Dark Munster

If they don't go up this season I reckon they'll plummet down faster than a lift whose cable has snapped.

They are living a charmed life. Injustices Tart and Mann, favours from both the PL and FL, the bumbling incompetent HMRC, getting away with blatant cheating left, right and centre, etc. Even this season with their "paper thin" squad they've had remarkably few serious injuries. One could almost believe they've had a pact with the devil, except that it's hard to believe the devil would stoop so low as to do business with the cheating, lying bastards.

Ah yes, but if we lose our Russian roulette it would only be a temporary and annoying interruption in our rise to where we belong (in the league where we spent 27 continuous years, without cheating to stay there). The Russian roulette for your lot, if you're lucky enough to get to that point, will be with a gun having 4 bullet chambers, 3 of them filled. Brown pants time for the few. It's the hope that kills you.

If Davis gets injured .......

Well, well, well. 5 wins on the trot. The few's hopes must be raised now. How many more before Corpse Whore comes back here to start gloating? Can their "paper thin" squad achieve the impossible and make the playoffs, giving them a 1/4 shot of postponing, for a season, being dismantled and shut down? The excitement mounts.

I'll settle for a draw at this stage.

Saints will score in the next 5 minutes.

Tonight has 0-0 written all over it?

Saints v. Leeds: One win each against each other last season, with Leeds only finishing 3 points above Saints (if you exclude the 10 points deducted).

I've corrected Lumpitt's answer.

Chinny only bankrolled them this season because he was gambling on going up. With that plan all but dead, I doubt he'll do anything more than keep them on life support until he has sucked every last penny possible out of the rotten corpse. And Cotterill's bleatings about a "paper thin" squad is unlikely to change his mind: that was obvious during the last window. Of course with 4 wins on the trot there is still a glimmer of hope for the few, but that will only make it more painful if they come close at the end of the season, close but no cigar (and if so, Chinny will be kicking himself for throwing in the towel too soon. )

Don't forget the icing on the cake: Tal Ben Haim.

Oh dear, Mack seems oblivious to the fact that if Cheats FC don't go up this year then Chinny is most likely to pull the plug. But as they say, ignorance is bliss.

He's baaaaack. Take cover Skates!

Bart could be one of our most effective goalies, but spends too much time in the treatment room.

Yes indeed, they actually believe the bollocks spewed by Lampitt and that the club is now running at a profit. Well I suppose that is technically possible for a while if they can continue to sell payers for a few million, not pay the wages of those they can't flog, and continue to rely on the parachute payments. A very sustainable business model, that.

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Assuming Cheats FC even exist by then!

There's only one thing worse as a fan than your team being unable to get close to promotion, knowing that going up was the only hope of avoiding being closed down completely: it's when your team starts moving up the table, giving you a glimmer of hope of salvation, but just failing at the end, resulting in the death of the club. It's the hope that kills you. In a way you have to feel sorry for the few. Not.

No, no, no. We're just getting warmed up.

You finished above Netley Central? I'm impressed.

Le Tiss-esque! Boyer was a hell of a player.

You spelt "bloody hilarious" and "does" wrongly.

Well at least their squad has improved from "paper thin" to "threadbare". That at least gives them a glimmer of hope to make the playoffs and avoid obliteration.