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Should be in front of the FABstapo firing squad for asking for more than face value for a ticket IMO

Not convinced on Hull really, think they could be dragged in. 2 shocking penalty decisions against Ipswich in 2 games. They’ve got a lot to do if they want autos

Win the games in hand then it’s 1 point off Wrexham, 4 points off Hull. No room for a slip up tomorrow

Didn’t realise Baz was fit again

Crushing for them. Still a shit result for Watford which is good for us

And Hollywood FC

Yeah grim that. Won’t go down well with players or fans surely

Sheff Weds winning! Great set of results for us so far. Have to make the most of it tomorrow

Ipswich really struggling. The 2nd they conceded would’ve looked right at home in a collection of our worst goals conceded under Russell Martin

He’s fit enough for the occasional burst because he spends 95% of the game stood still or walking between those bursts. Absolutely zero pressing from the front. His hands were on his knees after about 20 minutes in front of the saints end on Sunday, gassed. He causes a bit of a nuisance but his touch is pretty shit and he’s way off the pace for me, Stewart is twice the player

Agree with this. I’d definitely start Stewart and bring Larin on later. He doesn’t look fit, think he’d get more joy against a tiring defence

Even more baffling that if he’d opened up his body to take a shot with his right, he’d have had a great angle to score. Going outside with his left massively narrowed the angle. Frustrating as he should be on at least 5 for the season but seems to be getting further away from scoring

Yeah Norwich at home will be a test, they’re in great form. Need to win 3 out of 4 really before the break

Thoughts on the train home: - Larin looks 10kg overweight and like he spent last night in the pub - Bree was fucking excellent. I wasn’t bothered when he was loaned out but he’s come back and been almost perfect when we were short at RB. Really stepped up - the referee was absolutely abysmal - Larin was having his shirt ripped off him every time it went near him, gave Fulham every 50/50 and if we’re being honest the other way, the penalty was soft as shit. But I think deserved as he gave us nothing else all game - big contingent of Saints ‘yoof’ embarrassed themselves today. On the train up and in the pubs after - that said, really good noise from the away end despite a 1200 kickoff. Numbers wise not that smaller than last weekend but 5x better - Fulham don’t have much else to play for, thinking they could rotate that much against an in form Championship side and get away with it was ill judged. Deserved away win IMO

WUM

That’s what I meant. Bought the ticket straight through to Putney

Trains from Southampton go direct to Clapham Junction but on the Fareham/Havant line. Not the quickest but we’re making a day of it anyway. Paid £32 return with a railcard

Full strength, fucking go for it. We’re not ready to be promoted and it’s a long shot anyway. Don’t want us rolling over for anyone, let alone a club that has a ‘neutral end’, no matter how good their squad is these days

We’re going to drop more stupid points where we’d hope and expect to win. We’ll probably have to win 1 or 2 of the ones we’d worry about up front. Would be like us to beat Cov away then lose to Norwich at home

It’s going to be tight. Was just looking at a 10 game form table, in that time we’ve caught up exactly 0 points on Wrexham and just 1 on Hull. Realistically it’s those we’re chasing. I actually think Hull are more likely to have a slump, they’ve been very lucky to win their last couple of games

Yeah it’s scandalous how disincentivised championship clubs are. I can accept the next round being on a weekend of full championship fixtures as not many will get through and it’s a 46 game season, but it should never be scheduled for Easter weekend when it’s a championship double header

I think our support has been very much like that in general recently. The atmosphere in the stands is a reflection of the tempo on the pitch - slow, turgid and boring mainly. We’re in a decent run of form but beating teams by boring them into submission. Obviously would rather win boring than not win, but it isn’t making for a good atmosphere at the moment

Decent enough result, shit atmosphere and away end. 20 years since I last went to Hillsborough and it’s more dilapidated than ever

Rob Edwards giving it the big one like they just stayed up. Weird

Big striker or not, we should’ve gone to a back 4 way before we did. Was so blatantly obvious we needed the extra man in midfield rather than playing Fellows at RWB and knocking it around the back 5 before giving it away. And with Manning’s complete lack of positional awareness, the formation was killing us. A CB at RB would’ve been far better than a 5 with Fellows and Manning