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Easy to say delldays but it means everything. I'm gonna be devastated if we don't clinch promotion on Saturday.

it easy to say...it is a huge game....means a great deal

 

but life goes on..and to take time off work leading up to it suggests losing a grip on reality

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Gone sick for two days, just spending time in the pub, cannot get enough of Saints leading up to this match! Really excited but deep down ****ting it!

 

Wish I could shut this out till 10am saturday when it is pub time and COYS!

 

Dear oh dear,what would you do in the event of a real crisis..hide in the coalshed or something?

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Hmm, I'm dealing with it by doing things exactly as normal apart from going to the pub 3 hours earlier than for a 3pm kick-off on Saturday. We shall see how my sleep is on Friday night, but other than that... what's the panic ?

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Gone sick for two days, just spending time in the pub, cannot get enough of Saints leading up to this match! Really excited but deep down ****ting it!

 

Wish I could shut this out till 10am saturday when it is pub time and COYS!

 

Jesus.

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You need to grow some balls man. You're telling us you have a job and yet you've bunked a couple of days off cos you can't cope with this coming match. I'm out of work, have 2 kids under 5 and a mortgage and you can't handle a football match. I just wish I knew where you worked.

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Why dont you just STFU and let fellow Saints fans share their experiences without ridicule or c*ck swinging ?

get lost will you...a grown man taking time off work SICK because he can't cope with an up and coming football match that he won't be playing in.......yet god cows how many people are out of work and would give everything to be where he is...

 

things in life are just more important I guess

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Dear oh dear,what would you do in the event of a real crisis..hide in the coalshed or something?

Believe me I have dealt with real crisis in my life! Those I have mainly had some say in or been able to influence the outcome! Saturday I cannot...anyway I was asking fans/supporters/superfans/the best singers/the best dressed fans/most travelled fans/internet fans how they were dealing with the situation? So whilst hiding in a coalshed is not something I would consider, I just want to know how people are dealing with it!

So **** off Window Licker! ;-)

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get lost will you...a grown man taking time off work SICK because he can't cope with an up and coming football match that he won't be playing in.......yet god cows how many people are out of work and would give everything to be where he is...

 

things in life are just more important I guess

 

Its a matter for his conscience and his employers disciplinary rules.

 

Just for once f**king bite your tongue and stop passing judgement on others.

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Believe me I have dealt with real crisis in my life! Those I have mainly had some say in or been able to influence the outcome! Saturday I cannot...anyway I was asking fans/supporters/superfans/the best singers/the best dressed fans/most travelled fans/internet fans how they were dealing with the situation? So whilst hiding in a coalshed is not something I would consider, I just want to know how people are dealing with it!

So **** off Window Licker! ;-)

 

So how did you deal with real life crisis? You're not giving the impression as being the sort of chap you'd want beside you in the bunkers are you?

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Gone sick for two days, just spending time in the pub, cannot get enough of Saints leading up to this match! Really excited but deep down ****ting it!

 

Wish I could shut this out till 10am saturday when it is pub time and COYS!

 

For me it's a bit like having a mistress.

 

When you don't have one it sounds fantastic and you think it's going to be exciting and thrilling.

 

Then you have one and realise that as well as the excitement and thrills (choose carefully fellas...) it's also bloody nerve wracking and you're never sure whether that feeling of happy-anxiety is anticipation or nausea...

 

The idea of a last day decider is just like this. Sounds brilliant. Might be brilliant. Might also end really badly and cost you a fortune, and you'll wish you never entertained it...

 

Of course, on the upside, no-one on Saturday will set light to your wardrobe, douse your motor in paint-stripper and attack your gentlemen's jewels with a pair of secateurs....*

 

(*Unless you live in Pompey).

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While perspective is needed and it's just sport, I remember when we were relegated and some fan was crying in a photo (which you'd find with any relegated club of course), and a newspaper columnist (non-sport) commented how pathetic it was and that there were real problems in the world. That annoyed me, because initial reaction is different. I'm sure that person and everyone else quickly moved on and gained some perspective, but that comment seemed to suggest we're not allowed to feel emotion about anything that isn't ridiculously serious. Even then, surely it could always be worse? Lost a leg, get over it, you didn't lose two. I'm not sure where the line is.

 

But that's more about the aftermath rather than the build-up. I can't comprehend taking time off work due to nerves over the build-up. Post-fck up depression day off...well I can understand more if not condone it, but surely what most people are feeling in the build-up is 99% excitement 1% nerves? Why be a football fan if you can't enjoy stuff like this? With some on here I really question at what point the enjoyment comes, because I don't see it, in any position of any league.

 

I would suggest accepting that people are different and deal with different issues in different ways. Then move on.

 

The OP wrote "how are you dealing with this?", not "what do you think of the way I am dealing with this ?"

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Why dont you just STFU and let fellow Saints fans share their experiences without ridicule or c*ck swinging ?

 

To be fair Alps, does sound a little strange - the issue of promotion or not does need to be placed in some sort of 'life' context - and when it is, its hardly 'devastating'?

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While perspective is needed and it's just sport, I remember when we were relegated and some fan was crying in a photo (which you'd find with any relegated club of course), and a newspaper columnist (non-sport) commented how pathetic it was and that there were real problems in the world. That annoyed me, because initial reaction is different. I'm sure that person and everyone else quickly moved on and gained some perspective, but that comment seemed to suggest we're not allowed to feel emotion about anything that isn't ridiculously serious. Even then, surely it could always be worse? Lost a leg, get over it, you didn't lose two. I'm not sure where the line is.

 

But that's more about the aftermath rather than the build-up. I can't comprehend taking time off work due to nerves over the build-up. Post-fck up depression day off...well I can understand more if not condone it, but surely what most people are feeling in the build-up is 99% excitement 1% nerves? Why be a football fan if you can't enjoy stuff like this? With some on here I really question at what point the enjoyment comes, because I don't see it, in any position of any league.

 

I cried at the end of Toy Story 3, doesn't mean I don't have a grip on reality. I don't. But crying at Toy Story 3 is not prima facie evidence. Of more concern is spending time on here talking to people only three of whom I have ever knowingly met... That shows a total lack of perspective on anything, to be brutally frank.

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Gone sick for two days, just spending time in the pub, cannot get enough of Saints leading up to this match! Really excited but deep down ****ting it!

 

Wish I could shut this out till 10am saturday when it is pub time and COYS!

I am glad you don't work for me! :D
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I'll be a bit depressed if we lose this but for me it's a bid sad if Saints are all that matters to you. I have 3 super kids and a job I quite enjoy so I think I'll be starting to get over it by mid next week.

 

You are clearly not a SuperFan like me. I think you either need to shape up or steer clear from SMS. No room for your sort.

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This place is great, makes my 2 1/2 year old look like a responsible adult who never throws whobblers or gets in a tis about anything.

 

IT'S "WOBBLERS" FOR FCKING FCKS SAKE!!!!!! :x:x:x:x:x ;)

 

I am not stressed.

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You are clearly not a SuperFan like me. I think you either need to shape up or steer clear from SMS. No room for your sort.

 

No-one without an Itchen Bridge post-match no-bungee Queue Jump ticket is a SuperFan.

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Are you challenging my SuperFan status?

 

It was certainly implied. I suggest face painting at dawn, or a "who can blow up the most balloons in 5 minutes" death match. Clown costumes compulsory.

 

Actually, make it Saturday around 12:30, not sure I'm doing anything.

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In the immortal word of Bill Shankly: Some people say football's a matter of life and death. That's ridiculous. It's far more important.

 

Yeah, pretty sure most of Liverpool disowned that one around mid-April 1989.

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Me I am working harder than I have ever worked so that the time passes even quicker. I will not be watching, listening or even on here on Sat. I have all 3 kids to take out all day Sat so will just be iPhone score updates. So hopefully I will be smiling and jumping round a zoo or a play centre like a madman. Will sky + the game and watch when the wife is out later and the kids are in bed. Few beers I hope!

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