James

I think he's referring to his exemplary work in the Community which shouldn't be underestimated - there's more to being a saints player than the number of minutes you are on the pitch.

Ben Marshall from Stoke perhaps = highly rated whilst on loan at Stoke, can't agree a new contract and rumoured to be off to a Championship side. A wide player with rave reviews from my Wednesday supporting friend.

There is a distinct lack of goals in that side. That's the real worry. I have a hunch that SDR and/or Connolly will be available though - Adkins didn't give much away regarding injuries so its all guesswork though.

Would be great to get him in the squad for Forest - might be pushing it but you never know!

He really wasn't that bad in midfield - can remember some pretty decent performances from him when played there. He was however, one of the worst CBs we've had since the Jakobssen/Davenport days.

Agreed, start like that and we will get murdered.

Don't think anyone thinks we're bigger - just perhaps more attractive owing to quality of football and perhaps salary (yet to be convinced of this though)

A tweet from the Solent twitter account from an anonymous inside source is hardly an official statement is it? It's hardly surprising sharp is being debated given our interest in the summer. If you don't want to discuss it no one is forcing you to read the thread.

Davis Richardson Fonte Jos Fox Cork Hammond Morgan Lallana Guly Connolly. Anyone know how long before SDR/Chaplow come back?

Saw that. My thoughts exactly.

Fact is, Celtic are a lot worse than they were and the other teams have caught up a bit - they can't accept that because they have typical big club syndrome. Would love to see us take him and wipe the smiles of their faces! Case in point: Rangers are about to sign Sandaza - a striker released by Brighton after being deemed surplus to requirements after a season in league 1! haha

I'm getting increasingly confident about this one - if it was never going to happen then Lennon would have said as much. Question is will we deliver the knock out blow? Well, I reckon we'd rather spend money on Hooper than the other's mentioned. Young, huge potential, resale value, European experience - get it done Cortese. I reckon he might move down here too - SPL is a mickey mouse league and Celtic aren't any great shakes in Europe these days.

According to my Donny supporting friend Sharp was at training with them this morning - so perhaps the Foxes haven't got their man?

The arrogance of their fans is staggering. Celtic would be nothing more than a borderline top six Championship team in my opinion...Stokes was absolutely rubbish for Sunderland in this league yet he's setting the world alight over there. Hope we do sign Hooper just to see their reaction now.

There are a vast multitude of quality players who will improve our squad who some of us haven't even considered but our scouts will have. I'd be worried if we couldn't find a striker up to it who wasn't Billy Sharp and didn't want 20k a week. Just because you haven't necessarily heard of a player doesn't mean he won't cut it - and these lesser known players are the ones who won't want huge wages. Sharp has become some kind of demigod on here because of a good season with Donny - its easily forgotten how he failed at this level with Sheff Utd - I wanted to sign him but he isn't worth 20k a week.

7m? They must be joking - I find it quite funny how Celtic and Rangers fans quite blatantly overestimate the quality of their players and therefore their prices. Scoring week in week out against Kilmarnock is hardly an impressive feat. If Rickie went to Celtic he get 40 a season I reckon and then they'd probably value him at somewhere around the 10m mark (which, as much as I like him he clearly isn't worth) - ridiculous.

Dag and Red/Millwall away - what a crap draw.

Starting now. We are ball 12 I think

Exactly, the rule doesn't say - "contact - oh and also when the player hurdles the tackle" does it? Means that Foy makes a judgement on there being excessive malice - which in my opinion he calls incorrectly.

So Foy must have thought there was excessive malice considering there was no real contact with Nani?

Ah ok, fair enough.

Surely the taking of evasive action doesn't conclusively indicate a reckless tackle? There are plenty of times when players hurdle perfectly legitimate tackles. The fact Nani jumps the tackle is completely irrelevant.

Not surprising they've rejected - lets see if we go back with a larger offer. I'd like to think we will.

Just because the ref gave a red card doesn't mean we can't debate whether it was the correct decision or not. The tackle was not reckless, it was not using excessive force (in my opinion of course) - he gets the ball and the usually whinging Nani doesn't even react. Not a red card - when I first saw it I was surprised a foul had been given.

You aren't and I have, a few times.