Match Day Thread Northampton Town vs Saints - Tuesday, August 12 - 19:45 KO

You still can have a career as a Championship referee though.

 

I know you are a positive thinker No7 and that's fine too, it would be no good if it was all doom and gloom on here either. Room for both I think.
I just had a feeling that people were being discouraged from posting their (negative) thoughts.
I thought that if I didn't say something now, I would have to start feeling positive myself and that would lead to;

Unrealistic predictions
Being able to identify the players again
Being able to watch more than 10 minutes on a dodgy stream without thinking they (the opposition) are going to score soon
Happily checking the fixture list and league tables after a run of 5 defeats and with Pompey up next
Thinking we played great after losing to Pompey
Driving past the stadium without a deep sigh
Wondering if we should actually see a match sometime
Actually seeing a match sometime

And what will all that lead to? It will lead to me and Mrs G sitting somewhere in the Northam/Kingsland corner where we had seats 4 years ago, our shiny new season tickets in our hands. I will think back to this day, smile to myself and think " I'm so glad I listened to No7, I like the embryo of what I see too".



But that ain't going to happen. I've not spent the last 4 years persuading myself that "I don't really care that much anymore" to throw it all away over a happy clapper's pep talk. I'm in with the neg heads now and I'm happy with that.

 

Match
Day

 

OB Wan-kenobi?

 

I think that’s pretty close

 

I'm thinking this

McCarthy
Welington THB Stephens Manning
Charles Sesay
Fraser Armstrong BBD
Stewart

Think Still likes Adam and knows he is a confidence player and wants to give him minutes

 

As a dedicated glass-half-full kind of guy, I’d like to mention what I found amusing in the Wrexham performance … after we won of course

Will started with no actual No9 and arguably 4 on the bench and too many defenders, consequently we couldn’t score. He then brought 3 No9s on and it resulted in defenders creating and scoring the winning goals (Charles, Manning, Jack)

We win AND we learn

 

That’s him. Irish midfielder. Scored a bunch for the u21s last season and then went on loan to Accrington and scored a few for them.

(Joe O’Brien-Whitmarsh)

 

Didn't Wellington come off with a strain. If so, I don't think he would start. Might be good to get Edwards back out there. 4-3-3/4-2-3-1: McCarthy, Edwards, Stephens, Harwood-Bellis, Manning, Charles, Downes, Fraser, Armstrong, Archer and Stewart.

 

Really looking forward to this, be a nice ground to tick off the list.

Gonna be ****ing scorchio though. High 20s at KO.

 

You're just a **** Southampton

 

Super annoying that this one sold out so quickly as would have loved to have gone to this one.

Hope WS fields a strong side and we get through to the next round.

I'm going 1-3

COYR

 

Yeah me too, just down the road from me. Can’t seem to get on the away games ladder.

 

Me to, 1-3 to the super soaraway Saints

 

There's seats in the home end available.

I'll give you a wave

 

When the draw was made my mind went back to Pardew’s team taking on Northampton in the same cup with a fairly decent lower league striker making his debut. Glad to say I was there in a half empty St Marys when he opened the scoring. Some talk that this chappie - Rickie something - went on to become a legend. So come on, anyone in the team fancy following his path?

 

Interesting that the only times we've played Northampton this century we've drawn them in both domestic cups in the same season.

Maybe we'll welcome them to St Mary's in January.

 

I'd be ****ing terrible undercover in the home end. In news which will probably surprise no one, my poker face isn't great if/when the game isn't going our way

 

Hull mate. No ****er ever wants to go to Hull. That's your best bet

 

Sheffield United probably won't even sell out.