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Going to take more than a terrible 0-0 at Moly to get Brighton above us. Newcastle is their easiest remaining fixture and probably our hardest.

Except Brighton forgot to try the second part. Sounds more like they just want to stay in it and see what happens. Really putting a lot of eggs in that Newcastle basket.

Proper injured for Brighton, they sounds absolutely hopeless according to Tiss.

And Fulham.

I get why they sacked him and why a company wouldn’t want to be associated with his comments, that’s just basic PR. I just don’t think LGBT groups know why they are actually offended. If you believe it then you are going to Hell. If you don’t believe it then it’s meaningless, so how can it be offensive? He might as well have said Zaarg the giant, mutant, marmalade bat will swoop down from the planet Wibble and eat your soul.

I'm not sure I fully understand the logic behind the outrage there. If you're gay and not a Christian, then why does it matter if someone says you're going to Hell? It's meaningless, like giving me a two year ban from attending Pompey games. If you are gay and a Christian, then you've presumably read the bible and all that stuff about lying with another man being an abomination etc. In which case, either Folau is correct or you're a hypocrite and just choosing the bits of the bible which suit your lifestyle.

Just for giggles, let's have a guess at how the season will end. Saints - 42 points - 15th Relegated - Cardiff - 35 points Champions - Liverpool Other two CL spots - Arsenal and Utd Promoted - Norwich and Leeds Playoff winner - West Brom FA Cup - Man City Champions League Final - Barcelona beat Spurs Pompey - Lose playoff final Eurovision - Slovakia

Was at a mates house watching it; On about the forth time he said it we all shouted in unison, "it's not his f**king knee!" I'm used to pundits who apparently know sod all about the game but this guy hasn't even heard basic nursery rhymes. What a game though and a good advert for VAR overall. I don't care if they were all stood their for a minute, the right team went through in the end.

I'm sure he will. I'm just questioning why some people seem so confident he will suddenly improve based on little more than what Redmond has achieved.

Hoedt, Austin, Gabbiadini, Stephens, Cedric?

Being massively generous to Cardiff, let’s suppose they beat Palace and Fulham and we choke at home to Huddersfield (draw). That puts us level but ahead on GD. Cardiff aren’t getting a point of Liverpool, they just aren’t. That leaves Cardiff needing more points from one visit to Old Trafford than we get against West Ham, Bournemouth, Newcastle and Watford combined.

Well, whatever you call his little turns and shimmies to create a yard of space to blindly charge into. He can't be all that amazing because he's spent most of the season in and out of the team, either on the bench or being subbed off when they can't score. Anyway, whilst I finish my dinner check out this video from some other bloke we're going to sign in summer. I can't wait!

How does paying off his contract up front cut our losses? At least if we keep him and loan him out, somebody else can pay half. Better yet, sell him and subsidise his wages.

Put it this way, Cardiff had 4 ‘winnable’ games. They’ve used up half of them and are no closer to us than they were before the weekend. We’ve even improved our advantage in GD.

One of Brighton or Cardiff will still be down there. Bournemouth could struggle when the vultures come circling for King, Wilson and Fraser. Rafa could leave Newcastle and leave them in a mess. The promoted sides are always a lottery and then there’s the enigma of Palace.

Not quite Taibi but...

I wouldn't want to tempt fate by hoping for Cardiff to win but I can't see them getting to where we are now, let alone 39/40 points. Winning tonight and against Palace and Fulham would only put them on 37. For us to need 4 points, they would have to win those 3 and beat Liverpool or Man Utd.

No, I see him getting a couple of yards on his man with some fancy tricks and a decent burst of acceleration. After that it's head down and charge until a defender catches up and gets a tackle in or he hits a poor cross at nobody in particular.

Didn’t see anything exciting in that lot, just a whole bunch of dribbles that ended up being either tackled, blocked or just a wayward shot or pass.

Pictures from French firemen on twitter would suggest that window has survived.

It's got nothing to do with being a 'Ralph player' or his attitude. He just isn't a good footballer. Carrillo will not be playing for us next season.

I'm going to call it now - Cardiff lose the next two, we draw at Newcastle on Saturday and are mathematically safe, bar a 25 goal swing in the last 3 games.

My first away game. The area around GP is er... cultural but it's a proper good old fashioned, tin lid ground.

That's a bit of a false comparison as up until none of those three players has been good enough. We needed to spend that money and strengthen in those positions, we just signed the wrong players. He's been decent in the last 2 goals but by the same yardstick Shane Long is a goal machine. Let's hope he can learn some composure and push on from here, before we start talking about him being the solution to our problems.

I do listen and I don't doubt the credibility of any of those reports you listed. I'm not bringing Smollett into this, if Hypo wants to debate that topic I'll leave it to you two. In reply to your other post, that doesn't necessarily make him a NA/BNP supporter. My opinions are based on maths more than anything. If there is someone shouting foul racist abuse in literally every block in St Mary's, that's still only 40 odd out of 32,000 or just over 0.1% of the crowd. If 99.9% of a crowd is absolutely fine, that's not indicative of a problem with racism in football, in England at least. Other countries are a different matter. As a football fan I object to being constantly smeared with this brush by the media when in reality we are no worse than any other segment of society. I could take a group of young black men to Newark Antiques Fayre and there would be people muttering, "quick, hide your money tins with that lot around." It's never going to completely go away. I don't doubt any of the media stories you've shared, I'm just saying there is a threshold of unpleasantness you just have to live with.