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