Pat from Poole

I've seen many worse keepers than the Cheats keeper Henderson. Pretty solid from what I've seen of him.

De Ridder really isn't very good at all. If he is our brightest hope, then we are clearly heading downwards.

Yup. Agreed. I would expect it would be worth the best part of £1 million saved for Celtic if they don't have to pay Hooper loyalty bonuses due to him handing in a transfer request. Which he isn't going to do.

I love these translations. Superb comedy value.

Oh heck, not another 45 pages of gossip about Charlie Austin to look forward to.... In all seriousness, I've never liked the way he always seems to take great delight in scoring against Saints, he also seems to have put weight on from his Swindon days if I'm not mistaken. It also pains me to think we could be spending over £2 million on a player we could have got for £25,000 from Poole Town. That said, on balance, I have to agree with you about Charlie Austin. He's a talented player.

I thought that Rodriguez wanted to stay up north though? Also, all this talk of Rodriguez or Sordell being reserve options if (or rather when) the Hooper move falls through. I can't see that if I were Rodriguez or Sordell, I'd be particularly inclined to want to join Saints if I were only a back-up option. I really hope that we will not regret on signing Jutkiewicz, but as each day of the window passes, I fear that will look like a big-time mistake. For what he would have cost (£2m) we would still have had plenty of cash for other reinforcements.

Agreed. The only person I see gaining out of all this is Hooper himself, with a probable re-negotiated contract with Celtic. Without having any insider info at all, I'm convinced it's a smokescreen and that Saints have been working on getting a different (cheaper) striker in, and it's a boost to Cortese's ego if people are going to believe that he is sanctioning £6 million-plus bids for players. To be honest, even though he is clearly a class act, I'm not sure Hooper would be a good signing for Saints. Big-money signings have rarely worked out for us over the years, thinking particularly from 2001 - 2005 and then the clown Burley's purchases.

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Agree with all of this. I think we've goofed big-time here. Jutkiewicz is clearly a fast-improving player who would have scored plenty of goals for us in the second-half of the season.

One of my favourite phrases of Uncle Dave is at the start of a sentence, when as if to add emphasis or extra importance, he says "Just for the listeners....". It is almost as if he thinks he is providing a dual commentary for people at the game who can see what is going on.

Post of the year, sir.

Isn't Henderson about to appear in court on an assault charge for a night-club incident ? (sounds familiar).

Mmm, I suppose Villas-Boas was also Chelsea's Championship Manager geek at a pretty early age as well. Crikey, football has changed, in the good old days it was dodgy geezers in their 60's with Cockney accents who did this sort of thing.

Was just thinking the same. Possibly closely followed by Marcus Allback, Oliver Bierhoff and Michael Owen.

Seems very young for this sort of role.

I third that. A strange weekend, I vividly remember hearing on the journey up to East Anglia the day before the game that Kurt Cobain had just shot himself.

Interesting, that's the second time I've seen Vokes' name mentioned in the last 24 hours by people whose comments I think are always worth noting (the other person to mention Vokes being Clive Foley).

Perhaps Bristol City and Doncaster have narked off Cortese in recent months (maybe partly as they both beat us??!!??), and he wants to play no part in any auction which may see them get more money for their players. The interesting thing with potentially signing Jutkiewicz is that we were supposed to have royally peeved off Coventry when we didn't sign Elliott Ward a couple of years ago and went for Seaborne instead, so you wonder whether Cov would hold out for any other potentially interested clubs (Middlesboro??).

Meant to say in addition, I thought the bubble was actually pretty good. Not as much fun as the train obviously, but safe and well-organised.

I was on bus 30 and saw the bottle of pee being lobbed at the jogger from bus 29, had to admit it was funny at the time, albeit not for him obviously. Shame it hadn't been lobbed at some of the mongs hanging out of their front doors near the ground giving the usual signs.

My personal highlight of the game. Very funny.

Totally bemused as to why Dickson has been completely cast aside.

Fact.

Indeed. But then what else do they have to do on a non-matchday?