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Saints to win 2-0 and shut you negative bunch of tarts right up

Nah it was definitely Norwich. 1-0 down at half time then Le Tiss was unplayable second half, scored another hat trick for a 4-1 win. Think Kevin Moore got the other one. So, so cold.

Yeah that was another good one. 1994. Smashed them 4-2 after being 4-0 up at one point. Started off alright then turned into a blizzard half way through the second half. That was a strong Liverpool team and we played them off the park that night. Le Tiss got a hat trick and Maskell got the other one. Absolutely baltic, but worth it

Edit: should have read the rest of the thread first.

Southampton 4-1 Norwich at the Dell, evening kick off, February 1990. Le Tiss lit it up with beautiful goals but I was at the top of the uncovered family stand and my god, I have never been so cold in any scenario before or since then, including when I was forced to jump in the North Sea on new year's day a few years back. It was extraordinary.

Club who won the premier league 10 years ago and got to the quarter finals of the champions league 9 years ago beats club with record attendance of 10,000 who were non-league until 2 years ago. And to think people doubted him

Agree with that. Especially when you’re at home to mid-to-lower table opposition. Paying them too much respect really. Although the counterpoint to that is that even with the odd way we were set up, we still created more than enough chances to win the game, we just missed them all (plus not getting the pen). Overall, just an off day all round. It happens.

Has there been any word at all on Larin’s injury?

Should have won for sure, and a really frustrating result, but every team in the league will have games this season that they should have won but didn't. We started the day 5 points off top in 7th place, and we finish the day 6 points off top in 7th place. With 105 points left to play for, I'm not sure it's quite the end of the world just yet. it's been a pretty decent week, overall. I agree that I'd like him to stop messing about with the formation though.

No. The replacement for Stewart as rotation centre forward was Mubama. Because Dobbin wasn't meant to be a replacement for Archer. Dobbin was primarily brought in to provide competition for Azaz as the 10. Half the teams in this division won't have a first choice striker who scores 10 all season. Which out of contract striker do you think is available who has any chance of coming in and getting 10 goals a season at Championship level? Are you seriously suggesting that he deliberately didn't give that penalty because he thought it would benefit Middlesborough? Lankshear is Middlesbrough's first choice number 9 and they don't have anyone of any comparable quality as a 'second striker' either. If he gets injured they're at as much of a disadvantage as we are if Larin gets injured. Both clubs are in the same situation.

Always a really good listen, thanks fellas. Quick question though - Steve said on the latest episode that the FA’s appeal period for the Spygate verdict was 7 days and that that’s now passed, but the FA website says standard appeal window is 14 days. Has he got that right or is there technically actually another 7 days before the whole thing is officially closed?

Oh come on now, Saintsweb might give off the odd whiff of gammon from time to time but that's a bit harsh

According to Steve on today's TSP, the deadline by which the FA would have had to appeal against the panel's decision has now passed, and they haven't appealed. So all this bullshit is finally, 100%, officially, done. SPYGATE: OVER

Another positive way of looking at it is screw the minus points, we're five points off the automatics, we've got one of the best overall squads in the league, one of the best managers in the league, one of the league's top goalscorers, one of the league's best wingers, one of the league's best centre backs, one of the league's best goalkeepers, several of the league's best midfielders, we've scored the second most goals in the league, we've got the second best goal difference in the league, we smashed the team currently sitting top, we let the skates have one more player than us and still beat them, and there's still 36 games and 108 points to play for. Oh and according to Steve on the TSP, the deadline has now passed by which the FA could appeal the spygate panel's decision, and they haven't appealed, so that is now officially, 100% over. COYS

Reckon Wolves will be in the mix for top 4 by the end of the season as well

Refusing to take any blame and putting it all the players - never change Russ, never change: https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/russell-martin-leicester-city-warning-11199468

Any side that is serious about automatic promotion has to do that. And only Swansea, who are top, have won more games than us so far this season so I'd say we're doing pretty well on that front so far.

Also second best goal difference and second most goals scored in the league, both after West Ham. All the meaningful metrics (points, PPG, GD) look pretty strong at the minute.

One of my favourite games I went to at the Dell, that one. Under the lights, proper pitch invasion for the equaliser then again at the end. Magic.

It’s easy to forget that last season, on 18th January we were still 15th in the table and hadn’t won in 7 games. That run we then went on last season was phenomenal, but overall we are in so much better shape this season. A slightly spluttering start but you get odd results all over for the first few weeks while everything settles down, and the way we’ve come out of the blocks in terms of overall results and cohesion is night and day. A 46 match season is a long slog and consistency tells in the end. Personally I think the top 4 will end up being us, West Ham, Wolves and Middlesborough, but could be in any order.

Mubama is our other loan player

Absolutely love grinding out an ugly 1-0 away win. Another three points in the bag and up to seventh. Make it nine from nine at the weekend when Baz shits the bed and that’s this week wrapped up as a lovely bit of business all round.

Or he's just bored shitless and has gone home

Subs are: Long (GK) Jander (already on) Bree Welington Wood Fellows Larin Mubama Scienza And hopefully he starts using some of them soon because that wasn't good enough from the fringe players who have come in. Dobbin is anonymous and Edozie is just being Edozie.

Quite a lot of changes in one go, and no Larin to hold it up might mean we have to change the way we play. Can understand it, but it might mean this is going to be a scrappy one.