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.

Onwards we march to Ewood Park and Blackburn Rovers. Will the weather be shit and will the wind be blowing and will it be freezing cold? Yeah, all of that. Of more relevant concern is how Saints attempt to bounce back from the Bristol shit show from Tuesday night. A win today and that game will largely be consigned to the bin but another poor result, and by that I mean not winning, will bring that Bristol game into sharper focus.

Decent Day That As we are in the Championship now, sometimes you play a team that you don’t know much about because the media noise is a hell of a lot quieter in this league, and that is a good thing. So, usually I put a bit of effort in to find out if there are any players that I recognise or if Iknow the manager or if there’s anyone I really remember from the last time we played them, which in the case of Watford was a couple of years ago.

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