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FFS. Plus side is, my first born is due in June and the Thousand quid I stand to gain from Pellegrino’s ineptitude will help a lot. Relegation battle and this is what we get.

Every game I try and get my hopes up, every game I end up more disappointed. This. Yes, a win against Newcastle would be a huge result, but I was saying this last week before the Stoke game, and before the Burnley draw and before the Palace defeat etc etc We deserve to be where we are because we can't even beat the crap teams, WBA aside. I'd love us to beat Newcastle, and I'd love us to beat West Ham even more, but winning twice in a row? With Pellegrino as manager and only 5 wins all season? Nah, ain't happening. I would take 4 points from the next two if you offered it. Games are running out, and draws aren't going to save us.

Tonight was a relief but it shows we can't keep relying on other teams to shape our destiny this season, especially with Brighton all but guaranteeing their safety yesterday against the mighty, sorry shytey, Arsenal. Our fate is still in our own hands, we just need Pellegrino to gain some sort of tactical nous in the next 48 hours to have a fighting chance. From the bottom up, my guess: - WBA are down. If they survive now then that's the biggest Boing they'll have ever experienced. - Stoke have enough defensively IMO to scrape their way to safety. Whether they have enough in attack is another issue. - Palace's defeat tonight will hurt them more than help them. Yes they were 2 up against United at home, but to then lose 3-2 will deflate them. And still no Zaha. They have attacking personnel but lack defensive reinforcements, although that youngster looked very good tonight, Aaron whoeveritwas. - We can't buy a win, our home form is atrocious, but it might be our saving grace that we play more away now. Huge week coming, 5 points from the three games (incl. Stoke) would be a start. Any less and we're destined for the drop IMO. Beat both Newcastle and West Ham? Well that's dream land, and would set us up for safety. - Newcastle are a bit hit and miss. Beat us and they'll be fine IMO, and with Benitez in charge they should be beating us tactically. Lose to us and they'll be close to the drop come the final day. Draw? Meh. I'd only take it if you guaranteed me a West Ham win. - Huddersfield have showed character this season, seem to have a decent manager and have a couple of decent players. But will inexperience cost them? - West Ham are, I think in real trouble. Short of defensive reinforcements, and with tough fixtures to come. - Swansea and above will be safe IMO. Swansea have showed enough under Carvahal with some good attacking displays, Bournemouth on 33 points will be fine under their resent resurgence, and Everton under Sam will plonk their way to enough points for mid-table obscurity, although that won't be enough for Everton fans. Brighton are long gone - I think they spent wisely in the last two windows (if not further back). I think Stoke, Newcastle and Huddersfield will be safe. I believe it'll be West Ham, Palace and Us or West Ham for the drop. The West Ham game is now insanely massive. They'll fancy their chances against us IMO - is Carroll fit? Yes just checked. Well that's a bit of a relief. It's definitely shaping up to be a "last day of the season" relegation battle. Which of course, for us, is a City-sized problem. Even on the beach wearing flip flops they could beat us. If we do survive, do we celebrate it? Do the players whoop and cheer? It doesn't feel like something worth celebrating really...

Ok we’re down.

This game is far from over but I agree watching our immediate rivals picking up wins recently is painful when we can’t buy one. Writing’s on the wall.

It was purely tongue in cheek, a play on the fact we'll be set up exactly as we have on our drawing/losing run. I did just watch the highlights though on MOTD. If we continue to play as we did in the second half we have half a chance, however I feel it's still too little too late. If you offered me a draw against Newcastle and a win against West Ham this week, I'd bite your hand off. West Ham will be slipping towards the relegation zone IMO, I don't think they have any fit centre backs left!

I'm going with radical changes in formation. Desperate times, desperate measures. McCarthy Stephens Hoedt Bertrand JWP Hojbjerg Lemina Sims Boufal Carillo Gabbiadini In a 3-3-2-2 formation offering no width at all, Bertrand in a left-centre back position and us punting it up to Carillo and hoping others feed off the scraps. Well at least I'm thinking about changing things, Pellegrino will stick to his philosophy and we will lose. Or at best draw.

Smacks of when I did Computing GCSE with Mr Williams as teacher. He was completely useless, far too nice and had no authority because he was a bit weird. (He used to clean his ears out with a finger in class and wipe the wax on his cheek.) In the end a pupil stole his keys and locked him in a cupboard in his classroom, two lessons with different age ranges came and went with him banging on the door to be let out, before someone reported it to another teacher. Then one day, a kid in my class got beaten up in front of him, suffered an asthma attack and went to hospital. That was the day the headmaster started sitting in on his lessons to maintain order. He wasn't back the following term, and I failed computing GCSE.

2 huge points dropped. Now need 6 points from next 2 games...

A draw no good today, this is our most winnable game remaining. Win or bust today. Need to see an attacking line up similar to the WBA game.

That was my first ever Saints game, the 3-1 defeat to Reading with Souness storming in the pitch at the final whistle after two sendings off. (Slater and Benali?) I remember wrapping up well but I was so pleased to finally see my team live, I don't remember the cold. The coldest I remember is the Norwich game in the JPT, we drew 2-2 last minute and won on penalties, the year we won it.

That's the most I've ever celebrated a Spurs goal!

3 points or bust. Other teams around us picking up points worries me... but this is the biggest 6 pointer we have left. Victory almost condemns them to the relegation battle until the end of the season, and puts us on a "healthy" looking 30 points heading into our next 2 league fixtures of Newcastle and West Ham away. A draw against Stoke, especially at home, simply is not good enough. A loss would be nigh on catastrophic. We need to play an attacking team and really have a go at these. I shall be spunking a whole **** load of money on Stoke getting something from this game, and i hope I'm a fool parted from my money and Saints win. My line up... McC Cedric Stephens Hoedt Bertrand Lemina Romeu Sims Tadic Gabbiadini Carrillo Subs: Forster, Bednarek, Pied, Hojbjerg, JWP, Boufal, Long. No chance though. Redmond seemed to have a decent game today from what I saw, so I think he'll be involved somehow, though if Long is expected to be back for this one I'd rather have him on the bench.

Our last two managers have done the opposite of polishing a turd. Koeman polished the turd nicely, got it mostly gold and shiny. Puel came along, started polishing it badly and some brown started to show through. Pellegrino saw that brown, thought it was chocolate and kept polishing, eventually revealing a whole heap of shyte. There's still a tiny bit of gold there, we have to hope Pellegrino stops polishing it and that little bit of gold shines through for the rest of the season. Winning is a habit, let's hope going undefeated is too. After all 11 points from 11 games would see us safe and undefeated sees us win the cup. Hypothetically.

I'm another that would include players from the modern day as fitness is key. However it's a tricky question as there are so many from the past few years I'd prefer to the current lot, so I pick our better players and fit the others in around it. In the end I sacrificed Lallana for Wanyama for some extra midfield shield. Manager: Koeman, finished higher than anyone including Pochettino. GK: McCarthy. Had we still been playing Forster I'd have been tempted to bring in someone for this position but Alex seems to be doing ok. RB: Cedric. Clyne the obvious replacement but need players elsewhere. CB: VVD. Pre-tantrum. CB: Hoedt. Again could have chosen Alderweireld or Fonte or even Lovren but need more attacking replacements. LB: Bertrand. Luke Shaw is tempting but Bertrand good enough. DM: Lemina. Class. DM: Wanyama. Beast. RW: Mané. X-Factor. AM: Boufal. Creativity. LW: Tadic. Preferably Tadic when he signed. Str: Pellé. Height, holding ball up and could score. Tempted to have Lambert...

We are more likely to achieve safety than win the cup IMO as Wigan aside, we will most likely have to beat two of the top 6 to win the cup, which I don't see us doing under Pellegrino. But it is for that reason, beating two top 6 teams to win the cup, that I choose the cup win. It'd go on record forever, and we have a decent enough set up that we can probably bounce back from relegation fairly quickly. If we get safety, I think we'll have learned from the mistakes of the last few years, sell some deadwood, sack Pellegrino, bring in a decent manager and rebuild. Surely the cluster**** of mistakes can't continue... I don't think we'll achieve either safety or the cup, though I still hold out a tiny bit of hope for both, but I choose the cup win.

We're the underdogs against Wigan so hopefully a cupset is on the cards! Seriously I watched most of the second half of that game, and the missus and I both screamed when Grigg scored. A very solid defensive performance from Wigan. I wonder whether the chairman would rather have had a replay for the money at the Etihad, but I'm sure everyone is glad they got through, and now they get to face us instead! Yes it's a banana skin, but I'd much rather be playing Wigan than City to get into the semi-final.

What a great little tool that is. I was pretty harsh with our results but we still finish 14th on 37 points which is a surprise. The order from 10th down is Watford, Bournemouth, West Ham, Huddersfield, Saints, Newcastle, Stoke, Swansea, Palace, Brighton, WBA. Palace and Brighton on 32 points and WBA on 26! If i knew 32 points was the safety mark I'd be a lot more confident! Thats not the order I'd put the teams though, I think Brighton are good enough to stay up, we're bad enough to go down, and Huddersfield will be a lot closer, or in, the relegation zone too. It does show that WBA are almost definitely ****ed, and we need the big teams to consistently beat our rivals, which hasn't been happening lately.

Need one more goal from either side to win some dosh... Still this was a free shot game and 2-0 isn’t terrible for our goal difference. It’s the next 5 games that are vitally important.

Missing chances, can’t be doing that...

West Ham winning 2-0 And Swansea score, that's the worst score for us so far. Need a Burnley equaliser now and for the Stoke game to remain a draw. Bad day otherwise...

Ideally the perfect results for today would be Draw (or Everton home win as a second choice) Draw Burnley away win (draw wouldn't be a catastrophe) Draw. Lots of draws today then! (Fingers crossed!) Definitely need the home sides (bar Everton) to avoid wins.

Scored for Fulham

We've been linked with Norwich's Maddison, Bristol City's Reid and Fulham's Sessegnon and Fredericks so i wouldn't exactly say we're not actively looking...

My predos and I'm being overly positive after yesterday... Southampton v Liverpool - we'll get beat but in an entertaining free scoring game - 4-2 loss Burnley v Southampton - tight cagey affair against a well set up side - 1-1 Southampton v Stoke City - Another must win game. We will do just enough. - 2-1 Win Newcastle United v Southampton - Coming off the back of a decent result, the wind will be in our sails - 2-0 win Swansea City v Southampton - A two game winning streak for Saints? What madness is this! Pellegrino to panic and out a strange side out that only gets us a draw - 1-1 West Ham United v Southampton - West Ham will be up for this at home, and surely we can't get points from 5 fixtures in a row... can we? - 2-0 loss Arsenal v Southampton - Attacking Arsenal too much for us - 3-0 loss Southampton v Chelsea - Potentially could get a point here but I've overly optimistic so far given who our manager is, so we'll lose - 1-0 loss Leicester City v Southampton - We'll stop the 3 game run of losses with a hard fought draw. - 0-0 Southampton v AFC Bournemouth - Lovely Bournemouth effectively save us from relegation by rolling over - 3-1 win. Everton v Southampton - A final point to round off a poor season but with safety secured. 1-1. Southampton v Manchester City - Will be well on the beach but this will still be a defeat as they 'Harlem Globetrotter' our arses. - 3-1 loss. Ok, it's a bit Jekyll and Hyde but so has our season been. 13 points buys us safety and a lofty finish of 14th. Part of me still thinks we're going down under Pellegrino but he chose the right team yesterday and it paid off. We can only hope that continues. The Liverpool game is a free hit, there are 5 six-pointers and we need to win at least three of them IMO and nick the odd point from others.