Lighthouse

I should have bet on tonight, the odds were probably much better and we all knew deep down it would come to this.

I'm never bet on sports in my life, but had a quick check on Odds checker and West Ham are at 8/13 to beat Hull. I know that's not great, but as Saints fans we know it's as good as free money. An accumulator with Wham winning and Saints drawing is 7.65 The same with Coventry winning would be 16.5 I'm now trying to decide how much money I'm willing to chuck away should Saints get promoted. Anyone else having a similar dilema or am I just Gregos Traitorelli?

Nobody within 5 yards of Vaz Te for that one FFS.

Sh*te defending for all of that. Why do West Ham seem to have 2 on 1 down the left every time. Taylor is unmarked half the time.

Get in!!!

Whatever the opposite of jynxing someone is, you just did it.

10 months ago I'd have had this down as the match that would decide the title. Not expecting Leicester to get anything. Luckily I'm playing 5 a side at 9pm so I'll have a welcome distraction from the second half at the Walkers.

People come out with this bullsh*t every St George's Day, but I've never met, spoken to or even heard of anyone who is actually offended by St George's Day or 'being English'. Every year people come out with the "oooh we can't celebrate being English, we will upset some monorities," line, it's just nonesense. The only people who might be offended are a couple of angry Jock nutjobs in Glasgow and a couple of fundamentalist Islam nutjobs in Luton. That's about it.

Will try and avoid the game as much as possible. I couldn't stand yet another game of clinging to hope for 85 minutes only to see them throw it away just before the finish line.

The problem is basically that teenage girls are stupid. As long as that remains the case, Simon Cowell will always be there to make money out of them. Teenage boys are stupid too, that's why we have Nuts magazine and Blink 182.

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Without meaning to be rude, do your relatives lend any credibility to this rumour, other than the fact that they happen to live in Liverpool? It's a pretty predictable rumour and it's been posted on here before, but I can't really see much in it. Liverpool seem to go for younger player and bigger names.

Leicester have nothing to play for. West Ham will win. We should do the business against Coventry, but this is Saints. We never do things the easy way.

Just checking in with the 8am roll call, sorry I'm late. About to set off from sunny Brizzle. Can't wait!!! A 747 could not land at Southampton. Even a 737 couldn't get in there, the runway is too short (and too narrow for a 747) even if it was empty.

Having thought about it, the best last line I can come up with is: Leeeeee Barnard, his lawyer's f**king great

A few of us in the Premier Inn on Hartlepool Marina.

Gordon Bennett, you cannot be serious? I don't agree he's class for a start. I've seen him go missing against some pretty average NpC teams this season. He's getting older, he has injury problems and he's been averaging about 5 goals a season for several years now? How on Earth do you see a place for him in the squad along with Lambert, Sharp, Lee, Guly and a probable new signing. You want 6 strikers on the books when we can only have 2 on the pitch at any given time, why? Disagree about Guly too, why do people think a player who often struggles in NpC is suddenly going to be good in the Premier League? He wont have more space, that's just nonesense. If he struggled to make inroads into defences like Pompey's this year, how is he going to stand up against Terry, Kompany and Vidic? I'm pretty sure he will stay, but I don't agree with it.

He stands just over 5ft 10 Barnard, Barnard He'll take us to the top again Barnard, Barnard He strikes the ball with lots of pace He'll smash a bottle round your face* ... I'm stuck on the last line. *Legal disclaimer: There is no evidence to suggest Barnard will smash a bottle round your face, but he might if you really annoy him.

Players I'd try and get rid of: Jaidi, Connolly, Seaborne, Holmes, Dickson, Harding, Butters, Forecast, Forte and Guly. I anticipate cries of outrage from some at the last some, but he divides attention at best in this League. We have Lambert, Sharp, Lee and hopefully one more decent striker. There's no point in having Guly too. I'd loan out Bart and Barnard to the Championship to see if they have what it takes, as I'm undecided on both at the moment.

Without wanting to count any chickens, we're not there yet. etc. etc... ... but IF we do get promoted, Nico Kranjcar would get a vote from me.

A Boro fan on that board pointed out that we would (apparently) be the first team to do the double over Boro IF we were to win. We've got quite a few doubles this season. Foxes and Bristol are the only 2 against (and looking at the bottom of the league, the latter is really quite funny). So far we've done the double over Posh, Leeds, Barnsley, Palace, Hull, Millwall, Watford, Forest and could still do the double over Boro and Coventry. That could potentially be 10 teams we've beaten home and away this year. Even Man Utd can't boast that most seasons.

Harry Kane at Millwall has been pretty decent this season. On loan from Spuds, so I'm not sure if they'd let him go, or if he'd come here. Probably not the right signing for us though, he's only 18 and not ready for Prem football. Good prospect for the future though.

Am I alone in thinking Barnard looks a lot like Sam Eagle?

Aside from the players already mentioned, Adomah for Bristol City looks handy. If I had to pick 3 though; Phillips, Clyne and Tomkins probably.

Okay... 1. There aren't "moaning bastards" 90% of the time it's just people expressing an opinion. 2. The fact that so many people share the same opinion would suggest it has some legs. 3. Scoring the winner would be great, but it wouldn't undo his poor performances in the past. 4. This is the best time to be a Saints fan in a decade and you chose to have a dig at other fans... and you call them moaning bastards.