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VA will be happy enough with an away point. But both teams were very poor, and there for the taking. VA went down to 10, when the home side hit an excellent ball through the high line of defence. Koum collided into the back of their through player. Not cynical, as their player made sure of the chance of contact, on the way to get the ball. But no arguments either. VA then conceded a shocker. There's plenty of good reasons to play across the back. To switch the play; to maintain possession; to draw in your opponents. Not because you've no better ideas; when you're not organised; when you've already lost 1 center half and when 2 of the others are 2 feet apart. Cue losing possession, when Sochaux still have plenty in the half from their last attack (another reason not to do it), and going 1 down. Sochaux really could have had a second. They hit the post and shot wide when a pass would have given them a tap in. But then VA got an equaliser from a penalty. One of those where a player dips his head into a clearance, and gets a decision. Somewhere, during treatment and waiting for the spot kick to be taken, a second yellow was shown. Not sure if it was for persistent dissent. Appuah, on his way to his own second yellow before being subbed, put it in. And that was it from both sides. Sochaux hit a post later with an effort from an angle. Other than that, it seemed the goals had been converted into barn doors, neither side could hit. El Hadary came on, but was particularly poor. One thing that did stand out, was Abu's good use of VA having a physical presence up front. he picked out sub Nyemb on a number of occasions. Good range and accuracy.

Yeah I've just watched the highlights back again, I was high in block Q and thought I had a good view of it, but obviously I didn't see it clearly enough. He came and just slipped under it, without the slip, he probably gets something on it.

Was it a case of Peretz misjudgement? I thought he just slipped. he also made some incredible saves - but that is par for the course.

I genuinely feel some of the stuff like bazunu in particular and possibly Bree could have been carry over advice given to spors. he wouldn’t have seen a lot of bazunu himself as he was on loan to liege the previous season, it’s funny how project bazunu seemed to be forced on every manager we had too, surely he couldn’t have fooled everyone .. Will still you can kind of the logic in at the time .and I guess he did actually bring in a cf the problem is it was downs. What you say is right though if these mistakes didn’t happen it would have been automatic

We’re flying out of Southampton on Saturday morning and back into Heathrow later that evening. Lift home sorted. £56 return alongside a few avios 👌

In some alternate reality, we've beaten City and Town and finished 2nd, and everyone on SaintsWeb is discussing the results, where dropped points stopped us finishing first. Anywho, great season for us regardless of what happens in the playoffs from where we were. Just hope we keep the loan players as they've excelled.

Had we not lost to Preston at home and bottom 3 teams Norwich, Blackburn and Oxford maybe autos would have been possible

While our OS currently isn't even displaying the fixtures, let alone even announced when tickets will go on sale 😕

A well-considered post. I wonder who wrote it?

I think we have squad of players who really want to play in the Premier League, and a good few who deserve the chance given the last six months. Previous play off experience will count as will narrowly losing at Wembley. I think we have too much for all four teams in it, they will be dreading playing us, but still hope Hull can do a job on Millwall. COYR!

Indeed. Bree loaned out, Will Still, no CF brought in until January, sticking with Bazunu, and as mention above Downs and Roeslev. January's window, and Tonda, were excellent, but if we don't go up those disastrous decisions at the start of the season will be the reason.

Middlesbrough have announced ticket pricing and details for the game on Saturday for their fans https://www.mfc.co.uk/tickets/home-tickets Note they are not posting out any tickets so fully expect ours to be digital also.

Excellent second half of the season so hats off to everyone at the club for turning things around! Roll on next Saturday!

Slept through the last day as I'm working Nights. Pleasant surprise since I woke up. Stronger line up than I was expecting but we got the job done and we get the home second leg which is good. Anyone mention if we beat Bristol and Ipswich we'd have finished second? 😜 Still a brilliant end to the season. Well done Tonda and the lads. Now make sure we complete the job in the play-offs.

I’m sorry but anyone that is calling for Mccarthy, after Peretz slipped, needs to check themselves. He has been a solid wall and even made vital saves in that match. He has been a difference maker to our season turn around and I wouldn’t want anyone else in goal. This take is literally the definition of bed wetting and utterly ridiculous. He slipped that is all.

Well done on the draw. You have a great one too.

Hello friend. Firstly, congratulations for your Victory today ! Secondly, end of the match for Valenciennes. Draw score: 1-1. Good point versus 2nd of the championship. Good evening everyone.

When I’ve been in the shop recently they had the same discounts on the price tags as the did online, if that’s what you’re asking.

Of course it was his fault, he misjudged the long punt so had to turn quickly and slipped. There’s not a goal keeper alive who hasn’t made a horrendous balls up once or twice a season (or game, in Baz’s case), but let’s not pretend this one wasn’t 100% down to him. I’m just glad he got the inevitable cock up over and done at a meaningless time in a pretty meaningless fixture…

I’m not his biggest fan, I think he’s a bit overrated on here. He’s a very good player at this level but I’m not convinced he’ll pull up any trees in the premier league. However, this post is pony. He’s been injured, has played a lot of games which he’s probably not used to, and he hasn’t actually been that bad. He’s still a massive threat and frightens opponents. A week off, and he’ll be back firing on all cylinders. He’s better than other options we’ve got, and the other 3 play off sides would rather not face him…

The L1 playoff chase was very close in the end. Stevenage snuck into 6th, leapfrogging Luton and Plymouth with an injury-time winner against Wigan. They will play Stockport, who started that day not guaranteed to even make the playoffs but ended up third, scoring in the 98th minute against Barnsley to make it 3-1.

Can't work out how to search for the shirts thread. Does anyone know if the Saints store does the same prices as the online store with its end of season sale for shirts? Nipper wants an away goalkeeper shirt

My query was more about what would come next, would they base it on goals conceded?

OK, I misread that part of his post. But he still said that 2nd was "never on" which I think I am right in saying he has been saying consistently for weeks. That's inaccurate as we could have made it with those 2 wins rather than draws. Of course it was a massive long shot, but a lot of the results that posters including him said would never happen actually did to give us the opportunity if we could have won all our remaining games. I agree that we were effectively out of it once we failed to beat Bristol, at that point whilst it was mathematically still possible, the series of results needed was very very unlikely, I don't think many argued otherwise at that point?

Fair enough tbh. The bloke was an absolute chancer of the highest order. Their fans have been through enough.