Match Thread Southampton - Coventry City Match Thread - Saturday 20th Dec (30 Viewers)

3-1 win with Grimes ( yes you heard correctly) Grimes to score or Lampard walks 🩵🩵

torchomatic said:

We're going down to this. Quite like the early KO. Going to be a tough game. Would settle for a point now.

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Staying over the night, going after work on Friday - I can't be arsed for the early alarm on Sat morning

Another interesting fixture. Difficult to predict. Saints on a run but just got halted so not so sure they are that good. Teams they played on that run not special. i would like to see us not lose at least. A loss and players heads will start questioning themselves. Up to FL to ensure that does not become a thing. If everyone plays well we can get our 3 points.

I would say 3 at the back is the best way to start, we can always change mid game as we did at Preston.

Paxman II said:

Another interesting fixture. Difficult to predict. Saints on a run but just got halted so not so sure they are that good. Teams they played on that run not special. i would like to see us not lose at least. A loss and players heads will start questioning themselves. Up to FL to ensure that does not become a thing. If everyone plays well we can get our 3 points.

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A minimum of 9 points above 3rd place if we lose after our hardest run of games for the whole season and the players would question themselves?

The same people questioning our players now were hoping to be within touching distance of the top 2 after this run of games. We even played the team in 2nd away twice in succession away from home and won both games. November and December were difficult but we've W6 D1 L1 so far. That's 2.375 points a game. Even if we lose to Southampton we will be averaging over 2 points a game for the difficult run. Then we have Swansea and Ipswich at home to see out the year.

We're on a fantastic run. W 12 D 1 L 2. That's 37 points in 15 games or 2.46 points a game. If we only get 37 points from our last 25 games the teams in 3rd or below would still need a minimum of 2 points a game to catch us up. We could do that losing 12 games out of the last 25. The best of the chasing pack are only averaging 1.66 points a game. If it continues like this promotion could be confirmed with about 8 games to go.

We don’t lose unless we’ve got 3 or 4 missing, full squad 2-1 cov,

Saints away is my nearest fixture. Would love to be there but I'll be in NY about to fly down to Ft Myers. Will catch what I can on my phone hopefully.
Feeling very confident we'll put on a show. We're a very good side and Saturdays win has put us back on the rails.
Soton 0-2 cov

SIR ERNIE said:

Saints away is my nearest fixture. Would love to be there but I'll be in NY about to fly down to Ft Myers. Will catch what I can on my phone hopefully.
Feeling very confident we'll put on a show. We're a very good side and Saturdays win has put us back on the rails.
Soton 0-2 cov

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Doesn't that make it your furthest away fixture?

Sometimes wish I still lived on the Isle of Wight. Zip over to Southampton on the Red Jet, taxi to the ground, watch game and back home by about 4pm.