SaintBobby

? Your heart says a draw, but your head says a win? Odd.

Sure, red and yellows seem to account for a good chunk of it - but that's why I referenced the Suarez chomp. That will surely hit Liverpool's points total hard. (agree that Liverpool may not take up the place as well)

I'm in two minds about this. Couldn't Saints just treat the 4 qualifying games as pre-season friendlies? It's up to us how "competitive" we seek to be in theses matches. Instead of playing Evian, Etoile Carouge etc (as we did last Summer), why not just play other small-ish European clubs with the "bonus" of qualifying for Europe if we win? My worry is that European football does increase tiredness, risk of injury etc. And lots of Saturdays with no league game, of course.

Liverpool picked up 3 yellow cards today, Saints picked up none. Surely, the Suarez bite on Ivanovic is also going to reduce Liverpool's fair play point total. I'm still struggling to work out how exactly we would qualify - where the current state of play is etc.

Because betting companies only offer odds that are rather worse than the likelihood of something actually happening. If something has a 10% chance of happening, a bookie will only offer, say, 8/1 or 15/2.

Jermaine Beckford.

Might it not be better to get (potentially large) signing-on fees out of the way this season? E.g. are we giving relatively generous signing on fees and relatively lower wages? For example, rather than paying Lambert £60K per week for 4 years, we pay him £4m up front and £40K per week?

I guess it's pretty likely that it will be decided by their final match against each other. If the bookies are right, everyone else is pretty much safe now (all other teams are about 20/1 or longer to be relegated). I hope Villa go down. My aim for next season remains (pessimistically) simply to survive rather than to win a CL spot, so I'm already looking for teams who I think will be weaker than Saints next season. Wigan would be (especially with distraction of Europa League), Villa might not be, IMHO.

I'm trying to work out how likely we are to get 40, 41 or 42 points and still be relegated. Must be bout 0.0000000000000001% or something. (if I read the table right it is now statistically impossible for Saints to get 43 points or more and still be relegated)

Feels to me that we have been remarkably "injury free" this season. I'm sure some statto will correct me, but we don't seem to have missed any key players for any measurable period of time. Cork out for a few weeks at the start and Adam out for 4 or 5 weeks. Otherwise, we've had nearly all players available nearly all of the time. And no suspensions either, of course.

None given yet. It does seem to me that we are resting players rather than risking breaking them, though. That seemed to be the reason for subbing Lambert too.

Why would we want one more win. With 39 points, we are already in danger of screwing up the yo-yo "strategy". Surely, such a strategy now needs us to start scoring own goals with alacrity. Starting next week v WBA.

It wouldn't matter if thye lost 3 games, as long as they lost the 4th game to us too.

They aren't even a joke. People laugh at jokes. It's just that absolutely no one cares anymore. It's the same as being Aldershot, basically. It's sort of "there" but no one cares. No one.

Surely, the first 17 games and the last 17 are remarkably similar? That's about 90% of the season. And it's not as if we played all the top teams home and away before Xmas. It's a pretty symmetrical fixture list.

His line on MOTD was it "wasn't my team" Not even Lineker or Hansen took that seriously. The man is a disgusting, hapless, corrupt cretin.

No. HTH.

He's on £120K a week or something mental. Forget it.

In the FA Cup final, not the league. But I take your point....

Almost certainly not - it would require Wigan to get 9 points from 5 games AND Villa to get 6 points from 5 games. (and those two teams still have to play each other)

Lost composure since Rickie went off.

Vorm seemed to claim it was handball by Adam, no?

We're getting killed on their right-wing....

Am I unusual/old-fashioned for not giving a toss about Europe? If we were in the Europa League, I think I'd be about as interested as I would in the League Cup. Probably slightly more interested in the League Cup, tbh.

Fox instead of Shaw? Hmmmm......