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You couldn’t make this shit up 😂

Yes!!!!! Guess we’ll need to taste success vicariously through City 😃

Haha we are fucking terrible.

Just need that Liverpool late winner to crown this cow pat of a season.

Wouldn’t that technically mean we were responsible for them losing the title as we didn’t lose 10-0?

Did the Great West Run in Exeter today and bugger me did I lose count of all the Liverpool shirts I saw. Come on Man City!

I see Newcastle’s third kit is basically that of Saudi Arabia: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61524883 I’d rather Saints continue to be shite than owned by their master puppeteers!

Think that happened on the last day of the season a year ago, 3-0 at West Ham I believe. We were utter garbage that day.

It's the way things should be, so let's celebrate the justice system working for once. Absolutely disgusting behavior rightly punished and a lesson to all would-be thugs that it's not acceptable.

Wish this season would just die. Still, just one abject display left and then they can all bugger off to the beach where they’ve mentally been since February.

Quite a relief for us really. Thankfully, events at the weekend were such that they only have a small chance of winning the league now and the huge goal swing scenario is such an outside bet that it's almost irrelevant. I expect they are coming to win 2-0 or something (which their remaining players are still more than capable of) to retain a crumb of hope on final day. Still, let's hope that we put a shift in and end their hopes (which we are also more than capable of).

Can we dare dream about how sweet it would be to end their title bid on Tuesday?

Not sure if serious or being ironic?

Very good at fiddling numbers are the skates 😃

£25m? £40m more like unless there's something in his current contract I don't know about. For me, he either signs a new long-term deal or goes this summer whilst he still has two years remaining.

> Chelsea beat Leeds, making us safe. > City win the league at the weekend. > Saints beat Liverpool youth. > Saints beat on the beach Leicester. > Saints finish 10th in the league. > Everyone lauds Ralph the genius!

Ahh good man, yes that's part of it! Shame it omits the actual game, but it was definitely Arsenal v Saints.

Personally, I think I'm just numb from our complete capitulation since February. Part of me doesn't really care if we go down and thinks it's what we'd probably deserve if the unlikely chain of results were to conspire against us. I think this general sense of apathy means that I'm looking at the situation in a more objective, and less pessimistic, way than I might usually. Anyway, Chelsea will probably do the business tonight and put this conversation to bed.

Sorry if already covered, but do we think their our insipid end to the season and the (very slight) lingering risk of relegation is derailing our transfer / new contract plans? One assumes that you want to be mathematically safe before progressing with deals etc?

Current odds of 100-1 for Saints to gown suggest it is massively unlikely though?

Worth pointing out again that the 06th place finish under Koeman in 2016 was 63 points, whereas the 8th place finish under Puel in 2017 was 46 points, a massive negative swing of 17 points. Ralph bettered that total when we finished 11th in 2020 (52 points).

I think we need something like 8 of 12 games left involving us, Everton, Burnley and Leeds to go against us for us to go down. Massively unlikely.

I thought we’d made such progress earlier this season, plenty of clean sheets and generally restricted defeats to a single goal or two. Now look at us, the most porous defence out there right now. We seem a bit like a turbo charged Renault 5, mixing it with the big boys only for the turbo to break down and being ruthlessly exposed.

We’re shite?

Imagine Alex Ferguson's excuse if Man United lost in that! 😃