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WE WILL WIN THIS GAME. Oh how I wish I could make this game. Disappointment at Wycombe aside, I think the lads will want to make up for that performance against Walsall, especially as it will be on our lucious greenery. 2-0, stick a monkey on it.

Well ok, add one or two midfielders in there, but it's still a good looking team, although we were always destined to lose Walcott and Bale. It was Catch 22, had we stayed in the Premiership, most of these players wouldn't have had a look in, relegation simply meant that most of those players we picked up by (so-called) bigger teams. One way or another it seems that we would have lost them.

It took two glances at the article to see that I wasn't looking at Nathan Dyer. FWIW, I would sign both Antonio and Waigo if I could. I don't think Holmes has a future at this club, I'd be suprised to still see him here next season.

Can I have your tickets? I'm a miserable fooker anyway. :-)

I worry perhaps that maybe Pardew has put together a Championship team before it's needed. While I can't deride League One football, I'm enjoying it, you really do have to get stuck in and dirty in order to grind out results. Save the pretty football for the Championship, for the next 15 months, we need to fight.

Glad someone touched on this, I just put it up on the match fred. 4 points before the Norwich game, for the two away games, would have been a good result. Dropping two points in the debatably easier of the two games is where it becomes a poor result. After winning at Norwich, those three points raise peoples expectations. Six points was definitely achievable. Incidentally if the Wycombe game had come first and the results from both had been the same, we'd all be on a high following the Norwich game. (Yes, i think I just confused myself). Let's pray for a decent fixture list next season!

Poke Baird Crainie Mills Bale Dyer Surman Walcott Blackstock Best McGoldrick Boy we could've had a hell of a team!

Never had a problem with the ticket office. (Although I do work in a ticket office myself so I know how hard it can be...) I emailed them, got a customer number for the online sales, and have never had a problem buying tickets, or being sent tickets, since.

Next season, if we fail to go up, I think we'll all have every right to feel aggrieved. We're starting with a clean slate, a manager that has had a year to put together the team he believes can take us up, and a chairman that has already told us that promotion is the minimum we should be looking for next season. People feeling aggrieved this season beats me. Yes, our league form hasn't been brilliant, but with -10 points it was always going to be a struggle. We're all off on a jolly to Wembley, something I didn't think I'd be saying for many years, and now have the core of a good team with quality players. Just enjoy the rest of this season, and by Christmas, if we're not in or around the top two places, start the witch hunt!

Having been at a birthday bash, I had no chance of following last nights game, and looking at the scoreline and the reports, I think I'm glad I didn't. If we want to get out of this league next season, we've got to learn how to play on shyte pitches. Going to Carrow Road and out playing the hosts on a good pitch is one thing, going to Wycombe or Exeter and playing crudly in a sand pit is another. We need to have a team that can perform on all pitch types, we're not in the Premiership playing on perfect grass everytime. It's a credit to St Mary's groundstaff that our pitch is as nice as it is. We are too inconsistant. It has to be said, and has been, that if we go to Norwich and pick up three points, it means nothing if in the next game we undo all that good work. I maintain that the playoffs are out of reach this season. Enjoy the rest of the season, support the lads, but lower your expectations. If a miracle happens, deal with that as and when it comes, but if it doesn't come, just enjoy what I am hoping will be more good performances than bad. Ironically, while last nights result was poor, if someone had offered me 4 points from the two away games, I would have taken it. The disappointment comes from knowing we're good enough to beat anyone, beat Norwich, and then falter against Wycombe. No disrespect to Wycombe, from the reports, it seems that without Kelvin we'd have been stuffed, but if our aspirations are to get out of this league next year, we need to learn to the basics now. This season. Iron out the niggles, learn from them, and next season we won't make the same mistakes. I can attend 5 more games this season once I move some shifts around, and I'll be at SMS, enjoying the football, enjoying the atmosphere and knowing that, despite poor results like last nights, we're on the up. UTS, don't ever drop your chins.

I love thinking about getting drunk. I love getting drunk. I love being drunk. I don't like mornings after being drunk. FWIW I've just this year turned into an aggressive drunk, which I need to sort out. I've always been a depressive/happy drunk before.

Get there early though. My old man works for the Tube there and says the car park fills up quick for Wembley events. (BTW, pop in there, look for the moustached man, and give him hell, he's a Torquay fan!)

I hope he bloody loves it and wants to keep hold of it past the summer...

There are MUCH better places to park and MUCH better places to get the train from than those! PIck my local car park for work for instance. Hounslow West, ok there's a car boot on a Sunday which halves the car park capacity, but it's free to park there on a Sunday, and, with one change at Green Park, you can get to Wembley Park and back for £7.50 (or £5 with a railcard). It's just a matter of research. I'll see if I can find Engineering Works for that weekend and post them up here.

We're good enough for a resounding win unless complacency sets in. 3-1 Saints.

I reckon 38 points we'll get, barring a massive **** up. Although I have been a "Saints fan" in those predictions...

I refuse to look to the play-offs now. While my heart still reckons we can get there, my head thinks otherwise. I'm just taking each game as it comes. An unbeaten run with the belief that yesterday's game would have instilled in the squad is what we need, unbeaten in 2010 would do. It's almost out of our hands though, we would also need a capitulation by one of the current play-off contenders. Oh how sweet it would be to snatch one of those spots though...

I thought I best get in before the potential innuendo was picked upon. :-)

I could perhaps have worded it better! One thing is for sure, I'm going to have to live with a grumpy girlfriend, or I'll get the silent treatment, which I much prefer although it never lasts long enough. (The silent treatment that is, everything else lasts long enough! :smt033)

That was almost an epic fail of the highest order Eric!:shock:

It's my 4th anniversary today of meeting my girlfriend, and boy is she going to have the arse on tonight. (Norwich fan - this fixture brings grief twice a season excluding cup comps!) From what it sounds like we deserved to win. What a big win. With the Skates defeat fresh in the memory, and with this the first game of our unaffected League run (sans the JPT final which shouldn't be a distraction now), even a draw would have been an acceptable result. To win is, well, orgasmic. If she lets me, my other half is getting the good loving tonight, although I think I may be banished to the bathroom with a box of Kleenex. I have my tickets for the Huddersfield and Hartlepool games now, and I can't wait. If we can beat the best team in the league, away, then we have definitely turned a corner on our season. Yes, we will lose again before the season is out, but I hope they're few and far between. We're unbeaten in the League in 2010 (which sounds better than it is), and long may that continue. To my gf if she hacks my account - Az, love ya, but I also love Saints!

That is too cool for school. As for the Gelling, It's obvious that you can't sign a shed load of players after the season has begun, and then in January sign another shed load of players, and expect them to play well together instantly, especially with the amount of squad rotation we have had to do to accommodate the cups. This whole season should be about gelling, and getting it right so that we can mount a challenge straight from the off next season.

A more settled team helped them IMO. Other than one or two signings to strengthen positions, they've kept the same team from the summer, and used the same players in a majority of games. We have been signing players almost constantly since August, utilising the emergency loan window as well as the January transfer window. Due to cup competitions and cup tied players we haven't been able to play a settled team, and I think that is one of the major causes of our league form. I have enjoyed our cup runs this season, but I do think that without the distraction of all three of them, we would be much better placed in the League. Now we're out of the major two, and in the final of the JPT, I'd like to see our League form improve with a more solidified team sheet.

No comment in the article about the "dad" or "sperm donor" as the case may be. That's one "masturbator for money" that is begging he doesn't get tracked down. I love the line: "Born by cesarian section" - do you reckon they could've whipped some excess lard out when she was under the anaesthetic? In summary, despite my latent insensivitity, I still would. However in my life, I have only ever been so drunk that I've literally blacked out for four hours twice, so this would have to be the third time.

I still maintain it's someone who has not been in the show for a while. Which leaves Sean or Sam. Sam is my bet. She's been in the nick, so has seemingly been out of the frame, but was mysteriously "there" over Christmas, and had some making up to do with her family too. If the bookies reckon it's Sean, then it probably is. They'll have inside information.