Lighthouse

I seem to remember a fair few people when we were relegated actually looking forward to the experience of a season in the Championship. Loads of decent new grounds, cheaper tickets, winning loads of games and coming straight back up with half a team of academy products, like Cranie, Mills, Bale, Walcott, Dyer and Surman. Killer was going to get fit, Pahars was going to be the Championship's top scorer... yeah Having said all that, they did it right and came straight back up last time. Just depends whether they do a Burnley or a Wigan.

Are you new to Saints?

I never said it wasn't. Just that there IS a difference between a Liverpool draw and loss tonight, in terms of the implications for Sunday.

Actually, without the equaliser a draw would have kept us above them, unless they win by 3 goals at WBA. Would have been a handy option to fall back on, should we draw with Palace.

Show some respect, this is the last time the West Ham team bus will ever depart from the Boleyn ground.

Surely they will rest players at Stoke on Sunday?! They're 8th, knowing even a win could be meaningless, meanwhile a win 3 days later would guarantee them Champions League football.

FFS really?!

A Utd loss is as important as a West Ham draw/loss. Just a lot less likely.

No. Assuming we did our bit and beat Palace, we would need one of either: Bompey win at OT on the last day (at which point the FA Cup final becomes irrelevant) Utd win the FA Cup West Ham draw or lose their last game.

Okay.... 5th - Europa League 6th - Europa League 7th - Europa League IF Utd win the Cup Finish below West Ham AND Liverpool - No combination of results will get us into Europe Europa League final has zero baring of Saints, regardless of any league outcome. That's about as simple as I can put it.

Everyone is on fire against Everton, they're sh*te.

Wait hang on... If we finish 7th and Liverpool 8th, we still miss out if Palace win the Cup don't we?

I highly doubt it. Probably something meaningless like a £25,000 fine.

Everyone knows this already but Utd losing at home to Bompey? Come on, really? Bournemouth have been sh*te since they achieved relative safety a few games ago. They've lost 5 of their last 7 and the only team they beat was Villa. Just. If they win at OT I will have sex with Vanessa Feltz.

Would mean we finish behind West Ham and Liverpool, which means no Europe regardless of where Utd come. Basically it is marginally better than us just finishing 8th.

You just know Utd will batter Bournemouth next weekend, then be absolutely sh*te in the Cup final.

No, I think I've lowered myself enough for one week.

I'm not sure about this whole supporting Man Utd lark. I feel like one of those weird gimpy men who pay dominatrices to chain them up and spank them. Yeah, it kind of feels good but it's so degrading and humiliating.

Didn't Stek make a pretty good save against Vitesse at St Mary's? I know, ONE save etc. but he's got it in his locker somewhere. I'd be happy enough with him as #2 'keeper next year. Certainly an improvement on anything I've seen from Kelvin or Gazza. Having said that, he's obviously not long term competition to Fraser, so it would be good to find someone who is.

The best single result (other than us beating Palace of course) would be Chelsea to absolutely batter Liverpool. We're 2 points and 2 goals ahead in the table. If their GD took a real hit tomorrow, a draw against Palace would probably be enough, unless 'pool absolutely spank WBA. Unlikely given how sturdy Pulis puts out his teams.

Please elaborate.

I get that he is being sarcastic I'm just not entirely sure what point he is trying to make. I think he's suggesting that the media think the success of Saints and Leicester is down to luck and is sarcastically mocking this suggestion, unless I have misunderstood.

Absolute nonsense, there's nothing the media love more than a decent underdog story. Find one credible media source which claims the achievements of Saints or Leicester have been down to luck.

You're right. For some reason I was thinking Martial scored first.

I wouldn't be too desperate, you're fairly safe on this one.