Saint_clark

Hmm...if you believe that Pardews training schedule was a rigorous during last season as it was in the off season, then that's up to you - I can remember when I read about them doing the bleep test in the baking Italian summer that I didn't envy them at all. Remember, the statement saying that Pardew would not be sacked came out not long after the season ended when players would have been on a break.

Fair play, you're spot on there. Doble is on the right. Can only assume he was sent back, as we wouldn't have needed to recall him.

Aaron Martin. Oddly, Seaborne is in this one. Guess he'd nipped off to the bog or something when that other one was taken.

He's still an employee of the club so that's out the window.

That's Doble on the left, not Mills. There was also no Butterfield, Connolly or Seaborne - I wouldn't read too much into who was there and who wasn't.

Doesn't matter, it would mean that they're either here until they're 22 so we get a good service out of them, or we get a f*cking good price.

MLG, I get the impression Cortese didn't end the evening with "This was fun - call me, let's do it again sometime".

Pearson was only ever slated by Scooby tbh.

Most interesting thing there is that Pardew pushed the players too hard, when a lot of the experts on here told us they weren't worked at all.

Personally i'd make 5 year contracts the norm for all 17 year olds signing on.

It's a misprint. It's the "ball singing" room, where players who are being disciplined have to sing two whole slow choruses of Oh When The Saints in perfect tune whilst having their balls hit with conkers.

Interesting question - does falsely accusing someone of libel count as libel itself? I honestly don't know. No-ones getting banned for that though, I can tell you now.

Maybe Cortese really is as evil as the Daily Echo would have us believe, and the two posters on here were the dinner.

Absolutely no idea what would give you that impression. Who he was by the way, not why he was banned.

Well said Trousers.

No thanks, Cortese has never acted anything other than the complete professional, don't change that now.

Maybe Cortese got annoyed that Roan posted about it on twitter before it went up and has refused to allow it to be published.

Well it better go up quick, i'm leaving for work soon.

Who said that then?

In case you're forgetting, he actually did play for us at the start of last season - and was awful.

BBC interview imminent...on what? The site? Solent? BBC News 24?

As above.

N'deed.

W.H Ireland...i'm sure Lowe linked us with them in some way. Wasn't he on the board there or something?

Do they have anything to do with us anymore?