Amazing Hangover Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 Only Tuesday and I can barely take it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 It's nervy, but it's bloody exciting. This is exactly why you support football teams, to go and fill the ground for such an important game. Sod relegation battles, sod mid-table nothingness - this is huge and very exciting, in a way I think we all need to embrace the buildup and enjoy it because as a football fan you don't experience games like this very often (Well not for us anyway) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saints67 Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 I'm just guessing but Wednesday will be bad, thursday will be worse, friday unbearable and Saturday morning will be unbelieveably tense. However Saturday afternoon by 2.30pm you'll be wondering what all the fuss was about! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertie Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 I can't think about anything else - even Messi missing that penalty against Chelsea just now only temporarily took my mind of Sat. I couldn't get through this morning for ticket - will be in Taunton - anyone around to watch it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northant Saint Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 I spent a whole hour this morning looking at odds on betting websites. I need to be put down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyD Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 i am in auto pilot this week. Had to take Friday off work as I'm better at home - work is irritating me more than normal. Saying that, cava is now extra extra chilled (just felt it) God - I hope I am sipping that come Saturday ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 Chill and enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 Chill and enjoy it. Trying to, but not finding it easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_Donovan Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 I feel sick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yamms_schmitz Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 How am I possibly going to focus on anything else. I will need a few night caps on Friday to get me off to sleep. Southampton Business industries will be rather slow this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatlesaint Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 i am in auto pilot this week. Had to take Friday off work as I'm better at home - work is irritating me more than normal. Bloody hell, I had to check to make sure I hadn't written that. You are living my life this week mate :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Kirkup Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 At least most of you guys have work to try and take your mind off it. I've been on garden leave for 3 months and have spent almost the whole time on this bloody forum, reading every new post as it happens. The last few weeks have been unbearable thinking about all the different permutations before and after every game. I should be looking for a job but just can't get my head together. The missus is praying we win sat so I can relax and do some stuff around the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 I felt like this right up until the final whistle of the Leicester - West Ham game. Now I feel strangely chilled about it now it is down to just one home game. I hope the players are cool too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Didcot Saint Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 I am feeling more confident the more I think about it, having said that, my nerves are shot to **** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 Only Tuesday and I can barely take it. Maybe find something else to do for the next 4 days. I wasn't remotely nervous about the Boro game and utterly bricking it after 10 minutes of Leicester v West Ham. For now I'm fine again, but come half 11 on Saturday when the team news breaks, I'll be hyper and/or paranoid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 Just like last Friday, I don't think I'll get much sleep this Friday. I may try drinking on Friday to send me to sleep, couldn't do it last week due to the 4am alarm and the drive from Fareham to Newcastle. I'm really busy at work which helps, working 13 hour nights so it's sleep/work/sleep/work till I get home Friday morning. Then the fun starts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLOTH EARS Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 Be cool man. Sit down crack open a cold one and enjoy the ride....to the Premier League!!! ...ohhhh yeeeaaaaahhhhhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clapham Saint Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 At least most of you guys have work to try and take your mind off it. I've been on garden leave for 3 months and have spent almost the whole time on this bloody forum, reading every new post as it happens. The last few weeks have been unbearable thinking about all the different permutations before and after every game. I should be looking for a job but just can't get my head together. The missus is praying we win sat so I can relax and do some stuff around the house. Are you Corp Ho in disguise? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raging Bull Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 I felt like this right up until the final whistle of the Leicester - West Ham game. Now I feel strangely chilled about it now it is down to just one home game. I hope the players are cool too. Their probably laughing at us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 24 April, 2012 Share Posted 24 April, 2012 Their probably laughing at us! They're hopefully not! If any of them read this madhouse they have no chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamesaint Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 I have been relaxed since the end of Leicester v West Ham. For weeks I have been nervous with all the what ifs often acting on the Geoff Boycott batting principle - "things look good now but if we lose our next game and they win their next the table will look ....." Now though I feel strangely relaxed and am counting the hours until 12.30 saturday. I cannot wait. we know what we have to do. We can do it. Lets go and do it. Last night I had my first dream about Saturday. We were not playing well but were leading 1 0 in the 70th minute when I woke up. I wonder if I get to see the final 20 minutes tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Give it to Ron Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 I have loads of bum twitching games this week, my lads Saturday side need to win at least 2 of their 3 games to win their league this week, Saints on Saturday and then my lads Tyro cup final at Totton on Sunday. Loo rolls are in the fridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truesaint Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 (edited) Im glad its not just me! To be honest i go from feeling sick, worried, pessimistic, nervous, excited etc. In fact the nerves are shot away and i have even got bad eczema at the moment as a reasult of the stress!!!! Its pathetic really when you think how many other things in the world are a bloody site more important. Dosent matter though as still cant get it out my head. Ive seen us snatch defeat from the jaws of victory so many times that i just have this dread that we will do it again. I want to believe, I really do but just cant believe yet that Saints have changed despite the great times we have had over the last few years. I think after so many years of expecting the worse its a hard habit to break. Work is getting on my nerves and i am definatly more snappy with people and a lot less tolerant! The thing is ive made this personnel in my head. My personnel life became pretty sh1t around the same time Saints got relegated from the prem and i probably focused too much on the football to compensate. In the last few years everything has turned around and now i am happier than i have ever been. This is the final thing that would rule a line under everything thats gone before. See how pathetic ive made it, a shrink would have a field day with me, lol But heres to believing or at least wanting to. I just hope the boys have as much passion and feeling on Saturday as we all do! Just re read this and i sound like a loon! Edited 25 April, 2012 by Truesaint sounding like a loon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpbury Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 I am so glad the final games are on at 12:30 (9:30pm) over here. The amount of 2am and 5am finishes I have ended up listening/watching/reading about have reallly stuffed up family and work life. I will be glad when the season's over - not really bothered about Euros or Olympics, didn't even know about Chelsea result til I read some of these posts - good for them, pleased to see an Énglish'side in the final. But whatever, these next days are goinng to drag. Like a lot of people, I nice little time tunnnel to Sat (night in my case) is what's needed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SO16_Saint Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 Did anyone else watch the chelsea match last night and think that that is how Saturday will pan out....saints having all the play, possession and not be able to score? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puddings and Monkeys Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 What a bunch of ****ing jessies. Man up FFS you spineless wimps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 Did anyone else watch the chelsea match last night and think that that is how Saturday will pan out....saints having all the play, possession and not be able to score?Saints are not Barcelona, and Coventry are definitely not Chelsea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 Im glad its not just me! To be honest i go from feeling sick, worried, pessimistic, nervous, excited etc. In fact the nerves are shot away and i have even got bad eczema at the moment as a reasult of the stress!!!! Its pathetic really when you think how many other things in the world are a bloody site more important. Dosent matter though as still cant get it out my head. Ive seen us snatch defeat from the jaws of victory so many times that i just have this dread that we will do it again. I want to believe, I really do but just cant believe yet that Saints have changed despite the great times we have had over the last few years. I think after so many years of expecting the worse its a hard habit to break. Work is getting on my nerves and i am definatly more snappy with people and a lot less tolerant! The thing is ive made this personnel in my head. My personnel life became pretty sh1t around the same time Saints got relegated from the prem and i probably focused too much on the football to compensate. In the last few years everything has turned around and now i am happier than i have ever been. This is the final thing that would rule a line under everything thats gone before. See how pathetic ive made it, a shrink would have a field day with me, lol But heres to believing or at least wanting to. I just hope the boys have as much passion and feeling on Saturday as we all do! Just re read this and i sound like a loon!I think much of this emotion is based on the assumption that we might be on the verge of achieving something monumentally unbelievable. It is being built up to much more than what it actually is - just the next step in the plan (ahead of schedule). It might seem that way, but it will be nothing compared to actually staying there once we make it. Saints have a history of doing what is required on the last day more often than not. There is no reason to feel that this weekend will not follow suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazing Hangover Posted 25 April, 2012 Author Share Posted 25 April, 2012 Im glad its not just me! To be honest i go from feeling sick, worried, pessimistic, nervous, excited etc. In fact the nerves are shot away and i have even got bad eczema at the moment as a reasult of the stress!!!! Its pathetic really when you think how many other things in the world are a bloody site more important. Dosent matter though as still cant get it out my head. Ive seen us snatch defeat from the jaws of victory so many times that i just have this dread that we will do it again. I want to believe, I really do but just cant believe yet that Saints have changed despite the great times we have had over the last few years. I think after so many years of expecting the worse its a hard habit to break. Work is getting on my nerves and i am definatly more snappy with people and a lot less tolerant! The thing is ive made this personnel in my head. My personnel life became pretty sh1t around the same time Saints got relegated from the prem and i probably focused too much on the football to compensate. In the last few years everything has turned around and now i am happier than i have ever been. This is the final thing that would rule a line under everything thats gone before. See how pathetic ive made it, a shrink would have a field day with me, lol But heres to believing or at least wanting to. I just hope the boys have as much passion and feeling on Saturday as we all do! Just re read this and i sound like a loon! When you look at the way it makes or breaks your day/weekend/month/year/life - it is pathetic - but it does. Absolutely no idea why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theplayer Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 However you're feeling right now, it will get worse! But it will be worth it in the Premier League. Kick-off times all over the place because Sky TV own English football! Incompetent referee's replaced by corrupt referee's! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Boy Saint Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 Pretty laid back, although having a Daughter looking to be blowing her A levels by going off at bizarre tangents with her essays and course work, and not taking on board advice or guidance from stupid parents reminds me that there is another world outside the red and white stripes. And to be honest a greater concern at possibly having to pick her up and dust her down as much as she will allow over the next few months, has proved to be an un expected distraction. Might be a tad different driving down the M3 on Saturday morning mind! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank's cousin Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 I feel fricken ecstatic! Look where we were when Markus and NC took over, look at the table now, today and tell me you are not fricken happy and impressed by all that has hapened in the last 3 years. For Maurkus's legacy, for the graft and drive (often meeting some resistence) of NC, for the staff that have lived through it, For NIGE who has just been a phenomemnal prescence with his infectious enthusiasm, for teh players who have worked tehir nuts off getting fitter and improving and ensuring that spirit of togetherness is unyielding, but above all for the long suffering fans - WE DESERVE where we are and we deserve to go up... we now have an opportunity over 90 mins to show it against a side who deserve our respect for the way they have tried to deal with their own crisis, yet have been doomed by their desire to avoid extra debt... we will win, we will celebrate and we will be happy. As a football fan, last game of the season promotion opportunities are rare, they should be embraced and above all enjoyed - we shoudl feel privalaged that we wrea in this position not scared, so come on, put the nerves away and enjoy the tension and buold up - its why we are fans afterall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 However you're feeling right now, it will get worse! But it will be worth it in the Premier League. Kick-off times all over the place because Sky TV own English football! Incompetent referee's replaced by corrupt referee's! I doubt we'll have as many games moved for tv if we're in the PRem next year as we have had this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suomi Saint Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 My nerves have been shot for the best part of 2 weeks now. Pathetic really - I am 50 years old and don't live in the area anymore. I was describing the situation last night to my wife - who is Finnish - and she thought the mass hysteria was hilarious. I likened it to the tension surrounding the World Ice Hockey Final between Finland and Sweden..... I hope we give Coventry the same treatment that the Finns gave the Swedes (6-1) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 Get a grip FFS It's a game. A huge game but get a grip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Keith Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 had a dream last night. we were 1-0 down with a minute to go. lambert scores a penalty, then lallana volleys in from 25 yards and i have a heart attack... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpturner Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 (edited) had a dream last night. we were 1-0 down with a minute to go. lambert scores a penalty, then lallana volleys in from 25 yards and i have a heart attack...If we are 1-0 down with a minute to go, my heart-attack will probably precede the other events you describe. Edited 25 April, 2012 by kpturner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Wayman Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 It's nervy, but it's bloody exciting. This is exactly why you support football teams, to go and fill the ground for such an important game. Sod relegation battles, sod mid-table nothingness - this is huge and very exciting, in a way I think we all need to embrace the buildup and enjoy it because as a football fan you don't experience games like this very often (Well not for us anyway) It's only the second division for goodness sake. We've been up twice before and back down. Get a grip. We'll be down again before very long no doubt. I was there for both promotion clinching games and you do feel good afterwards. If you hang around long enough it all becomes common place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modern matron Posted 25 April, 2012 Share Posted 25 April, 2012 73 hours away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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