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If they extend it down through Hampshire to Southampton, I'm putting in for a transfer!

...and Family Club of the year. I assume this is because they're all related to one another...

If we don't go up this season it will be deemed a fail, based on our current position. That said it would still have been a fantastic season for a newly promoted club, we'd have been overjoyed at play-offs last summer and if you told me we'd be pushing for Premiership promotion in 2009 I'd have snapped your arm off. My biggest concern at not getting promoted would be which players we'd lose in the summer. But we have a resilience about us, and I think we can do it!

It does look as if it's a 3 horse race now. All 3 sides have a decent run of games unbeaten, Readings' is more impressive than ours or West Hams'. West Ham fans who think they deserve to go up are annoyed at their team, but they still have the players to do it. We have good players, a 3.1 point advantage (although played a game more) and the support of each and every one of us! Reading fans will feel they're the dark horses in this - but even though we're top, we can still say we are the underdogs, as we're the promoted side. what a tough one to call! It's in our hands now, that's all we can ask for. Only we can blow it. Every player has to give 100% every game. We must try and stay injury and suspension free. Keep the confidence up and we can string together a run of results that would send us back to the Premiership, and would put Adkins name down as one of the best managers in our history. (Certainly our recent history.) Pleased for Lallana.

He's out of form. I think he's a good player, not great, but 11 goals isn't a bad return for a midfielder. I think the problem lies because we don't know what his best position is. At the start of the season he was on the right and people said he wasn't great there, then he was moved up front and did better. I reckon he's be good at the tip of a diamond, but with Sharp and Lee joining us, his days up front appear to be numbered, and thus we have to play him in the position we seem to have the most problem filling, right midfield. Still, between Chaplow, Guly, Puncheon and De Ridder, I'm confident we can ride the season out.

Hire a limo and travel in style. (Depends if money is an object...)

Ah I've missed the weekend threads. Largely because I'm sad. Friday - Working until 8. Quick change of clothing and into London to catch up with my mates on a ****** up, although I can't drink because I have work tomorrow. Saturday - Working 12-5. A possible meal out with the lady in t'evening. Sunday - Working 3pm-11pm. These threads are more fun to do on weekends off.

Meh. Jonjo Shelvey will beef up our midfield no problems...

I watched the video this morning. I haven't been sucked in, I must say, but I know a few of my friends have decided to join up and on April 20th (I think it is) plaster posters overnight everywhere in the Windsor area to raise awareness. As for me,I know there are problems like this in other countries, but we have problems in this country that need sorting first, and as such my support is with those charities instead.

I'm Chris, 31, and I'm an alcoholic. Wrong thread? Ok, I first started supporting Saints in 1989 at the age of 8, after my parents let out the spare room to a student from the Southampton area who was passionate about the club. Lived in Windsor all my life apart from when at boarding school and a brief sojourn to Chiswick so I'm not a local Saint, but I did spend a lot of holidays in the Hampshire/Dorset area. First game was the 3-1 loss to Reading at Elm Park in '96 (FA Cup 3rd round), Robbie Slater and Franny got sent off and Souness stormed the pitch after the game. Never made it to the Dell, except to the club shop, which is something that will haunt me for the rest of my life. After various away games I finally made it to SMS to witness the League One defeat to Bristol Rovers. 3-2. Despite that and shift work I try to get down to SMS around 10-12 times a season.

I can see Lambert winning the player of the month award (and the player of the season award to boot), but I agree with others that McDermott will get the manager of the month vote. Adkins must be the most under appreciated manager ever if we do achieve promotion, although to get promotion he'll have to string a run of results together that would probably win him manager of the month in March or April anyway.

I don't still like it, 12 years on, and at the age of 31, might I add...

I must be one of the rare people that likes the sound of Pan Pipes. (Perhaps because my mum hates them and I loved winding her up whilst I was growing up.)

After mentioning on another thread I bought a treadmill, on a whim after thinking I'd use it all the time to lose weight but haven't, what purchases (expensive or not) do you wish you'd never made? I bought the box set of Friends - well over £200 in total value - on VHS, shortly before VCR's became redundant technology.

I had an Epiphany two years ago that I needed to lose weight as I'm porked up. I'd never cared about my weight before. I bought a treadmill. I still have it. Good as new it is. :-)

If this club still exists in 500 years time, Matt Le Tissier will be the Shakespeare of SFC.

I have us down as having 23 points from those games, but that's if we find the form that wasn't there against Leeds. 88 points should be enough for 1st, but I'll take whatever the lower amount is to finish second. Out of form, and I can see 18 points from them, which would still see us on 83 points. Whatever happens - 2 wins this week would be ******* massive. MASSIVE.

If he hadn't been so injury prone in the last few years of his career, he'd have topped that list IMO. Not bad for a 'midfielder'.

If anyone comes close, which I doubt, I reckon it'd be Jay Rod.

Any port in a storm.

Based on his passing skills in the first half, I'd rather he dribbled it than pass it! It was an off game for so many of the players - I think they'll all raise their game on Tuesday. With a bit of squad depth that we have now, they need to start worrying about their positions.

Danny Seaborne can play left back. Better than all the rest of them. ;-) (As long as we don't start playing Jos there! He's needed elsewhere.) I don't mind Harding, he works hard although he's not the most gifted footballer, I can understand why clubs in the past have released him. I reckon we'll be seeing Luke Shaw too by the end of the season.

Chaplow was terrible in the first half on the right, but I actually thought he improved on the left and in the second half. In the first half it looked as if he'd never passed a ball in his life - in the second half he did seem to want to get forward on the odd occassion we actually did. I'm a big fan of Chaplow's, a useful attacking player that can play across the middle. He'll have a big part to play in our run in.

If we want to go up in the autos, it simply has to be 2 wins. 4 points wouldn't be the end of the world, 3 or fewer and I'd worry about our chances of automatic promotion. That said I think it will be six - the players won't put on a performance like yesterday's in a hurry. Interestingly I was having a swift glance at the Reading forum, and though they marvel at their recent form, they're not sure they have the players to maintain it. Twill be an interesing few weeks for sure.

Balls. Who said just mere weeks ago that Cardiff are a danger to us? ;-)