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The Championship 23/24 Thread

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by Shandy_top_89, Apr 2, 2023.

  1. Shandy_top_89

    Shandy_top_89 Well-Known Member

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    Vestergaard so corrosive that he ****s it up for us from another club.

    5 points from Ipswich given where we were is not terrible though, lets keep on going.
     
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  2. Saints_Alive

    Saints_Alive Well-Known Member

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    Just shows how quickly it can change, 3 games ago we were 12 points adrift of the autos and a GD that was +4 compared to Ipswich's +19 and now it's cut to 5 points and we are only one goal less than Ipswich on GD.
     
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  3. Brinkworth Saint

    Brinkworth Saint Well-Known Member

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    Been saying that for a while, it's a long season.
     
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  4. SaintsFan86

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    On current form Ipswich are dropping out of the top 2.
     
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  5. Che’s Godlike Thighs

    Che’s Godlike Thighs Well-Known Member

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    Only 4 goals conceded. :1980_boogie_down:
     
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  6. RSS

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    We will lose a game at some point. Important thing is how we respond to that. Needs to be a one off when it comes and bounce straight back into another good run of results.
    Ipswich are on a tough run of fixtures right now whilst we are on a favourable run so not going to take this as Ipswich having capitulated just yet!
    Next up for us is Plymouth who can give anyone a good game and they know how to score goals. It won’t be easy on Friday but we need to keep winning these games! Leeds away to West Brom who are a bit hot and cold but should be a tough game for Leeds. Ipswich are home to QPR which you’d expect them to win and Leicester away to Cardiff which you’d also expect them to win.
     
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  7. Paddy Podped

    Paddy Podped Well-Known Member

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    I will continue to say the sane thing I’ve said loads of times already. While it’s nice to see our current position going up, final total points are the most important thing here.

    Therefore I took very little interest tonight in the Ipswich Leicester game.


    Statistically 90 is, on average, what we need to get 2nd.

    If we get there and Ipswich (or Leeds) are ahead of us, fair dos, they were too good.

    If we don’t make it to 90, we only go up if we were lucky that Ipswich (and Leeds) also weren’t good enough.


    It’s only in the last 5 games I’ll take an interest in the other teams’ specific results as to where that final threshold actually ends up being.


    Until then, we have 22 games to get 42 points. Ipswich have 22 games to get 37.


    Expending so much emotional energy on other teams’ individual results for the next 22 gages is not good for you!!
     
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  8. st_brendy

    st_brendy Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    It is a long season, yes. And Ipswich current form isn't top 2 standard, yes. However, Norwich-Leeds-Leicester is a nasty set of consecutive fixtures. It's hardly representative of what they faced before, or will face after.

    It'll be interesting to see how they respond from here. Will they immediately get back on track again, or will these three results spiral into something far more damaging?

    All we can do is to continue winning.
     
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  9. tomw24

    tomw24 Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    I don't think you can rely on stats for this season. Currently, there are 3 teams on pace for 90+ points with Leeds in the high 80's. That is unprecedented.
     
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  10. Le Tissier's Laces

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  11. SaintsFan86

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    We have no idea where Leicester, Ipswich and Leeds will be come the end of the season, so I’m happy for both teams to drop points.
     
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  13. Le Tissier's Laces

    Le Tissier's Laces Well-Known Member

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    Thank you! That's what I was trying to do! <laugh>
     
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  14. SaintsFan86

    SaintsFan86 Well-Known Member

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    You're welcome, I don't know why sometimes it doesn't load up.

    But I am aware that some members don't have access to Twitter.
     
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  15. Ronnie Hotdog (MLsfc)

    Ronnie Hotdog (MLsfc) Well-Known Member

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    I suppose you could say the same for Sunderland, Ipswich, Leicester and Boro - the only losses we have had this season which just happened to be back to back.
     
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  16. st_brendy

    st_brendy Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    Absolutely. Further evidence for not extracting any sort of meaningful conclusion from such a small sample size.
     
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  17. Schad

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    It's an issue with the way the forum is coded. I raised it with the admins a while back: the forum's code automatically formats Twitter links as [twitter][/twitter], which displays the tweet in-line, but Twitter isn't Twitter anymore...it's X. So if you post an x.com link, the forum has no idea what to do with it; if you manually remove x.com from the link and replace it with twitter.com, it works.

    The simplest solution would be to introduce a language filter that autoconverts x.com back to twitter.com, but that hasn't happened yet.
     
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  18. SaintsFan86

    SaintsFan86 Well-Known Member

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    I see, that sounds simple enough I should think for those savvy with coding.
     
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  19. Schad

    Schad Well-Known Member

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    You'd think. It's been months though...for now unfortunately the only working option is to manually change the url for tweets back to twitter.com.
     
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  20. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace Forum Moderator

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    A simple work around is to click on Share Via on the tweet instead of Copy Link. If you then open in Safari or Chrome, or whatever, the URL magically comes up as a https://twitter.com/ link instead of X. Then just copy and paste that in to the Media portal on here, and your life has become sublime.
     
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