Matthew Le God

"Raw" could be a good way to describe him. Abit like Kenwyne Jones was a rough diamond when he joined Saints. He hasn't had professional coaching until the age of 18 so I think there is still plenty of room for improvement with Pardew/Wilkins/Downes helping him. Some people in this thread have forgotten he is still very young and missed years of professional coaching having joined Reading late on from non league football. He has many good attributes such as pace and power. With good coaching he could be a real asset. His decision making is sometimes very poor but that can be coached. Would start Papa Waigo ahead of Antonio but worth Pardew having a good look before the summer and working some magic.

Care to share? Or Tac-tics PM me please?

Especially when you add Lancashire, Saville and Martin.

As a target man replacement for Lambert should he get injured/suspended(at the moment Saints don't have one). If done for that then I see no reason what some Saints fans are getting all wound up about. Ok, he wasn't great when last here in the Championship but he has done well this season at Carlisle and would be a useful squad player.

Always funny to think when another team is linked to a Saints player, their fan forums base opinions using my view of said Saints player on FM.

You were disappointed with 19k against a non league team a few days after Christmas? Middlesbrough vs Man City got 12k Wigan vs Hull got 5k Sheff Utd vs QPR got 11k Pompey vs Coventry got 12k Bolton vs Lincoln got 11k etc etc 19k against non league Luton was a great turnout! Cheer up

I doubt it. He just has the RocketSwanie big bag of player names and he picks one out occasionally and links him to Saints.

I only said RocketSwanie on BBC's 606 forum mentioned these two, so don't blame me for these two unlikely rumours.

Of course it does! Who would you rather see Southampton play, Man Utd in the league or Weymouth in the FA cup? Exeter are just further down the scale than Man Utd but still above a non league team like Luton in the FA cup.

It was against a non league team in the cup so not an attractive tie. Which makes 19k very impressive. 6,000 more than Middlesbrough got against Man City.

1) Because it is traditional to goto a Boxing day match with family. Around the country Boxing day crowds were all generally alot higher than normal. 2) It was a league match. 3) Luton are a non league team Exeter are not.

It was the FA Cup. For Luton the game was their cup final after years of decline and playing at non league teams stadiums all season. For Exeter although it was boxing day they will have other days out this season. Big away following for Exeter in any case. Peterborough took 8,000 to Spurs. Barrow took over 6,000 to Sunderland in the FA Cup. Also Luton "may" also have more fans than Exeter. (sorry Delldays )

Are you being serious?

That means nothing towards a bid for Barnard. Just a rehash of the comments Pardew made after the Luton game on Saturday to BBC solent when he said two bids had been made.

No chance. He is interesting Premiership sides and will be on large wages.

It will be about Pompey.

You missed Jacob Mellis - Chelsea - Loan expired

What is the point? I could go onto David Beckham's wiki page and edit it to say he is joining Saints. It means nothing and isn't even worth drawing attention to it.

They have been saying that ever since it was imposed.

You said we'd be going backwards replacing Mellis with Lines and some of the reasons you gave were that Mellis is younger. Lines is only 24 btw and we'd have little chance of signing a player Chelsea rate on anything other than a loan. You said it not me.

What relevance does stating Mellis is younger than Lines have, when Mellis was only here short term?

But Mellis was on loan and Lines would be a Saints player so how is that relevant?

Sky clearly not itk The Echo just lifted those quotes from the BBC Solent interview/OS article after the game.

That is irrelevant. In any case there is a major international football competition every two years. So using your logic it will never burst!

Alot of rubbish players have played for their country and even more rubbish players have played in the Champions league. How can a fan on a messageboard arbitrarily rate all players just because they have played for their country or in the Champions league? I'm not saying Saga is rubbish (he clearly isn't) but to use those two factors as reasons is illogical. Saga just has lost heart at Saints and both parties need a clean break and him to find a new club and Saints get a replacement.