Jack

Really hope this is all a load of bollocks about nothing and the silence from the club is just to troll everyone.

Would be good to see but I’d say a Tuesday night might be slightly less rowdy than a Friday night. We’ll see

Looks like a real ‘fuck you’ to Middlesbrough from Saints. Maybe we tried to negotiate a reciprocal allocation and they refused?

Oh fair enough, maybe that’s something I always should’ve known but always expected the 10% somewhere like that. Hope Saints do the same in return even if it leaves gaps in the away end, fuck them

Shit allocation for a big stadium. I hope Saints reciprocate with the smallest away allocation possible. Would’ve thought the rules would be the same as regular league games but clearly not. Load of shit

Agreed, take it to them. Their confidence must be fragile and especially without Hackney they’re not all that. If we go a goal down, they know how poor they are at keeping a lead and we tend to keep plugging away so will fancy it

Well played. Think it’s a 5am start on the road and a night out up north for us

Flights to Newcastle only £330. Get them while you can

We’d have finished 2nd on 84 if we’d beaten Bristol City and Ipswich. You need to -1 for Ipswich

Fantastic effort. Away game first against a stuttering Boro. Big away noise on Saturday lunchtime then Tuesday night at ours.

Big push needed. They’ll have more chances the way it’s been going. Need to kill it off

Coughing up too many chances here. Would like to see a reshuffle

Bosh. New keeper tested, Bazunu like positioning. Great feet from LND but criminal to give him that much space

Change in goal for them is a strange one. Have to test him early, assuming he hasn’t played much

Nothing wrong with the effort, just a bit disjointed and not keeping the ball that well. It’s been fairly end to end with both sides being sloppy and presenting chances

Tend to agree but it wouldn’t be like Tonda to make changes like that at HT, especially 1-0 up. Would like to see more control though

Nothing good

Mental game at Wrexham, they can’t defend for shit. I’d take full time right now across all games, gets us a home 2nd leg, got a 72/1 acca coming in and would be over the moon for Wednesday to win one.

Correct call. Get the game won and worry about the rest later.

Letting Ballard go for peanuts rather than a season long loan appears to be another howler. But like you say, can’t win them all.

Tonda will put out a side that he thinks will win the game and keep our momentum going, exactly like he has done all along. Giving starts to players who’ve not been involved at all like some are suggesting just won’t happen. Who wants to go into the playoffs with no wins in 3 and momentum fading? Tonda certainly won’t. Home advantage vs Boro would be huge. They’ve already beaten us 4-0 at theirs this season and they play great football, they’ve just been shit at finishing their chances. That said they scored 5 last time out and are looking to win 3 in a row going into the playoffs. They’d be very tough to get past, especially if the 2nd leg is up there.

100%. Forest played to his strengths, lots of good service and wing play meaning plenty of chances. I’d like to see Larin signed regardless. Surely with a full pre season he’ll be even better, he clearly wasn’t fit when he arrived but has been getting better and better as the season has gone on. He’d need support if we went up but would surely be a good squad player if not more.

I’d say Jander is peaking, not fucked. But get your point on some of the others. I think rotating the whole squad and a defeat on Saturday would be more damaging than continuing to ask a lot of the squad. A few changes like he has been, yes. But not a momentum killing second string. Have to do our best to win it, like Tonda always does. Can’t see him approaching it any differently, especially with 6/7 days off after Preston.

We stayed in Newcastle last time we went up to Boro, was an hour on the train from there. Absolutely no point in staying in Middlesbrough, it’s a shithole

Few interesting permutations, only worth talking about them based on a Saints win otherwise we’re 5th and playing at home on the Saturday lunchtime which I’d like to avoid: Saints 3rd - Millwall lose and Boro fail to win. Saints to play Wrexham/Hull/Derby away on the Friday night Saints 4th - Millwall lose or Boro fail to win. Saints to play Millwall/Boro away Saturday lunchtime Realistically it’s going to be Boro isn’t it, either home or away on the Saturday lunchtime. Both are shit