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didn't he get a massive bonus for scoring 20 goals - hence the huge celebration?

Pardew strongly hinted that Murty wouldn't play for Saints again back in January

we all love Leeds

Christ. He has done well in the Premiership and turned down an offer from Wigan of a new deal. No chance at all of him dropping down a division never mind two. Get a grip.

Had a long chat with my Bury supporting mate at the weekend about Stephen Dawson. He mentioned that he made the PFA League 2 team of the year again and carried the his side all season. He was all but resigned to him leaving in the summer and could see their promotion hopes for next year dissappearing too. I thought he was more of a defensive midfielder, but he said he did everything really, box to box running, passing, tackling. He's out of contract and the right kind of age - 25. I know we are all looking at Championship players, but there are League 2 players that can play at that level too. I suggested Danny N'Guessen from Lincoln last summer and Leicester snapped him up on a free and he has done well in the CCC.

Thomas and Murty will all be released, Perry as well. Semi will get a new contract. So that will give us two right backs. James is classified as a midfielder in Pardew's eyes.

what is it with Saints fans and wanting to speed all the songs up?

especially tough to get players to agree when they all know Utaka will still be on his mega contract, whatever that really is.

one company liquidated only for a another company to take on the CVA repayment agreement. Very weird.

The Echo said Pardew wanted a backup for Lambert: http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/8135095.Saints_keen_on_Black_Cat_Roy_/

isn't it 25% of unsecured debt that is the key, rather than total debt?

so HMRC reveal their masterstroke. Pay us 100% or we double what you owe us. Question. If a CVA is agreed at 20p in the pound, does that mean that HMRC by law must accept that agreement and take 20p in the pound or can they fight on till they get 100p in the pound?

if we are getting someone in as backup from Rickie Lambert they are going to have to be willing to sit on the bench all season. I'd of thought that means we are looking for a big tall youngster. Why then did we let Mat Patterson go? Seems the ideal man to have had in reserve to me.

has the rise from £119m to £138m come about simply because of fluctations in exchange rates or have companies actually come forward with new invoices? I wonder if additional player bonuses incurred over the last month or two have forced this figure up?

if I had already lent you the grand and then was faced with either nothing or £40 a year then I might consider it.

especially considering the weather.

make sure the stag is somewhere that everyone can afford to get to. Three nights in Vegas is great, no actually it was better than that, but if his other best mates can't go then it defeats the purpose, which is to give him a ****ing good send off. England offers some great weekend destinations. The last one I did was in Stockholm. Jesus drinks were pricey. Don't ad lib the speach. People expect it to be top notch and funny so get practicing. Try to avoid corny jokes and stuff you can steal from the web. Its much better to paint a picture of who this guy is through the power of description and little stories that way those who don't know will feel more involved. Avoid in-jokes. If he's a moaning bastard given an example. If he is accident prone reel of a list of accidents. Avoid ex girlfriend stuff unless of course its him failing to pull with terrible chat up lines. Also no one wants to hear about him being sick, it aint funny, unless of course its over his boss or suchlike. Ask a member of his family for material about when he was a kid, always goes down well. Practice and do it in front of a female as they will know what is passable. If he's done some seriously stupid things you simple must tell the world, but tone it down so as not to make him look a complete ****. Don't worry about making it too long. Having taken the **** for most of the speach do talk him up at the end and how happy you are that he asked you to be his best man cos you think he's great etc. Give a few good points like honest, reliable, happy go lucky etc. that should help people forget what a joke he is for just enough time to get a toast in. Then they can return to thinking about how he got his **** caught in his best mates fly... Once the speach is over drink tillt he cows come home and bask in the glory or a job well done.

I mentioned him a few weeks back. He was at Burton with Clough - hence the strong links to Derby, although many of their fans don't think he is better than what they already have (what would they know though).

Paul Wotton football genius at Brentford made me chuckle

some could be skates

Sean Hughes bottom middle and Joe Jordan next to him.

Orient was the best by far for me. If we grabbed the winner after being 0-2 down the roof would have come off that stand. Best atmosphere at an away game for years.

For me next seasons Squad would be: Goalkeepers Davis Bialkowski Liam O'Brien Fullbacks Shaleum Logan Semi Harding Mills Centre Backs Fonte Jaidi David McKracken Tamika Mkandawire Wingers Antonio Lallana Puncheon Albert Adomah Central midfielders Hammond Morgan Stephen Dawson Liam Trotter Gobern Forwards Lambert Barnard Waigo Connelly

Martin is bigger than Seaborne but far less impressive (only based on that single outing I know) if you ask me. Even with that very limited evidence I'd still go as far to say that we have no chance of promotion if we have to rely on him to play too many games next season. Season long loan is the right idea.

Crouch and Jones both played in the FA cup game against the skates, also the Premiership game at St Andrews. Jones played at right midfield and was terrible. I think he also came on right at the end of the Prem game at SMS against Liverpool.