...but Villa would still be below us.

Doesn't a point make us safe (if we keep it) thanks to the Wigan v Villa game?

The players need two lungs to play for our new manager? I'd have hoped most medicals would have picked up anyone with only one!

I blame Lawro for tipping us to win!

Well, we knew we'd struggle this season, particularly at the back. Even with all the recent good results we knew we needed to strengthen there. Look a different team without Luke Shaw at the back. Both our red cards were deserved. Having said all that, despite what some others are saying abut us relying on others to lose, our fate is still in our own hands.

Time for J-Rod to fall over in the box...

Yessssssssss

Cn you imagine what we'd be able to do if we could finish!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsqJFIJ5lLs

If he does it with a Pirlo chip, it would be!

Looking for a penalty to us now. Let SRL finish things in style.

Funniest thing I've seen today...apart from that video of a hippo farting. Can't see us winning from here.

You'd think some people hadn't been watching Saints over the years. This is EXACTLY the sort of thing we do. We've been spoilt in the last two seasons but when we were last up in the Premiership we'd blow leads against poor teams, snatch the occasional equaliser ourselves and then every now and then humble a big club. It'll be tight all the way to the last couple of weeks. Would be nice not to have a last day event put I think it'll go down to somewhere in the last 3 games. Hold tight and enjoy the ride.

They are clearly better than us...not a surprise there. A bit disappointed that they a beating us to the ball so often, that isn't skill, that's desire.

Too long!

Happy with a point and the green shoots of he new manager. Roll on the rest of the season. Also, a good performance to tempt any potential new signings!

There's a hidden little Red Cross there somewhere!

Is it just me or do we look much more aggressive today? Could be NC has pulled another good manager out of the bag!

Loved Nigel and was really sad to see him go. I said in the 'Biggest Surprise of the Season' thread that I thought him not being sacked in late October/November has been a pleasant surprise. I reckon Nigel has, in some ways, been a victim of his own success. We were promoted so quickly we were ahead of Nigel's development as a manager. We saw the result of that early in the season and we saw he was learning and growing recently. However, the chairman wanted results sooner than he felt Nigel could get them and so he's replaced him. I don't like that it was done, I don't like how it was done and I don't like who it was done to BUT there's no point in get hysterical about it. Time to back the new guy and the team. If I am ever fortunate to bump in to Nigel I will shake his hand and thank him for what he did for us, whether we go up or down from here.

Nigel not getting the sack after our troubling start. Really surprised, pleasantly, that the club stuck with him. Thought he was doomed.

LOL

Do you think WGS is interested in working for us again?

Would love to know the truth about our transfer policy relating to defenders in the summer. Love Adkins to bits but he can't make a silk purse of of this particular sows ear of a squad. Hate the idea of sacking him but honestly don't see us coming back up if we went down with this team.

We're awful. No effort by the defence. Slow to pass. Outclassed by West Brom...shocking.