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A QPR fan I work with doesn't think QPR will get ANY more points this season - he's tipping a Reading win this weekend.

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?44235-Player-Of-The-Season Oi, I don't start many threads but I beat you to it this time!

Is it me, or have they started putting more hand towel in the bogs? I was relieved that I could dry my hands at half time against West Ham. (And though he wouldn't have known it, the bloke in front of me would have been relieved that his coat didn't come to my rescue.)

Anything that would bring about a twitch measurable on the Richter scale would be funneh. Although I do think QPR would win. The plastic Reading fans that I have to associate with every week in my normal life have gone very, very quiet lately.

Crap - I found a solitary ticket in Green at the front of the Itchin - the Ticket office were making all the individual seats orange - but by the time it came to pay they'd locked me out the system. Thought I was in luck there. I guess that means no last game of the season for me. You lot are too quick.

They've actually been in good form of late, but unfortunately they've come up against a side that knew they could win the title tonight and with a player at the very top of his game. Villa were my tip for relegation up until a month or two ago but they've impressed me with some good performances with their young players. They have goals in them too, which is good for a side battling relegation. Will they go down? It's tough to tell. Besides Benteke (who will go to a top 6 side or abroad IMO), I'm not sure I'd want any of their players in our Saints side. Agbonlahor's pace could cause problems, but he's quite an inconsistant player. Weimann perhaps, he's scored some corkers this year.

RVP's second had a touch of the Bobby Stokes about it! They've learned from the past. If Morgan and Lambert had combined to score that goal, I'd have needed a new laptop.

That took me three reads before I worked out what was wrong with it! You been drinking Bearsy? FWIW I don't mind Delph as a player, I think he's OK. Not for Saints, butI do think he's improved as the season's gone on. This looks like a right royal tonking but I do think Man Utd will ease off the gas. 3-1 final score would be my guess.

1) At the start of the season our realistic aim was survival, and we've seemingly achieved that with a few games to spare. Some fans consider survival as the minimum we should have been looking for, especially considering our player investment in the summer, so to finish mid-table which is a very real possibility now, is a good season. 2) West Brom were flying earlier in the season with a decent managerial appointment in Clarke and bringing in class players like Yacob and Lukaku. The price of overachievement though is usually apathy with the league position, but West Brom have kept picking up points to maintain that top ten spot. Still with only six points separating us now, a win would close that gap! We're coming for you! ;-) 3)We were all shocked with the Adkins sacking because after a difficult start to the season, he had found his feet in the Premier League and had us picking up points. But there were also questions over his tenure. Still in our eyes, he could do little wrong after achieving back to back promotions, the Championship promotion being largely unexpected. The timing of the sacking brought the most questions, as did the decision to bring in a man who spoke now English who few of us had actually heard of. Now though, three months on, it seems that ruthless decision has been justified. Pochettino has us playing an attacking pressing style which has claimed the scalps of Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea, although we have lost to sides like Newcastle and QPR in that time, but it appears he's changed the way we play against the "hoof" teams, and now knows how better to deal with them. Adkins would have kept us up IMO, but only just. Pochettino has done it with games to spare, and with a few more points from our last few games, we could well finish top ten. 4) I'm not massively knowledgable about West Brom it has to be said, barring your YoYo tag from a couple of years ago. It seems now though that you've banished that tag and have moved on to the next level. We now give that tag to Reading! Oh, and Frank Skinner is a fan, of that I know! 5) Odemwingie has done well for you, and gave us a torrid time towards the end of the last calendar year, but if a player becomes a problem, it is usually better to get rid, no matter how good that player. Was it QPR he wanted to go to? I bet he regrets making that decision now! 6)See above re: Odemwingie, but I also remember you were flying at the time. We wer on a bad run of results too. Fortunately after that game we got our act together and picked up some useful points through November and December. 7)Jay Rodiguez is flying at the moment for us, and you might find it hard to break down the defensive midfield duo of Cork and Schneiderlin, and even if you do you then have to get past our solid keeper Boruc. For you of course Lukaku sticks out with his physical presence. If Chelsea sell him to you in the summer then more fool them and what a signing for you! 8 - As yesterday but perhaps with our young left back Shaw starting the game. 9) I have this down as a Saints win (sorry!) 2-0.

This. I'll add though the recent form of Rodriguez.

Villa are much improved lately and Wigan look in big trouble. Their luck runs out, and they get relegated before the last game of the season.

A good point. It's a shame the teams behind us are picking up points - relegation isn't a worry anymore with Wigan's defeat today but a few more points would keep us above the chasing pack and would give us a very creditable finishing position. Norwich now one point behind us, and Sunderland are creeping up with their form under Di Canio. I can see us getting 3 points against West Brom next week but the two games after that will be tough. Should finish on 43-44 points I reckon, wherever that would get us.

Michail Antonio. Nippy winger with an eye for goal that even Reading didn't want. Will always remember his JPT final goal though.

You wouldn't be uncomfortable if our season finished now on 38 points and everyone else still had 5/6 games left to play? I know I would. I do think we'll pick up more points as we've been in good form, but a bad run of form can happen at any time. With 90 million quid at stake perhaps I'm more nervous than I should be with our position. Anyway, it's moot now, effectively that's an 8 point gap and I'm happy with that.

Avoiding relegation is our number one goal, and Wigan losing tonight gets us a massive step towards that. Sure we should be looking up the table, but if Wigan had won tonight they'd have been four points behind us with a game in hand and that would have been uncomfortable, especially with Sunderland's much improved performance against Newcastle showing the Di Canio effect may have an effect, Stoke who have battling qualities and should never be ruled out, and Villa who have strung together some admirable results of late. We can sleep a lot easier tonight.

If the City score stays the same I feel more comfortable with that 7 point gap! Fulham losing, we just need Utd to go and get the winner to give us 11th spot back...

Come on Manchester, clubs below tenth place need both your teams to be your usual brilliant selves...

Hernandez on! Kagawa looked Utd's best player though. Shame he went off. Come on Utd, get a winner and sink them!

Giggs on for Rooney. Where's Hernandez when yiou need him...

It was a good foot to it but ten I realised it was offside. Utd have had too many wayward passes this game, West Ham look a bit better than they did on Saturday.

What a goal from Diame AND What a save from Jaaskeleinen. I can see West Ham winning this. Man U are not at their best. SORT IT OUT FERGIE FFS.

Utd equalise, Valencia

Credit to the Hammers they've started well and the goal was good.

No been, but going in June for belated honeymoon - Riviera Maya. Can. Not. Wait!

Wins for the big three please, but especially City against Wigan. Keep that gap at seven points plus goal difference! I can see Fulham beating Chelsea though...