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With the 'devastating' news that Neighbours is shortly going to end after 37 years, does anyone else remember when Saints briefly appeared on it back in 1992? It related to a story where Debbie Martin went to London and ended up at Highbury watching us lose (naturally) 4-3 to Arsenal. Can't find a video on YouTube, but there is an article here about the storyline: http://www.perfectblend.net/neighbourhood/outof-lon.htm I distinctly remember thinking "what the hell is Terry Hurlock doing on Neighbours" when it came up out of the blue! 🙂

Yup!

Ahhh, thanks. Close but no cigar then! Thinking now that it was perhaps worn at Francis Benali's testimonial game.

Pretty sure we wore it when we beat Liverpool 3-2 at Anfield in 1998.

Yeah, there is only a tiny chance of us going down, but also a moderate chance of us not being mathematically safe come final day. I'm sure we all agree that we could definitely do without that being the case and it will hopefully provide a modicum of motivation to the team against Brentford. Hard to believe that we're even having to have a conversation about this when you consider where we were a few months ago. Good old Saints FFS!

So Brentford away is now a massive 6-pointer for us! 🙃

100% this. Like I said last season, a sneaky insurance bet at long odds covers a trip to Vegas for the mother of all 'we've just been relegated' benders 🙂

Don't worry everyone, a few more weeks and we can forget all about Saints and focus on something more healthy for a while!

Thank Gawd for JWP!

Too early for Brighton to score. Come back in 10 minutes...

We are utterly hopeless right now, can’t wait for this season to end (just like last year).

Thankfully, at this stage of the season, they’ll be looking to win 1 or 2 nil then ease off (I hope).

Everton fans must be raging at us right now. I guess that’s something!

I thought there was goal line technology and VAR, but the former didn't work and the latter wasn't used for some bizarre reason?

Yeah, this is my take on it. Ralph has had several monumental failures, plus a few notable successes, in his time here so it's not unexpected that the tide can turn very quickly on him. Conversely, there is undoubtedly a group who can't stand him due to the 9-0s etc. which is totally understandable too. I'm still broadly in favour of him, but getting trashed at home to Chelsea like that pushed me closer to the edge I have to say.

Yes, because the majority of football fans are always such cogent thinkers aren't they 🙂

Bloody terrible and a reminder that no-one is immune to the crap life can throw at you. Sincerely hope this isn't used as ammunition for 'banter' at future matches.

And that's fine. I don't feel any different either, which is an ongoing sense of apathy. Seems to be a pendulum effect with a lot of people though, who seem to love him or hate him depending on what week it is.

So do we love him again this week?

Burnley’s unstoppable march to safety, and our subsequent relegation, looks like ending on Day 1 of post Chelsea defeat bed wetting doomsday scenario.

I remember us losing 0-4 at home to Arsenal in 93-94. We were really bad that day and Ian Wright tore us a new one.

Are you serious?

Another shameful day at the office. As said with the previous debacles, the only solace is that’s it’s just one game and just 3 points. Yet again though, feels like a massive punch in the danglies, regardless of how good the opposition are.

I fully respect where you're coming from. At the end of the day, I'm not on Twitter etc. and don't see any of his communications first hand. I only know him as the player who has done immeasurable good for our club over the years and that view would probably only change if I found out he'd been convicted of a severe crime or something. It does sound like he's mad as a barrel of frogs these days, but I'm not at all convinced that his alleged actions are anything other than (very silly) words on a screen. Any adult reading them can take them or leave them as far as I'm concerned and must continue to take personal responsibility for whatever they do with that information thereafter.

I wonder where our club would be today without his efforts in the 90's? I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that it could be a far worse place. In summary - Legend.