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I didn't say i wanted you all to do well, just for us all to be in the same division. I think it'd be great for the area to have 5 times playing each other regularly rather than the London and north East love in we have to endure so often.

96 scousers crushed against the fence is pretty offensive too.

Nice tribute on Sky Sports now for Deano, before the Wolves v Spurs game. Beattie welling up when talking about it. RIP Deano.

Surely the whole point is that to win things you have to do better than those around you? If we are not then we aren't doing well enough, depsite what might be considered normal. I am sure Chelsea fans aren't saying they are happy with their current form and saying "we can only do what we can do, If Arsenal, Man United and City hadn't done better than us we'd be top"

You should have asked her what the best washing powder is to get those shirts back to bright white after the game.

Probably the most offensive song of all time debate??? i'll kick us off with..... Spurs are on their way to Auchwitz....

Why do you doubt they will? I think if they have a successful side they can easily fill 22k in the Premier or if they are near the top of the Championship. Brighton & Hove is as big a city as Southampton and they have the whole of Sussex and a bit Kent as a catchement area, there is no reason to think if they are successful they wont fill their ground. I agree that we are the biggest club south of the M4, outside of London. Brighton could be bigger than the others though, Reading is a relatively small town and with its close proximity to London alwasy going to struggle to attrach big crowds regularly. Bournemouth are at their peak, Pompey are in decline and no where near as big as they think they are.

It'd be great to have all 4 South Coast clubs plus Reading in the same league. Some decent local derbies there and have abit of focus on football in this areas for once. Obviously with us all beating Pompey easily twice and them having a annual battle to stay up

Depends on this season mate. If we both go up then i'd say us, if you do and we dont, then you will, we'll both get there in time though i think. The title is yours to lose as far as this season goes though, hats off to you for that one. Has your new stadium got any room for expansion? I'd have thought you'd be able to get more than 22k in the premier league.

Brighton are in a similar positon to we were at the Dell. You can only sell so many tickets and only generate so much revenue when you have such a restricted capacity. I'd expect their crowds to at least double next season and if, as seems highly likely they will be in the NPC, they'll probably get crowds of 17-18k. Fairly big city with a big catchment area and a now they have a decent side and money i wouldn't be surprised if it's not long before they make it to the Premier league.

I hope he isn't prepared for saturday!! THis is a massive game, but its much bigger for them than us, simply because they have built it up so much, lets hope for once it's the opponents that cant handle the pressure of play us.

I quite agree, dont forget the ashes as well. Trememdous bottle to win the ashes after being written off by some after the first day of the first test.

Just as well we won, everyone else did. Good result today and repairs some of the damage done tuesday night. It's all about beating Yeovil now and getting something next saturday.

if battering them is humping long balls forward then we did just that.

good lad Deano!!

it doesn't matter, Adkins only uses one sub a game anyway.

Some have still got their heads in the sand Adrian. Blindly believing "in Adkins we trust". Wallsall was the day my patience snapped with this lot. How many of this squad can look at themselves and say they have consistantly delivered at the level they are capable of? I cant think of any. Then to hear Adkins just come out and shrug his shoulders and say "it was one of those nights" Make no mistake, today is crucial, if we fail to win and Bournemouth do win, automatic promotion is out of our hands, it will be a disgrace that we are relying on a team with 1/3 of the gates a 1/10th of the budget and lost its manager a two best players this season to f*ck up in order to achieve 2nd, which at the start of the season was the minimum that was considered acceptable by many. Still some keep their head in the sand though, shrug their shoulders "we lost a game it happens" This season we have not been f*cking well good enough, too much talk, too many excuses, its about time some of you lot woke up to it.

we'd be relying on a team which gets crowds the 1/3 of ours, a budget 1/10th of ours and who have lost their manager and their two main strikers this season to f*ck up for us to stand a chance of promotion. We are 90 minutes away from being made to look total mugs.

I agree Jamie, You'd expect all the teams around us to win today, if Bournemouth win and we lose promotion is out of our hands. We cant afford to slip up again this week.

in the late 80's they tried third bottom in the league above played 3rd place team in the league below with the winners either going up or staying up. That was harsh, at least the teams finishing in the play offs in it current format have nothing to lose. A league system would be fairer with each team 3-6 playing each other home and away or once a a neutreal venue and the team finishing top goes up but the extra games would probably mean it'll never happen. I like the play offs anyway, they are exciting and mean that everyone from 5th-12th still have something to play for come the last month of the season. It's great if you win them, horrible if you lose in them, as we well know, but thats football, for every winner there is plenty of losers.

It did hurt, because it emphasised what is wrong with this team. If things dont go our way and we get an early goal and can steamroller a side we panic, resort to long balls and percentage football and lack the fight and guile to impose ourselves on teams that dont roll over for us. A poster on the UI site called us flat track bullies, which is a pretty spot on description. If anyone seriously thinks this team is living up to it's expectations and ability then they are mental. I'm getting bored and sick of the excuses, tuesday wasn't "one of those nights" when we dont get the luck, when we didn't get the early goal the same thing happened, which has happened every time this season. Up until a month or so ago i expected automatic promotion, even expected us to catch Brighton, but tuesday nights performance the reality hit home.

for all you iphone gimps....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMltvlqEM54

I'm only the messenger but it wouldn't surprise me. Given that Southend, Gilllingham and Coventry were all angry with us for our treatment of them with the bids/transfers of Barnard, Jackson and Ward. Adkins move hit a speed bump because he wouldn't resign etc. Is it just conicidence that the only moves that went through in January were loans, loans become permemnant and one permenant deal for a player S****horpe wanted out? This depsite us apparantly putting in "substancial" bids for players early in the window.

Excatly, you have certain players like Lambert, Gully & Harding who get picked week after week regardless of their performances and the likes Richardson, Dickson and Barnard who come in and have one game where they aren't good, they dont even nessasarily seem to have to play badly and you dont see them for another month. IMO Richardson and Dickson are the best in their position so should play. The defence looks much more solid with them in it.

With Richardson and Dickson the back 4 look much more solid, i'd recall them. Tomorrow i'd play 4-5-1 when defending 4-3-3 when attacking Lambert up front alone with Chaplow or Hammond breaking forward when attacking, Lallana wide left, If Gully & Chamberlain are injured N'Gessen wide right and butterfield if MS is injured as the holding midfield player. The other formation we can look at is 4-2-3-1 with Butterfield and Hammond as the 2 defensive midfielders, Lallana, Chaplow and Dickson (with Harding used at left back) or N'Gessen (assuming Chamberlain and Gully aren't fit) across the middle as attacking/breaking forward midfielders and Lambert upfront. There you go, lets try something different than 4-4-2 for once shall we, which IMO is dated formation, how many top clubs play that way these days?