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this is not the club it used to be. No grafters, no hard men ,no raw talent or leadership to get us out of this situation. When in "survival" mode we nearly always were just keeping our heads above the drop zone... we dont have any of these qualities or circumstances,, we are down and showing no signs of improvement. The worst part is that next year we could be going through this all over again!!!

Huge weekend despite NOT playing .... Doncaster must lose to whittle away those games in hand. A Donny win and we are 6 pts off them and still a game behind. I really believe Doncaster are our only hope for survival now. Yes I know about watford (going down) and barnsley immediately nearby BUT this Doncaster match IS the BIG one.

There comes a time when you put kids under so much stress that they freeze and ger frightened... saints are there for the taking from all comers now!!! expect administration soon as proof/realisation of this!!!

ty sarky chops of course this post was totally and wholly from a saints perspective frankly i dont give a 4 X about either of the other 2 teams in the bottom 3, but to clarify....all of the bottom 3 are in such a state that the CURRENT maths suggests we are all stranded...both Charlton & watfords only glimmer of hope is that that both have to play Saints so both are guaranteed at least 3 points.. beyond that... all 3 DOOOMED....ya hear me DOOOMED!!!

Corky gets my vote!!! Poll please mods!!!

Dave I hope you are still online I feel exactly tthe same... to know that what HAS happened will be as good as it is ever going to get depressing.

lose to watford and we are then 5 points adrift of THIRD from bottom and they still would have a game in hand on us and of course goals scored by watford against us are literally double value!!!

18 Norwich 31 -7 32 19 Derby 29 -11 32 20 Barnsley 30 -12 32 21 Doncaster 29 -12 31 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22 Watford 30 -11 30 23 Southampton 31 -19 28 24 Charlton 31 22 Doncaster, Barnsley, Derby, Norwich, Forest.... all safe now this will be the bottom 3!! And all were prem teams in the last 6 years!!!!!

but in those days we had a) MLT b) The Dell

Watford next game the death knoll?

wrong anagram!!! but only just

so close... its an anagram of this.... 12,393

er wasnt this game scheduled when the fixtures were published in the summer? We cant decide to play it just because its cold and the ref certainly isnt going to call it off because Saints fans dont fancy it... so overall we have to take the rough with the smooth... sorry

A league 1 manager for a league 1 team ... makes sense!

sort of sums it up dontcha think?

.. the eve of game 30.. No matter the result tomorrow even if they all go in saints favour AND we win at home. Saints will still be in the bottom 3!!!

I cannot think of a time when he has been of any particular use to us... Skacel that is

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I cannot believe that so many people still believe we will survive this mess bith financially and in football terms. I am no pessimist, we are wrecked and the only reason we have NOT gone into administration so far is because Lowe has been hoping for a 10point barrier to lessen the blow of points deduction. He now knows its gone and with it our chances of staying up. His final mistake will be to leave it until next season, by which we will have the points deducted in a lower league!!!!!! a & b inevitable QED

short answer to thread question.... NO

Given the events of the last few weeks/months/years at saints I believe that a) relegation b) administration are both inevitable (But not necessarily in that order) Changing manager or indeed board will not change that this year. Sorry and obviously IMHO.

i understand BUT as i have said in another thread we wont get another manager and lets face it we cant afford the calibre that would help us... so for the sake of another upheaval lets just leave it all to bottom out... sadly and i cant believe iam saying this... the obvious conclusion is now INEVITABLE

we cant beat doncaster we cant beat forest both at home!!!! look at the next set of fixtures... any gleam of hope? Confidence sky high....? I didnt think so...

yes thats because they had the great fortune to play us!!!

28 games played 9 games left at home 9 games to be played away the trend suggests we will do better away than at home ... so away results 3 draws 1 win 6pts home results 3 draws 1 win 6pts total points at end of season 38pts