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A tragically unsurprising piece of attention seeking aftertiming? Never. Get away with ya....No, really.

Ok, who thinks it was a big price now...

Those increasingly worried about the Peterborough juggernaut, and the tiny likelihood of pitiful Sheff Wed derailing it on Tuesday night may be interested to know that currently on Betfair the visitors are bigger than 7/4 - in fact Sheff Wed are marginal favourites. A case for a bit of insurance I would have thought....

Struck a nerve Alps?

10/1/82 Alpine Saint - So it looks like Europe again this year and most of this site seems happy with that. Where is the ambition ffs! Wake up you lot - we have Keegan, Channon, George etc and you're happy with a season in which we never remotely looked like getting involved in the title race. Oh that's ok - we're only little Southampton and we do play lovely football at home....what good is that ffs?!! Look at Liverpool, they grind out results home AND away, why can't we be like them? I'll tell you why - McMenemy. With the squad he has we should walk this league, and if he can't get the best out of them hopefully the board will have the guts to get someone in who can. Meanwhile you lot can stick your heads back in the clouds and "enjoy" the next home game when we'll probably put several past whoever we play with the most exciting football this club has ever seen, whilst I see them for what they really are - a bunch of under achieving prima donnas.

This is excellent news Alpine - presumably given the views you have so clearly stated here, could you promise us here and now that next time we grind out a win without playing well you will say "excellent win, only the result is relevant" and not "It worries me we didn't dominate/why did we sneak home by the odd goal/we won't get away with that next week/mum, i've wet the bed".

Well I hope whoever was responsible got at LEAST a yellow - that's disgusting....

8/1 on Betfair.

Just so i'm clear on this one..... If we don't play particularly well and win it's not good enough. If we play really well but don't win it's not good enough. If we play really well AND win then the opposition are the worst St Mary's has ever seen. Is that it?

Whilst Puncheon is a huge disappointment, to borrow a line from elsewhere - if Holmes is the answer it is a very strange question indeed.

If you are not on a wind up that is maybe the best "Colemanball" i've ever heard.

Really? Alpine and some of the other children are able to judge whole seasons from it.

Correct.

Who scored Saints goals in the 2-2 draw at Leeds in the League Cup Semi first leg in 1979?

Blackburn and Ripley.

I wish i'd read your post before bothering with mine, Verbal!

To respond to the Ladbrokes bit - my (extremely well educated) guess is that the truth of the matter is that rather than Ladbrokes "suspending betting" which sounds very dramatic, it merely wasn't something they had a market on and they advised this guy to try an independent rather than a national bookie to get his bet on. In what market would they have been betting exactly? They wouldn't hold a "next Saints manager" market before Pardew went, and they wouldn't hold a "next div 1 manager to go" market in the post season. And they certainly certainly wouldn't have an individual "will he go" market for a Div 1 manager. The Ladbrokes thing is a red herring imo....

You obviously don't remember it because he didn't...

You obviously don't remember it because he didn't...

I'd be astonished if it wasn't to finish 3rd i'm afraid.

Saint Stevo - if you put even a third of those odds up on Betfair you would get your arm taken off. I suggest you do that - unless your all talk of course....

We are around 7/1 to be promoted, which, seeing as it ain't going to be automatic, makes us around 7/1 to win the play off final.

1) I stand by everything I said in that original post. 2) Which in my book makes that the best Saints peformance and result in years (I really don't think that's an exaggeration, at least in the league). Fantastically well done boys!

.....for one of very few times in my Saints supporting life, I can't see anything other than a defeat (and possibly a heavy one) on Saturday. Away to the best team in the division, who are on a fantastic run and us with the hangover of the skates, losing belief as the play-off dream slips away and with one eye on Wembley....It IS a funny old game, and I would love to be proved wrong, but I really do only see one result on Saturday. Here's hoping i'm wrong.

The embargo HAS been lifted.