Saints v Ipswich - Tuesday 7.45pm

[OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint]

9 hours ago, macca155 said:

We really need Jander and Bragg to start but they must be on empty by now, both physically and emotionally.

Not too sure about being empty emotionally. If anything, these guys have just gone head to head with the best team in the country and will be confident they can put any Championship side to the sword. My concern is more complacency. I expect Downes to be back to boss the midfield. Up front Larin and Stewart can share the workload.

Would also prefer to see Stephens in for Wood but Jack is evidently not right at the moment.

[Turkish]

14 minutes ago, suewhistle said:

I see some of you take me as seriously as you take yourselves. When I have more time I'll explain how jokes, particularly bad ones, don't have to have too much grounding in reality. Some of us older ones do remember such instances though..

Oh it was a joke. Thanks for explaining it, they’re always the best ones. 👍

[St Louis]

I know that every club can look back at a season and all of the If's and But's...
But... it's so frustrating that we didn't beat Bristol City last Tuesday, as we would have it in our own hands now for Top 2 🫣

Edited 12 hours ago by St Louis

[Turkish]

3 minutes ago, St Louis said:

I know that every club can look back at a season and all of the If's and But's...
But... it's so frustrating that we didn't beat Bristol City last Tuesday, as we would have it in our own hands now for Top 2 🫣

I know everyone will point to the Bristol game as that is the most recent but for me there are others which cost us. Skates away if we could just held on or taken our chances and put them to bed. Oxford away losing to a relegated team, Norwich away before they hit form when we handed them victory and the shit show that was Blackburn away, teams rarely win 10 games in a a row so a slip up was inevitable but for me those games earlier on where the ones that really cost us. 

[CB Fry]

9 minutes ago, St Louis said:

I know that every club can look back at a season and all of the If's and But's...
But... it's so frustrating that we didn't beat Bristol City last Tuesday, as we would have it in our own hands now for Top 2 🫣

We gave ourselves too much to do with our shitness in the first half of the season.

Winning all of our last ten league games in a row was too much to do, we were never going to do it and we didn't do it.

[RedArmy]

The games that cost us the most are not beating Ipswich at Portman Road,  conceding late at Millwall and being utterly shite in front of goal against them at St Mary’s.
 

 Everything else is irrelevant, if you don’t beat the teams you need to finish above you’ll make things far more difficult for yourselves. 
 

 

Edited 12 hours ago by RedArmy

[Disco Stu]

Hard one to predict but I imagine the players will want to avoid Ipswich celebrating promotion at St. Mary's. They did a lot of running out of possession in hot conditions on Saturday so tired legs on should be expected. I'll go with a frustrating 1-1.

Edited 11 hours ago by Disco Stu

[Badger]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

I know everyone will point to the Bristol game as that is the most recent but for me there are others which cost us. Skates away if we could just held on or taken our chances and put them to bed. Oxford away losing to a relegated team, Norwich away before they hit form when we handed them victory and the shit show that was Blackburn away, teams rarely win 10 games in a a row so a slip up was inevitable but for me those games earlier on where the ones that really cost us. 

If we don’t go up, the reason is summed up in three words: Will fucking Still. 

[BarberSaint]

1 hour ago, suewhistle said:

I see some of you take me as seriously as you take yourselves. When I have more time I'll explain how jokes, particularly bad ones, don't have to have too much grounding in reality. Some of us older ones do remember such instances though..

Whoosh, I think we used to say, didn't we?

[kwsaint]

3 minutes ago, Badger said:

If we don’t go up, the reason is summed up in three words: Will fucking Still. 

IMO closely followed by Gavin fucking Bazunu.

[Badger]

1 hour ago, suewhistle said:

I see some of you take me as seriously as you take yourselves. When I have more time I'll explain how jokes, particularly bad ones, don't have to have too much grounding in reality. Some of us older ones do remember such instances though..

Not Man City’s finest moment. Forgot to mention it to any of their fans on Saturday.

Bet they airbrush that out of the club DVD’s up there as well. 

[Toadhall Saint]

9 hours ago, OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint said:

Not too sure about being empty emotionally. If anything, these guys have just gone head to head with the best team in the country and will be confident they can put any Championship side to the sword. My concern is more complacency. I expect Downes to be back to boss the midfield. Up front Larin and Stewart can share the workload.

Would also prefer to see Stephens in for Wood but Jack is evidently not right at the moment.

Downes is suspended

[Turkish]

8 hours ago, Badger said:

If we don’t go up, the reason is summed up in three words: Will fucking Still. 

Yep if he’d been even average then we’d be in the automatics now maybe even winning the league 

[Sheaf Saint]

3 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Yep if he’d been even average then we’d be in the automatics now maybe even winning the league 

The problem with that though is if he'd been average, we wouldn't have sacked him when we did, he'd have stuck around being average a lot longer, and we'd have a load of fans saying he needs more time and that we should at least give him until the end of the season.

[BallBoy]

I am nervous about this one. More than usual! Will the crowd be really up for it? They need to be. Do the players have enough left in the tank after Saturday? 

Ipswich are a tough and dogged team. They will try to wear us down. They are masters of the dark arts but we cannot afford to let them frustrate us. We have better players and should win but we have to be at our best and impose ourselves. We need 11 players to stay on the pitch.

I really want that 2nd leg at home and to keep our momentum. The stakes are high for both teams. 

Fingers and everything crossed.

[Willo of Whiteley]

We’ll need a couple of quick early goals before Ipswich start diving in the box.

Let’s take it to the final game!

[Badger]

10 hours ago, kwsaint said:

IMO closely followed by Gavin fucking Bazunu.

Good point.

Remarkable that Still and Bazunu’s parents chose the same middle name for them though.

Have to look on the Watford forum for a clue on Stil’s brother. Perhaps it’s Edward Cunting Bastard Still. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Badger

[Hatch]

On 26/04/2026 at 12:47, Hatch said:

I can’t make the game now so have a spare ticket if anyone is looking for one 

Reminder 

[saintant]

13 hours ago, die Mannyschaft said:

Ipswich win tomorrow then they are promoted. Its a lot of pressure on Saints more than Ipswich as draw and its calculator time and down to other teams.

 

No pressure on us - we're not expecting anything other than play-offs unless a minor miracle happens. Ipswich have 2nd place in their grasp which they can still lose so all the pressure is on them.

[TheAlehouseBrawlers]

They’re coming to win promotion tonight, their players and fans will be bang up for it, so would we if the boot was on the other foot.

Hard to tell how it will go with us after the last flat home game from everyone and Saturday’s exertions but hopefully we go again and we leave everything on the pitch and in the stands.

[leesaint88]

Looking at the Ipswich forums, they are already billing it as promotion day.....hopefully we can at least delay it for a few days. I can see today being a draw, with Ipswich scoring from the millionth penalty they've got this season. 

[macca155]

12 hours ago, OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint said:

Not too sure about being empty emotionally. If anything, these guys have just gone head to head with the best team in the country and will be confident they can put any Championship side to the sword. My concern is more complacency. I expect Downes to be back to boss the midfield. Up front Larin and Stewart can share the workload.

Would also prefer to see Stephens in for Wood but Jack is evidently not right at the moment.

I wouldn't underestimate the emotional drain of Saturday's game, but they are pros and need to deal with it. They better not be complacent, this is a season defining game. However we said that about Wrexham and look how that went.

No Downes for 2 more games. Normally I'd agree on Stephens, but I've been mighty impressed with Wood recently. If he coped with Harland and co, he should be confident about tonight.

Good thing is that even if Quarshie plays, I'd still be reasonably confident. Having such a strong well managed squad, just makes things more stable.