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You forgot about making 11,000ish posts on a Saints forum, discussing board politics daily. Fair point. Although 99% of my posts are trivial nonsense... ;-)

I support Saints. I go to as many games as I can. I enjoy the day out. I go home. Sometimes being a football fan can be so simple.....

Have they not been sent on a rehabilitation trip to the Maldives yet? All expenses paid by the taxpayer.

I'd like to canvas opinion on that

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1297855/New-25-man-Premier-League-squad-rule-big-earners-sitting-out.html Hmmm....Until reading that article this morning I hadn't really appreciated all the implications of the new squad size rule being introduced in the Premier League this year. Perhaps Cortese is playing a waiting game on the 'marquee signing' front until he knows which Prem players will be effectively mothballed on 1st Sept? He can then loan in a couple of 'stars' all paid for by the parent club....(or, rather, to beat off the competition, we offer to pay some of their wages...) When does the League One loan window close...?

Aye, but he gets plenty of bites.... ;-)

Source?

Hi Weston - what do you mean by "niggling"? As others have said, 'niggling' usually translates to 'long-term'. It is muscle? Tissue? Ligaments? Something else? Cheerski

Boris

We didn't want more than one player in the squad with a Z in his name at any one time

In most industries, if someone joins the company who is better than the existing employees then it is accepted they will be paid more. Why should footballers be any different. Let's assume for a rash minute that Vassell is twice as good as Lambert. There should be no qualms from Lambert if Vassell is paid twice as much as him. Now spot the deliberate flaw in my argument :-)

My pleasure. I like to do my bit for the big society :-)

I suspect the question was being posed in the context of Pompey not having any players they couldn't afford this time around... ;-)

Good to see my tax payments going to a good home ;-)

Lol.

All things considered, my reply is "yes". Although I had a similar gut feel when Jason Euell signed for us. I never did work out whether that was a good or bad gut feel...

What's love but a second hand emotion?

Can someone change the thread title from "Vassell" to "Petty Squabbles" please? It's very misleading. I assumed the thread would be about the footballer Darius Vassell but can only see a few posts out of #94 on that subject. I wouldn't like others to be equally caught out and spend half their life reading about something else. Thanking you.

But to counter-balance that, he's available on a free transfer. So, if Cortese has set himself an average budget per new player of 'sign-on fee + wages' then someone like Vassell could cost the same as say Dickson, Barnard, Lambert, etc, in net value terms over a two or three year contract.

First Saints player with a 'j' in his surname whose first name is also a French town?

A valid view, but I guess that is what the AGM is for....submitting such views via the appropriate channels to ensure your view is represented?

They may as well include the programmes from the last game for the season in the same mailshot, assuming they're ready now....

Thinking about it, this could actually be a two-fold blessing in disguise.... (a) If he's injured it will go some way to putting off any speculative bids from NPC or Prem sides. and (b) it may convince Cortese/Pardew that they need a better quality player to cover Lallana's position than perhaps they were originally thinking Maybe.

Yep, plenty of video production companies out there that could do the conversion for you.