sandwichsaint

Why people so scared of the play-offs? How many teams have beaten us over a two-leg aggregate situation this season? Tranmere for one ... are there any more? Obviously we all want to go up in auto but I would fancy us to beat anybody over two legs, and we didn't do too badly in last year's cup final did we? If we couldn't beat Bompey in a one off game in front of 40k Saints fans at Old Trafford would we 'deserve' to go up?

3-1 charlton.... 3 shots 3 goals! Extraordinary game , 5-1 to P'boro would be a fairer score!

I'm at Charlton, all P'boro so far. Boro excellent, charlton really poor .... 6 points for us if they play like this!

The first recorded use of the word 'pedant' on these forums (fori?) ? Discussing palindromic dates .... on SFE ..... big excitement when the dates went to --/--/200x. Mass excitement in the media naming --/--/---- 'as the first palindromic date since xx/xx/xxxx 'and it wouldn't recur for 'xx years' - I basically rode a coach-and-horses through their logic ... I claim the first recorded use of the word 'pedant' on SFE / Saints Web. Always havea chuckle when I see the word 'pedant' in a post (EJ Thribb was first tho).

I'm hoping February is so good that MARCH is even BIGGER.

Don't think this is actually going to damage our season, I'm sure 99% of fans are happy to 'pull together'. What more do we want either party to say? - It appears fairly obvious that NI was outside the tent ****ing in, to which the normal response is often to invite the ****er inside to **** out; in this instance NC pulled the flaps tighter and told the ****er to **** off and go and **** somewhere else. Unusualy (for me) I can see both sides of the arguement; NI has done his time on the naughty step, let the club give him back his ST with 'lessons learned' on both sides. The rebirth and revivasl of Saints is one of the best feelgood football stories of recent times, why do we keep getting the PR so hopelessly wrong?

Agree, agree, agree! A great few days to be a Saints fan, let's see it through now! First, second or play-offs ..... what could possibly go wrong tomorrow? (possibly a scrappy 1-1 draw)

I was in Block 37 and the atmosphere in the whole Northam/Kingsland corner was excellent - it went a bit flat after their second goal but up until then it was great. Have to say it's very hard to get the whole ground singing when the Northam sing everything at 200mph - there was a couple of rounds of 'Ricky Lambert' on Saturday that were sung so fast there was no room or no time for any words, as Alan Partridge would say 'it was just a noise'.

I still don't get it (sorry!) I have bought 4 Utd tickets on my family's four database numbers, and 4 Carlisle tickets.... can I buy a single Man Utd ticket this afternoon ...?????

Cup tied? (presumably?)

This! I'm thoroughly looking forward to it - have seen an average of 8-10 games a season for the last 40-something years and have only ever seen Saints play Man Utd. once previously (at the Dell when we were both in the second division 1975?, Grand National day, Buchan/Macari?/Pearson? type era). No 6-3 or grey shirts or rolling-over-and-having-our-tummies-tickled for me. I've done the hard yards and the Lowe years - why not enjoy a game like this? The FA Cup been's brilliant to me this year, Dover away at Gillingham, home to Aldershot, then away to Huddersfield has been an absolutely footie-tantastic cup run - great atmospheres at all three games, some genuinely exciting football, and a real chance to 'live the dream'. No good crying about the spilled league points now - they're gone - let's embrace this game with the strongest team we can, put up a dare-to-dream performance, and show the country that Saints are really back on the football map. COYRS!

How very very sad. FWIW I shall be wearing a very natty Bruce Springsteen/Smiths cross-over scarf that I bought in my local market.

Number 62? Surely shome mishtake?

I've seen Kleba Chala play! (away at Derby, sub for about 10 mins, was that his only Saints appearance?)

I'll get slaughtered for this one but I thought Jason Euell DAJFU. Williams and Telfer were both excellent. People forget how good Dean Richards was for us. Guthrie was good. I used to love Tommy Jenkins. Lloyd James was never going to be a Prem player but he improved massively over his two seasons and always gave '100%' for the team.

No not really; I did it for the Derby away game when a relatively small number of tickets went on open sale, drove down Sat for the home leg, drove down overnight Mon/Tue for tickets to the away, and drove to Derby on the Thursday, there were about eight of us there that night and others joined from about 5am onwards - tickets in hand at 8.30, job done. The big saving to camping out is you get away at 09-00 (07-00 today) and can return to work (as oppossed to arriving at 08.00 and leaving at 11.00 say?). What are the queues like today, haven't seen or heard much? I think people with a ST underestimate the 'stress' that some people will have to endure hanging on the phones literally all day; I was one of the lucky ones, only four hours on two lines till I got through this morning, would have done more work this morning if I had travelled down overnight and back at 07.00 this morning!

Through on the JPT hotline at 12.40 after trying both numbers pretty solidly since 08-30 this morning, well chuffed as I was 50-50 on driving down last night and camping over, £50 saved on diesel! I was queueing for 10 minutes and then the face to face transaction took at least 10 mins to go through! A couple of time saving options for the future: 1 The Carlisle tickets are issued as straight duplicates of the Man U tickets - any changes can be made via the ticket office after the game. I heard all sorts of weird and wonderful combinations (of tickets and locations) going on in the background and my guy had to wait a couple of minutes to find me my Carlisle tickets .. I was quite happy to have the same seats but lots of people appeared to be making different choices ... this was confirmed when he came back and said he couldn't do the same seats.... duh! 2 Charge 50 quid for the United tickets (and pro rata the reduced prices) and include a 'voucher' for one remaining home game (or a choice of three games) (or one specific game) which we can then cash at our leisure after the big rush subsides.... a massive windfall today for NC and BT but I can't help but think that the local economy has taken a huge four-hour hit this morning! Good luck everybody else, keep dialling, you will get through (eventually).

Anyone know how to receive this on Sky plus if you are out of area?

My car too and I absolutely love it; it's top all-rounder for somebody that wants a car that does a bit of everything and all at a reasonable price. Not sure I can get those mpg figures though. I'm happpy with 38-40 in 'mixed' day-to-day driving, and can get 44 on a long motorway trip .... you'd have to be pretty frugal to get over 50 mpg! TBF I do carry permanent roof bars and 4 bike carriers; what do these add to fuel consumption? Does cruise control add much to fuel consumption?

Chin up people - County are going strongly and if they maintain their current form they will take points off our rivals too. A dissappointing but not totally unexpected outcome, 7 points from our next three games will see us nicely back on track. PS Has anybody ever started a 'ref' thread after a game we've won or are refs only ever 'bad' when we lose or draw?

Ye, got tickets for Walsall a, Charlton a, Hartlepool a. Might queue up on the phones all day Tuesday for Utd tkts, or might drive down overnight Monday and camp out at the TO, or might just give it a miss and watch on tellybox. You got a thing with angry Jonny?

Get over yourself you bigggg girl .... you bought a ST in an area where u know that for any big game you will have to move ... some minimum wage temp in the TO messes it up.... deal with it ... you were at the game today .... get down the TO an hour before the game or get round there after the game ... job done. Don't whinge on here about how schitt the TO is ... you got your ticket .. job done !!!!! If you don't wanna bang on the boards then just do a swap on here ... you got a ticket ... STFU .. !!!!

I bet D'Urso is involved somewhere ....

If that was the outcome (eg keeping AL / AOC / Guly / Puncheon) then I think all fans would (should!) be 'delighted' - I certainly would be! LOL at the comments 'Guly's not a striker'; no he's not, he's a 'footballer'! HCDAJFU in half a dozen different roles, including scoring five in four games (or what ever it is). Not sure where a new striker would play without upsetting what we already have? RL seems to be back near to his best, Guly's on fire, and Barnard's battling for a place, with Connolly behind that and the midfielders contributing what level of striker would we have to sign to improve on 18 goals in four games? Probably won't happen in a window but longer-term we need the next level of keeper, I think KD has been a great servant and Bart does a decent job when he comes in, but Smithies (Huddersfield) or Murphy (Scunny) would be better long term bets than what we have. Let's keep the team spirit that NA has undoubtedly built and then strengthen significantly after we are promoted.

It was Blackstock away at Newcastle.