So much pessimism, I still have soton saved by goal diff on the last day condemning West Ham.
The championship is not a place you want to be. Widely regarded as the toughest league in Europe it's a different place to what it was when Palace were going up and down every other season. Players leave, receipts go down, everything needs to be restructured and every other team is settled and in their groove. I'm not seeing many bounce backs recently. Your away match mileage will probably go up a lot too?
I'm pessimistic about my lot though to be frank, 30 seems to big for the drop and I like to have a small consolation to offset some of the misery of going down. I suppose I've just seen too many years when we've snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. At one point I thought we'd officially changed our name to 'sorry 10 men Palace'. Prices like 2.1 for us to beat Lei are crazy.
I've been rooting for soton in the (sweet) FA cup, but only because it's been a distraction you clearly didn't need. If I supported a top flight club it would be different but at the bottom everyone is a threat.
My thoughts on Southampton
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ruthlessimon
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Surprised Swansea conceded 5 - that's really messed up their goal diff.
If Saints beat Bournemouth - which they bloody should (if we can't, we deserve to go down) - but also I think at the back of their minds the Bournemouth folk (& players) would like to see Saints stay up, & hopefully won't be as sharp as they can be.
Swansea away then decides who of the two goes down. God that game will be tense!
But the really fascinating game is Stoke vs Swansea on the last day. God knows how that affects things!! Someone needs to create a result permutation matrix!
If Saints beat Bournemouth - which they bloody should (if we can't, we deserve to go down) - but also I think at the back of their minds the Bournemouth folk (& players) would like to see Saints stay up, & hopefully won't be as sharp as they can be.
Swansea away then decides who of the two goes down. God that game will be tense!
But the really fascinating game is Stoke vs Swansea on the last day. God knows how that affects things!! Someone needs to create a result permutation matrix!
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ShaunWhite
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Why would Bournmouth want to see you stay up, don't you have any local rivalry down there 
Any other derby and you'd expect sparks especially when one's still new to the pl and suffered years of watching the other in the limelight.
Results matrix : I've done little else since mid February, as usual.
Any other derby and you'd expect sparks especially when one's still new to the pl and suffered years of watching the other in the limelight. Results matrix : I've done little else since mid February, as usual.
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ruthlessimon
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Is there a big Saints Bournemouth rivalry? Pompey certainly , but not sure about Bournemouth
But my opinion does certainly bias it, as I was desperate to see Bournemouth get promoted to the prem - & last season I didn't want to see Bournemouth go down.
It's probably down to the fact I don't remember many (any!!) games against Bournemouth when Saints were languishing in the champ
But my opinion does certainly bias it, as I was desperate to see Bournemouth get promoted to the prem - & last season I didn't want to see Bournemouth go down.
It's probably down to the fact I don't remember many (any!!) games against Bournemouth when Saints were languishing in the champ