SaintBobby

That's kind of weird...I have to get worse seats because I'm earlier in the queue?

I managed to get 4 seats in category 3 a few minutes ago (have 4 season tickets). V little choice...nothing obviously available in blocks 1 and 2 for 4 people wanting to sit together. Am still pondering whether to go for Club Wembley tickets, but that's £500 a seat.

I was told that he was maybe slated to start, but left training yesterday with a doctor. Niggle or bigger problem? Given Che has now left the building, it's annoying that Ross can't seem to get even 20 minutes under his belt.

Seems about right to me. The loyal travelling fans and the season ticket holders will all get in. We have 20,000 season ticket holders?

What a night. The best one ever at St Mary's?

Can I humbly retract this please? He was fantastic. The goal especially...but excellent all round. Sorry.

Can I make a plea for my standard "drop Smallbone" suggestion? Thanks.

And to think....they used to say we'd never put a man on the moon (or whatever!)

Good trolling. I nearly fell for it 😂😂 A perfectly satisfactory result. Not our best, but more than okay. Stephens was good. McCarthy exceptional. We surely won’t play 3-5-2 on Friday?

Not just an option to buy, but an obligation to buy if I recall correctly

Can we just try and win the away leg first? Thanks.

We are into the fairly random, god knows what happens, play-offs. But I fancy us to get to the final. We are the favourites for sure v WBA...but not by a wide margin

I remember it utterly pissing down as we walked back to the car. Biblical levels of rain. Proof that God is a Saints fan.

Does this count as a “must win”? Any news yet on tickets or whether the match will be shown at St Mary’s in a lounge/bar?

Yep

That's annoying...come on Baggies

I wish clubs would be better at rewarding individual loyalty. If you really want to go to Leeds and it's your first game ever, maybe it's £50. But if you've followed Saints to a swathe of away games, it should be discounted.

I think it's normal to think that playing teams who are "on the beach" is supposed to be easier. But Watford played the last hour yesterday like their lives depended on it...

To my mind, even if we miss out on automatic promotion (which is likely), it’s greatly to our advantage in the play offs that the possibility of a top two slot remains. I was rather worried that we’d have the equivalent of 5 or 6 irrelevant pre-season friendlies because it was 99.9% certain we’d end in 4th place. We would therefore take our foot off the gas and enter the play offs with zero momentum. That worry no longer pertains.

Yep. Worth saying Watford were pretty damned good. Nothing to play for and 2-0 down…they were unlucky not to get something…

Well, that was boring…😂

It’s one hell of a long shot. I think if we win the last 6 games, we probably just make it. The useful thing - even if we end up 4th - is we aren’t out of it yet. I was worried we’d go into the playoffs having been on the beach for 6/7 matches. But, for now at least, it’s not half a dozen utterly pointless matches followed by the playoff semi. They are only slightly pointless.

Well, yeah, fine. If you think we always underperform, get rich and bet against Saints!

I voted to keep him. Our points per game is higher than I’d have settled for at the start of the season - it’s just unfortunate that 3 other teams have been brilliant whilst we have just been very, very good. I don’t buy that we will be “mid table at best” next season if we don’t get promoted. We’d likely start as favourites or 2nd favourites, I’d think…depending on the finances and number of key players we lose.

I don't see the point of Smallbone. He's okayish but nowhere near being in our best starting XI.