Saint86

Absolutely a must win game, and to be blunt, we need to be ruthless if we can be. They're newly relegated, which will have a weird effect on them and their pride has been badly stung, so we need to be ready for a reaction... but we simply have to go for it. Edit - i do fear that the recent relegation at their bitter rivals (and the shame of being relegated in Feb) will make this a harder game than we'd like.

He was very good this evening, absolutely deserved his goal, did loads of work which pinned the defenders and created space for azaz and sceinza behind, and was ready for square pass tap ins on at least 2 occasions.

More likely that our game away at Wrexham will be critical. But yes, not ideal, equally though, they'll all have dropped points at some point... end of the day, we've just got to get more points than they do... and that means that the Charlton result really was a dropped bollock when you consider we have much tougher games vs Ipswich and Norwich at home, and Coventry away - all in the not too distance future. We cannot afford to drop any points vs the likes of Wednesday or WBA.

Fantastic result, and fair play to Eckert for going 4-2-2 and pushing for more at the end. Shame about the other results and Charlton on the weekend, but keep going over the next few matches and its on...

If i were QPR (🤣), i would not want fellows and edozie coming on. Christ. With Stewart and archer as an attacking 2....

Results not gone our way at all tonight sadly. Shame about that Charlton cock up on the weekend.

Archer kills an attack with an overhit hopeful through ball... I badly want him to get some confidence... but he's got to be better than this.

Classic RB worldie. Its one of those nights 🤣

May not have been rewarded by a goal, but really good game by Larin tonight.

There are a lot of tired legs on this pitch already. QPR have put a lot of work in with their pressing, tracking, and direct attacks/runs. With their injuries, you'd like to think that will favour us with more mistakes creeping in. Also, wasn't Larin meant to have an awful touch (according to youtube)? 😅

On topic - i would have said Lyon (before the recent troubles), Lisbon / cascais, Porto, Valencia, Seville, and i really enjoyed Madrid and Budapest (history/spas/ruin bars all great) recently - all great choices tbh. Depends what you're after really, and how mobile you are / you're comfortable being.

Wrong thread!

The QPR gameplan can be summed up by... target manning... Most of their attacks are aimed down his side, often direct/long balls, and also targetting the space in between him and the CB. Jander having to do a lot of covering across.

People seem oblivious as to how precarious the current position is imo. Its like society is under a constant misinformation war these days - or at least online. With the current rate of AI advances alone, it could be anywhere between another few months and maybe 2 years before the overwhelming majority of the population will be unable to tell if the videos we're all watching are genuine or not. The way its being used is already akin to Psychological warfare doctrines, i.e., using misinformation to polarise a population along easy dividing lines (race, religion, political ideologies) to essentially drive people apart and make compromise/harmony nearly impossible to achieve. As well as targeting erosion of civil intuitions - MSM, elections/politics, free press, free speech, the police/law etc. And its just building on measures that were being operated before AI - like BLM and Covid - setting people against each other and spreading division and misinformation. Are we blindly and randomly doing it to ourselves as some randomised collective? Where does it end up if we don't get a handle on it? And can we even get a handle on it at this point? Not like we can turn off the internet or opt out of AI.

Hull are in free fall, so it isn't just Wrexham we're chasing. Has the feel of our first season in League 1 to me though. Just have to keep going and win our own games. The teams above us are having wobbles - so win our games and we'll get into it.

Azaz's finishing leaves a lot to be desired.

Suspect they've cottoned on to that one.

2 wins from 2....

If you were Ross Stewart, with his past few years of injuries, would you risk yourself at the tail end of the season with no contract on the table? What probability would you put on him picking up yet another injury that keeps him out long term, risking him not getting a contract offer over the summer and leaving him without any income / with reduced income? Obviously its a complete unknown - but i wouldn't put money any meaningful money on him not getting injured before the summer. If saints want to keep him going with good form and full commitment for the promotion chase, they need to give him an extension for at least another year - otherwise they're asking him to risk his livelihood to potentially get us promoted and not even have a contract for next season to enjoy the spoils. If we don't, its probably worth more to him to take it easy and show he can stay fit, than it is to break himself chasing a few goals - his next contract will be tied to whether clubs think he can stay fit at least as much as it will his goalscoring prowess - everyone knows he's a good striker for this level.

Refreshing for Saints to be back to giving youngsters a chance though. I would say that is pretty fundamental to the club's identity.

We've replaced most of the team in fairness - the only important assets not on long term contracts are THB, Downes, and Charles. And if we dont get promoted they'll likely be sold for as much as possible.

Honestly think Eckert didn't want to win the game.

Despite being in the league for less matches, and despite having a smaller stadium for much of that, we have 38Million cumulative home ticket sales, vs 36million for portsmouth.

Steam now well dead... hope we see this out!!

And WBA, and Blackburn... Preference would always be Portsmouth. Leicester really could go bust if they go down and i wouldn't wish that on them tbh.