Matthew Le God

A nice positive alternative to an "Alpine type" thread. One year ago today on 18th July 2009 and Alan Pardew had had one day of preseason at this point with the squad. No players had been signed, no two and a half weeks of preseason and no ten days together in a Switzerland training camp playing two games. Squad on the opening day last season vs Millwall 8th August 2009... Davis Murty Thomas Perry Harding James Wotton Schneiderlin Lallana Paterson Saganowski Subs: Bialkowski Gillett Holmes Lancashire Pulis Thomson Gobern The squad above only won one of its first 10 games and it did evolve in personal over the course of the season and ended up earning only 3 fewer points than 2nd place Leeds. Compare that to a potential squad for the opening day this season vs Plymouth 7th August 2010... Davis Richardson Jaidi Fonte Harding Puncheon Schneiderlin Hammond Lallana Lambert Barnard Subs: Bialkowski Dickson Seaborne Butterfield Wotton Oxlade-Chamberlain Connolly And have these still in reserve... Mills Martin McNish Gobern Holmes Looks alot stronger doesn't it!? This is the starting point of Saints squad from match one rather than mid way through last season. (yes, I know Richardson is injured, but Butterfield is adequate cover whilst he recovers) And most importantly 3 weeks of the window left before the Plymouth game and 6 weeks in total of the window left. Saints do however need a little more squad depth. I'd like to see a new central midfielder for cover and competition with Schneiderlin and Hammond, a "Lambert style" striker and a pacy winger in that priority order. But the actual first XI is pretty much there and gelled already, just need those three areas of cover/competition and the squad is sorted. No need to panic Alpine or start anymore threads of despair!!!

Ryan Dickson is also currently injured.

Live stream for Pompey game on now... Streaming Options Just about to kick off in USA. US commentator really doesn't have a clue

Posted first on here 4 days ago... http://www.charltonlife.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=35590&page=1#Item_0 Maybe they were waiting for the signing of Butterfield to break it to us gently.

Pleased you find it useful. A lot of time and effort went into making it.

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2090243,00.html Would requite Murty to have coaching badges to be offered the job. Maybe he does.

You've had 5 minutes of suspense. Which is more than X Factor, Big Brother and Britain's Got Talent combined on a final night - just tell us what he said. I'm guessing with Richardson and Butterfield signed he will retire due to injury and work for the BBC or go into coaching or play for a lower to mid table League One side etc etc

UPDATE SUMMER 2010 Quite a big bump I started this in 2008/09, I've spent a bit of time over the last couple of days updating this for 2010/11. Took ages to revamp and every club in England now has its own page. Still a work in progress and lots to do for some clubs. Three things... 1) If anyone can link to a site for any club it would be very helpful. 2) General opinions of the site? 3) Originally I had a .co.uk I have now brought the .com however I can't get traffic from the .co.uk to forward to the .com site using godaddy can anyone help me? The site is now called http://www.footballforumfinder.com

16th in a League of 20 is not top half.

Saints twitter http://twitter.com/officialsaints and FC Sochaux website http://www.fcsochaux.fr/fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1886&Itemid=106

FC Sochaux team... RICHERT © SAUGET MIKARI BRÉCHET FATY PERQUIS MARTIN MAURICE-BELAY BOUDEBOUZ IDEYE BUTIN

I bet he learnt a lot form you.

Yes it is. Keep it quiet though, he is our secret weapon. Only 15 I think.

Aaron Martin is in Switzerland. It is Ben Martin.

The actual Saints team vs FC Sochaux... Davis Butterfield Jaidi Seaborne Harding Oxlade-Chamberlain Schneiderlin Hammond(c) Mills Lambert Connolly

Nope, that is Mark Phillips. We are talking about Matthew Phillips.

These three things suggest it is ********... 1) Murdoch is in Switzerland. 2) Phillips is with England under 19's preparing for the under 19 European Championships and thus not in the Wycombe squad for today's game. 3) football-rumours.co.uk can have anyone in the world submit a rumour without any checks.

Exactly the same number as you were allowed last season in League One...7

Tommy Forecast is in Switzerland! 17 year old Jack Dovey is the sub keeper for the Basingstoke game. Very different to 24 year old, 6 foot 4 Tommy Forecast. subs: Dovey, Pulis, Hoskins, Foot, Martin, Nicholas, Moore, O'Sullivan, Curtis, Young, Ward-Prowse, Sinclair

"apparently" according to....? Just you, or do you have a source/link?

He is in the starting eleven for Saints vs Basingstoke today so hasn't gone on walkabout too far.

The game "may" be available to watch on the FC Sochraux website. Depends what they mean when they say "follow" on the English translated version of their website. http://www.fcsochaux.fr/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1878&Itemid=106 It may just mean text updates or audio updates. Hopefully it is a live video feed.

Saints flex financial muscle.... George Burley said: "I spoke with the boy Butterfield but he had already had an offer from another club and I felt we couldn't match that." http://www.sportcroydon.co.uk/footballnews/Exclusive-Butterfield-Lawrence-allowed-leave-Crystal-Palace/article-2363947-detail/article.html

This makes good reading... http://www.cpfc.org/forums/showthread.php?t=204153 Seems they like him.

They certainly won't next year, as there will be no Championship Manager 2011 on PC/Mac and possibly never again.