Papa Shango Posted 13 February, 2011 Share Posted 13 February, 2011 just done the bbc predictor thing, i have us finishing 6th brighton charlton bournemouth peterborough huddersfield SAINTS we are well capable of beating anyone over 2 games, so time to look for manchester flights & hotels i think I did the predictor, although our game against Plymouth is missing. Adding that one on (draw) I got 1st. Brighton 93 points 2nd. Saints 81 points 3rd. Bournemouth 81 points 4th. Charlton 80 points 5th. Huddersfield 77 points 6th. Peterborough 71 points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow_Saint Posted 13 February, 2011 Share Posted 13 February, 2011 the BBC predictor thingy is sh1t and the people that use it are gay! (imo) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sotonian Posted 13 February, 2011 Share Posted 13 February, 2011 i tell you what mate. if someone guaranteed me we would win the playoffs and have bournemouth in the semi's i would rather that than win the league! 3 quality days right there me too, automatic promotion is so boring , three awesome days there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 13 February, 2011 Share Posted 13 February, 2011 I did the predictor, although our game against Plymouth is missing. Adding that one on (draw) I got 1st. Brighton 93 points 2nd. Saints 81 points 3rd. Bournemouth 81 points 4th. Charlton 80 points 5th. Huddersfield 77 points 6th. Peterborough 71 points. 81 points will be nowhere near enough for automatic promotion FACT. 84/85 minimum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scudamore Posted 13 February, 2011 Share Posted 13 February, 2011 81 points will be nowhere near enough for automatic promotion FACT. that is not a fact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 13 February, 2011 Share Posted 13 February, 2011 (edited) Just done the predictor myself. Out of the 18 games left - I've got 13 wins , 2 draws, 3 defeats finish 2nd, just. 89 points. Out of our last batch of 18 league games we achieved: 11 wins, 4 defeats, 3 draws - That would give us 85 points if we repeated that form. We're not far away at all. Just a little more consistency... One thing that struck me was how many of us play at home on the last day...this is going to be very nerve racking. We need to make sure we're in 2nd going into the last day... Huddersfield v Brentford Charlton v Hartlepool Bournemouth v Rochdale P'Boro v Daggers (although I think P'Boro will end up as a playoff chasing team) Saints v Wallsall Edited 13 February, 2011 by S-Clarke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitch01 Posted 13 February, 2011 Share Posted 13 February, 2011 I don't think Brighton are uncatchable, a bad week or two and we could be right on their heels. Still think we will end up in second, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corky morris Posted 13 February, 2011 Share Posted 13 February, 2011 I think we will finish 4th & lose in the final. Teams know that if they keep us at bay & play the counter attack we can be vulnerable. The other issue in the play-offs is the refereeing lottery. I have seen some truly shocking officials & if we end up with one like the Brighton, Peterboro, Tranmere games etc we will lose out. Unfortunately................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sperm_john Posted 13 February, 2011 Share Posted 13 February, 2011 listen, to all the doom and gloom merchants, anyone would think we lost saturday, its our ability to grind out a crappy 1 nill that saints have missed for years, saturday is exactly why we have our BEST chance in years to go up ... so what everyone is doing well around us, all we can do is concentrate on ourselves, we just have had a bit of a hangover from the FA cup ...we will be back in full swing soon, in Nigel we trust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bender Posted 13 February, 2011 Share Posted 13 February, 2011 Starting to lose confidence of us catching Albion. Also worried about Charltons rise. I reckon as long as we finish 3rd or 4th, we'll win the play offs. Dont want an away 2nd leg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwichsaint Posted 13 February, 2011 Share Posted 13 February, 2011 We really need to get over this idea that Charlton are good or are our rivals for second spot! I saw them yesterday and they were really really ordinary, we have absolutely nothing to fear going there and going for the win! Powell won his first three (two with scruffy one-nils, never a bad thing) but yesterday they played P'boro at home, playing for a play-off place they had just 15k home fans and the 'atmosphere' was non-existent till they went 3-1 up. First half they were very slow to settle, looked nervous and Pboro took them to pieces; only some weak finishing and last ditch defending kept it to 1-0 at HT, truth was Pboro should have had 2,3,4 in the first half and been home and hosed by HT. Second half Charlton scored from their first decent attack of the game, obvious long cross from the right went right over the P defence and headed in by completely unmarked striker BWP; PBoro just stopped playing at this point and Charlton scored again inside a minute with the visitors defence again nowhere. Charlton then withstood a long period of Pboro pressure before scoring a breakaway goal that went straight through the P defence and clean through the keeper. CMS addded a tidy finish in overtime to make it 3-2 and one of the most unlikeliest of scorelines. Charlton keeper was a sort of Davis-lite, some tidy stops but tends to stay on his line and didn't really link well with his defence, plus some erratic distribution. Neither full back was very good, we have 4 better full backs than these two. Best two players were Christian Dailly and Docherty at CH, both had good games and kept Charlton in it first half (the only two Charlton players that might get in our first 16). Semeda played holding mid/anchor man but was very inconsistent, looked athletic and mobile but made lots of unforced errors, we have better. Very little joined up forward play or attacking pattern, BWP still very inconsistent, he worked hard for the team but little of it was very productive; several poor touches and often ran in the wrong places, basically did nothing but took his one chance a very straightfd free header. Pboro looked great in the first half but fell away badly in the second. Couldn't really judge GK Lewis as he had so little to do but he might have done more with the third. Boyd and CMS both looked decent (particularly Boyd who was the best player on the pitch), they also bought on a young Antonio-a-like as sub on the right wing and he was excellent, fast and direct, beating the fullback on both sides and putting over some peachy crosses (think this was Mendez-Laing?). We really do need to be targetting 6 points from Charlton, 4 will do; I would be pretty ****ed if we take less than 4 points from those two games! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicestersaint Posted 13 February, 2011 Share Posted 13 February, 2011 If we manage to catch brighton I will buy a round of drinks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint J 77 Posted 13 February, 2011 Share Posted 13 February, 2011 I think we are heading for the play off's now, just hope we can win it this time. Losing to Derby was heart breaking, I can't go through that again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispypie Posted 13 February, 2011 Share Posted 13 February, 2011 I think you would have to be airing on the optimistic side if you think we will finish 2nd. I've been a saints supporter for 40 years, not going to change the habit of a lifetime now! Its got to pay of at least once more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghq Posted 14 February, 2011 Share Posted 14 February, 2011 I think Brighton might well have had it's bad trot, so short of meltdown by them, I can't see us catching up. Second place, at the moment, is a lottery, but as has been pointed out by many, it's in our hands. Have faith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West End Saint Posted 14 February, 2011 Share Posted 14 February, 2011 I just cant see us catching Brighton they are relentless just keep smashimg teams off the park what a job Poyet has done there I cant believe that Bompey havent imploded since Howe left they are seriously over achieving can they keep it up ? I think it is 2nd or 3rd for us in a way I would love to see us win the play off final at OT it would be a great day out & we would have won something but it is so important that we go up this season I am keeping my fingers crossed for 2nd place. It is so tight at the top apart from Brighton, Charlton have come up on the blind side a point behind us with a game in hand how did that happen ? We cant afford many if any slip ups we have got to keep winning it is going to be a very exciting run in to the end of the season with many a twist & turn & we are going to have to be a lot better than we were Saturday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lethallee Posted 14 February, 2011 Share Posted 14 February, 2011 Brighton will win league and 2nd place between Saints and Charlton. Therefore the 2 games against Charlton will proabably determine who finshes 2nd. If Lallana plays majority of remaining games then i think we will finish 2nd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 14 February, 2011 Share Posted 14 February, 2011 Brighton will win league and 2nd place between Saints and Charlton. Therefore the 2 games against Charlton will proabably determine who finshes 2nd. If Lallana plays majority of remaining games then i think we will finish 2nd. Don't underestimate Bournemouth. They beat Brighton a couple of weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonibell Posted 14 February, 2011 Share Posted 14 February, 2011 Reckon we'll finish 3rd. Then lose in play offs, because we're Saints. Me too l do see there are 55 dreamers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eelpie Posted 14 February, 2011 Share Posted 14 February, 2011 We really need to get over this idea that Charlton are good or are our rivals for second spot! I saw them yesterday and they were really really ordinary, we have absolutely nothing to fear going there and going for the win! Powell won his first three (two with scruffy one-nils, never a bad thing) but yesterday they played P'boro at home, playing for a play-off place they had just 15k home fans and the 'atmosphere' was non-existent till they went 3-1 up. First half they were very slow to settle, looked nervous and Pboro took them to pieces; only some weak finishing and last ditch defending kept it to 1-0 at HT, truth was Pboro should have had 2,3,4 in the first half and been home and hosed by HT. Second half Charlton scored from their first decent attack of the game, obvious long cross from the right went right over the P defence and headed in by completely unmarked striker BWP; PBoro just stopped playing at this point and Charlton scored again inside a minute with the visitors defence again nowhere. Charlton then withstood a long period of Pboro pressure before scoring a breakaway goal that went straight through the P defence and clean through the keeper. CMS addded a tidy finish in overtime to make it 3-2 and one of the most unlikeliest of scorelines. Charlton keeper was a sort of Davis-lite, some tidy stops but tends to stay on his line and didn't really link well with his defence, plus some erratic distribution. Neither full back was very good, we have 4 better full backs than these two. Best two players were Christian Dailly and Docherty at CH, both had good games and kept Charlton in it first half (the only two Charlton players that might get in our first 16). Semeda played holding mid/anchor man but was very inconsistent, looked athletic and mobile but made lots of unforced errors, we have better. Very little joined up forward play or attacking pattern, BWP still very inconsistent, he worked hard for the team but little of it was very productive; several poor touches and often ran in the wrong places, basically did nothing but took his one chance a very straightfd free header. Pboro looked great in the first half but fell away badly in the second. Couldn't really judge GK Lewis as he had so little to do but he might have done more with the third. Boyd and CMS both looked decent (particularly Boyd who was the best player on the pitch), they also bought on a young Antonio-a-like as sub on the right wing and he was excellent, fast and direct, beating the fullback on both sides and putting over some peachy crosses (think this was Mendez-Laing?). We really do need to be targetting 6 points from Charlton, 4 will do; I would be pretty ****ed if we take less than 4 points from those two games! Maybe. But a team gets easy goals by putting themselves in positions to score - and not missing. Unfortunately Saints are ballooning too many shots at the moment. When you compare the number of shots on and off target we should be scoring for fun. This is why we are not currently in the top two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ampersound Posted 14 February, 2011 Share Posted 14 February, 2011 If Brighton get a good result against Stoke in the FA cup and draw a top 4 prem team. It might distract them enough with any luck to enable us to catch them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
September Saint Posted 14 February, 2011 Share Posted 14 February, 2011 League 1 2010/11 final positions 1: Brighton 2: Three from: Bournemouth Charlton Southampton Huddersfield Play Offs: 3 from above plus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sad saints fan Posted 14 February, 2011 Share Posted 14 February, 2011 Well with this poll closing in less than 30 minutes ,looks like we are going to be 2nd.Although I still say 1st. We go top on march 1st and stay there till the end of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Chalet Posted 25 April, 2011 Author Share Posted 25 April, 2011 90% of posters still in the game Those knocked out: Predicted Winners Albert Tatlock Andrew Long Ashtead Saint baz Belsey23 Chicken With A Banjo Cliff Huxford Cola's fit Crouchie Crouchie daveygwyatt Dazza82 dellish Gingeletiss Goalie66 hutch Ian the Red Joesaint JonnyLove Judge killer fan KingTed Lambert7 Legod Third Coming LostBoys mattbrennan MongoNeil MOSaint. Nessy7 northam76 NorthamSteve ovsaint paul gower pepsi Robbie S-Clarke sad saints fan Saint Jimbo Saint Johnno Saint-Fred SaintJc saintscottofthenortham saint_coxy SAR Boy Saint Scudamore SimonRichards skintsaint StBiffa Steperki supersaint1885 swannymere TBone-Tone team-saint The Dogman Of Bassett the_barmy_saints_army Tom8558 trousers VectisSaint Verbal Verwood Saint Village Saint Outside Play-offs DG dune Kingsland Nick sfcmick the wedge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcjwills Posted 25 April, 2011 Share Posted 25 April, 2011 What a surprise Dune was in the Outside playoffs !!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 25 April, 2011 Share Posted 25 April, 2011 What a surprise Dune was in the Outside playoffs !!!!! that would be because we didn't appoint Margaret Thatcher as manager then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DG Posted 25 April, 2011 Share Posted 25 April, 2011 Always go for reverse psychology when predicting Saints results, seems to be working ok so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 25 April, 2011 Share Posted 25 April, 2011 that is not a fact It is now or rather it will be at about ten to five today:rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 25 April, 2011 Share Posted 25 April, 2011 What a surprise Dune was in the Outside playoffs !!!!! Strictly speaking, if we hang on to 2nd we will be outside the playoffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 25 April, 2011 Share Posted 25 April, 2011 Interesting reading back - so surprising to see how far Charlton have dropped, I forgot how much everyone was fearing them a few months back. I can't even see them in the top 10 anymore..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minsk Posted 3 May, 2011 Share Posted 3 May, 2011 I was one of the 438!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saints-cris Posted 3 May, 2011 Share Posted 3 May, 2011 I was one of the 438!!!!! Snap. Easy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickG Posted 3 May, 2011 Share Posted 3 May, 2011 always pleased to be a realistic fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scudamore Posted 3 May, 2011 Share Posted 3 May, 2011 It is now or rather it will be at about ten to five today:rolleyes: But it wasn't a FACT at the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 3 May, 2011 Share Posted 3 May, 2011 Runners up but it won't be an easy ride and we cannot afford any more Brentford/Tranmere style cockups. It wasn't, we didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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