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Downes has to miss another two games. We won't see him until the playoffs now.

Boro can still get second with a win against Wrexham. There's zero chance they will be playing for a draw.

I just tried to do an accumulator on Betfair to work it out, but they're not offering odds on ours or Ipswich's final games until after we've played each other tomorrow night.

Their poor record in that department dates back to the 80s and the failed attempt on Reagan. Yet they seem to be so much more adept at shooting school kids.

In all probability yes. But here's an idea... If we get into a comfortable lead over them tomorrow night (and wipe out their GD advantage), how about we then sub on some fringe players who we don't mind losing to suspension for the last day/playoffs and get them to put in some crunching tackles on Ipswich's best players? Not that I would condone such cynical, unsporting behaviour, of course.

Oh yeah. Sorry it's still early on a Monday morning and I mis-read your post. I assumed you were referring to the battle for second.

Or, as he's supposed to be so good with his feet, maybe we could give him a go at RB to provide cover for Bree, if we can't find a club willing to take him on loan.

There's also a 3-way fight for the last playoff place involving Disney FC (a real Mickey Mouse Club 😉) The Sky coverage will be all over that, hoping for a fairytale ending.

If you had travelled north after the game like I did, you would have heard plenty.

Just been sent this by a mate. Watch Keown's hand gestures while talking about Spurs 🤣 VID-20260426-WA0016.mp4

Yeah the problem being that the vast majority of our fans there yesterday either don't go to away games or sit in the quieter parts of St Mary's, so probably don't know the words to a lot of the other songs. So if we want the whole crowd singing then it needs to be the obvious classics. A small pocket of fans near me tried getting the father's gun song going, but it didn't travel far (thankfully - I think it's a cringey, tinpot song that needs to get in the bin).

He posted some utter nonsense on the match thread for the City game yesterday about Baz being so much more intelligent in his distribution. TBH the joke is wearing a bit thin now.

Obviously if the tie goes to penalties then I would much prefer that to be at SMS, and statistically the team at home in the second leg has a slight advantage. But on current form I would fancy us to comfortably beat Boro at home and then play out a draw (at least) at theirs, negating the need for ET & pens. They couldn't beat us at home earlier in the season when we were shit and they were challenging Coventry for top spot. OK they smashed us at the Riverside in Jan, but we've come and awful long way since then (and we now have a keeper who doesn't concede from scuffed shots that are straight at him).

Or we could try and get him some specialist, external rehab and physio to help him identify what he's doing wrong to cause his body to break down so frequently, and develop a suitable training plan to mitigate it. I know such people exist, and from what I have heard there has been a reluctance on the club's part in recent times to employ their services.

Was listening to this on 5Live on the drive down to Wembley. The commentator sounded like he was going to have a heart attack!

I can't wait for @SaintsRoyalty to come along and tell us all how we're so wrong, and that he was the only one who could see that Bragg was in fact absolutely gash yesterday.

Like all clubs, we do sadly have a very small minority of utter tools following us. A day out in the sunshine at Wembley with a teatime KO allowing for all afternoon drinking beforehand is, unfortunately, going to bring a lot of them out of the woodwork.

Yeah how he didn't book any City players for time wasting is beyond me. He was just gesturing to them that he would add the time on at the end, then he just didn't. Can't say I'm shocked though.

Yeah he was immense.

He's another Dele Alli.

PXL_20260425_161513329.TS.mp4 Aye, not bad.

It was meant tongue in cheek 😉

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Really enjoyed the banter across the tracks at the tube station. "Live round the corner, you only live round the corner" 🤣

Magnificent effort from us. The goal from Azaz deserved to be the winner. I guess on balance of play you have to say City deserved that, but their fans didn't. They were so poor - didn't hear as much as a peep from them until they equalised. We needed a bit of luck today to win, and we didn't get it. Didn't help that the ref gave City a FK every time they fell over. So many tackles he blew up for that would be absolutely fine in the Championship.