Tamesaint

That is why they say "It is the hope that kills you".

If we beat Ipswich on Tuesday night there will be 2 teams on 80 points (Millwall and Ipswich) and 2 on 79 (us and boro). Goal difference could be a factor but if we happened to beat Ipswich by 3 goals that would be in our favour. It is unlikely but Millwall and Ipswich next Saturday could both fail to win. If we then beat Preston and Boro don't better our score we end up in second position. Simples.

This and the previous post that you quote sum it up for me. I feel bitter atm and the atmosphere at Wembley Park tube after the match indicates so many other Saints fans feel the same. How come Man City can have 130 charges of financially irregularity seemingly ignored? How come Chelsea can lose squillions and not get punished? On the other hand points deductions are playing a huge part in deciding who gets relegated from the Championship. The whole thing stinks.

Baz will make a living Stateside once "soccah" becomes USA's favourite sport after the World Cup. There will be some team from Boston or San Francisco who will appeal to the Irish Americans by adding an Irish international goalkeeper to their roster .

This drives me mad.

Good for you. I will be wearing a yellow goalkeeper's shirt from our Friends Provident days. Old merch is the best!!!

This is going to be the week. We will beat Brizzle and Baz and Mad Nate will come up trumps. I can feel it in my water.

My bet of Automatic promotion / FA cup win double (at 100 / 1 and 50/1 respectively) is still looking good. Unfortunately it was only a 10p bet but it will pay over £500 if it comes off.

Pompey beat them home and away with a grand total of 2 shots on target in the 2 matches combined.

Very true. As I have been told by my mates, the whole country will be supporting us v Citeh (except for the fish fuckers down the road). Very few expect us to win. Our fans will outnumber their fans. We will turn the stadium yellow and blue and will have a great day out. What is there not to like? I can't wait. And of course, if we win.....

I agree with much of this. The only thing that I have to add is that we are at that stage of the season when we have to expect the unexpected. How else can we explain Pompey beating Ipswich or Boro's recent slide? We can win our last 4 games. I expect us to win them. But if say Woy does find a way to nick a point lets not give up hope of second place. Very little goes as expected at this stage of the season.

So that I can sing it properly to myself what are the words for the Tonda Eckert song? "We' ve got Eckert ..."

Yes but we had a manager who couldn't get a tune out of this team and who thought that Dom Ballard wasn't a natural goalscorer.

Third would normally expect to beat 20th.

We are at that stage of the season when logic fails. Score predictions fail. Logically Millwall should have beaten WBA tonight but they didn't. There will inevitably be some illogical results tomorrow. Logically we shouldn't win our last 6 games. If however we can, we are going to be in that automatic promotion place.