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I'm the most brassic one, having a wedding to pay for and all! :-( Hopefully we'll have a good laugh, but we're not a raucous bunch really, fairly mellow although we like a drink. 9 of us in all. I must say from what you guys have been saying Bristol sounds like an excellent place for a stag do. A good choice. I'll definitely be booking a club far in advance though, I know a lot of places don't like Stag groups in their clubs.

This. He still has a role to play this season, but who's to say he won't make it in the Premiership? I thought Steve Morison was a strange signing for Norwich from Milwall, but he's adapted very well and chipped in with a few goals this season. With the extra fitness he'll get in the next few months, his eye for goal alongside Lambert, Lee and A.N.Other (Or Guly even) could be priceless in the Premiership.

Weekend's fixtures: Burnley vs West Ham Reading vs Blackpool Southampton vs Doncaster. I reckon wins for us and West Ham there, but Reading to draw against Blackpool.

For a team that has struggles away this season, what a terrific run of away wins that is. Just as we trip up with our sensational home form, we manage to find some stones away. This is not the Southampton I grew up being used to. It's bloody much better! If we do go up, potentially struggling would be a welcome return to the norm that we haven't experienced since the 2008-2009 season.

Well I will say it... ...I love Adkins and want his babies.

NOW I want to do the Beeb prediction league. Even being as stingy as possible towards Saints, it'll be tough to get us to finish in the play-offs. West Ham and Reading have to meet - and I think we could be the nail in Reading's coffin when they visit SMS.

Words cannot describe how great a feeling these results have given us tonight. 5 points clear - even if West Ham win their game in hand, that's still a four point gap with a better goal difference. It's looking mighty rosy up there - do we say it? Do we DARE say it?

West Ham game over 1-1, Reading lose, Saints win. Sexual, sexual night.

West Ham hit the top of the net! Come on Boro!

Jutkiewicz hit the crossbar!

PLEASE stay the same SCORELINES! Come on you scorelines!

Middesbrough AND Posh score!!! I love the BOROS!!!

In that order. It's always wise to use the loo before the missus.

Skates winning! Who on here said that Birmingham didn't have the strength in depth to maintain an automatic promotion spot? That man is a genius.

Nice one Jos. Keep it together. Lucky smoke/Poo/slice of walnut cake coming up...

Thanks everyone, especially Jack, some very helpful advice. In fact, the above paragraph in bold is exactly what I expect the itinerary will be on Friday and Saturday night! (Not that I plan an itinerary, that would be an anal thing to do. Although it shows how useless my best man is that I'm organising it myself...) We're staying at the Premier Inn on the Haymarket so I figure Syndicate is the closest club, but we'll definitely be exploring as only one of my party has lived, or even been, there!

Played quite well, more attacking than Boro BUT... they didn't score. How many times have teams said "We were good in the first half and poor in the second." Clutching at straws perhaps, but they don't have Tomkins, and Boro can be a good team at times. Come on Jutkiewicz!

Absolutely! A Middlesborough goal would top the night off perfectly. (With a few more for us thrown in.) Life isn't perfect though, and I expect it will all change. A win for us is the only result I care for tonight - West Ham and Reading losses/draws would be massive bonuses.

I'm not surprised West Ham struggle at home - I've hardly heard anything from their fans so far...

Coys

Posh winning!

For my stag do, I have chosen Bristol. I've never been, although there were reasons behind my choice, and it's all booked, so no saying how shyte Bristol is! (Which I know you will anyway!) . However I ask you, to those of you in the know, where's good to go in Bristol, bars, clubs, restaurants etc and their locations?

The top three at the moment will be the top three IMO. Reading to go up via the play-offs though, but I reckon Blackpool will be a team you don't want to meet in them...

Me or Merse!?! I was plastered when I wrote the OP, although I'm amazed at how good my typing was, having read it back it was a little OTT, although I do think Merse's balls ups are funny, I do prefer the coherant and intelligent MLT. Obviously! Was Merse plastered? Isn't he always? :-D

I was in bloody Wetherspoons FFS (I know...) when I saw this on the TV. So, so sad, but while he's in Intensive Care, he's in the best hands possible. People always say the old cliche 'It puts football into perspective', but it really does. Recovering from this illness is job no.1. I must admit, it brought a tear to the eye. (I'm a softy, I was upset when Seaborne got attacked, albeit on a more personal level.)