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Just realised the semis are the same day as a Belgian beer event in London, so I was going to be up there anyway. Perfect for a few warmup brews (and hopefully a celebratory one or three). 🍻

When you lot figure out how to dampen the buzz and go to sleep, can you let me know?

Keep the faith, make the noise, celebrate like there's no tomorrow. Went out to Salisbury beforehand to wish a mate's bar a happy 4th birthday. No mean feat in this economy. And treated my uncle to a ticket - the chap whose fault it is I'm into this silly little beautiful club. Don't know how I'll come down enough to sleep. Irreplaceable memories.

Mark Forbes is more 'Saints' than you, I or almost anybody on this site. Yet you have the temerity to talk about embarrassment and disrespect?

On-road parking on Horseshoe Bridge is a potential. Not many spaces, but doable if you arrive at a reasonable time. It's about 20 mins walk to the ground down the Itchen Riverside Boardwalk. Walking back to your car will be faster than any other mode of transport - and then you've got direct access to Thomas Lewis Way.

Not sure that'll scan, no matter the tune, and it's miles too long for the Northam.

Continuing my non scientific way of using PPG to project ahead, Eckert's now up to 1.92 for us - which feels a fair reflection. It'll take continuing in at least the same manner to hit the 'magic' 75 points - but remains quite astonishing given where we were after 13 games. For comparison, Wrexham sit at 1.58 and Hull at 1.66 PPG (albeit that's across 38 games rather than the Tonda sample size of 25).

The Championship isn't fun. It's scary. And getting out of it is worth the risk of another season like the last one.

It's not a scientific way to look at it, but Tonda's PPG now sits at 1.86. If that continued to the end of the season, we'd be looking at ~73 points. Wrexham's PPG projects ~74. There's inherent assumptions (not least that our past indicates our future), but given the tricky period around Christmas our figure tends more towards 'realistic' than 'fantasy'. Ultimately, I guess I'm just saying it's looking close but doable. Especially with Wrexham away still to come.

Even if you take this on face value, rather the nonsense it clearly is... EA FC (and FIFA before it) tend to have a soft cap on a player's overall rating, based upon the division they play in. I.e. whilst there's exceptions, most Championship players won't exceed 74 overall. Creating a false equivalency. Source: in my 20s I was a data editor for the series (most active around the Adkins/Pochettino era).

I had a minor breakdown when I had to start buying 34" trousers. How do you get to that point? 😂

Looks like it. Article has been updated. https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/events/event/portsmouth-away-screening-at-st-marys

Three words: Sticking plaster win. I mean I'll bloody take it. Glad to feel something within the realm of positivity. But it felt more luck than judgment.

Let's be honest, it's going to be a Sheffield Wednesday.

As others have said, mostly resigned. Sombre. Some frustration boiling over. The following have all had outings in the Northam: "Sideways and backwards, everywhere we go..." "Sport Republic, get out of our club." "Sack the board."