Barry the Badger

Do you have the names of the people you spoke to? I would write back explaining what you were told, or email the ticket office.

I shall now be betting on both 3 and 4 bloody nil.

I can't play it and listen to saints on the radio at the same time, it seriously confuses me.

Clearly that game went against sensible predictions. By the way, Ladbrokes have it as 6-1 that we will win 3-0. They have it as 8-1 for a Yeovil win of any kind. That doesn't mean they're right but I'm just demonstrating that it's a perfectly reasonable prediction.

But you see, you are happy to refer to one offs when you are trying to justify why you are so negative. But I bet if we go a goal down to Yeovil you won't be saying "It's ok, we were a goal down at Exeter and came back to win".

I do think we are placing too much on this... Yes it's an important game but there's such a long way to go and it will only give one team a 3 point advantage in theory, which is nothing really with more than 10 games left. I certainly don't think the team that wins this match will feel they have one foot in the CCC.

I like this idea.

I think Adkins would be given a chance to build his own team.

Regardless of whether they are designed for money or not. I love the playoffs, the negative reaction to them on here has actually quite surprised me. For example, without the playoffs, our last 10-15 games last season would have been non-events with nothing to play for. As it was we always had that hope.

You do realise our games in hand would only take us level and thats assuming we win them both? Good win today, really pleased. Have to say I'm impressed with Bournemouth. Fair play to them with a squad put together with nothing. I hope that after we beat them to 2nd they get their promotion via the playoffs.

Probably not fair but bloody exciting. I'm all for them.

I paid £5 of my not particularly hard earned cash for access to this site, the least I expect for such a sum is a site that never ever crashes, and is always incredibly fast. If banks can manage it why can't you!

How very dare he! What a desperate loser.

I was wondering this too. Not paid much attention until recently but suppose I should keep the dates free.

Well, with penalties included yes he is, although that's a different argument. You missed my point though. He isn't scoring the same type of goals, the ones out of nothing, the free kicks, the ones where you wouldn't expect him to score. He's still solidly going about getting a goal every few games, but those moments of inspiration have gone. It was those moments that made him our key player and the best striker in the division. Every great team has players they can turn to for a moment of individual brilliance out of nothing when things aren't going their way. Lambert and Lallana were those players for us last season, I'm not sure Lambert has been at all this season. I don't want to be overly critical of him, he's clearly trying, desperate to do well and he has still chipped in with some important goals. I like him as a player, but this is part of our issue as I see it, and part of why we are not as good as we thought we would be this season.

I think Lambert is a big part of the answer. Last season he was astonishingly good for us, moments of magic, free kicks, long rangers winning games when we were never going to score otherwise. This season he's got the odd goal but is nothing like the player from last season.

Our league position suggests he does have a clue, although could definitely do better.

Sort yourself out man. Either find an extreme position one way or the other or get the hell off the forum. ;-) For what its worth I think there are plenty who are neither completely assured that everything will be ok, or convinced that we are doomed. I generally lean slightly towards the optimistic side, but I do find that as soon as I start trying to argue against the extreme pessimists I come across as much more optimistic and assured about Saints than I actually am.

This is what you need though. Somebody to start it all off. If you got a decent group together and moved to the chapel, gradually people would see there was an atmosphere up there and might move over, in the same way as happened with block 1. Certainly speaking for myself, if I felt there was a better atmosphere somewhere else I would move. You will never get everybody to move on mass though it would have to be a gradual thing and you may need to be patient for the first season at least. That said, I suggest your best bet for this to happen may when the club eventually reopens blocks 1-3 and try to position it there?

Um... Whoever is second in the league table when the season ends deserves second place.

Or is it just that we sacked a manager just a few games into the season and went on a shocking run that's still costing us now? It's been shown that since the managerial situation was sorted, we have been as good as anybody.

I consider myself to be one of the more optimistic on here, but tonight I am worried. Just starting to remind me of last season in that our form seems decent enough but every time we get an opportunity to make up ground on where we're trying to get we blow it.

Oh I see. Pompous at all? So somebody who disagrees with you has limited footballing knowledge, including Nigel Adkins. Glad we cleared that one up. I can see the reasoning behind the argument that if you leave a couple up that's a couple less players they can send into our box, but when they're 2 down they will probably just send those players anyway. I'm not saying I think we should always bring everybody back but at that particular time in that particular game I think it was the right thing to do to defend the set piece as heavily as possible as we tried to completely shut up shop at 3-1 up.

I do take your point, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect better than this, and given that the commentary is placed after the match I also expect them to be able to tell our players apart.

Rubbish. Everybody has to start somewhere. Also, even if they couldn't find somebody good, somebody vaguely competent who can tell our players apart would be nice.