The Legend of Hugh Fisher is born... Fifty years ago we embarked on an FA Cup run which ultimately led to us winning the whole damn thing at Wembley Stadium on May 1st 1976.  I was 7, you do the maths.  With us being a Second Division side now and our away kit being yellow and blue (ish), I see no reason to doubt that come May, we won’t be celebrating lifting the FA Cup again.

Exit Finn, Pondering his life choices With no goals in their last seven hours of football, Middlesbrough must be licking their lips with anticipation at playing Southampton this Sunday afternoon. Saints of course kept to clean sheet in their last game, so it’s all adding up to there being absolutely no chance of that being repeated. Middlesbrough have been in the top two all the season, having maybe been expected to be aiming for the playoffs this season, but these four games without a goal have seen them dropped to 3rd place as Ipswich have overhauled them.

Tonda - probably Thinking About Birmingham On Monday Oxford United are a team that I know very little about. The only recent memory I have of them was playing them in a preseason friendly before the start of last season and losing 2-0. In the same way than the preseason performances this season told us that the Will Still appointment might not go particularly well, that Oxford performance told us was the forerunner of the Premier League campaign being a 12 point murder of a campaign.

The one 2nd Half Highlight In the normal scheme of things, when you go to Carrow Road in the Championship, you are going to one of the teams up near the top of the division who will be challenging for promotion. Norwich have always been one of the yo-yo teams before Leicester on ourselves got in on the act but they are parachute payment free now and having made a succession of bad decisions over the past couple of seasons are languishing in 23rd place, even lower than Portsmouth.

Russell Martin Will Not Be Managing Either Team Today In the normal scheme of things, when you go to Carrow Road in the Championship, you are going to one of the teams up near the top of the division who will be challenging for promotion. Norwich have always been one of the yo-yo teams before Leicester on ourselves got in on the act but they are parachute payment free now and having made a succession of bad decisions over the past couple of seasons are languishing in 23rd place, even lower than Portsmouth.

Shit - Is He Behind Me? Tonda Eckert and Saints turn their sights towards West Brom at St Mary’s under the lights on a Tuesday. If you look at current form then Saints have three home wins in a row and West Brom have six away defeat in a row but as we all know, Saints are and have historically been the team you want to play if you are on a shit run.

Wave Goodbye Perhaps? Tonda Eckert and Saints turn their sights towards West Brom at St Mary’s under the lights on a Tuesday. If you look at current form then Saints have three home wins in a row and West Brom have seven away defeat in a row but as we all know, Saints are and have historically been the team you want to play if you are on a shit run.

Championship Golden Boot Here I Come Birmingham City, freshly promoted out of League 1 are the visitors to St Mary’s this afternoon, in a game where we find out if Tonda Eckert can deal with the adversity that we happened upon last week at Millwall. Friday morning arrived with reports beginning to do the rounds that Tonda would be given the permanent job, which is what happened in the evening, with him signing a deal until the end of next season, which is when the parachute payments run out, so Sport Republic have put all the eggs in this particular basket.

As First Halves Go, That Was Alright Leicester City under the lights at St Mary’s. What could possibly go wrong? Before Leicester fans start crowing too much about previous victories against us, they would do well to remember that they have been in the same division as us for the last four years as both clubs have gone down, up and then down again and now find themselves with expectations of competing near the top of the Championship this season.

Last Time at St.Mary's - Anthony Taylor Had an Obstructed View Leicester City under the lights at St Mary’s. What could possibly go wrong? Before Leicester fans start crowing too much about previous victories against us, they would do well to remember that they have been in the same division as us for the last four years as both clubs have gone down, up and then down again and now find themselves with expectations of competing near the top of the Championship this season.

Expect Shit Like This if Charlton Win About halfway through the international break it became apparent that Saints were not going have a permanent new manager in charge for today’s visit to Charlton Athletic, and that interim boss Tonda Eckert would still be in place and locking horns with a certain Nathan Jones. The irony is that in a week where we’ve been talking about Sport Republic managerial appointments and generally how crap they have been, Jones was of course the first managerial appointment by Sport Republic, championed by Rasmus Ankersen for his metrics accrued with his Luton town side in the Championship that Rasmus assured us were going to translate to the Premier League.

"Which One of Us is Doing This Thing Then?" November international break is tranditionally a managers graveyard but Saints couldn't even give the Will Still project until then before pulling the trigger. Even the best intentioned 'long-term project' will hit the rocks if the results are poor and the expectations are high in the short term, especially when the fans have had enough of losing over a long period and turn on the board in a very public way in a home game.

What Could Have Been One of the most important qualities you can have as you navigate your way through life in general or through life as a football fan is that of perspective. Perspective is something that gets completely lost these days, with social media being the way it is and patience at an all-time low. It can always be worse for other people or in this case, other clubs or fanbases.

Behold the Messiah This evening‘s game against Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road has taken on new significance with Saints decision to part company with Will Still on Sunday evening. It’s funny really. He was always going to get sacked once “Sport Republic go out of our club”, rang round St Mary’s on Saturday, because Sport Republic were always going to do something as a result of being the brunt of all the criticism.

Three defenders and a keeper, one striker, goal Following the double shit shows on the road in Bristol and Blackburn, it’s time for a return to St Mary’s to play Preston North End. We played them last time in the Championship and they were absolute shite as we won easily by 3-0. Oh for that today. We were supposed to play them earlier on in the season of course, but the game was cancelled because of the fire in the warehouse behind the Chapel End.