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And would have much higher if they'd given us access to the c.15,000 tickets that Carlisle couldn't flog

Yay! Alps is back. Guarantees our survival. Cutting it a bit fine this season though old bean?

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Aren't most of our u23 players actually from the u18s squad? Would be interesting to see how the average age of our u23 squad compares to other teams.

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Portsmouth Community Football Club still without a win against a Premier League club in their 8 year history then?

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Pre-Match Press Conference.... RH: "KWP is back in contention. Redmond out for another month, should be back after international break" Journo asked about Djenepo. Ralph started to answer: "Because of his mum? Not sure...." and then they cut the video off mid-sentence.....

Going to be a tricky one this season I reckon. It's human nature to vote for players that score a significant number of goals, so Ings ought to be a shoe-in, however Armstrong and JWP have been revelations during the middle third of the season and continue to be so. They have been as pivotal to our turnaround in form as Ings has IMO. All that said, if Ings gets to 20 goals all bets will be off anyway, if they aren't already.

Looks like a good weekend to me, given all the bites...

9 points ahead of a team that aren't even "cut adrift" yet. Marvelous.

Half the problem, IMO, is that most of the best and most passionate Saints fans are on the SWF match thread rather than at the game a lot of the time. If we could somehow get these people along to the game then problem solved.

"up the premier league we go"

Get in! Or (for the non 'realists' amongst us): "bugger... Takes Arsenal further away from us"

Another Arsenal goal and we go up to joint 12th

Villa have lost 2 and won 1 of their last 3 PL games. Same as us. They have a 'fragile mentality' away from home. Logically, I'm not seeing an obvious winner either way

I agree with SKD

Villa have an equally awful away record. Ergo, I guess there are as many pessimistic, sorry "realistic", Villa fans doubting their likelihood of winning this one as there are Saints fans. Me? (a) I hope we win (b) I'm predicting we'll win © it wouldn't surprise me if we lose None of these stances are mutually exclusive.

Yeah, but optimism = complacency. Innit?

He's not looking for people to believe him, just to respond to it...