Matthew Le God

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?

http://web3.newforest.gov.uk/images/planningimages/130387_1.pdf Sounds promising from the initial review.

Letter of complaint by a resident about the new development. Surprised they have made these public! http://web3.newforest.gov.uk/images/planningimages/130310_1.pdf

Wow, that is good and quick support I only sent the email off a little time before.

The JPT doesn't have extra time. It goes straight to penalties if a draw. So you will be fine to get to the station after the game. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=johnstone%27s+paint+trophy+

It will by the end of the day I reckon. Likely it was only the Daily Echo, local radio, ITV and BBC TV local news there anyway

Yep, same here. Hs happened on a few videos on Saints player now like the 2nd half highlights of the Gillingham game:( Email them and complain, I have already

No, they were downgraded for FM08 and FM09. Saints used to have very good facilities. But have fallen behind due to lack of investment whilst other clubs improved as Nicole Cortese states in the press conference. This development will give them a boost for FM11 (if they get planning permission).

Press conference - 10 minutes of it Is on Saints Player now

He looks relatively "normal" working in that antique bookshop

So not for 50 years then I thought it would have been a while. I started supporting Saints aged 7 in 1989 and couldn't remember any occasion in the last 20 years.

When was the last time we played a non league club at home in the FA Cup? Looking likely we will be in January now

Well there is disrespect because you called it Micky Mouse. Just saying "no disrespect" doesn't remover the implication of what you said! Always odd when people say things like that

The plans at present are missing any king of water facility. I hope the changes the Echo mention to the plans will include the high tech rehabilitation, hydrotherapy pools and training pools that are commonplace at all new Premiership training grounds. Maybe they should move the academy accommodation onto the training site to make it like a university campus.

Yep, I've complained about the kit already. It has been an issue in a few FM games now and still not fixed. The game doesn't seem to cope when Saints play teams in orange or claret. Hopefully will be fixed one day soon

I get my Saints file back to work on for the "February update" in January so will look in more detail then. I have already asked for Connolly to be improved so should be done already(basically swapped his CA with Saganowski).

Things like the training ground upgrade is making it more likely that there "may" be changes to make Mr Liebherr a foreground sugar daddy for any January update. Any decision will also be based on transfer activity in the window, but things are looking good. Evidence is needed for such a thing as one club having loads of cash has a major impact on the English Leagues for everyone that plays them

I wonder how it compares to... Stokes £5m development http://www.stokecityfc.com/page/TrainingGroundIndex/0,,10310,00.html Colchester £2m development http://www.cu-fc.com/page/News/0,,10424~1821471,00.html Tottenham Hotspur £30m development http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/futureplans/trainingcentre/index.html Chelsea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e75o63E3RLk As well as these examples there are quite a few other Prem and Non Prem teams currently with plans to improve training grounds or have recently completed.

We have James, Murty and Thomas for right back, that is more than enough for League One.

I guess he found it because there are loads of stories about it on news sites. For example... http://www.football.co.uk/southampton/saints_target_training_ground_upgrade_rss279973.shtml http://www.teamtalk.com/football/story/0,16368,1783_5753497,00.html http://www.football.virginmedia.com/page/Southampton/NewsDetail/0,,12555~1897914,00.html

If we get close to the playoffs they will all come flooding back. Basically we have a "hardcore" of 16,000 who will turn up no matter what. Then about 20,000 - 25,000 fair weather supporters.

The players will be in portacabins until July when this is potentially finished. Poor them, will be like they are training for Pompey!

The article for the training ground keeps mentioning "lack of space " on the site. I wonder if they have or would consider moving completely to a new site. Maybe hard to do with planning and green belts but would give more space. I wonder if any plans have been drawn up to improve St Mary's? Changing rooms at St Mary's have already been done in last few weeks but will anything else internally be upgraded or a stadium capacity expansion in the pipeline for potentially playing in the Premiership again.

Those saying we should sign seem to forget he is probably on between 20k - 30k per week and we are in League One. Those that mention Sol Campbell forget he is 36. Beattie still has a few years left in him as a Prem player.