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Just remember how far above us they were in 2009. Us relegated, with no owner and about to start League 1 with minus 10, and them beating Milan in the Prem. Tremendous how this is turning around again. Us with a decent ground, facilities and a genuine plan to get in the Prem, and them with nothing but loan players and worry.

As long as we beat Brightons. Thats all I care about. Ours is 1 better than theres at the mo.

2nd goal

Yes !!!

I keep having to keep reminding myself that if we lose this we still only have to beat Walsall at home in front of a full house at SMS. I think we will seize our chance today and Plymouth will always have it in the back of their minds that even if they win, they would still be likely to go down on Sat.

I reckon there will be 6 points between Brighton, Saints and Hudders. However there will be a massive gap between 3rd and Posh. In these situations, the play offs are totally unfair. That said we would have been quite happy to have gained promotion in 2007 should we have displaced cheating Derby.

I've got 3 tickets for myself and 2 mates, but one of my mates might not be able to get a pass from his wife. So might have a ticket spare. Would prefer to sell to someone who lives near me (Brighton) to save the bother of meeting in a pub in Soton.

You utter pri*k. Wearing a skate shirt in the car is a whole lot different than on the stret of Soton. This is not a Saints v Pomp*y thing but a pikey v normal tax paying family thing. I bet these pikeys cant even afford to watch the saints anyway. They are not saints fans.

Poyets comments of Brighton by being by far the best team could look very flat. If they draw at Notts County they could end up being just 3 points clear of us and with a worse goal difference. Hardly streets ahead, and surely the league table is only a true reflection once everyone had played each other.

All we have to do is match what Huddersfield do and we have 1 foot in the NPC for me. And if we somehow dont, we can do so on Monday.

Put it this way - assuming both Saints and Hudders win their last games of the season, we get 4 bites of the cherry. 1. Beat Brentford, if that doesnt happen; 2. Brighton beat Huddersfield, if that doesnt happen; 3. Beat Plymouth, if that doesnt happen; 4. Playoffs.

Looks like they are down to bear bones. Get them on set pieces I say. Would be highly dissapointed if we dont win this.

I'm really worried that Hudders will beat Brighton and we only get a draw at Brentford, putting real pressure on us to win at Plymouth. Coz if we then only draw at Plymough, it's playoffs for us. However, I think we will really put everything into the Brentford game which will leave us just needing to beat Walsall, whatever Hudders do at Brighton or us at Plymouth.

You have to ask though, how come he never really cut it in the Championship, both at Leeds and at Ipswich?

Why dont you buy some in blocks 1 - 3 too then when its all sold out, sell the lesser tickets on here (at face value obviously)

I tried to get some tickets for Walsall yesterday online but it was down. Got 3 tickets first thing today though.

Me too. I had to pause until l celebrated. But when I did, all my kids started crying in the back of my car as they thought something was wrong with me. The price you pay for 3 crucial points.

It is. If we lose tomorrow then we just have to match them on Monday then next Saturday (which we should if you look at the fixtures), then it's down to the Plymouth (should be already down) game in hand to take the 2nd spot again. Just leaves Walsall at home.

Knew this would happen but even if we lose tomorrow its still in our hands. If we match what huddersfield do next saturday when theyre at brighton, its all down to the plymouth game.

Yeah I was gonna covert mine into an office chair but didnt want to put holes in it. When I got it, there was chap near me who brought a complete toolkit so I was able to extract it with minimal damage.

No. If we win both on Saturday and on Monday and Hudders and Posh lose both, we would be 6 points clear with them having 2 games in hand. Not mathematically safe. Even if the worst was to happen this weekend and Hudders won leaving them 3 points clear of us, we would only need to make up those 3 points playing both Brentford & Plymouth away whilst they play Brighton away. I reckon we'll go 3 points behind them this weekend, then make it up next weekend leaving us with 2 games left and them 1. We will only then need to win our wallsall H game.

I'll tell you what is a blessing. Posh & Huds playing on Friday and us on Saturday. If results go against us, we'll have a massive sense of urgency against Brighton. If results go our way on Friday, Saturday will be seen as a massive opportunity - we win and Hudders lose, then all we need to do is win our home games.

I think we'll win at least one of Plymouth or Brentford away. And how are Hudders getting anything at Brighton and not us. Here's my prediction: Saints: Brighton A LOSE Hartlepool H WIN Brentford A LOSE Plymouth A WIN Wallsall H WIN Huddersfield: MK Dons A WIN Daggers H WIN Brighton A LOSE Brentford H WIN This puts us up and isnt an optimistic forecast. Also I think Brighton will start the game slowly on Saturday after the various celebrations before the game, whereas we will be focused (are we doing guard of honour btw?)

Dont like the idea of relying on Connoly. Thats like saying Killer is on the mend. Getting nervous now. However, if Mk Dons can somehow beat Huddersfield and we can take advantage of Brighton's pre match celebrations on Saturday, we could be in a position where we only need to win our homes games to go up. Do feel we need Huddersfield to slip up though.

To be fair they played us a two perfect times. The first time we had just sacked Pardew and the second we were clearly fatigued by the recent fixtures.