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Im hoping / expecting our fans to be right up for this. Its a special occasion for us as a club, turning Wembley yellow and blue almost exactly 50 years on from the legendary day , I know one older fan who has dug out his scarf from 76 and cannot wait to get up there on Saturday, its a nice moment and means something to us. I was sceptical back in January when they released a special anniversary shirt would have looked ridiculous if we then went and lost at Doncaster but fair play they've done it proud. This game means almost nothing to City whose fans can barely muster the enthusiasm to travel , last year when they beat Forest there were hardly any celebrations at the final whistle, more interested in beating the queue for the tube

I think that Tymon goal is fair enough. Reminds me of Rothwell's against Huddersfield.

Always well supported but bit of a calamity club, in the shadow of bigger neighbours, some comedy moments like losing at home to Luton to be relegated 83 I think David Pleat dancing on the pitch and of course 1995/96 we stayed up last game drawing 0-0 with Wimbledon, thankfully Man City drew 2-2 with Liverpool, due to a wrong rumour being spread around the ground they kept the ball in the corner thinking it was enough for safety , bit of a yoyo club around that time

The one I'm married to certainly is. Mind you she was born into a 'Blue' family, and she pines for Maine Road and a "proper" team with an identity and no mercenaries.

Good for you. I don't understand the doom and gloom merchants on here sometimes. We started the season with yet another lousy SR managerial appointment and to see where we were in the table it was quicker to start looking from the bottom. Here we are a few months later, playing good football, 4th in the League and in the FA Cup semi-final. Quite a lot of clubs would change places with us. I detest City. Something stinks about a club who have 115 charges against them. I hate to see them lifting a trophy that they have very likely cheated and broken rules to win. I will be cheering our lads on this Saturday. I hope Tonda puts out our strongest team, that they give it everything they have and don't get overawed by City in any way. It's a big ask, but we need to support our boys and those going to Wembley, make some bloody noise for 90+ minutes. COYS!!!

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Did Pony make the Man City shirts? I remember West Ham and Spurs.

Those odds seem fair enough, big week again, Bristol are our bogey team, if we can do it and Super Baz (Stoke) and Nate the Great (Charlton) can do us a favour it will be very exciting going into the final week

Got to avoid thinking like that, over a 46 game season every team will be able to point to moments that could have made a difference. Just got to focus on beating Bristol City and see where that leaves us, games come around so quickly its like tournament football, no time for much training in-between games

It turned into the lampard show (not unexpected!) but Tonda should have got a mention at least for our recent run, the Hull and Boro managers were both in the shortlist which does make you think that the whole thing was selected weeks ago !!

Let's wait and see who they start with on Wednesday night away to Burnley, as they said on sky Manchester City in the driving seat now but no room for error dropping points, could come down to goal difference. They have a huge advantage over us thanks to being backed by state oil money investing like its a computer game, the whole 115 charges fiasco a constant reminder of their attempts to gain an unfair advantage, 90% of the country would love to see us beat them although of course no one expects it, in that respect there is no pressure on us. Our paths have crossed with them many times, remember going up there in 2003 when we were expected to roll over for them to celebrate the farewell to Maine Road, not only did we beat them but Rupert Lowe lodged a formal complaint as they hadn't given us enough tickets, as part of the compensation I think they had to give is £10 tickets following season, went up and beat them again backed by a large following behind the goal. I'm sure they got the new ground on the cheap as well following the commonwealth games up there. Of course we stopped them from a treble in 2023 thanks to a management masterclass from Nate the Great and a wonderful goal by Moussa Djenepo Even last season they came to St Mary's in May expecting to brush aside already relegated Saints and were held to a 0-0 . You never know YELLOWS

Going by Opta's predicted table, they have Ipswich something in the region of 60/40 in favour of making the autos. Us and Millwall more like 80/20 in terms of finishing 3rd to 6th. Things have been changing fast though. It wasn't long ago that we were only attributed about a 3% chance of catching 2nd.

My younger sister has 'supported' them for a long time. She liked Colin Bell.

Just seen that soft penalty Ipswich got yesterday, and it got me thinking about some decisions they have got lately. Questionable pen decisions at Norwich. (9 for the season) Birmingham had a perfectly legit goal ruled out. The game called off at the 80 minute mark while they were losing. Just a few off the top of my head. There's no way they are winning their remaining games unless they get some serious help from the officials. And now there's more people paying attention. I think Millwall are a bigger threat now.

A father killing several of his own children it seems. Messed up

Never understood why these awards aren't decided after the season has ended.

He could do that getting out of bed in the morning. Are you suggesting we don't play him at all before the City game and let him go into it completely rusty with a pat on the back and a couple of tips on how to deal with one of the best attacking lines in world football?

Thinking City will tear us apart is hardly thinking we will never win a game. If you actually thought about what I was saying, if we'd been playing any other team in the country I'd have felt confident - City are the one side who turn up consistently when it matters. Their front three against our back four terrifies me.

All very ifs, buts and maybes, but Its very gutting thinking that 97th minute winner we conceded at Millwall could be the goal that pips them to the post ahead of us.

Yeah it was to go a whole calendar year unbeaten in the league, top vs bottom, on the 30th December and they fucking beat us 1-0. Sure they had that skate bastard David James in goal too.

How scienza hasn’t been picked?! To be fair I’d have sorba Thomas at saints

I'm really looking forward to Saturday and a chance to see my team at Wembley even if it's odds on we lose. When we booked our holiday i didn't think there was a cat in hells chance we might end up with a Wembley appearance let alone the slight chance of 3! I will be on holiday when the FA Cup final is played if we make it and if we do get to the playoff final I will have only got back into the country 3 days earlier so will probably miss the chance to get a ticket for Wembley, so i'm going to do my utmost to totally enjoy Saturday whatever the result.

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Except this year, we're not being very Saintsy.