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Birmingham 1 - 0 Saints - Post Match Reaction


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Norwich Lose(A), Forest Draw (H), Plymouth Draw(H)..

Don's bubble burst Lose 3 - 0

 

Watford win, but couldn't see them going down, if they are safe by the time we play them away from home, then it could be good for us..

 

Game In Hand(Y)

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Cant say we sounded too "in" that game from Radio Hampshire. No real chances after the first 15 minutes and putting euell in midfield seemed to kill us. Would have brought on Wotton instead of patto and stuck Drew of Morgan in the hole. Aw well didnt expect anything from that game really so onwards to tuesday!

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Yeah...a loss wouldn't have been that bad if the other results went out way - but every single one went against us in some way or another. Charlton losing doesn't matter to us - they won't catch us, Watford beating them is dreadful. Norwich losing is okay, but Blackpool beating them means its harder for us to get out of the bottom three, so a draw there would have been handy.

 

And everyone else picked up points.. oh and we can forget about Doncaster, their results don't affect us at all as they got out of it a long time ago.

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How many people realistically expected us to get anything today?

 

One moment of lost concentration cost us, just before half time, against a stacked club. That's a much different story to earlier in the season.

 

A lot of teams are in this, including Donny, and we have a steel we never had before.

 

We were damn near dead and buried three weeks ago but now I'm very hopeful we can get out of this.

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17 Plymouth 37 6 5 8 25 28 5 5 8 11 19 -11 43

18 Watford 35 9 3 5 32 24 3 3 12 20 33 -5 42

19 Blackpool 37 5 5 9 21 28 5 7 6 15 21 -13 42

20 Nottm Forest 37 5 7 7 20 24 5 4 9 20 28 -12 41

21 Barnsley 34 7 4 6 21 16 4 2 11 12 29 -12 39

 

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22 Southampton 36 3 7 8 17 23 6 3 9 19 29 -16 37

23 Norwich 37 6 5 7 30 25 3 4 12 16 32 -11 36

24 Charlton 36 5 4 9 25 32 1 5 12 13 29 -23 27

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10 wins will definitely keep us up! (although wouldn't want to leave it until Forest game)

 

Bad day at the office, need two home wins now just to keep in touch and then a "must win" at Blackpool.

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It's not that mental.

 

Barnsley are only 2 points ahead of us and although they have two games in hand, they will have to get something out of them to make it count.

 

We have a game in hand on Forest and are only 4 pts behind them.

 

5 pts behind Blackpool with a game in hand.

 

Effectively 6 behind Watford, but we do have to play them.

 

6 points behind Plymouth, but we have a game in hand.

 

A point would have been good, but we now have two winnable home matches, then games against relegation rivals

 

Blackpool (a)

 

Charlton (h)

 

Watford (a)

 

 

Also noticed some of our relegation rivals are playing each other in coming weeks so some will have to lose (or only pick up the odd point)

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Today was always going to be a tough ask - but we and the team must take heart from the last few results - who'd have thought we would have beaten Preston, Cardiff and Ipswich away.

 

Agree the results again were not kind. Hopefully Barnsley's matches will catch up with them a bit.

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A narrow loss away at Birmingham is hardly the end of the world - if we had been safely mid table, people would have expected that result. It's how we react to this that counts - too many people seem to be focused on the teams around us. Nobody is going to do us any favours - it's up to us to fight our way out. It's still doable and there is still time for the tide to change in our favour. Don't loose the faith just yet.

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Anything we would have got today would have been a bonus. Tuesday is and always has been a must win game. Lets not get all depressed about the table and todays result. Concentrate on winning Tuesday and taking things from there.

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Look at the games on Tuesday night, I can say we probably have the easiest game out of all our rivals.

 

 

Other midweek matches:

 

Norwich v Cardiff (draw at best)

 

Barnsley v Brum (draw at best)

 

Watford v Forest (Want Watford to win I presume)

 

Sheff Utd v Blackpool (no points for the Seasiders surely)

 

Swansea V Plymouth (no points for the Pilgrims)

 

 

 

With the exception of Watford v Forest, there's alot of tough matches there, so can't see how teams will pull away midweek.

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Two teams are (almost) dead and buried, leaving four teams to scrap it out with just one going down.

 

I think it will turn out to be more than four of us slugging it out.

 

There are some budding freefalls above us, including Donny I think.

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I think it will turn out to be more than four of us slugging it out.

 

There are some budding freefalls above us, including Donny I think.

 

Not sure about Donny.

 

We'd have to overhaul a 9 point gap in 10 matches and that's some freefall.

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A good effort today but just not enough threat UP front to cause

them enough problems.

 

It seemed from Solent commentary we didn`t make best use of

our crosses most of them were easily gathered by Taylor.

 

Tough opposition today,very physical and a long ball team.

 

Bring on Derby on Tuesday we must beat them...

 

 

COYR

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Surely it has to be one team is dead and buried!!!

 

Norwich are only 1 point behind us (with a better goal difference).

 

Obviously Charlton are more dead than Norwich, they've got the rigor mortis. Norwich are quite dead though, beyond merely very unwell. Judging by Norwich's recent performances I think its just that no-one has told them.

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Other midweek matches:

 

Norwich v Cardiff (draw at best)

 

Barnsley v Brum (draw at best)

 

Watford v Forest (Want Watford to win I presume)

 

Sheff Utd v Blackpool (no points for the Seasiders surely)

 

Swansea V Plymouth (no points for the Pilgrims)

 

 

 

With the exception of Watford v Forest, there's alot of tough matches there, so can't see how teams will pull away midweek.

 

I honestly think Norwich will win that one,just as much as our recent somewhat surprising 3 wins on the trot prior to today,they will pull something out of the bag.

 

I hope i'm wrong.

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Today is not a surprise. Our expectations have been raised by the 3 wins. It is important that we bounce back and pick up a couple of home wins. Will be interesting to hear how the team played from those there. Certainly Brum didn't dominate but didn't sound like we created too many chances.

 

Its going to be tough but we can dig ourselves out.

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