Saints v Bristol City Tuesday 7.45pm

[Tommy Mulgrew]

If Norwich can hammer them so can we.

Let’s put a big dent in Ipswich’s present goal advantage over us and keep up the pressure on Milwall.

[Pilchards]

Get the best team on from the start and go at it.

Then freshen it up second half and nail them for taking our unbeaten record a couple of years back.

 

[Sheaf Saint]

Their defeat at home to Norwich today means they can't now mathematically make the playoffs (not that they were ever likely to). Hopefully with nothing left to play for we should be able to capitalise and make amends for our awful showing at Ashton Gate earlier in the season.

[Toadhall Saint]

Home win

[saintant]

They'll make it tough but Norwich scoring 4 at Ashton Gate today shows they have defensive issues which we should be able to exploit. 3-1 Saints for me.

[Mboto Gorge]

Feel that Woy will make it a very cagey scrappy game and will sit behind the ball for long periods. 1-0 win will do, and have a feeling it could go that way whereby it’s a bit nervy at times and we struggle to break them down . Conceding 4 at home today, he’s likely to double down on being defensive away from home to a side on record breaking winning form.

[Oisin]

Absolutely go with the strongest possible team - if Ipswich drop points tomorrow we’ll have the chance to move second. Just applying that sort of pressure on the others will be huge I think, given the context of our run and form.

Cant afford to pass the opportunity up to get ahead of Millwall and either ahead or level with Ipswich if we are to have any chance of automatic promotion.

Still have to pinch myself that we’re in the mix. Unbelievable 

 

[Oisin]

1 minute ago, Oisin said:

Absolutely go with the strongest possible team - if Ipswich drop points tomorrow we’ll have the chance to move second. Just applying that sort of pressure on the others will be huge I think, given the context of our run and form.

Cant afford to pass the opportunity up to get ahead of Millwall and either ahead or level with Ipswich if we are to have any chance of automatic promotion.

Still have to pinch myself that we’re in the mix. Unbelievable 

 

Ignore me … Millwall play Tuesday as well. 

Im clearly getting over excited and talking rubbish 🤦🏻‍♂️

 

[macca155]

Everything is predicated on both Millwall and Ipswich dropping points, but if Saints are going to overtake Ipswich's GD, then not only must they win, they need to win by a few.

No good going to Preston needing to win 3 or 4 nil. Need to ramp up the pressure every game.

Ridiculous, under normal circumstances a win would be sufficient, but this is the situation we find ourselves in. We have to ask the impossible.

All it needed was better management in Aug, Sept, and October, dreadful now we look back at it.

 

Edited Saturday at 21:48 by macca155

[Verbal]

20 minutes ago, Oisin said:

Im clearly getting over excited and talking rubbish 🤦🏻‍♂️

 

That's so unlike absolutely anyone else on here

[sfc4prem]

Time to banish the Bristolian poltergeist once and for all.

We've not reached 4th or 5th gear recently. It'd be nice to do that on Tuesday and put a few past them in a really convincing manner.

[Willo of Whiteley]

Scrappy 1-0 win

[LGTL]

We’re very good, they aren’t. Home win. 

[Baird of the land]

Guessing, Stephens, fellows, Charles, larin rotate back in.

Wonder if archer might start & scienza play the last 30.

[AlexLaw76]

Going to be about 6 changes again.

reckon wellington will get 20 mins or so

[LiberalCommunist]

People often mention Bristol City ending our 25 game unbeaten streak in 2024. 

But its the other one that still pains me. The one in December 2011.

We were flying, we were on the up. And we hadn't lost a league game at home since February.

And then Bristol fecking City turn up.

I hope we put this to bed, because I don't think I can take the treble from hell. That would put them in forever bogey territory.  

 

[Football Special]

46 minutes ago, Baird of the land said:

Guessing, Stephens, fellows, Charles, larin rotate back in.

Wonder if archer might start & scienza play the last 30.

Archer could start instead of Azaz with his heavily strapped knee. 

Ticket sales look strong, fair play big week for our fans , not many left mainly in Chapel block 20. Bristol City traditionally bring a big support to us , not sure how many travelling this time with it being midweek and nothing to play for. 

[RedWillie]

They haven't sold out. Still about 950 left for their fans. Guess nothing to play for but they normally sell out in recent meetings with us regardless.

[Badger]

Reading the report of their game v Norwich yesterday I see that they’ve got that nasty little bastard Morsy playing for them. 
 

 

[Toadhall Saint]

9 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Scrappy 1-0 win

Thing is we probably need a 3 nil if (Ipswich lose today) and we want to lump more pressure on them. Be nice to just need a 1 nil when we play them.

Edited yesterday at 07:56 by Toadhall Saint

[Football Special]

1 hour ago, RedWillie said:

They haven't sold out. Still about 950 left for their fans. Guess nothing to play for but they normally sell out in recent meetings with us regardless.

Yeah their away followings last few weeks have been very poor, they got nowhere near selling out at Charlton and also couldn't sell out the small allocation at QPR on a Saturday, I think if they have 950 left then they've only sold 1000 based on initial allocation they received 

https://www.bcfc.co.uk/ticket-info/saints-away-set-for-priority-sale/

[benjii]

I would expect a Woy team that's just shipped 4 goals and has nothing to play for to park the bus. Although that's based on virtually no knowledge of their actual team.

Anyhoo, I think we need to play the strongest team with goals / creativity in it and try to put the game to bed inside 60 mins.

Azaz looked a bit laboured yesterday and Scienza played more minutes than he usually does, so I wonder if the data will be saying they should start on the bench.

I also wonder if it's THB's turn for a rest?

Anyway, if all are well I'd probably go:

Perry

Bree THB Stevo Manning

Charles Downes

Archer/Fellows Matsuki Scienza/Archer

Larin

 

Aim to give Welington at least half an hour if possible.

Edited yesterday at 09:16 by benjii

[Danwulfe]

12 hours ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Their defeat at home to Norwich today means they can't now mathematically make the playoffs (not that they were ever likely to). Hopefully with nothing left to play for we should be able to capitalise and make amends for our awful showing at Ashton Gate earlier in the season.

Swansea had nothing to really play for either but they certainly made it difficult.

[Sheaf Saint]

6 minutes ago, Danwulfe said:

Swansea had nothing to really play for either but they certainly made it difficult.

They still had a very faint chance of a playoff place before kick off though. Just like we still have a very faint chance of taking second place.

[HKsaint]

11 hours ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Scrappy 1-0 win

Let’s have a comfortable win. I don’t want to be nervous for the whole match until 90 min again. 

[Willo of Whiteley]

33 minutes ago, HKsaint said:

Let’s have a comfortable win. I don’t want to be nervous for the whole match until 90 min again. 

It would be great to have a convincing 4-0 or 5-0 again, just to get Ipswich to shit the bed a little more 

[Saint Fan CaM]

Pretty clear that Leo is being protected for the City game - he’ll be essential if we’re to compete. Probably get some game time in the last 15 mins. Reckon Wood might start again and Matsuki. Think Stewart starts and the Larin/Archer partnership is used later in the game too. Bragg and Downes to start perhaps. Rest of the team is the same as Swansea start.

2-0 Saints.

[coalman]

Need another win. Need some luck from other fixtures. No change from the last couple of months.

4-0 Saints

[saintant]

If we win and Millwall and Ipswich both fail to win on Tuesday we can guarantee 2nd spot by winning our final 2 games at home to Ipswich and away to Preston. Not beyond the realms of possibility 🙂

[AlexLaw76]

Peretz, Bree, THB, Stephens, Manning, Bragg, Charles, Matsuki, Fellows, Archer, Larin

Wellington to get 20+ mins, Wood to come on, Edozie to get mins, and probably Stewart for Larin on the hour as per.

[Saint_clark]

1 minute ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Peretz, Bree, THB, Stephens, Manning, Bragg, Charles, Matsuki, Fellows, Archer, Larin

Wellington to get 20+ mins, Wood to come on, Edozie to get mins, and probably Stewart for Larin on the hour as per.

Think Welington needs a full half to make sure he's sharp for City so I'd start him and take him off at the break.

[AlexLaw76]

16 minutes ago, Saint_clark said:

Think Welington needs a full half to make sure he's sharp for City so I'd start him and take him off at the break.

Yeah, he has hardly played lately, and likely to be up against Semenyo 😆

[Saint_clark]

4 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Yeah, he has hardly played lately, and likely to be up against Semenyo 😆

We might have to stick Matsuki out left tbh and tell him to sit back, give Scienza a bit more freedom on the right. 

[EssEffCee]

10 hours ago, LiberalCommunist said:

People often mention Bristol City ending our 25 game unbeaten streak in 2024. 

But its the other one that still pains me. The one in December 2011.

We were flying, we were on the up. And we hadn't lost a league game at home since February.

And then Bristol fecking City turn up.

I hope we put this to bed, because I don't think I can take the treble from hell. That would put them in forever bogey territory.  

 

Think it was longer ago than February that we'd last lost at home. I thought it had been the whole year until that game?

[saintant]

7 wins and 2 draws at home since our last league defeat plus the win over Arsenal in FA Cup.  Let's make it 8 league wins on Tuesday.

[LiberalCommunist]

I initially thought it was the calendar year, so googled it, and it said Feb. 

Might be counting a cup game. 

 

 

 

[pimpin4rizeal]

To be honest I don’t mind us resting a few key players like scienza azaz etc with an eye on keeping the best players fresh for city . The whole squad is contributing at the moment so there isn’t much drop off in performance, could see us giving archer another start whilst he’s hot 

Edited 22 hours ago by pimpin4rizeal

[Osvaldorama]

Another one that I’m a bit worried about as I feel like they’ve been a bit of a bogey team for us over the years? Maybe I’m imagining it but it feels like they always play really well against us. 

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

Yesterday Saints beat City.

Tuesday Saints will (hopefully) beat City.

Saturday Saints will (probably) beat City.

[saintwbu]

To be honest i’ll be happy if they come and park the bus, we’ve not struggled to break teams down recently - Oxford and Blackburn in particular were well dealt with. My memory of Bristol City is them completely outplaying us at Ashton Gate the last two times we’ve played there - at least Mehmeti has left now, he tore us apart earlier in the season.

[saintant]

5 hours ago, Saint_clark said:

Think Welington needs a full half to make sure he's sharp for City so I'd start him and take him off at the break.

Bit risky. What if he picks up an injury?

[bpsaint]

5 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

Think it was longer ago than February that we'd last lost at home. I thought it had been the whole year until that game?

Yeah it was to go a whole calendar year unbeaten in the league, top vs bottom, on the 30th December and they fucking beat us 1-0. Sure they had that skate bastard David James in goal too.

[Saint_clark]

2 hours ago, saintant said:

Bit risky. What if he picks up an injury?

He could do that getting out of bed in the morning. Are you suggesting we don't play him at all before the City game and let him go into it completely rusty with a pat on the back and a couple of tips on how to deal with one of the best attacking lines in world football?

[OldNick]

I listened to Total Saints Podcast talking about this game and all were confident we'd win. What surprised me that none factored in the players not wanting to miss out playing at Wembley and so may not be quite so committed to a tackle etc to avoid injury. It is quite understandble if they had that mindset

[Saint Garrett]

No complacency, but go and get the job done early on, and we can take a few players off second half.  Either they've got nothing to play for so they're not on it. or they relax and just play with nothing to lose. 

We owe them for ruining our run a few seasons ago, don't let it happen again.

For me Bree is starting to look quite tired, but simply don't have an alternative atm by the looks of it.  Would also be good to get Welington on the pitch before the weekend.  Wouldn't surprise me if we start with Archer again ahead of Saturday to give Scienza the rest.

Peretz; Bree THB Stephens Manning; Charles Bragg; Fellows Azaz Archer; Larin

Welington, Wood, Jander, Matsuki, Scienza, Robinson, all likely to come on off the bench...

 

Expecting to see the following for Saturday:

Peretz; Bree THB Stephens Welington; Downes Jander Charles; Azaz Scienza Stewart

[Pilchards]

Larin over Stewart in both games.

Stewart was terrible on Saturday!

[James G]

I think we'll win this easily, I'll go for 5-0, most goals in the second half

[swannymere]

 This is exactly the sort of game we should approach with caution rather than assuming we're going to win, we beat Arsenal because they underestimated us and we shouldn't do the same.

[Hawkswood]

16 hours ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Yesterday Saints beat City.

Tuesday Saints will (hopefully) beat City.

Saturday Saints will (probably) beat City.

Cant argue with science 

[AlexLaw76]

1 hour ago, swannymere said:

 This is exactly the sort of game we should approach with caution rather than assuming we're going to win, we beat Arsenal because they underestimated us and we shouldn't do the same.

When you say we, are you on about the players or fans?

Edited 4 hours ago by AlexLaw76