Saints v Bristol City - Saturday 3pm

[skintsaint]

51 minutes ago, trousers said:

West Brom (current leaders) aren't going to get automatic promotion... Whilst in catch up mode, we just need to keep auto-promotion rivals West Ham, Wolves and Middlesbrough within striking distance, which we are.

If we carry on our form over the next 40 games, would put us on about 80 points with the deduction. Should be enough this season I feel. Whether we can keep this form up is another question...but hey ho.

[SNSUN]

We're getting points, we're unbeaten since the opening day in the League but we lack a little consistency still. Another win against Brizzle and maybe we go into our away fixture with Wrexham full of confidence to try to get that ellusive away win we need to kick start that side of our campaign.

Of course, if we then beat Wrexham, we go into an important game full of confidence when we play the Skates.

But it all starts  with a win against Brizzle.

[saintant]

11 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

If we carry on our form over the next 40 games, would put us on about 80 points with the deduction. Should be enough this season I feel. Whether we can keep this form up is another question...but hey ho.

Assume you mean for a play-off spot because 80 points will be nowhere near enough for top 2.

[Saint Garrett]

Gotta be same team I think assuming all are fit.

Bit of a bogey team for us, so wouldn't surprise me if they frustrated us, but should get atleast a draw. 

What we do know is that we will concede...lets hope we have 2 or 3 in their net.

[skintsaint]

1 hour ago, saintant said:

Assume you mean for a play-off spot because 80 points will be nowhere near enough for top 2.

Yes you are right

[Saint86]

49 minutes ago, Saint Garrett said:

Gotta be same team I think assuming all are fit.

Bit of a bogey team for us, so wouldn't surprise me if they frustrated us, but should get atleast a draw. 

What we do know is that we will concede...lets hope we have 2 or 3 in their net.

A few of the City fans i know reckon they can't defend either. I reckon this will be something like 2-2 (given they are a bogey side for us). The -4points remains an issue for us i think as we're constantly playing a game of catch up (and when we're not winning it adds pressure mentally).

 

[Cabrone]

2 hours ago, skintsaint said:

If we carry on our form over the next 40 games, would put us on about 80 points with the deduction. Should be enough this season I feel. Whether we can keep this form up is another question...but hey ho.

IMO there are at least 2 teams in this league capable of 90+ points so I think 2 per game (92 over the season) would put us in the final mix.

We need to make SMS a fortress, starting on Saturday.

[Football Special]

22 minutes ago, Cabrone said:

IMO there are at least 2 teams in this league capable of 90+ points so I think 2 per game (92 over the season) would put us in the final mix.

We need to make SMS a fortress, starting on Saturday.

St Mary’s has been a fortress for a while already,  no league home defeats for 8 months. 

That's my fear,  we had a similar record in 2011 calendar year,  something like 20 straight home league wins then along came Bristol City....

Last season we achieved something like 8 consecutive wins (was that a record?) then along came Bristol City.....

23/24 season was the record breaking unbeaten run, then along came Bristol City....

Edited 43 minutes ago by Football Special

[The Wyvern]

57 minutes ago, Cabrone said:

IMO there are at least 2 teams in this league capable of 90+ points so I think 2 per game (92 over the season) would put us in the final mix.

We need to make SMS a fortress, starting on Saturday.

Could there be an argument that as there are so many strong teams this year everyone will regularly take points off each other and no-one runs away with a high points total?