mikec

Before this season I would have agreed with you, but from memory the televised games this season have been: Blackpool (H), QPR (A), Bristol City (H), Coventry (A), Palace (A), Man U (Cup - H), Wolves (A) A record of played 7, lost 7 - pretty woeful even by the standards of this season.

You're right about the odds - 6/4 ON represents a 60% chance. You can't simply treat it as a fraction - otherwise the shorter the odds, the lower the probability would be (eg 10 to 1 ON would mean only a 10% chance).

I did use to twitter site to get updates and thanks to whoever it was that set it up and wrote the reports. I would have liked slightly more frequent updates but I can understand that it's not easy to both watch the game and type at the same time. Also it sounds like there was not a great deal to report last night anyway. Like others have said, I prefer the banter of the match thread (even though I don't generally post) - but twitter will be a useful addition when the main server is overloaded.

I added 10/10 (ie 1). 11/10 + 10/10 = 21/10. The probability is therefore 10/21. Here endeth the maths lesson.

To turn odds into probability you add 1 and then invert it. So 11/10 is a probability of 10/21 - or 47.6%

I've been going since the late 60's - just after the 1st promotion to Division 1. In my first game we beat WBA 4-0 with the scorers being Chivers(2), Davies and Paine. My second game was the 1-5 defeat to Leicester when Peter Shilton scored against us. I suppose those 2 games just about sums up what it's been like supporting Saints over the years.

I agree. I think the captain needs to be in the thick of it, geeing the players up, giving them a bollocking when they mis-hit passes and cooling things down with the ref if someone's in danger of a yellow/red card. Nothing against KD who's had a great season but I think someone else should be captain - not sure who though.

From their website it looks like Újpest also played Wolves on Tuesday. I imagine they are just playing a few friendlies during their mid-season break before their league resumes. I don't think we should read too much into this.

It's all part of Rupert's plan to get promotion to the Premiership without all that tedious business of having to win games: - Get all of our decent players to Stoke directly or indirectly. - Asset-strip the current club until it folds. - Use the money accumulated to buy up Stoke. - Announce that Stoke City are being renamed as Southampton FC and all future games will be played at St Mary's Genius!

Everton, extra 2 points. (still have nightmares)