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I've been relatively impressed with Hughes up until this evening. Baffling substitutions tonight for a team needing to win.

How do you know for sure that the long term outcome won't be as good as it was the last time we were relegated from the Premier League?

Game (season) over. We need 3 wins from 4 now. Ain't gonna happen. Oh well, it's only a game. Life goes on.

I can still climb Mount Everest....

Charlie Austin our best defender this half...

How does an attacking midfielder like Sims or Redmond not get a sniff of the game in the second half. A tad baffling from Hughes this evening I'm afraid

70 minutes gone and still no attacking substitutions. Am I missing something...?

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Caption competition....

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Defo a somewhat weird sub at this stage of the game....

Cue their keeper having a match winning performance... #thisissaintsafterall

Can't be many times this season that we've fielded an unchanged starting 11?

So we've been told...

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Is anyone else slightly peeved that we've only lost one more game than Everton in 9th place?

Was in the Northam/Kingsland corner. Only heard the drums when we were 2-3 down. All a bit odd.

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FFS Over and out

Since when did they introduce playoffs for the last relegation slot? Must have missed that announcement....

From this afternoon's press conference.... - Davis (& Stephens) the only confirmed absentee from the squad, due to a new injury (achilles) - Hughes considering starting Bednarek to maintain same defensive formation as vs Arsenal Edit: bugger.... I went to all that effort to copy this across from the semi-final thread only to be beaten to it. Life is fraught right now

Bugger... it's been a long day/week/life....!

From this afternoon's press conference.... - Davis the only confirmed absentee from the squad due to a new injury (achilles) - Considering starting Bednarek to maintain same defensive formation as vs Aresenal

Guessing its tickets they held back for friends, families, corporates, etc but didn't end up needing? I did notice when I booked up (as soon as sales opened on day 1) that there were several groups of seats within certain blocks that seemingly had not been put on sale. Edit: just read ericb's reply which pretty much confirms this

That's gotta be worth a bite, surely?