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Life savings on a Saints victory then?

I'm no psychologist, but couldn't this pre-match bus 'parade / welcome' malarkey backfire on us? Could it make the team more nervous / on-edge than they might otherwise have been had it been treated as 'just another game'...? (Countering my own thoughts, I appreciate it could be a good 'dress rehearsal' for Wembley, thus getting the players used to all the hoo-hah.... if we get there, of course....)

Just logged on to post my thoughts on this fella.... more spin than a 'Dead or Alive' record...! They should've had Jason Beer interogating this bloke.... would've tron him to shreds. Blake is a bit too 'nice' for my liking...

We lost the same number of games as Leicester City, the league winners. Our defeats just happened to occur in bunches rather than being spread out.

Meanwhile, back on topic...

@Harold K Steptoe any kit news sir?

From a tweet about a month ago where the poster declared it was concept design...

It's almost as if human beings often use selective memory to back up their point of view...

I still maintain that the fabled "unbeaten run" was a factor in us not achieving automatic promotion... ("Trousers, you're an absolute buffoon for airing such nuthousery on an otherwise sane internet football forum")

Always happy to disagree I even got 9 likes which is almost unheard of for someone who talks as much nonsense as I do...

This is the biggest disappointment for me this season.... Having gone down a league I was hoping it would give more opportunity to our 'rising stars', such as Dibling, Amo-Ameyaw and Bragg, but, if anything, the opposite has been true. In the brief cameo(s) we've seen from Dibling, it does seem somewhat baffling how someone like Mara is effectively blocking his path into first team contention. He couldn't be any worse, surely?

Given there's only 19 days between the play off final and the start of the Euros, I'm wondering if there's an outside chance of Stu being available for the final, if we were to make it to Wembley... (Based on Martin saying at the time that Stu's injury wasn't as bad as they first feared and that he was hopeful he could be ready for the Euros.)

Good to see you back MLG 👍

The trouble is, almost every time someone says this after a game he didn't feature in, he then flatters to deceive in the next game he does play in, much more often than not. Apart from Liverpool at St Mary's last season, how many times has he caused an opposition problems with his pace?

Is there a formation where we could get all 3 of A.Armstrong, Adams and Stewart on the pitch at the same time...? I just think that having Armstrong's and Adam's industry and tenacity sitting in-between Ross up top and Downes + Aribo behind them could be really effective.... Something like this maybe...? McCarthy KWP - THB - Bednarek - Stephens - Manning Downes - Aribo A.Armstrong - Adams Stewart

There's a circus act on before the game?

Not unhappy with that all things considered. At least we know we've got to go for it in the second leg rather than sitting back.

Dive there from the WBA player, surely?

Surpised it's only 6 minutes of added time given all the faffing around this half

Ask the people moaning about us keeping possession at the back...?

Ending the second half as we started the first....

FFS... get on with it... about 3 minutes to make 4 subs....

Yep. HAS to start on Friday

This has got 0-0 written all over it

That was Brooks wasn't it?