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Could do with 3 points to start off this month well. Lets hope we can get another win, although would take a draw.

 

Any idea which pubs will be the best bets for Saturday ?

 

There are a few mentioned on the footballgroundguide....The Navigation Inn, Harvester, Merry Widows, The Brunswick and the Alexandra Hotel.

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Could do with 3 points to start off this month well. Lets hope we can get another win, although would take a draw.

 

Any idea which pubs will be the best bets for Saturday ?

 

There are a few mentioned on the footballgroundguide....The Navigation Inn, Harvester, Merry Widows, The Brunswick and the Alexandra Hotel.

 

If you are into Real Ale, then The Brunswick wins hands down. They have their own Micro Brewery there and a great range of Ales - I think they had 12 the last time I was there. Food upstairs was pretty passable and reasonably priced as well.The beer must be good as it made our Dutch duo's team look like world beaters, admittedly against a derby side who hadn't won in about a year!!

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I'd take a draw. We've played 10 games, of course we've played good sides. Besides, losing at Leicester or Derby just means we need to beat them at home, it doesn't mean they're better. Likewise every team we've cruised past at home will provide a tough test away.

 

Leeds, Brum, Forest, Watford, Millwall all away are very tough games. All this 'must win' stuff or 'X points from X games' is nonsense. We just need to go for a win every week and quickly bounce back from every slip up. Every team will probably lose a lot of games.

 

One of the most sensible posts I have seen for a while. People discussing whether we need 85 or 90 points at this stage is mental in my opinion. Need to focus one game at a time. Try and get three points here. If we don't it is done and we should focus on the game. And the next three points. Then if we are still in the mix come January (personally from what I have seen there is no reason we shouldn't be.), we have chance to add one or two and push on. If we are still there in March then in my opinion we can start looking at "must win games"

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I'd take a draw. We've played 10 games, of course we've played good sides. Besides, losing at Leicester or Derby just means we need to beat them at home, it doesn't mean they're better. Likewise every team we've cruised past at home will provide a tough test away.

 

Leeds, Brum, Forest, Watford, Millwall all away are very tough games. All this 'must win' stuff or 'X points from X games' is nonsense. We just need to go for a win every week and quickly bounce back from every slip up. Every team will probably lose a lot of games.

That's me told.........sigh!
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lets exorcise that faithful night and shut derby up

 

This. I was there the last time we played them and winning 1-0 felt very good and certainly got me over the worse of it. However, I won't be totally satisfied till we smash them 4/5/6-0 - real 'grind them into the ground' stuff. I hate everything about Derby County, come on Saints, don't let me down!

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Cant wait for this. first game in 3 yrs. since rotherham away at don valley. i am hoping for a vastly different experience. 4 of us in the away end and a ton of my local mates in the home end. its gonna be a cracker. dont know about away friendly pubs, but im gonna be drinking outside of town where its under 2 quid a pint.

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Could do with 3 points to start off this month well. Lets hope we can get another win, although would take a draw.

 

Any idea which pubs will be the best bets for Saturday ?

 

There are a few mentioned on the footballgroundguide....The Navigation Inn, Harvester, Merry Widows, The Brunswick and the Alexandra Hotel.

The three I always use when up there, good little crawl from across the road from the station. Looking forward to this one now, can't f*****g stand blank weekends!
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lets exorcise that faithful night and shut derby up

 

When I think back to how dejected I felt leaving Pride Park that night it's only really now I can look back and say I'm actually glad we lost that night. Looking how bad Derby were the following season it's highly likely we'd have been just as awful, can you imagine the thought of George Burley trying to lead us to success in the Prem with Jermaine Wright guaranteed a starting place each game!

 

The money made from just getting promoted would probably have staved off administration and we wouldn't have ended up being bought by Markus. Funny how things work out Sometimes.

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you making any sense in one of your posts.

 

How does that not make sense?

 

I'm not the person who says I'm worried about our performances at Cardiff and Leicester despite dominating for about 120 minutes of those games.

 

The only thing that stopped us winning those games were our finishing, not our performance.

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Derby fans don't seem very confident considering they're at home and are at the right end of the table. It's very strange (and rather enjoyable) having supporters of teams in the championship regularly expecting to get spanked by us.....

 

http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/topic/7654-derby-county-v-southampton/

 

That page just reminds me of how much I hate them. It is such an irrational thing, but I literally cannot stand them.

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http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/topic/7654-derby-county-v-southampton/

 

Their supporters are pretty pessimistic about their chances.

 

Especially as apparently Tyson won't be fit for the game.

 

https://twitter.com/#!/ColinBloomfield

 

Apparently this game is being shown in Europe, so those with a way of picking up foreign satellite TV channels might be able to watch.

 

Scoreline? I predict 3-1 to us, Lambert, Lallana, and de Ridder to score (not necessarily in that order).

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Davis, Richardson, Fonte, Hovielt, Fox, De Ridder, Chaplow, Cork, Lallana, Guly, Lambert. For me.

 

Chappers deserves a start. Toyed with Holmes instead of Guly and pushing Lallana just off Lambert but Lallana has been playing so well this season from the left it's hard tto drop him, especially after Holmes' brilliant show against Watford was only his first league game for a year. Keep him as super sub. De Ridder did enough that day aswell to get a start IMO.

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This is a tough one. They seem to be well up for this match, expecting a big crowd, 30k plus. They've had a number of ticket deals going for this one including sending out a free ticket to all ex-ST holders who didn't renew this season so their club have realised they need every advantage to take on the mighty Saints.

 

I'd take a sound defensive showing and a 0-0, a good point from a testing fixture.

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http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/topic/7654-derby-county-v-southampton/

 

Their supporters are pretty pessimistic about their chances.

 

Especially as apparently Tyson won't be fit for the game.

 

https://twitter.com/#!/ColinBloomfield

 

Apparently this game is being shown in Europe, so those with a way of picking up foreign satellite TV channels might be able to watch.

 

Scoreline? I predict 3-1 to us, Lambert, Lallana, and de Ridder to score (not necessarily in that order).

 

 

A draw would be a good result - they seem pretty mixed in their forecasts. Reckon our defence will need to be rock solid for this one.

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Davis, Richardson, Fonte, Hovielt, Fox, De Ridder, Chaplow, Cork, Lallana, Guly, Lambert. For me.

 

Chappers deserves a start. Toyed with Holmes instead of Guly and pushing Lallana just off Lambert but Lallana has been playing so well this season from the left it's hard tto drop him, especially after Holmes' brilliant show against Watford was only his first league game for a year. Keep him as super sub. De Ridder did enough that day aswell to get a start IMO.

I agree with that line up, but would have Hammond in instead of Chaplow - apart from one poor half at Burnley, Hammond has been excellent this year and he and Cork have really made us tick from the middle. Chaplow has been working really well coming in with 30mins left and running his legs off, closing down the oppossition and bombing on past tired defences - don't think that needs changing at the moment.
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I'd definitely keep SDR on the right, think he deserves a run of games, and is more likely to track back than Guly. That leaves the dilemma of whether to start Guly or DC up top. If he's playing 4-4-2 that is...

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