Matthew Le God

Did you think that in the summer when Pardew signed 11 players? He did that when we were on -10. Now we a better chance of promotion and much more attractive to any player.

Heard from where? He is 25 and playing in the Premiership on a high wage and cost £8.5m two years ago. Seems extremely unlikely he'd drop down to League One.

No he isn't.

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The Carlisle News and Star is not the News of the World

Saints don't even have a player called Davies, so Charlie Wayman really has no idea!

I doubt he will break up the Schneiderlin/Hammond partnership.

So you don't like Papa Waigo then?

Yep and that could have been the original made up rumour from where all the others have come from. It may be true but you may also have been taken in by what happens when one small rumour spreads out on the internet and backs itself up by being in many places.

Getting up speed could just mean that one person made up the rumour and posted it on a forum. Another person saw that rumour and posted in somewhere else and then again until each of the places it is posted become used to back up each other.

No. Next game after the FA cup is 7 days later. If professional footballers can't manage that then they should retire!

It really shouldn't. They'd get swamped in midfield.

It did initially but then worked out better long term. Makes far more sense to spend in January than in the Summer. These new players may help get Saints to Championship this season and if they don't will be more prepared for an automatic push next season.

How anyone can confuse the two I don't know. They have completely different builds and gaits! Ok, they are both black, but no-one can be that ignorant surely!

That will be very hard to do.

Current squad is good enough to get us to the playoffs. However... I wouldn't be as confident of actually getting promotion in the playoffs. If the squad remains the same and Saints play either Norwich or Charlton in a play off final it will be very difficult. The squad therefore needs strengthening to improve chances of winning the playoffs not getting there in the first place. By spending now rather than the summer gives players a chance to "bed in" so even if Saints don't go up this season next season will be all about going up automatically.

It would be on both Colchester and Saints website if that were the case and it is not.

Norwich away is harder than Colchester.

Empty of just people or empty of everything in a vacuum?

A proper dead leg would keep anyone from playing for 3 days or more no matter how "hard" they are!

Even still, if you go back to pre 1970's they would have played infront of 30k lots of times in the League.

Don't be silly of course it isn't! You only have to go back to 2005 and they played in front of 67,551 at Old Trafford in the FA Cup 3rd round. Go back further in time when crowds were higher in terraced grounds and they will have played infront of over 30k on quite a few occasions over the last 100 years.

I think we can do better now. He wasn't that great.

Yep, Trotman can play tomorrow but those 30,000 Saints fans won't be at Colchester's ground for him to potentially say goodbye to if that is what he was doing.

Yep, crowds are good but don't forget it was a Boxing day fixture today which help to get past the 30k mark. By the time the next home game comes around it will be 23k/24k at very most - which of course is still great for League One.