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If we had won the playoff on Saturday the ruling is very harsh and over the top but if we had lost it’s actually quite light with no financial penalty. Why did we admit to the other 2 matches, did the efl have evidence for us to answer to? However IMO the efl / ruling panel has been overly severe in their punishment for the crime committed. If the appeal today, with different panel members, is focused on the punishment I am still naively optimistic that our expelling from the playoff will be reversed, but pessimisticly we’ll probably go on to lose in the match on Saturday anyway.

It is really strange how the kick off time hasn’t been confirmed when the fixture and date has been known for all of the season.

We spy where we want we spy where we want we are Southampton we spy where we want

Even though we’ve beaten Wrexham twice already this season, I wouldn’t want us to play them in the playoff final with all the media circus around it and they could get their own back for the our earlier wins.

Was always going to happen, we couldn’t clear it

When I did it came out with a 43% chance of a Saints win

Any news on what happened to Stephen’s in the build up to the match? Maybe a warm up injury or precaution after something not feeling quite right.

I was on the back row as well and could see most of the pitch including the goals. However couldn’t quite see the near side corner area to my left and only just not the far touch line, it was comical seeing us fans ducking down to get a better view for throw ins.

There are currently no mid week championship games for us for the 2 weeks after the fa cup match. So the Wrexham match could be rescheduled from the Monday to the Tuesday or Wednesday, depending when our cup match is, and the Ipswich match the following mid week.

Maybe the football authorities should be banned from having mid week league games before and after cup rounds, there would be a better chance of full strength teams being fielded then. And on another subject maybe only the Premier League should have International breaks to avoid the amount of mid week matches in the Championship, I know that many teams would lose players, like we would, but so be it.

At the pre Charlton press conference Tonda said that Welington will be out for at least a couple of weeks.

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It’s only because we were losing the other 26 matches last season before 90+ minutes

I seem to remember he picked Quarsie for the last Leicester game in November for his speed against quick Leicester counter attacks, maybe the same again but the HB Stephen’s partnership has developed nicely in recent matches when playing 4 at the back.

Has there been an Eckert Press Conference for this? Link? I’ve looked on Saints YouTube channel and website.