I'm just happy not to be out...I do like a cup draw...even if we are either/or. What I don't want (fates are you listening?) is an EPL side....boring! I want the carrot to be an 'easier' draw preferably at SMS.....even if that means disappointing a lowly team hoping for a ManU or Liverpool. It will add spice to the game for Saints and Derby to know the next round is winnable. As for winning...Derby is a good side so no chickens being counted, but things surely must swing our way at home. Can't remember if I counted that bantam or not And I don't want Pompey...the chance of losing (and the subsequent pain) is too high a price to pay just for the chance of winning. You are dealing with a coward here....there is no sofa big enough for a Saints v Pompey game.
I do get that but just can't help myself, it would be utterly awful if they beat us though. I feel sick just thinking about the fact we could be one win away from meeting them. We'd probably lose to Derby anyway
We just don’t have a back 4 that’s good enough. We seem to be able to press enough for a time to keep the pressure off them but as soon as the opposition bite back due to going behind or changing to 442 the press breaks down. So with the current squad we need a 3rd CB. That actually helps the press sometimes as a defender can help the press knowing there’s cover. Though that can go wrong with the better teams if they bypass them eg Arsenal game and Bednarek
But Brendy said EPL suspensions are for EPL games only and I think that's what the rules say ... and Why 4, not 3?
Ralph says he will be back for the Everton game....said it was the only advantage of the replay. In Ralph, we trust. Brendy, not so much.
You think a cup game at Fratton is the same as a standard away? The biggest advantage of being at home is that because of the bubble, if we trampled them then they can't even leave. Can you imagine, 4000 crying Skates watching the 4th goal go in with twenty minutes to go still? They wouldn't be able to leave, they'd just have to stand there and take 28,000 people laughing at them for the rest of the match. It'd be ****ing marvellous.
