Sheff Weds vs Saints - Feb 28th - 15:00

[SuperSAINT]

Must win (again)

[AlexLaw76]

Be criminal if we don't win this.

[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.

Edited 11 hours ago by Saint86

[Sheaf Saint]

Aiming to do the Steel City quadruple with a win here. 

I'm wondering how their now confirmed relegation will affect them mentally. Sometimes in that situation, when the pressure is suddenly off, teams can spring a surprise on you (I'm thinking of that time we went and lost 6-2 to Derby after they had been relegated). But I don't think there ever was any pressure on Wednesday because they've surely known since the moment they got their points deduction that they were never gonna stay up.

On paper it should be an easy win. But I've been watching Saints for far too long to take anything like that for granted.

Edited 11 hours ago by Sheaf Saint

[Harry_SFC]

They are absolutely crap. Lost their two best players in January as well (amazingly Jan Valery was one of them, which says it all). Should be a comfortable win. 

Peretz, Bree, THB, Stephens, Manning, Charles, Downes, Matsuki, Azaz, Scienza, Larin/Stewart. 

[tdmickey3]

14 minutes ago, Harry_SFC said:

They are absolutely crap. Lost their two best players in January as well (amazingly Jan Valery was one of them, which says it all). Should be a comfortable win. 

Peretz, Bree, THB, Stephens, Manning, Charles, Downes, Matsuki, Azaz, Scienza, Larin/Stewart. 

Must win,should win

[SNSUN]

If our second string can beat a strong Leicester side in the cup, it can definitely beat Wednesday. I'm not saying play the second team but if two or three changes were made by Tonda, it shouldn't affect our chances of beating them. 

This should be 3 more points. 

[Patches O Houlihan]

5 minutes ago, SNSUN said:

If our second string can beat a strong Leicester side in the cup, it can definitely beat Wednesday. I'm not saying play the second team but if two or three changes were made by Tonda, it shouldn't affect our chances of beating them. 

This should be 3 more points. 

I agree. Whilst it was frustrating to watch Tonda keep taking off our best player after 60 mins in mid winter we are now in a position where we have almost the whole squad available, when most of the league are walking wounded.

I would be happy to start with Charles and Bragg in midfield for example. Maybe Edozie and Matsuki too. But continue to bring on the rested players for 10-25 mins to keep them involved and up to speed.

[Football Special]

I certainly don't think we can be complacent, Millwall only won there 2-1, Wrexham beat them 1-0, they will battle hard and make us earn the points. 

Hopefully the Sheffield derby has drained them and a tough trip to Norwich tomorrow night should make recovery tough for their small squad. 

[Football Special]

Fair play to them for giving us £20 tickets, over 3000 sold currently and more still on sale, should be a good following up there 

[die Mannyschaft]

I'll be up in Sheffield for the second time and I'll settle for any win.

Last time I was there it was FA cup QF Sheffield Wednesday v Saints, 20 March 1984 0-0. 40,000 crowd and loads of Saints went up, won replay at Dell 5-1. 

[Micky]

Eric Ramsay sacked by West Brom, they might get some 'new man bounce' by the time we get to them. 

[kwsaint]

One of the closest games for me. Going with the father in law who is a Wednesday fan so should be fun!

[Dr Who?]

9 hours ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Aiming to do the Steel City quadruple with a win here. 

I'm wondering how their now confirmed relegation will affect them mentally. Sometimes in that situation, when the pressure is suddenly off, teams can spring a surprise on you (I'm thinking of that time we went and lost 6-2 to Derby after they had been relegated). But I don't think there ever was any pressure on Wednesday because they've surely known since the moment they got their points deduction that they were never gonna stay up.

On paper it should be an easy win. But I've been watching Saints for far too long to take anything like that for granted.

I don’t think there has been any expectation on them for a while. They put their all into winning the Steel derby, but fell short, as this would have been very small consolation for what has been a horror of a season. They have slightly settled down and improved over the last few weeks, and by this I mean they have scored. If we do not win this it will be criminal. But nothing surprised me when I go to football. I have managed to see Cambridge lose their only game in 20 against few weeks ago away at Harrogate who were bottom and not won in 10 games at home… yep Harrogate won! 

[Dr Who?]

7 hours ago, die Mannyschaft said:

I'll be up in Sheffield for the second time and I'll settle for any win.

Last time I was there it was FA cup QF Sheffield Wednesday v Saints, 20 March 1984 0-0. 40,000 crowd and loads of Saints went up, won replay at Dell 5-1. 

‘That’ cup run. The first that I remember, of course the semi final, but also Armstrong against Blackburn, holding the magic sponge to his head. The other semi final Watford v Plymouth. To this day I believe if we had overcome Everton we would have won the cup that year. Remember the Wednesday game. I think the last time I was at Hillsborough was 0-0 as well in the mid 90’s. 

[Sheaf Saint]

Last time I went to watch us play at Hillsborough, we lost 5-0 under George Burley. Wednesday weren't even particularly good on the day, we just completely crumbled in defence and gave away some ridiculous goals.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/7076446.stm

At least we can safely say there is zero chance of that happening again on Saturday.