SaintBobby

We are losing a "must win" game, so are certain to be relegated.

BBC have us at 5 shots, 1 on target...which wld be the ricochet

Lallana for Puncheon at half time?

According to the BBC website, Wigan have had 60% possession.

Unless we come back and win, yes. This is...it was agreed...a "must win" game.

You can get 8.6/1 on that on betfair.

Arse. Anyone willing to take the draw now?

Groan 2-1 Villa

Everton equalise. Nice.

Saved. Sweet!

Sigh. QPR penalty.

Hmmm. Chances of that happening to Morgan are quite high then.

I want a Scotland defeat. I reckon Saints can finish above Scotland.

This game sounds truly awful on 5 live.

That's my shout...

Still not wholly convinced by J-Rod. Seems to have potential - but I've been a tad underwhelmed so far. (Btw, just mentioned on Radio 5 that Norwich tried to buy him in the Jan transfer window apparently...must have missed that rumour)

Am I right that he gets suspended if/when he chalks up 10 yellows? Or is there an amnesty/reboot at some point in the season?

That seems to be the conventional wisdom - does anyone know if it's actually borne out by the stats? (i.e. is it generally the case that the weaker teams perform better in the last 1/3 of the season?)

Just had a glance at the table. Wigan's home form is pretty abysmal - W 2 D 3 L 7 (-10 GD) Worse than their away form of W 3 D 2 L 7 (-. In fact, their away form is better by exactly the 2-0 winning margin they had at St Mary's....

Norwich win please. I want QPR dead and buried.

Worse than that, I'd thought. I agree relegation is now a nailed on certainty, that's why I have put £10,000 on it at 13/8 with the bookies...which is basically £16,250 of free money come May. I think you're insanely optimistic to believe we can replicate Watford though. They are resurgent. The most likely outcome is that we will hover around lower reaches of the Championship, before dropping back into League One after a season or two. (Probably with a ten point penalty by then, as well)

I'd take a point. (almost always would for an away game in this division) Wigan are the bookies favourities, btw at 11/8. We're 5/2 and the draw is 5/2 too. I don't know why people think it will require 40 points to stay up. Yeah, it may do if the struggling teams perform much better in the remaining 14 games than in the first 24. But at the moment the bottom four are only averaging 0.83 points a game. If that continues, then 32 points would be enough to stay up.

The spat with the Sun got so embarrassing and OTT that I'm unsurprised Cortese intervened and met with them. I stand by my view that he doesn't really care, though. This doesn't mean he will do absolutely nothing if the country's most popular paper starts completely ridiculing him and the club. That's just about worth a few hours of his time to resolve. But that hardly means he has a remotely serious media engagement strategy. Far from it.

I'd actually prefer 2 draws rather than 3 points from losing to Wigan and beating Man City.

Cortese doesn't really care about the press. I think this is unwise, all in all, but that seems to be the position.