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 2 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 2 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 1 hour 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.