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Put quite simply, we need 9 points from our next 3 games. Sounds impossible for Saints, but Blackpool, Charlton and Watford are the teams we need to beat in order to stay up. At a push, I reckon 2 wins and a draw would suffice. Any less and we'll be all but down by the last day.

I sold Schneiderlin which was something I was loathe to do, butin the summer following the first season I signed some good free transfers but on high wages and so needed the money. PS, the budget adjustment is brilliant. Sod transfer fees when you can get quality Bosmans.

arse

Had a last minute punt with the last £1.13 in my Ladbrokes account on Chapoturgeon and won nearly a tenner! W00t. EDIT: and so I'm now using my newly acquired £9.04p to bet each way on Green Mile in the 1405. Fingers crossed!

Only horse I'm punting on today (each way) is Tidal Bay. Tomorrow I have betrayed my gut instinct and bet on Denman over Kauto Star. Odds of 7-1 to win the thing seemed too good to miss.

pile of buttcracks. Five minutes left?

Right, placed some bets after some card trouble. Ever year I warn you lot about following me, so here's my bets for today. (All each way and in no order) I'msingingtheblues Muirhead Celestial Head ComplyorDie Golan Way. With no betting knowledge whatsoever, for some reason I put the most money on Golan Way, but all in all I don't spend a fortune!

Kauto Star has won me more money than any other horse, and if his odds aren't too short, I'm punting on him again.

"Arse", if it's a long enough belch.

So he's live at the O2 in July. Are you of the opinion that it's a waste of time and money to see an aging kiddy fiddler strut his stuff on stage, or of the opinion that this is the last chance to see one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century perform? My missus reckons we should try to get tickets so that one day we can say, we saw him live. With all this registering for pre-sale and cost etc I'm not sure I can be arsed. What do you reckon?

Let's hope the Bent substitution proves costly. >> I'm not sure whether Charlton winning is a good or bad thing. On one hand it gives them hope, on the other hand it keeps Watford as part of the relegation scramble.

I can't get into the chatroom at work. Seems WebSense is being a bastard. So will have to use this forum as per usual. Well for the next 5 minutes at least, as then I'm back to work.

Friday - Working today, quiet evening in with the missus. Saturday - Working til 7, then home ASAP in order to get down t'pub wiv me bredren for a Bday partay of drunken proportions. Oh, and Saints are doing something sporty. Sunday - Chilling, recovering, WEEK OFF. Brrrrap.

We'll concede, but a draw isn't beyond us. Entertaining 3-3.

If this is how we're going to continue playing under Wotte, then all the youngsters, not just DMG, will flourish long term. IMO

Alternately we could win all 33 points left this season and achieve play-off status! By the way, is anyone else looking at Crystal Palace and thinking they could be dragged into it?

I'll take a point. 4 wins in a row would be just super, but an unbeaten run is just as good. If anything, think of our Brum game as our game in hand, and it doesn't seem so bad.

Tis most peculiar. I would have said before the Preston game, that our chance of survival would have come from stringing together wins against Blackpool, Charlton and Watford. Looking at recent form however, we should also be looking to beat the likes of QPR, Palace and even Wolves. A colleague of mine said that every team in this league can beat every other team, but this season, we had been so poor I didn't think it possible. Now it seems, we have turned a corner, and if we can keep the positive run coming, I don't see why we can't survive. My head still thinks the damage has been done. To win 3 on the bounce and still be in the zone shows how screwed we were. To lose at home to Forest before Christmas was, at the time I believed, the final nail in the coffin. Now however, we're playing football that dictates that we could go to Forest on the last day with a point to prove!

Unbelieveable. There is no other word for it. I had the missus dragging me around Sainsburys during the game and found out the result from teletext. We're fighting, thus i'm happy!

I signed Saeijs on Football Manager before Poortvliet did. I am the greatest manager in the world.

If we really have turned a corner, I'd expect a draw from this game. A win may be too beyond us, Ipswich aren't exaxctly a bad team, but a draw I'd be happy with. 1-1

I look at the table, and reckon no. 2 wins in a row is massive, but there's still a big gap to make up, and in addition we have to keep performing well until the end of the season. I'm glad the lads are making an effort now, it seems Wotte is doing something right, but ultimately I think the season as a whole until before the Preston game may have spelled our fate. That said, it's not out of the realms of impossibility, but head is currently ruling heart, unless we can string together some more good results. Ipswich and Brum away next? Not easy.

I'm glad these have been answered. I was the bloke that though "Dimplex" was a type of condom.

It was my phone's major malfunction. Didn't mean to post that 3 times!

I want to meet this Lady Luck and knob her brains out. Unthinkable two games ago. Still doubtful for the season but still...