SaintBobby

I'm not entirely sure your thread managed even nursery school maths. It was just "look at me, look at me, please, please look at me" And some of the other closed threads had folk asking what happens if there's a complete tie etc. Everything you need to know - which isn't PhD maths, agreed - is in the 1st post here. HTH.

Right, so you're in the "if we draw and West Ham lose, I won't celebrate" camp? Who knows what might happen, we may play brilliantly but fail to win. If we end up ahead of West Ham, we deserve to go up. That even includes us losing 5-0 on Saturday.

Sure. But that's consistent with having a keeper on the bench. Our chances of losing wld go up big time if we had no professional goalkeeper for any measurable amount of time.

Apart from the likelihood of a coronary if we make it by drawing? ;-)

I may seriously shove a grand on that.

Ok, I have no clue what you were suggesting then? "Saints should win and I hope they do"?

One totally obvious decision is to start with Bart on the bench. This is probably "must draw" not a "must win" so we don't want any chance of Kelvin being replaced by an outfield player because he tweaks a hamstring after ten mins.

Yep. This one is looking the most popular by far. Hardly surprising given the very useful information you've shared and your usual reticence in starting new threads even when you have something incisive and original to say. Christ, what a narcissistic, attention-seeking arse.

As already posted, we go up in the event of an absolute tie in the table on 4 points to 1 v West Ham.

Yep. I shoved it all up on a separate thread called "the maths for Saturday". Didn't ask a question e.g. "what if one game is cancelled owing to an electrical storm?"

Or maybe at least have an "infraction free/say what you want" thread?

No, it isn't that simple. Sure, win and we go up. But are you seriously saying that if Lambert scores an 89th minute equaliser that gets us promoted, you'll sit there with a sullen look saying we didn't deserve it?

So, you'd say in such in a scenario, we should pile forward and really go for it? Shove Kelvin up for corners in the last couple of minutes?

Saints win = promoted Saints lose = promoted if West Ham fail to beat Hull, otherwise 3rd. Saints draw = promoted unless West Ham win by 3 clear goals AND score 3 goals more than Saints (e.g. West Ham 4-1 Hull; Saints 1-1 Coventry 1 means West Ham promoted, but West Ham 3-0 Hull; Saints 1-1 Coventry means Saints promoted). If, say, with ten mins to go, we're 0-0 vs Cov and West Ham are winning 1-0, god knows what that implies for our strategy for the last part of the game. Just get an early goal, Saints, FFS!

Tonight, please. I don't think it would detract from the last day vs. Coventry at all. (the Walsall game last year was a great party, even though the result was technically an irrelevance....well, we had to avoid losing 12-0 or something).

Boro have to win. If it stays level, they will gamble everything in the last few mins (and maybe before), so I hope there's a Plan B to counter attack. But I'm not sure what it is....

Wahoo on the High Street is NOT showing the game owing to a technical fault. So am decamping to Royal Oak.

Lol. Quality. I'm not at all sure I agree with you. But that was a great post and genuinely made me laugh out loud. (I feared for a second that a 46K capacity might have an unbecoming effect on me!)

Help needed here too. STH who can't get to the Boro game. Live in London. Want to come down to Southampton for the game...where to go? (usually just drink at Encore, Slug & L or King Alfred's pre & post)

Yeah, it's a bit surprsing. Nothing is completely settled yet, but it does seem the top, the top six and the bottom three are quite close to "nailed on". It's very possible that the title will be at stake - but I'd then expect them to cover Birmingham v Reading (possibly switching to St Mary's if Reading are losing and we are winning)

You guys who made it to the game were heroic. Sounded awesome on the radio. Great job, wish I'd been there.

I've never been there. But if they have midget transvestites hanging from the walls, this is something I have to see....

I feel your pain. In the centre of the Kingsland stand this season..."You're going in the wrong direction"..."The goal is the other way" etc etc. I've given up saying "Cork/Morgan/Hammond is aware where the goal is. It was a deliberate pass backwards to retain possession as nothing was on."

I've looked through the entire history of Southampton Football Club. And I've found we don't "do" the first ten minutes at away games. We just don't do them. We sit back, blow chances and generally fail. Ok, I don't actually go to any games. Let alone away games. But I occasionally log in here and once in a while I sometimes listen to a few things on the radio. And I can say as a fact we don't "do" the first ten minutes. Anyone who disagrees with me is a happy-clappy, lunatic, Cortese-loving fool. .... .... .... .... Oh.

Your ability to predict the likely outcome remains predictably and very amusingly wrong. Weren't you the laughable cretin who said last season that Oldham was a bogey team and Saints would lose? We won 6-0. Genuine question: in your several thousand posts about Southampton FC on this forum, have you ever said anything which, in retrospect, turned out to be a little bit over-optimistic? And, if not, why do you think that might be?