Jimmy_D

Two results outside our control needed now, with the added bonus that goal difference is now irrelevant as long as we keep our results going and those two results we need come in.

Goal difference advantage isn’t that big for Ipswich, Boro win puts 3rd firmly in our own hands, especially if we beat Ipswich by two for a four goal swing.

We’d still need them to drop more points aside from losing to us, but it does take goal difference out of the equation if they do drop those points.

I still think about that shot Pires cleared off the line to save Arsenal from facing extra time against us in the FA Cup final. Feels like the current team has a similar attitude of knowing they can squeeze teams right to the end of games, although that’s a little more down to squad depth now than it was then.

YES!

GERRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!

Last time I saw a set of results like ours was when I got fed up with a football manager save and made a copy to save scum with

Down to two results outside of our control needed to have automatic promotion in our own hands. Any Millwall dropped points 6 goals to make up on Ipswich now. They have to lose one for us to have a chance, that’s one of those six, beat Ipswich, that’s at least two of them, leaves only three to make up over Ipswich in every other game (plus any extra goals against Ipswich effectively count double in making up those six)

Indeed. Meanwhile, Ukraine have flipped the calculation on defending drone attacks, their interceptor drones are cheaper than the drones they're destroying now, and being produced quicker than Russia can produce them, especially with Iran otherwise distracted. They're also able to launch low cost attacks, some of them with jointly developed British-Ukrainian drones. Normally the high oil price would be invaluable to Russia, but Ukraine have been able to hammer their oil infrastructure so much that even with the high price, their oil industry is operating at a loss, not to mention the unsustainable cost of their ongoing war. With Putin (and Trump) losing Orban's leverage over EU aid to Ukraine, it's not an insignificant development.

Not quite, need at least two others (three if we can’t make up the goal difference) as they have a game in hand.

Up to fourth being in our own hands at things stand! Just three results needed outside our control to have an outside chance of automatics, albeit two needed from Ipswich. Unlikely, but nonetheless, huge stride taken towards the playoffs today!

Still only 5th that’s in our own hands, but down to 4 results outside our control needed to have 2nd in our own hands (if we put a few Wrexham type results together to overhaul Ipswich’s goal difference).

Have to admit I didn't rate it massively highly at the time, but the January transfer window is starting to turn out to be one of the most successful I can remember for Saints.

Score reflected the match in the end, the ref was the main factor in it looking even remotely close.

Oh that's a fantastic goal!

What cesspit did they drag these commentators out of?

This ref is an absolute ***ing joke.

Football. Bloody hell.

For me it’s close between Shea’s today and Martina’s against Arsenal for goals I’ve seen with my own eyes.

Xg just tells you how good each teams chances were. You can look at it and say that QPR were either extremely clinical or lucky with their chances, and Pompey were either a little wasteful or unlucky with theirs in an otherwise fairly even match, so it’s a bit of a freak scoreline.

What an absolute Worldie of a goal!!! Looked like he’d stolen Le Tiss’ boots there! Decent set of results today, opens up the door to autos just a sliver, but more realistically gives us some more teams in the picture to get above if they have a bad run for us to stay in the autos.

Amazing result. Next job to see if Tonda can stop us taking our foot off the gas just that couple of percent now we’ve got ourselves into the playoff spots. Wrexham could go either way now they’ve been knocked down as well, that won’t be easy for them to deal with.

Over to us

Gerrin! What a win!

We’re literally top since he’s taken charge, and that’s with a team that had literally one win at St Mary’s in over a year, morale buried under the pitch, digging it out to get them playing well again when he came in. And then when teams started figuring out his initial tactics for a while, he adapted to that too, and hasn’t lost since he did. No team plays at the top of their game every week. I’m personally starting to think that he’s more likely to be poached than sacked.