Matthew Le God

1) If it were football league cups including the conference then it wouldn't be a "League Cup" 2) There is already a cup comp for League 1 and League 2 cups = Johnstone's Paint Trophy 3) There are cup comps for Conference clubs = Sentana Shield and the FA Trophy 4) I'm not sure if the league cup has ever been won by a team not in the top flight. If they did it was a long time ago. So the Premiership teams do take it seriously once they start to progress. 5) The revenue small teams get from playing against Premiership teams is vital in some cases and gives the fans something to look forward to

You can't really include friendlies So its 3 goals in 2 games

It is 5 subs in the FA cup and League cup 7 subs is just for the Premiership, UEFA Cup and Champions League That list is the Saints match day squad which is always 18 players. Two of them won't be in the match 16 of course and are there in case of pre game injures and need to be added.

No, he had a 1 match ban for 2 yellows in the Sheff Utd game Thus he is NOT suspended anymore after missing the Cardiff game

Bart is playing

I bet they don't. Davies and Svensson are the first choices and once they are fully fit, Perry and Wotton won't get look in.

Good, will suit our style aswell. I can only hope it doesn't rain like it did in Cardiff.

What condition is the pitch like at the moment at St James' Park?

Jan in an interview with Saints TV today has announced that the starting XI for the Exeter game will be as follows... Bialkowski James Perry Wotton Surman Gillett Schneiderlin Thomson Lallana Holmes McGoldrick

I doubt we did. More likely the "journalist" did some poor research and got his previous club and teams in for him mixed up in an attempt to make it look like a job well done for Doncaster.

No chance Svensson will play. I think the squad should be a mixture of his first XI and fringe players. Something like... Bialkowski Hatch Thomas Perry Mills Wotton Gillett Wright-Phillips Lallana Dyer John Subs; Davis Surman McGoldrick Schneiderlin Holmes

get saints tv for £25 a year and you get 20 mins of match highlights per game

Celtic, West Ham and Stoke are not lower league! and the team at times outplayed all of them That french teenager is the French under 19 captain btw Your opinion is null and void as you haven't seen this completely new side play in Jan's new style. Yes I know they are friendlies but they still give you an idea of the ability of the players and the style they will play.

Again, what are you basing that on? Did you go to the Stoke/Celtic/West Ham games?

I bet it doesn't! Which pre-season games did you see to have that opinion?

His first choice XI played in the 1st half, he stated this quite clearly

Davis potentially being sold came straight from Jan's mouth during the BBC forum.

......top of the league

wait untill the real competitive pressures before writing them off as "lightweight"

Saints are used to having a slick pitch. Hence why we used sprinklers before the Stoke game to aid our quick passing game. Always look for a positive

well if they are claiming he signed from us then they are wrong as he was released by saints during the summer and no longer a saints player

he was on trial at Swindon about a week ago after he was released by us. so it seems odd he is at newcastle if this is true

Davis/Bialkowski/Forecast James/Hatch Thomas/Perry/Svensson/Davies Surman/Mills Gillett/Wotton/Schneiderlin Thomson/BWP Lallana Holmes/Dyer John/McGoldrick Not too bad imo. Also many other young players in reserve such as Racine, Gobern, White, Pernecky, Paterson etc etc. Certainly better than the no pace no movement squad of last season!

Saint Matty_76 Joseph Mills is exactly huge by any means He won't be in the match 16 anyway, him and Jamie White just in the 18 for experience

In the 4 friendlies I saw the front four all interchanged position throughout the game, swapping sides etc. Confusses the hell out of the opposition and is true total football