SNSUN

Huge, important win. Ecstatic. I still think anyone from 10th down could still go down. A high points total needed, defitinitely 40 points or more, to avoid relegation IMO.

Interesting table as it stands. Half the table could yet go down. A high points total needed this year I think.

For us to be 2-1 up with 20 minutes to go is amazing - I should before the game I'd take a point, and I still would now. 3 points would be special - 6 points from Liverpool and Chelsea would be dreamland. Is that Stoke I see slipping... Come on Norwich, do us all a favour.

From Beeb A good stat from our friends at Opta Sports - "OptaJoe: ‏Without Steven Fletcher's goals this season Sunderland would be bottom of the Premier League & nine points from safety. Crocked."

We could be a big part of sending them down, penultimate game of the season. Interesting run in for all of us.

Bang on for me! He starts by praising us and ends up saying "but Chelsea are simply a better team." 1-3 Chelsea. (For me, I think we'll get a point out of this - 2-2.)

They're in big trouble. Has O'Neill relegated anyone before? Don't think he has. Interestingly his current and ex-club could both go down...

I live in Horton, a village on the outskirts of Windsor/Slough. I wouldn't buy here, but the house we rent is direct from the landlord (thus avoiding renewal fees and having a better, almost personal, relationship with him) and is underpriced for its size. My missus likes Egham (where we used to live) and bits of Staines (upon Thames, if you want to make it sound a bit more classy.) I personally would rather have a bigger house in a quieter part of the world, such as South Berks, Surrey or Hampshire, but perhaps walking distance to a train link as she works in London. Fleet for instance, has a train link, but I don't know the area at all. Oi! I have you know I'm superb at customer service! :-) That's true. We're honeymooning (a year late) in Mexico in June, so we're being cautious until that's over. Then we let nature take it's course. A fixer upper perhaps wouldn't suit us, I especially am bone idle and useless at DIY (!) but I wouldn't mind a bit of a paint. I do realise they're more affordable though if you're willing to put the work in. My wife's friends in Norwich bought a 2 bed wreck of a terrace house for about £100k, transformed it, and now reckon it's worth nearly £190k. They're both in the building trade though, which helped with getting things done and low cost fixings.

I do think the best of Ramirez is yet to come, but sell him for what we paid or more in the summer and I won't be too upset, pending we replace him correctly. For his big transfer fee, much was expected but we've not seen the best of him yet - keep him and I reckon he'll be a much better player next season after having a season to adapt to the English game. I'd rather lose him than one of our other crown jewels - Morgan for instance who has been linked with Arsenal from the moment we signed him. Weirdly (and I am a bit weird), as much as I love a big money signing and get all excited over it, it's the bargain signings or academy players that I end up liking more - Cork, for instance, who's turned into an excellent player and didn't even cost us a million quid. I do hope we get to see the best of Ramirez though. Keeping the squad together and adding quality to it is the way forward this summer IMO, losing only the "lower league" players that did us so well in the past but don't have a future at the club - like Hammond, Chaplow, Seaborne, Dickson etc etc

Coningsby, Lincs and Paphos, Cyprus - neither are particularly useful for London! :-) I'm not sure what we're looking for, 3 bed house with parking though would be ideal. Kids will follow soon enough so good schools and a safe area are paramount. Funnily enough the first thing I said to my missus was that we should go round towns and villages trying different pubs! hat's one way to see how friendly people are in the area. Anyone going to my current local would walk out in seconds! All good advice people, London I class as within the M25 - I live in literally the first village just outside it! We both have free London travel as part of my job, so one option is to move inside and utilise the free travel. She's not that keen though. Lots of planning to do - daunting but looking forward to it.

Obviously I'll do things properly and study everything, but I wonder if I could pick your experienced brains! Yesterday my lovely parents said that within a couple of years (pending them selling one of their spare houses) I'll be given £50,000 to put down a deposit on a house. To be honest I'd been begging them for a while, I really didn't want to live in a rental for ever, despite us rather liking our current rental home. This will be mine and Mrs SNSUN's first house purchase, and we just wondered what things we should look for, what a good mortgage is, anything you've experienced that you've learned from...that sort of thing. Even a discussion on location would be good - I'm very attached to the Windsor area where I've been raised my whole life (and have friends in), but we were wondering whether a move to, say, North Hampshire would be a good idea. As some of you know I work for London Underground (currently at Heathrow) so it can't be toooooo far away, but if it's a reasonable commute it won't be a problem. Ta.

I'd say we're in a healthier position now than we were in 2003. We have good financial support behind the club in the Liebherrs, God bless them, an exciting young team being supported by a top academy without the need to sell individuals, and a manager who, whilst still unproven in the Premier League, has got us playing well and is possibly a bigger draw in terms of player signings (although of course that still has yet to be proven.) I'm excited by the future, and I think we'll soon top the average attendance mark.

Yes please. If we stay up, I'm looking forward to all the lovely rumours that will no doubt link us with various players - and even more to those Pochettino signs. This is a good link, as long as he achieves more than Adam Johnson has since leaving City.

Not a fan of Reading. Full of plastic fans who have only become interested in them since they've become "successful". Last season especially, and some of my friends are guilty of this. Just because they were born raised on the border of Berkshire makes them Reading fans, despite none of them showing an interest in football before (although I shouldn't moan too much about that, I wasn't born or raised in Hampshire...). Funnily enough they've gone a bit quiet this season. I shouldn't hate them, the Reading owner is an old school mate of mine, and my first Saints game I saw was at Elm Park, I just do. The Pompey rivallry means less to me as I'm not a local boy, but 24 years as a Saints fan has it ingrained in me now.

It depends if we really want to challenge next year, we need to keep all our best players and add to them. Ergo no amount of money would be enough. We don't want to become a selling club again, undergoing heartache whenever a player gets good enough that a big club wants them. If the player's head gets turned it could prove tricky, but he's under contract and any team wanting him would have to play top dollar. Of course, if we go down (touch wood) it's all a moot point anyway.

Saints Alive! (But quite a few are also dead) - a quality book title you'll agree! Not fussed with the title - been looking forward to it since you mentioned it Duncan. All The Saints is probably the best, because it is about All The Saints.

Oddly winnable, but I'd take a point if you offered it to me now. 32 points - and possibly 2 wins from safety...

This you, Phil? :-)

It was a terrible game really, this is a "competition" and there just isn't any playing teams like that. Kudos for a professional job by England though, but I still reckon we could've got a few more with different personnel. Baines and Walker were good at full back though. Ox-C had a good first half too. This reminds me of a school match I played in, our 4th XI vs another school's first XI. There'd been an error in the fixture arrangement. I was a back up for the 3rd XI (right back/emergency keeper) and when this 4th XI game was announced, my mate, the 3rd XI captain, appointed me captain of the 4ths. We were a team made up of choirboys, rejects, people that had never played football before, fat people and Americans. There were 11 of us, no subs, and I had to persuade the 11th member of our team to play in football boots 2 sizes too small for him. Our keeper had no gloves, didn't speak much English, and most of the time didn't know he could use his hands. We lost 10-1. I maintain that had I not been at centre back, the score would've been worse.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/h/huddersfield_town/8130763.stm "It is understood that Town's new board are concerned over his possible resale value at the end of his contract when he would be 30 years old." Best million quid we've ever spent. A gamble, perhaps, but one we were financially more willing to take. And boy has it paid off. I doubt we'll ever get such a return from a £1million transfer again, surely? RLGM legend.

Poor goalscoring record or not - consider him an upgrade to De Ridder, and it makes the transfer seem that much better.

Irrepective of what happened then, he's proved himself invaluable to us since then. He's got years of play left, and is Premier League quality. Sign him up.

So like Brangelina, do they have a conjoined name? Is it Spudsy? Or Beargun?

It's not cover for the announcement he's joining the full England squad tomorrow... is it? ;-)