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Lets just hope and pray they don't give a shi*t. Before today I figured that if we beat Pompey, drew with Palace and drew with Reading we could go into the final three with a 2 point lead over West Ham, meaning that we'd need to beat Posh and draw with Boro to safely make it to the final day in our own hands. (This is assuming West Ham win all their games). Well, guess we're behind that schedule already, so we need to beat Palace straight away to get back on track.

Today summed up just how important Morgan is for us. Without him in our midfield to receive the ball from our defenders all we did was hoof it up to Lambert, as neither Fonte nor Hooiveld were happy giving it to Hammond.

Come on guys, literally no-one cares about winning the bloody thing. It isn't a trophy. The Premiership, FA Cup and League Cup are the three trophies to be won each year. Lets all get behind Barnsley and then Saints!

He's too slow. Don't make the same mistake Derby did by just buying big bully type centre-halves. We've already got two of them. What we need is a younger, faster, ball-playing athlete of a defender - Curtis Davies maybe? Someone in the Rio Ferdinand mould (although obviously not necessarily as good as that). But yeah. Whilst Jose and Jos can both deal with c/ship thugs up front easily enough I wouldn't like watching Hernandez/Nani/Bale/Lennon or whoever running at them with pace.

Nonsense. There is no way to beat Blackjack long term. Perfect Blackjack strategy will reduce the dealer's edge to about 2% so you'll win more than most Casino games and keep yourself going throughout the comped drinks and whatnot but believe me when I say that Blackjack is not beatable. I could spew a load of stuff about how I know several professional gamblers (most being Poker players) and am well-researched on the subject of odds and gambling but if anyones in doubt just use common sense. Do you REALLY think that a Casino would offer a game in which the house had a losing edge?/Do you really think that if Blackjack were beatable that the vast majority of people wouldn't find the strategy and have no difficulty applying it? Using correct card-counting with a one-deck table it is possible for the player to have a +ev of about 0.2%. But no casino online or live does that. They use an 8-deck shoe precisely to prevent that. Besides which even then you'd make literally £2 on average for every £1000 bet. Thing is, obviously the whole thing with gambling from the point of view of the casino is that whilst the house always wins, that doesn't mean EVERY gambler HAS to lose, so naturally there are loads of people ready to pop up with cute little stories about how they finished £200 up for the night that one time. Whilst yes there are few ways of making a quick buck, there are also scams and things which seem too good to be true because, quite simply, they are.

Guly suffers from Kenwyne Jones syndrome, in that he has a naturally languid lolloping stride and so looks a lot lazier than he is. David Connolly on the other hand because he's 5'6 tends to scuttle around and look useful no matter what

Utterly ruined by spastics in our fanbase singing "pay up Pompey". Ruined.

Darrrgh thats no good, those are just harmless women and children that look like the crowd at a pantomime. I remember seeing a fairly large collection of pictures and videos of their proper inbred wannabe thugs in utter delight at our relegation. The kind of pictures that I can only look at with any triumphant satisfaction when we're in the Prem and they're totally f*cked in League 1 where they belong. If anything, I'd put them up all over our changing room walls before the game. All over the place. As long as our players know what this Derby means, then thats the teamtalk done.

Can someone put the pics up of them celebrating when we were relegated? Y'know how every now and then you just need something to fire you up and get the blood flowing? Those really do the trick of eliminating any modicum of sympathy I have for them when they go further into administration

What is Lambert injured WITH?

Anyone got a stream to Soccer Saturday?

Does the OP have any credibility at all?

You get what i mean! I think we'll have to score at least 2 to beat them.

Agreed. Although if Lambert is off the pitch for whatever reason then letting Jose have it is perfectly fine as for all we and they know he's our 2nd penalty taker anyway. Its kind of a curious thing that we've never actually had a penalty to be taken when Lambert happened to have been subbed or injured for whatever reason actually...

27 21-Jan-12 H Crystal Palace W 2-1 (0-1) Grandin 85; Basham 90 28 31-Jan-12 H Coventry City W 2-1 (0-0) K Phillips 87; Taylor-Fletcher 90 33 25-Feb-12 A Bristol City W 3-1 (0-1) Ince 55, 84; K Phillips 87 I think I've found their biggest strength/danger/threat to us right here. Those are three of their most recent games in which they've scored late goals, but if you look back over the season there's a lot more and it seems to be something of a specialty for them. To be a goal down with five minutes to go and WIN in two consecutive games shows a serious capability. We can't just defend our lead. We've got to outscore them and seriously keep going for 90 minutes.

Nicola Cortese is the perfect businessman. Stubborn. Determined and stands by what he knows to be the right way to go despite the fact that a lot of people might disagree with him, but in a good way. I remember when we lost at home to Rochdale 0-2 and people were chanting "Cortese out" and "There's only one Alan Pardew". Did this bother Cortese? Not at all, his decision would be vindicated very soon as he brought in Nigel Adkins and took us to where we are today, as well as where we'll be next year.

(to the tune of knees up mother brown) Back where they belong, back where they belong Saints and Pompey Saints and Pompey back where they belong! Que sera sera, whatever will be will be - you're going to Shrewsbury

Put it this way, there will be at least one round of fixtures where things get worse for us; i.e we drop points and the teams below us catch up. This shouldn't however be a massive problem. The gap between us and 3rd is 6 points (assuming WHam win tomorrow). As long as the gap is at least 0 points with us having a superior GD going into the final game of the season vs the worst team in the division and we'll be fine. So, that gives us 6 games and 6 points. We can afford to have 3rd catch up on us a point per game.

Diouf is an attention-seeker. He wants to, and thinks he ought to be, the star of the show. He's one of those players who you actually wonder if they're particularly disappointed or unhappy when they get red-carded since even thought they've dropped their team right in the mire they'll at least make tomorrow's back page and be the focus of attention. Just look at the number of points QPR have dropped (some from winning positions) thanks to having a man sent off. Norwich at home for example. No thank you.

As long as we maintain a 2 point lead (or even if the lead drops to 0 points) by the final game of the season vs. Coventry we'll be fine.

You're delusional. It isn't a trophy. It isn't glory. Its nothing. Didn't you cringe and laugh at the Brighton fans singing "champione" when they won eh-hem. The third tier league? Or when Gus Poyet said When people look back in ten years who won the league, it was Brighton...playing football. In which position would you rather be in? Swansea/Norwich's or QPR's? Seriously who the hell cares about 1st or 2nd. ALL will be forgotten come August.

This. Here's the deal. NO-ONE CARES WHO "WINS" THE CHAMPIONSHIP ...and nor should we. 1st and 2nd are completely equal. The only value in being 1st is an instrumental one in being able to be overtaken by one team and still go up. I see no reason why we can't be pushing for Europe in 5 years and the champions league in 10. (Got an Italian mate who's a Napoli fan (a big club who went down to the third tier as well) Why the hell CAN'T we reach that level? Why the hell can't we build a fanbase that fills out an expanded 50,000 St. Mary's!? Its not a question of where we want to be. Its who we want to be. Everything we do from now on is a slow and steady climb upwards towards expansion as a football club and as a major force in English football, we're owned by billionaires ffs! Anyhoo. I genuinely believe thats all perfectly possible and if I thought mid-table in the Premiership wasn't just a stepping stone but actually a glass ceiling we couldn't penetrate I'd probably cling to the dubious honour of "Championship champions". But F'ck it. Who gives a sh't. Lets just get out of this league and back where we belong. 1st or 2nd or 5th and winning the play-offs is the same damn thing.

Cheers Burnley *rolleyes*

Its a simple battle against complacency really. Like a lot of our recent home games we simply need to score first and we should be fine. Kind of a horrible fixture though, purely because anything less than a win would be catastrophically awful (in a vacuum I mean - even if we did fail to win I'd still think we're going up). But yeah. Its a bit of a landmine... SCORE FIRST SAINTS! Score first and the Donny players'll want to be on the coach so they can focus on their winnable fixtures at home. They won't expect a win and nor will they be relying on one, but the fact that the pressures off may well not help our cause.

Its neither. Its just another win and we'll still need a good few more if we're to garuntee automatic promotion let alone be champions.