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Before their tough run of fixtures, someone on this board said that if Reading come out of their fixtures unscathed, they'll win the league. Their form is immense - it's like ours at the end of last season. I think we'll get promoted, but my God are we going to stumble over the line. West Ham fans on KUMB seem to think they can nick our spot. I hope we don't give them the satisfaction...

Jos has been our best defender this season for sure, but Fonte is by far the second best centre back we have. No chopping and changing now FFS. Fonte is a pro, he will learn from his mistakes. IF we go up we can bring in a challenger, but until then, get behind him... and all the lads FFS. FFS.

I've always liked him - he's our only right winger that seems to want to get to the byline. Puncheon has mysteriously disappeared again, Chaplow shows effort but prefers to cut in, and Guly doesn't seem to want to put in decent performance anymore. Whatever league we end up in next season, we need major surgery on that position. De Ridder may not be the perfect right winger, but he's the best we've got for now. I'd start him.

If we finish in the play-offs, we will win them. I'm in the semi-positive-semi-negative camp.

Great performance from Saints, and to that end, we were robbed. We needed to take our chances better, Reading gave us a masterclass of how to finish. I'm not fully disheartened, granted the title looks beyond us now, but I still think we have what it takes to win promotion. Control the controllables - 3 wins from our last 3 games should be doable, and it may be that even 5 points from 9 would see us up. This season just got real. De Ridder was brilliant when he came on. I know he has his doubters but I've always been impressed when I've seen him play - and his tracking back tonight was exemplary. Onwards and upwards. Firstly, let's hope Brighton can help us out tomorrow, but failing that let's pray we turn out performances like tonight over the last 3 games of the season.

I'm stuck here at work tonight until half 8. It takes me 15 minutes to get home. Ergo I will probably be able to watch the second half. However thanks to the beauty of Sky+, I plan on recording the match from the beginning and watching it retroactively when I get in. So... I apologise for my remarks that are an hour late on the match thread! (Jokes, I won't be anywhere near a computer, mobile phone or idiot that can tell me the score.)

"When nothing interesting happens" and "at a Saints match" is an oxymoron. Also an Oxymoron is the bloke that left us for Arsenal.

As Cheltenham thread readers know, I can't bet on horses for shizzle, although I did OK this year TBF, but for the National I'm going for On His Own to win, and a cheeky each way on Calgary Bay. I'm looking for a third horse, but I'm not sure which yet. Tempted by Shakalakaboomboom, which has got good form over fences, or Seabass, which has won all of it's recent races, and could be the first time a woman rider wins the National.

I know we have a core of players bought by Pardew, and good players they've been too, but if we do get promoted, the signing that has taken us to the next level is clearly Jos Hooiveld. Had Dan Seaborne played all season (and don't get me wrong, I actually like him as a player), I don't think we'd be where we are. Not only has Jos been a brick sh*t house alongside the more cultured Jose, he's also weighed in with important goals, and seems to have helped with the team spirit too. A masterstroke signing by Adkins. Celtic fans don't have a clue.

Pompey's liquidation, and the points tally affected by it?

Eerily, me too. I just have that nagging feeling that we're going to play our A game and win this handsomely. I don't want to feel like this, I should be cacking myself at the prospect of Reading making us look stupid, but for some reason I have an air of calmness rarely seen by myself before a big game. That's it, I've said it now - I'm putting a fortune on Reading for the win.

Played right back a lot. He was to Saints forums what Pulis/Forecast/Guly has been since.

From the old team, I'd have the products of our youth academy in our current team, Baird, Bale and Drew, and perhaps Jhon in midfield. That's it. Our keeper now is miles better.

I wouldn't TAKE a draw, no, I would ACCEPT the draw if it happened, it's a better result for us than it is for Reading, but no I would rather have the chance to fight for a win. I reckon the pressure may get to Reading on Friday, especially as they're away from home. With so many friends of mine that are Reading fans, I really REALLY want us to win this, but if it is a draw then it's a straight 3 game fight for the title. Lose, and while we may still get promoted, it'd be something special to win the title, as we'd be needing Reading to slip up. (Doable - their last game is against Brum...)

We could partner him with Guly, then we could sing "Dindane Guly Guly Guly Guly what's that Dindane Gu, Dindane Gu." I'll get me anorak.

Reading will win this, and then **** us at SMS and then win the league and we're left in second experiencing empty celebrations. (RP BTW)

I've not noticed the difference in food (yet) but I definitely notice smokers more, especially if they've just had one. One thing I have noticed is in the porch to my house, where all my coats are hung up, just how much they stink of smoke. It's not something I've noticed before! I'm quite surprised my missus has never said anything.

If we do go up, we'll need a lot more pace - it's something we lack as things stand. As for Rickie, he'll be a hit in the Premiership, although I couldn't tell you what formation that would be in. I do think that, one day, he'll drop deeper into a midfield role (a role he has played before in his career), similar to Mark Hughes in his Saints days.

"We endeavour to finish top of the table. That's our endeavour." He wants it, the players want it, the fans want it. We're in prime position to get it too. I almost wish I could enter a three week long coma.

Thanks for all your positivity guys, here's a quick update. So I haven't smoked since last Wednesday, so I'm doing well. Very few cravings too, which is surprising, because I've tried giving it up before and have had big ones. I have temporarily replaced smokes with Drumstick sweets, but, after extensive research online into the world of e-cigarettes, I've decided to buy a Liberro Realis e-cig. I ordered it on Friday but because of Easter, I'm hoping it comes tomorrow. I figure this will be the best way for me to give up the fags - get the nicotine hit and still hold something that resembles a cigarette but without the nastiness. It's refillable too, unlike some on the market, which will be much cheaper in the long run. There's a whole world of e-cigaretting I never knew about either - but that's for another thread! (Perhaps on another forum!)

My parents owned one when I was in my teens, or 'developing years', as I could call them for the purposes of this, as we had a touring caravan we used for holidays when I was a kid and my sister and I had outgrown it. It was located at Shorefield Country Park, near Milford-on-Sea and New Milton, and I loved it! It was comfortable, it was nice to have a place where you could go on many holidays, it was nice being at a park with two swimming pools, and I had my own set of friends that were there every holiday. I even had a couple of romances, I lost my virginity in one too... I was gutted when my parents sold it. I had just passed my driving test and was looking forward to driving down on my own, but alas it was not to be. They did go on to buy an apartment in Cyprus (which I'm not moaning about!). The static itself? Three bed, very spacious, very comfortable. One night we had a massive storm, severe winds, and the caravan barely moved. Sigh, good times.

We've been top for most of this season. Reading are Johnny-Come-Latelys and if they think they can usurp that position, they have another thing coming. I reckon we'll turn on the style and win this, and I'm ALWAYS aprehensive when predicting Saints results! I have more Reading supporting friends than any other team - I need us to finish above them! I still think we'll find an unlikely hero in our last 4 games - I'm still undecided as to whom. Danny Fox perhaps.

I actually had them down for a loss there, so they're a point better off than I thought they'd be.

Gus Poyet is not a monkey faced tramp, in fact I think he's gorgeous and I want to sex him and have his babies. In fact if they win both their games this week, I'll let the whole team orgy me up the butt because they're a fine bunch of fellows with big winkies. (Offer withdrawn if 6 points not achieved, I only sleep with winners. Hi to Rickie BTW.)