Matthew Le God

It really is shocking that the Echo is using the "even someone as bad a Rupert Lowe never did this" argument. So they expected the club to forget all this and let them into the ground and training ground when the Echo destroyed confidence between the two, just because Rupert never banned them?

Care to open that into anything other than a petty insult that actually adds to the debate?

If I was an Echo sports reporter when the multi-million pound takeover from a billionaire takeover happened I would have had a 10 SECOND check every morning at the planning section of the councils that covered the training ground(New Forest District Council) and stadium(Southampton City Council) for any planned developments. Just put the Southampton FC sites as favourites and check them every so often for any plans. Would be sad if you weren't paid to, put as a journalist a chance of an exclusive was missed and only made the Echo over a week after it first appeared on the New Forrest councils website. All could have been done for only 10 seconds work a day or maybe a week.

Can't be work experience kids all year round like they seem to be. Work experience is for year 10 pupils for one or maybe two weeks in the summer term.

The Echo clearly got the story from here. It was in the public domain 7 days before this forum found it on the New Forest Council website. If the Echo had any "real" contacts or investigative journalists it would have picked up on these plans that were made public in November rather than December when it actually ran a story it was asked not to. All news outlets that reported it on the same day as someone on this forum posted only gave a brief description in a small article that didn't give much away. The Echo should have waited as asked by the club and deserve what has happened. I'd imagine a huge % of the Echo readership largely buy it for Saints news and with this in mind it seems stupid the Echo would do something against the hand that feeds it when it asks a reasonable request. The article in todays Echo describing the course of events is likely to only make things worse. If this is a long running feud then the very existence of the paper could come under threat. The internet is already killing newspapers but being banned from covering certain aspects of its main "reader puller" could be the last straw.

The Echo clearly got the story from here. It was in the public domain 7 days before this forum found it on the New Forest Council website. If the Echo had any "real" contacts or investigative journalists it would have picked up on these plans that were made public in November rather than December when it actually ran a story it was asked not to. All news outlets that reported it on the same day as someone on this forum posted only gave a brief description in a small article that didn't give much away. The Echo should have waited as asked by the club and deserve what has happened. I'd imagine a huge % of the Echo readership largely buy it for Saints news and with this in mind it seems stupid the Echo would do something against the hand that feeds it when it asks a reasonable request. The article in todays Echo describing the course of events is likely to only make things worse. If this is a long running feud then the very existence of the paper could come under threat. The internet is already killing newspapers but being banned from covering certain aspects of its main "reader puller" could be the last straw.

Chris Baird is playing regularly for a Premiership top 10 side at the moment. Sol Campbell would want wages of at least 40k.

He was fast so "potentially" he could run back to make up for his previous mistake and make another?

Yes, you do. He is Wayne's brother

Yes they are! BWP and SWP are half brothers. Both have the same mother. Ian is BWP's dad and SWP was adopted by Ian.

Ask your assistant to compile a loan availability report for strikers.

Are you joking? I hope for your sake you are He is playing in the USA for a "high quality" team called Rochester Rhinos.

This is worrying, Pardew can't count! Highest we can actually go is 12th.

Relevant? Vignal is a left footed left back on big wages. Murty is a right footed right back.

Arizona, Pardew may well buy a right back in January. However James is more than good enough to cover Murty for 6 weeks. When Murty is back he will do a great job in this league. He may well get injured again but then James/Thomas can fill in again. If however we do sign a new right back in January that would mean we are potentially paying Murty's wage (which for League One will be high) and also the new right back who will want to be starting. No point imo when we have 3 right backs more than good enough already to get promotion. Better to save the cash and wait until we are in the Championship and then buy a new right back. In January the priority should be a new striker to cover Lambert/Connolly, a centre back and perhaps a defensive midfielder to replace Wotton/give James competition when Saints play 451.

But as the money from the Surman/McGoldrick deals was completely separate from the Lambert/Hammond deals it is irrelevant as the two aren't connected. As well as the money for Hammond/Lambert, alot of money would have been spent on signing on fees and wages for Murty, Jaidi, Harding, Connolly and also loan fee for Papa Waigo would have been high as we have option to buy. None of these players could be brought by many other League One teams. Add to that keeping Davis on a new contract, improving the interior of St Mary's, new training ground. Relative to the League we are very big spenders. As Cortese has said in numerous interviews they are going to spend enough to get out of the respective league they find themselves in order to reach the Premiership.

He hasn't had much luck! Lloyd James/Wayne Thomas back to right back then. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/4788183.Murty_out_for_six_weeks/

We only play there for 50% of the matches.

That is irrelevant, as all McGoldrick and Surman etc money was before the takeover and used to pay debt.

Why? It is publicly available on a councils website. As there is going to be no change in traffic density or land-use and the only change is making a 2nd floor on a building she can't see I don't see why she cares.

You are very wrong here. When in the Premiership Southampton averaged over 30k for EVERY season in a 32k stadium(segregation takes up some aswell). 2004-05: 30,610 (The FA Premier League) 2003-04: 31,699 (The FA Premier League) 2002-03: 30,680 (The FA Premier League) 2001-02: 30,633 (The FA Premier League) Saints will need a bigger capacity if Mr Liebherr takes us back to the Premiership. Saints could easily get over 40k for the "big" teams and if doing well 35k for all the rest. Look at the capacity and attendances for the Premiership http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/PR/attend.html If we want to compete in the Premiership, Saints will need a bigger ground than 32k

I'd say these plans would be about 8th to 10th best in the Premiership. Certainly better than practically all Championship clubs.

Can you name the two times the FA have "done" us? Are you getting the FA confused with the Football League again?

For a large part of the last 20 years we were playing at Premiership quality grounds. We are now in League One. Just look at Stockport this season.

Lord Malwhinney met Nicole Cortesse at St Mary's. I wonder why he would travel to Southampton for a meeting? Doubt it was just for the fans charter. Lord Malwhinney is the head of the selection committee for the bidding cities for 2018. Maybe all is not lost even now and an improved training ground has changed minds?