SaintBobby

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?

Quoted and re-posted in the interest of truth.

You can get 3/10 on betfair - which seems about right. The 1/5 or 1/6 is too tight. I piled onto West Ham at 4/1 to NOT get promoted (as posted here several weeks ago) and have now laid it off at a £2,300 profit. I hope you followed my advice then ;-) You can currently get 14/1 at Skybet on Saints to win the play-offs. That's a good bet.

Genuine questions: 1. is offering to hand on unused season tickets at the standard, individual ticket price (i.e. More than the cost of the season ticket divided by 23), considered profiteering and a breach of forum rules? 2. Is it okay if I seek a donation (possibly above face value, possibly not) to a charity (probably the Saints Foundation) in return for the tickets? If yes to question 1 and no to question 2, I'll refrain from offering.

Seems pretty off hand customer service. I guess it depends a bit how many away shirts they have left. If only a handful, they probably don't need to reduce the price to clear.

I'm going corporate for the last game - so does this mean my three usual season ticket seats are spare or will they have been sold on by the club?

I see the logic of being hush-hush on injuries. although it is frustrating for fans. Does any other club practice a similar strategy?

We get another shot at stuffing Portsmouth. (I'll get my coat...)

Seem to remember a big occasion vs Sheffield Utd, where we needed a win to stay up. Came back from 0-1 to win 3-2. We "did" that occasion. Has sod all bearing on the last 3 games of this season though...

It's just a nonsense whinge from a depressive. There is absolutely nothing in Southampton's history to indicate we will blow the run in. We might not get promoted - but this is not because of some absurd idea that the club doesn't "do" big occasions - for which there is not a single shred of evidence. Please lock.

Wtf? We were immense in the run-in last season. And any idea that losing to Derby on penalties under Burley has any bearing on our chances today is just nuts. There is no basis at all in fact for the OP's statement.