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I think we need something like 8 of 12 games left involving us, Everton, Burnley and Leeds to go against us for us to go down. Massively unlikely.

I thought we’d made such progress earlier this season, plenty of clean sheets and generally restricted defeats to a single goal or two. Now look at us, the most porous defence out there right now. We seem a bit like a turbo charged Renault 5, mixing it with the big boys only for the turbo to break down and being ruthlessly exposed.

We’re shite?

Imagine Alex Ferguson's excuse if Man United lost in that! 😃

With the 'devastating' news that Neighbours is shortly going to end after 37 years, does anyone else remember when Saints briefly appeared on it back in 1992? It related to a story where Debbie Martin went to London and ended up at Highbury watching us lose (naturally) 4-3 to Arsenal. Can't find a video on YouTube, but there is an article here about the storyline: http://www.perfectblend.net/neighbourhood/outof-lon.htm I distinctly remember thinking "what the hell is Terry Hurlock doing on Neighbours" when it came up out of the blue! 🙂

Yup!

Ahhh, thanks. Close but no cigar then! Thinking now that it was perhaps worn at Francis Benali's testimonial game.

Pretty sure we wore it when we beat Liverpool 3-2 at Anfield in 1998.

Yeah, there is only a tiny chance of us going down, but also a moderate chance of us not being mathematically safe come final day. I'm sure we all agree that we could definitely do without that being the case and it will hopefully provide a modicum of motivation to the team against Brentford. Hard to believe that we're even having to have a conversation about this when you consider where we were a few months ago. Good old Saints FFS!

So Brentford away is now a massive 6-pointer for us! 🙃

100% this. Like I said last season, a sneaky insurance bet at long odds covers a trip to Vegas for the mother of all 'we've just been relegated' benders 🙂

Don't worry everyone, a few more weeks and we can forget all about Saints and focus on something more healthy for a while!

Thank Gawd for JWP!

Too early for Brighton to score. Come back in 10 minutes...

We are utterly hopeless right now, can’t wait for this season to end (just like last year).

Thankfully, at this stage of the season, they’ll be looking to win 1 or 2 nil then ease off (I hope).

Everton fans must be raging at us right now. I guess that’s something!

I thought there was goal line technology and VAR, but the former didn't work and the latter wasn't used for some bizarre reason?

Yeah, this is my take on it. Ralph has had several monumental failures, plus a few notable successes, in his time here so it's not unexpected that the tide can turn very quickly on him. Conversely, there is undoubtedly a group who can't stand him due to the 9-0s etc. which is totally understandable too. I'm still broadly in favour of him, but getting trashed at home to Chelsea like that pushed me closer to the edge I have to say.

Yes, because the majority of football fans are always such cogent thinkers aren't they 🙂

Bloody terrible and a reminder that no-one is immune to the crap life can throw at you. Sincerely hope this isn't used as ammunition for 'banter' at future matches.

And that's fine. I don't feel any different either, which is an ongoing sense of apathy. Seems to be a pendulum effect with a lot of people though, who seem to love him or hate him depending on what week it is.

So do we love him again this week?

Burnley’s unstoppable march to safety, and our subsequent relegation, looks like ending on Day 1 of post Chelsea defeat bed wetting doomsday scenario.

I remember us losing 0-4 at home to Arsenal in 93-94. We were really bad that day and Ian Wright tore us a new one.