Championship Playoffs

[Interpol Shrimper]

I have to say much kudos to our new friends, the Southampton fans for in the main going bedecked in yellow to Pride Park, they fully sold out their 5,000 tickets and some of the shots of the away-end look well impressive!

Oh & nice new yellow away kit too, Southampton FC, mainly the reason as to why they're all wearing yellow and going mad at evefry set-piece with Uxbridge Shrimper's (oh & Yorkshire Blue's too) favourite chant "YELLLLOOOOOOOWWWS"

 

[Jay_Shrimper]

Are they playing tonight, then? Whats the score?

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

2-2 five minutes to go, Derby 4-3 on agg

 

[Grayson]

Derby won 4-2 on pens, after the match ended 3-2 Saints.

 

[JoshC]

argh damn it!

 

[Smiffy]

About 10,000 fans on the pitch aswell...

A little fine coming their way then

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

About 10,000 fans on the pitch aswell...

Yep, talk about over celebrating, you would have thought they had won promotion tonight by the way the fans reacted!

 

[Pubey]

i tell you what... both legs of the tie were probably up there as 2 of the best games ive watched (on telly) this season... for a neutral it was great football

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Gutted for the Saints fans, I like to think there was a little piece of Southend United in their hearts as we taught them the true meaning of supporters whilst at St Marys!

Think I might take a trip over to that Saints forum to offer my comiserations!

I was quite fancying us trying to get Leon Best in on loan as he did well for Yeovil at L1 level but not after last night's showing, think Leon Constantine but with less of a first touch (that's saying something!), not a lot he could have done about the own-goal (although for me that's the danger of this new trend of pulling stirkers back for set-pieces) plus one of the worst penalties you're ever likely to see.

Derby play horrible horrible football, last night until Barnes came on (clearly only half-fit) they were very one-dimensional lumping the ball up to Stevie Howard, very very physical too I thought. A shame as I'd say technically Southampton were the better football side! Burley will need to be careful they don't suffer a playoffs hangover!

 

[Mr. Benedict]

Bit of a shame, I'd rather have seen Saints go up than Derby. Hopefully West Brom (can't see Wolves beating them) will do them in the final.
Hopefully Southampton can regroup and get automatic promotion next term...

 

[C C Csiders]

Gutted for the Saints.

But watching that match last night really brought home the gulf between the top sides in the Championship and ourselves.

 

[SUFC_Al]

Really wanted saints to win it, i was cheering their goals in the pub.

Agree with C C Csiders, the gulf in class between teams like that and us is huge.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Agree with C C Csiders, the gulf in class between teams like that and us is huge.

So is our turnover and probably bank balance though! :(

 

[SUFC_Al]

So is our turnover and probably bank balance though! :(

certainly is, Derby spent millions this season, the best we done was a new set of football kit, training balls, cones and a signed photograph of Frankie Banks :rolleyes:

 

[Shrimper2thecore]

Saits really unlucky, when they lost at home, I thought that we screwed, but to come back was a great effort!!