badgerx16

I generally travel less than 40 miles to watch Saints, but then it is usually Preston, Blackpool, the Dingles, and once, Morecambe. To watch them at "home" is about 500 miles round trip

If we had had Saga playing from the outset, rather than McGoaldrought, we would have had more chance of scoring goals, hence of winning games, hence of being further up the league, hence peeps would not be boycotting because of a failed 'experiment', hence the 5000 would not be staying away from the home games.

That's as may be, but how much would an extra 5000 on the gates due to being in the top half of the division have brought in ? Surely that would cover it ? ( EG 5000 extra bums on seats for 8 home games = 40000 paying 'customers'. If each of them paid £20 per ticket, thats £800K ).

The 3 teams immediately above us have... Norwich ( + 2 pts, +10 GD we have 1 game in hand ) Norwich v Coventry QPR v Norwich Blackpool v Norwich Norwich v Cardiff Norwich v Plymouth Notts Forest ( + 3 pts, +5 GD, we have a game in hand ) Reading v Nottm Forest Nottm Forest v Preston Nottm Forest v Swansea Watford v Nottm Forest Burnley v Nottm Forest Plymouth ( +5 pts, +6 GD, we have a game in hand ) Wolverhampton v Plymouth Plymouth v Watford Plymouth v Reading Swansea v Plymouth Norwich v Plymouth Above Plymouth, Barnsley have +5 pts, +8 GD, and a game in hand on us; Watford have +5 pts, +12 GD, and a game in hand of us; Blackpool are +7 pts, +5 GD and we have a game in hand.

OWTS...GMI, OWTSGMI :p:p

Lowe out

So he could smear it into the net ? Or maybe he could spread the ball around ?

Isn't Liptak a CB ?

Radio Lanky complaining about not getting a pen - never mind. Apparently ref blew for a Preston foul before the trip.

Kelvin makes a good stop,- too much PNE at present

No he isn't, he plays for Preston

Parkin

Oooops...

Never mind the ball, take his legs !

handball !!!

But you know how badly we play against 10 men.

They are saying that both sides have been playing good football, but at times we are just blowing them away.

Quote from Radio Lanky "Southampton have been superb at times".

He's just made a clearing header

Stop doing what you're doing and listen to the footie instead

Watford winning at Blackpool

(Preston) makes a substitution, with Richard Chaplow coming on for Barry Nicholson. Chris Brown joins the action as a substitute, replacing Chris Sedgwick. (Preston) makes a substitution, with Youl Mawene coming on for Andrew Davies.

Preston make 3 changes.

Wotte's biggest problem, as compared to Pearson, is that he is not viewed, rightly or wrongly, as a 'new' manager - being tainted with the disaster that was Poortvliet's tenure. Therefore, as he has not been given a clean slate, his performance, both on and off the pitch, is going to be far more closely analysed and he will be given far less leniency. Lets all hope that we can maintain the level of performance from the first half, and then carry it on to the next few matches.

That won't stop you