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I think Peach is as close as anyone is likely to get - whether that is of value to everyone comes down to your own personal opinion but I for one look out for what he says. He usually has a good gut feel and as a saints fan he knows more than most what makes us tick.
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Fitzhugh Fella replied to Dig Dig's topic in The Saints
I think you will find Peach is reasonably close to Adkins. The other day I heard "a story" re Adkins and something that was said post the West Ham game. The info was slightly damning/worrying and so I ended up checking with Peach who was with Adkins, post the West ham game and he was able to put the story into proper context which portrayed Adkins words much more sympathetically. -
Campbell was capped while at Kilmarnock - he was not capped while on Saints books
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Ian Black, Saints goalkeeper between 1947 and 1950 has passed away aged 88. He played 104 games for Saints and was the only Southampton player in the 20th century to win a Scotland cap v England 1948. In his 97 league games for us he only let in 95 goals, making him the only Saints goalkeeper to have an average of less than one goal per game. When Bill Dodgin left Saints for Fulham in 1950, Ian followed him to Craven Cottage and went on to play 263 League games for them.
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Good grief, someone has just walked over my grave.
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I guess so as not to upset the nutjobs we better leave this discussion for elsewhere but I do beg to differ. In the meantime let's settle back and watch this unfurling horror soap, safe in the knowledge our position as the South's top club will never be challenged - well not in our life time anyway. From what I have seen reading between the lines this week they are more f Cked than I thought they were. I predict the PST will get increasing flak once the dimwits on the island realise they have been led up a garden path that leads nowhere.
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Fitzhugh Fella replied to HornseySaintsFan's topic in The Saints
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Sorry this tart, as the OP of this thread, is claiming forgiveness - just don't like seeing history re-written. In a way though it is relevant as administrator's integrity is crucial to the car crash down the road. I am not sure I have encountered one that really knows what he is doing. Administrators feed off carcasses.
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Pinnacle threw nothing into the pot - Crouch did it on their behalf and to this day is pretty hacked off that he was conned. Fry was v amateurish in his handling of the whole affair. Liebherr nearly walked because of Fry's insistance to go with Pinnacle even though it was obvious they were just a bunch of chancers. I came on this forum and published all the correspondence from them to Fry - before they pulled out - which gave strong indications that they were not kosher. If I could see it with my limited info why couldn't Fry?
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He did not find a billionaire owner - someone else did, Oldknow by all accounts - Fry found Walter Mitty aka Pinnacle.
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Fitzhugh Fella replied to HornseySaintsFan's topic in The Saints
Don't know why - I am not moaning but it is a fact that as we are no longer a PLC the owners can do what they like regardless of the fans' opinion. That's life now. At least Rupert was accountable. Obviously prefer current regime to previous but very aware it could all end in tears. -
Club Policy on the Communication of Player Injuries
Fitzhugh Fella replied to HornseySaintsFan's topic in The Saints
I am always impressed by your blind unquestioning devotion. You would have been a big hit in the trenches -
I doubt Nicola was sitting on the Begbies table. How Fry pulled this off is a travesty unless of course there was no opposition. It was nearly the biggest balls up imaginable.
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Club Policy on the Communication of Player Injuries
Fitzhugh Fella replied to HornseySaintsFan's topic in The Saints
I hardly dare say this but I agree with Dig Dig. I don't think the OP was demanding anything - merely expressing a view that secretly lots of others probably share. I should'nt wonder Martin O'Neil is logging onto Saints twitter every 5 mins so desperate he must be to find out. Yes of course everyone understands the importance of keeping certain things under wraps but that should also be weighed up against keeping your customers at least vaguely informed. NA is always warbling on about our great medical team but what how can we judge? People forget sometimes that this is still effectively a spectator sport - some one might like to buy a ticket to specifically Lallana play. My son has asked me every day what is the news on Lallana - sometimes the club takes the fans for granted in the way it behaves but there again I guess we lost those sort of rights the day Marcus reached for his wallet. -
Wow, what a day but delving amid the debris of a particularly nasty (but oh so enjoyable) 24 hour car crash, my main question is just what the hell was/is Birch up to granting preferred bidder status to REL who so obviously could not fulfill their pledge. Reminds me of our own Mark Fry who dived head first into Pinnacle without checking with any depth if they had any dosh. Poor old Leon copped the fallout ie a cool half a million and I remember so well a few days after Pinnacle collapsed he rung me to ask if I had a mobile nos for the money men behind Pinnacle. How come people like Birch and Fry fall for these idiots while at the same time the companies they work for laugh all the way to the bank. Birch should truly fall on his sword but can I just say.... thanks Trev you have been a star!!!!!
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I had a long chat with Lee Holmes today - doing ok at Preston - and he had a similar injury here with us in his first season. He said he was rushed back after a little over 3 months but it was too soon and the injury quicklyflared up to rule him out for the rest of the season.
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Oi!
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don't forget the driver
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I seem to remember many moons ago when soldier boy Guy Whittingham bought his way out of the army to join the largest club in the world it was reported he had been a Saints fan and even had a Saints tattoo?
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Take that big time
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Your handle sort of sums your post up. But just to clear things up I started this thread because I am genuinely intrigued that Puncheon's contract is nearly expired. How you deduce from that that I am attempting to damage the management team's reputation actually says more about you than it does me. And if you think I post thinly veiled agenda ridden tripe why do you bother to then contribute to it. Why don't you just ignore what i post. Serious question - or secretly can't you help youself?
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Bee in my bonnet? No I think this is the first time I have commented on Puncheon's contract but don't let this get in the way of having a dig at whatever I say. Thanks for buying the book but I would have hoped you would then have realised I only care about the club.
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I don't know, that's why I posed the question on here. Sorry if it offends or upsets you. I thought the fact that the most influential player over the last few months could leave us for nothing v shortly was something that could be debated without accusations of agendas. Obviously I am wrong.
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The club never leave it this late - if you read my post properly you would have seen that. Your bed wetting remark is pretty unnecessary - why don't you try and just and debate without insults?
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Apologies for starting a new thread on JP when there is one still active, but that one is not addressing the fact that next month he is free to talk to other clubs as his contract expires in the summer. On that thread someone (ITK?) is claiming that Punch has not had a new contract offer, a fact if true, and I think it is, to be worth a a thread on its own. To add further fuel to the debate, the respected PA journalist and Saints fan, Simon Peach has today, on his twitter feed, said that when interviewing JP after the Reading match one subject he did not want to dwell on was any new contract offer. So has the club decided its "thanks and goodbye", or has Puncheon decided to look for pastures new? He once crossed NC and got a second chance which suited both parties but... was there a decision or agreement made then that there would be a parting of the way when his contract run its course. My view is that it would be a shame to lose a player who is talented and becoming increasingly influential because of a spat that was solved........ albeit superficially. The club love to announce extensions of contracts but on this issue the silence is deafening.