Great Escapes - past and present ... is this the best ?

[Dellman]

Sounds like you weren't at St Mary's 3-0 against Leeds with 20 mins to go...

 

Wasn't that Harry's last match in charge, or am I mistaken?

[S-Clarke]

What year? I lost the ability to remember every game years ago tbh.

 

Back in 2005 iirc?

 

Good times.

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

I saw that. Sunderland fans were well fed up and kept spitting at as as we left the ground.

 

I think that it was a six pointer and they went down

[Cabrone]

Didn't we wind 5-4 at Norwich in one of the 90s escapes and Tiss scored from a corner or something like that?

 

That was a great escape, this was a great FUBAR.

[Batman]

In the 98-99 season we (apparently) picked up 14 points from the first 60 available.!!!!!

 

We picked up just 6 points away from home before dellhurst Park and that included a win at Blackburn

 

Le Tiss only scored 7 league goals that campaign and we got a couple of pastings that season too

[colehillsaint]

Back in 2005 iirc?

 

Good times.

 

Umm. I was there and can vaguely remember, having looked it up. Early season, I had thought we looked good to go back up but it just melted away. The game was a shock turnaround.

Edited 10 May, 2018 by colehillsaint

[colehillsaint]

I think that it was a six pointer and they went down

 

Yes, they did. Must have been the penultimate game, or the one before that.

[manina-pub]

"THE great escape" will be Swansea's if we screw up on Sunday

[Toadhall Saint]

In the 98-99 season we (apparently) picked up 14 points from the first 60 available.!!!!!

 

We picked up just 6 points away from home before dellhurst Park and that included a win at Blackburn

 

Le Tiss only scored 7 league goals that campaign and we got a couple of pastings that season too

 

Yep. And some don’t realise just how good the last few years have been as a saints fan. Just a general observation

[Wes Tender]

Didn't we wind 5-4 at Norwich in one of the 90s escapes and Tiss scored from a corner or something like that?

 

That was a great escape, this was a great FUBAR.

 

See my post earlier, with some great lengthy you tube highlights of the match

[krissyboy31]

There was 1996. We were 0-0 with Wimbledon at home and City were up against Liverpool and it was 2-2 (they'd fought back from 2-0 down). The last 10 minutes whereby a goal for Wimbledon or City would relegate us was absolute torture.

 

If I recall. City thought 2-2 was enough and were celebrating (due to the dramatic comeback) only to discover they'd gone down on goal difference.

 

I remember Steve Lomas taking the ball to the corner flag, thinking the point was enough!

[EkonOkereke]

Always better in the 90's before Internet etc, Men with Radios up to ears, scores of other games slowly filtering through the ground, players battling like nutters. This "escape" was pathetic given the board should've changed Manager after we got spanked by Leicester.

[John Boy Saint]

Always better in the 90's before Internet etc, Men with Radios up to ears, scores of other games slowly filtering through the ground, players battling like nutters. This "escape" was pathetic given the board should've changed Manager after we got spanked by Leicester.

Think it’s still a bit like that today, except everyone has a mobile device all automatically clamouring for a mere hint of 4G and one lucky soul wins the lottery and gets just enough for a score update to be delivered to his phone, and casually mutters it to his mate sat alongside him loud enough for folks to hear and away the rumour goes like the opening credits to Mission Impossible.

That said Mrs JBS has a chap sat next to her, who turns up plugs in his earphones and listens to the Solent commentary whilst watching.

 

Back on topic - Should we succeed this couldn’t be classsed as great escape, just getting out of a situation we should never have found ourselves in. It’s more of a great escape for the dithering board.

The Great Escapes whilst confined at The Dell were achieved with the club operating at the extreme limits of its budget.

[Whitey Grandad]

Think it’s still a bit like that today, except everyone has a mobile device all automatically clamouring for a mere hint of 4G and one lucky soul wins the lottery and gets just enough for a score update to be delivered to his phone, and casually mutters it to his mate sat alongside him loud enough for folks to hear and away the rumour goes like the opening credits to Mission Impossible.

That said Mrs JBS has a chap sat next to her, who turns up plugs in his earphones and listens to the Solent commentary whilst watching.

 

Back on topic - Should we succeed this couldn’t be classsed as great escape, just getting out of a situation we should never have found ourselves in. It’s more of a great escape for the dithering board.

The Great Escapes whilst confined at The Dell were achieved with the club operating at the extreme limits of its budget.

 

Indeed. It will have been an escape, but not that great.