Boro vs Saints next Saturday (12.30pm) 1st leg

[BARCELONASAINT]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

I read it’s better than their home form but I think their home form isn’t great. I watched them against Millwall and they were brilliant first half, should have been 3 or 4 up ended up losing 2-1 somehow. It’s going to be a tough couple of games. 

I tend to agree it's going to be a tough couple of games. When borough show up they are a very decent side. I have watched quite a few of their games where they have outplayed the opposition but failed to capitilise by scoring. They are a very decent outfit and we would be stupid to under estimate them, thankfully Tonda is unlikely to make that mistake and will drill it into the players.

[Pamplemousse]

Just got my ticket. There really are not a lot left at all, I'd say 100 maximum.

[oldsarum]

1 hour ago, EssEffCee said:

It's definitely increased this season how many are going. Something for fans forum maybe if anyone's going.

 

1 hour ago, EssEffCee said:

It's definitely increased this season how many are going. Something for fans forum maybe if anyone's going.

I think your seat in will find the seats in blocks either end of our section, will go on sale later

[LGTL]

1 hour ago, Pamplemousse said:

Just got my ticket. There really are not a lot left at all, I'd say 100 maximum.

I’m not convinced they’ve released the full allocation yet but I might be wrong. Both end blocks weren’t on sale at 12.30. Guess they could have gone on sale since then. 

[die Mannyschaft]

1 hour ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

I tend to agree it's going to be a tough couple of games. When borough show up they are a very decent side. I have watched quite a few of their games where they have outplayed the opposition but failed to capitilise by scoring. They are a very decent outfit and we would be stupid to under estimate them, thankfully Tonda is unlikely to make that mistake and will drill it into the players.

Play offs are on the day games difficult to gauge. Im sure WBA were tge favourites last time or we expected a tougher game at home. The only concern I have is Saints often slow the game down and that lets the opposition in to take control of game. 

[Pamplemousse]

17 minutes ago, LGTL said:

I’m not convinced they’ve released the full allocation yet but I might be wrong. Both end blocks weren’t on sale at 12.30. Guess they could have gone on sale since then. 

Yeah that might be the case, I was surprised to see so few green dots available tbh.

[EssEffCee]

1 hour ago, oldsarum said:

 

I think your seat in will find the seats in blocks either end of our section, will go on sale later

Yeah I did say that re the left hand one and the two on the right hand side.

Cant imagine that's true of all the partial blocks though so will depend on returns.

[Pamplemousse]

3 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

It's definitely increased this season how many are going. Something for fans forum maybe if anyone's going.

Apart from Leicester away when we were doing shit and there were barely 1000 of us there

[EssEffCee]

14 minutes ago, Pamplemousse said:

Apart from Leicester away when we were doing shit and there were barely 1000 of us there

Yeah bet hardly any players families or sponsors turned up for that one.

Ended up being the best away of the season too.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, EssEffCee said:

Yeah bet hardly any players families or sponsors turned up for that one.

Ended up being the best away of the season too.

Arguably best away for many a season.

[Dr Who?]

7 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

Sorted. Absolutely shit loads blocked out, proper piss take.

How many blocked out and what for? Commercial? 

[Give it to Ron]

21 hours ago, Turkish said:

Because it’s knock out football And we need to play the games not the occasions. Boro are a decent side, to me setting up when we play up there like we did against arsenal And city makes perfect sense. Compact and tight and hit them on the break it worked brilliantly against both of them for a game and 80 minutes, we lost against city to a deflection and unbelievable strike. Anyway whatever we think Tonda has proven he knows better than all of us. Whatever happens we need to defend well and take our chances tactics and formations are irrelevant if we don’t do that. Home game is different we will dominate the ball and I’d expect us to win at home but we don’t want to make our lives hard By being too hung hoo or dare I say it arrogant and think we can just turn up and win

One bad half will undo the last 19 games Saturday will be very tough. Boro hadnt won at home since January then smashed Watford by 5 so that run ended.

Whittaker is on fire and if we can get a draw will be great achievement.

[die Mannyschaft]

4 hours ago, EssEffCee said:

Yeah bet hardly any players families or sponsors turned up for that one.

Ended up being the best away of the season too.

Probably best away I've been to.

[goodymatt]

1 hour ago, Give it to Ron said:

One bad half will undo the last 19 games Saturday will be very tough. Boro hadnt won at home since January then smashed Watford by 5 so that run ended.

Whittaker is on fire and if we can get a draw will be great achievement.

Their only 2 wins in the last 10 were against Sheffield Wednesday and Watford. Who during that 10 game period are the bottom two of the form table. Watford are rock bottom, losing their last 5 games of the season in a row and ultimately sacking Will Still’s brother. 

A draw would be a good result to take back to St Mary’s like it was at WBA last time but I wouldn’t call it a ‘great achievement’ given our form (over a long period) and squad budget/quality.

[saintant]

2 hours ago, Give it to Ron said:

One bad half will undo the last 19 games Saturday will be very tough. Boro hadnt won at home since January then smashed Watford by 5 so that run ended.

Whittaker is on fire and if we can get a draw will be great achievement.

He's not.

[Harry_SFC]

40 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

Their only 2 wins in the last 10 were against Sheffield Wednesday and Watford. Who during that 10 game period are the bottom two of the form table. Watford are rock bottom, losing their last 5 games of the season in a row and ultimately sacking Will Still’s brother. 

A draw would be a good result to take back to St Mary’s like it was at WBA last time but I wouldn’t call it a ‘great achievement’ given our form (over a long period) and squad budget/quality.

Agreed. Boro should be going into the game worried about our form. Not the other way around. 

[pimpin4rizeal]

10 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Yeah, drawing at home to Bristol City was 'tearing up the league'

It is going to be very tough to get past Boro, who are a very good side.

Well we have won 8 out  of our last ten games  the two draws you mention being either side of the city cup tie which we can kinda put down to having a eye on that and fatigue for Ipswich . We pretty have much have been tearing up the league 

[Saint Pete]

We should approach the game in same way we have been approaching the last 19 league games. We have no reason to fear the opposition but at the same time we should certainly respect them and never be complacent. From what I've seen in those 19 games, I'm confident that Tonda and the team picked will make sure that is the case.