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E65Ross said:
I don't expect us to progress but Chelsea aren't very strong at the moment. Neither are Man Utd, I think Tottenham will get past them.
Yeah i think we will struggle against Chelsea and then it will be a Spuds v Chelsea final and Spuds will still not win even though they are the better team focus has to be to the league now and to somehow getting Carillo and Gabbi scoring
fingers crossed Austin will be back in the next couple and pop up with the few goals we will need
Not over yet, but can't see us getting anything against Arsenal this weekend or Chelsea the week after.
That leaves a trip to Leicester (perhaps a draw), a must-win game at home to Bournemouth, then trips to Everton and Swansea where I reckon we'll need a win and a draw. I won't count the last game of the season, if it comes to us needing something from that then no hope.
So that would be 7 or 8 points. I think Palace and Swansea have an 'easier' fixture list so I expect them to survive, which leaves Huddersfield. My optimistic side reckons they'll struggle to pick up more than a win and a couple of draws, so we might scrape 17th place on goal difference...
That leaves a trip to Leicester (perhaps a draw), a must-win game at home to Bournemouth, then trips to Everton and Swansea where I reckon we'll need a win and a draw. I won't count the last game of the season, if it comes to us needing something from that then no hope.
So that would be 7 or 8 points. I think Palace and Swansea have an 'easier' fixture list so I expect them to survive, which leaves Huddersfield. My optimistic side reckons they'll struggle to pick up more than a win and a couple of draws, so we might scrape 17th place on goal difference...
Fluid said:
This is the most passion I have seen Saints play with for a long time.
To little to late? Who knows, but the first I’ve seen a “team” playing for Southampton, for what seems forever.
Feel sorry for Jack Stephens there.To little to late? Who knows, but the first I’ve seen a “team” playing for Southampton, for what seems forever.
Wilshere, the little prick, made no attempt to play the ball, just dragging the man back till his shirt was almost ripped off his back. Stephens retaliates and gets a red, Wilshere a yellow. Should have been either both red or both yellow.
DocJock said:
It's time that all deliberate foul play was made a straight red card offence.
You can't accidentally pull someone's shirt or hold them. All this "it was a good foul to make" b
ks needs removing from the game. It's not a 'professional foul', it's cheating.
That's the point Doc, the ref applied the rules correctly. It's the rules that are wrong..... Wilshere was too slow to catch up with Stephens so had to cheat in order to stop him. In return, he gets the same punishment as a player going into the crowd to celebrate a late winner.You can't accidentally pull someone's shirt or hold them. All this "it was a good foul to make" b
ks needs removing from the game. It's not a 'professional foul', it's cheating.That doesn't seem right to me.
DocJock said:
I completely agree. The laws were formulated when players rarely cheated. We now have ex-player, pundits encouraging this nonsense rather than condemning it.
I'd also like to see the refs strictly applying the law on dissent.
Agree with that too. I'd also like to see the refs strictly applying the law on dissent.
The made a half hearted attempt a few seasons ago but messed it up. If a player was yellow carded for dissent after a foul etc, the ball was moved forward ten yards. If that meant the ball was moved into the penalty box on a direct free kick, it became a penalty. Almost a good idea, except for one thing. Believe it or not, most refs don't REALLY want to give out yellow cards, so they accepted a certain level of dissent rather than show the yellow card. That meant the "moving the ball forward ten yards" didn't get used so much.
If they had tweaked it to ALL dissent, and not just cautionable offences, it would have worked. Might have been chaos for a few weeks but surely would have calmed the games down and certainly prevented a lot of those crowding around the ref scenes all too prevalent these days.
I look at the fixture list and can't see any hope now.I have been foolish enough to buy a ticket to next weekend's Wembley semi final.
At least it was only a cheap one up in the Gods.
To be honest, I'm more worried that we actually stay up, we will no doubt lose a number of our 'better' players anyway, at least in the Championship we will be able to rebuild over a year or two (unless we do a Sunderland and have a double relegation).
At least it was only a cheap one up in the Gods.
To be honest, I'm more worried that we actually stay up, we will no doubt lose a number of our 'better' players anyway, at least in the Championship we will be able to rebuild over a year or two (unless we do a Sunderland and have a double relegation).
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