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Good result and we defended the lead with a clean sheet. We're short on midfielders, at the moment, though. I don't think we can take a chance and muddle through.

FT Saints 1-0. Well done Lads.

James nearly scored.

4 minutes extra.

85 minutes gone. Come on Saints, stay disciplined.

I'm totally aware of that. But who goes into midfield at this crucial time of the season..? As saintmonkey reminds us, Hammond is out too.

Headline: Saints enter transfer market for replacement quality midfielder.

Schneiderlin OFF..!?!

Schneiderlin has worked his nuts off... Dave Merrington.

No. There are no trick rules in the JPT. There is no extra time either, so if the socres are equal at the end of 2 legs, the tie goes straight to penalties.

Dave, don't appear to whisper as if you're trying to keep the information down the a few people. We're all listening, and anyway, the autogain level on your microphone will make it sound practically as loud.

Tbf, he just meant in one particular instance, not the whole match so far.

One saving grace is no Tony Husband. Kris Temple is 100 times the local commentator Husband was.

Hence my Shut up Dave, comment.

Antonio, just wide.

No choice at all.

Shut up Dave..!

Penalty, not given.

MKD haven't really troubled Kelvin. I'd honestly expect that to change, otherwise Saints are going to continue controlling this match, and probably add to the scoreline. So I hope Saints are able to contain any changes MKD make and go on to smack their hides.

Yeah, I've come to respect Steve Claridge too. He chooses his words very carefully, and is rarely wrong with his assessments. If you read his last line properly, he writes about a scenario where Saints are unable to achieve promotion, but manage to get a trophy. Of course we'd take that scenario. Because, as Claridge says, we have an outside chance of the playoffs, I don't mind in the slightest that Saints are trying to go as far in every competition that they can. However, if we hadn't had that 10 point penalty, and were consequently higher up the league because of that, I would want us to waste our time with cup competitions.

Hopefully he has now found a club where he will actually play a game. He's been with Saints since 2000, and has actually played 31 times for us [i looked that bit up]. But he's already played 11 times for Donny while on loan. Good luck to him.

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Indeed. I was going to put something like... if they are stupid, they'll try to survive and get the -10 point penalty when in the Championship next season. But in all honesty, who is going to be that silly..?

No, I just put some new news about Pompey in the proper forum, where it would get noticed, rather than buried in the thread in the Lounge.

Not that I'm hugely interested, but I hope City win. That'll be a bit of a blow for the establishment.