Matthew Le God

If improving the England team is the main motivation (which for the FA's point of view it is, if not the Premier League's) then this is flawed in some respects as the "home grown" quote of 8 (rising to 12 in 2020) and "club trained" quota of 2 don't have to be English.

If you don't have two over 21 players who are club trained you simply leave space in your 25 man squad and the youth players effectively fill the club trained spot. If you don't have 2 over 21 year old club trained players then you could only register 23 players who are over 21 and then effectively the likes of Ward-Prowse, Reed, Targett etc etc fill in the gap and become the 2 club trained players. Of all the clubs in England we are set up extremely well to cover such a rule. No they wouldn't, the rules do not state anything about the home grown players having to be English. Saints currently 8 home grown players to meet the current rules... 5 are English, 1 is Irish, 1 is Northern Irish and 1 is French. The 2 club trained players in the rules don't have to be English either.

The football World Cup has a minimum capacity requirement for its stadiums that the Rugby World Cup doesn't. Given the relative positions of the two clubs, Saints can justify a need for a larger stadium more than Brighton can.

K.Davis Clyne Schneiderlin Long S.Davis Rodriguez Bertrand Forster Are the 8 "home grown" players for Saints in Premier League rules. You only need 2 "club trained" players in these rule proposals, if you don't have two over 21 players who are club trained you simply leave space in your 25 man squad and the youth players effectively fill the club trained spot.

Pah! I see your Cortese Megadome and raise you the... Krueger Koliseum!

Oh yeah, I forgot.. he was banned at last.

I'll await his arrival, will be a fun evening ahead of us boys and girls.

THREAD BUMP! If Blatter did fail to be re-elected next month and England did make a bid for 2026; Saints would be in a better position to bid for this than they were from 2007 to 2009 bidding process for the 2018 World Cup... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32040304

Why would you do that?

He did, but that is hardly a problem for us.

K.Davis Clyne Schneiderlin Long S.Davis Rodriguez Bertrand Forster Are the 8 "home grown" players for Saints in Premier League rules. The FA are proposing the number of Home Grown players rises from 8 to 12 from 2016 to 2020. Plus you need 2 players in the 25 man squad who are club trained (at the club for 3 years before 18th birthday).

The FA's original proposals included... So if fee was set at £10m the likes of Wanyama, Tadic, Mane and Ramirez would qualify on price and their international record wouldn't matter as we paid more than £10m for them.

Why do you think that? The rules are to reduce the lower quality non-EU players joining the Premier League, not the high quality ones.

It is true.

Would prefer us not to get into Europe this season in order to give us a better chance of getting into Europe next season?

What were you expecting them to do? We normally only get an injury update at the pre-match press conference/interviews that the manager does. The Everton press conference and interview will be on 2nd April. We may get it before perhaps through social media, but they may still not know for certain what is wrong and as we've seen with Rodriguez its pretty pointless putting a timeframe on it.

You said very different things about him in 2012/13 when we were struggling at the start of the season with him in goal.

Thats not true. Sam Vokes... http://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/news/article/vokes-previews-southampton-clash-2347128.aspx#esA68FPeqbZZekKJ.99 Danny Ings... http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/05/southampton-burnley-fa-cup-match-report

Vokes was simply the player Burnley put in front of the media at the pre-game press conference. The press then questioned him about his Saints ties, Motd and Sky commentators then use the info from the press conferences in their commentary. Had Burnley used Ings and Jutkiewicz then similar would have been asked of them in the press conference.

I think it may be more due to the US playing games in Europe and they use Cropper as a 3rd choice as he is based in Europe.

- Paulo Gazzaniga is 23 years old - Cody Cropper is 22 years old - Will Britt is 20 years old - Chris Johns is 19 years old The Premier League would probably tell us to use them, they aren't kids anymore.

Clyne, Fonte, Alderweireld, Yoshida, Targett, Gardos and goalkeeper coach Watson are all on international duty for much of the next two weeks. It'll be Davis, Bertrand and under 21 defenders at training.

I can't remember how the rules work. Will try and find out but we may not be able to register him.

In the past IIRC our other loans like Billy Sharp returned to Premier League training at Staplewood once the Football League season finished.

Bournemouth won't have training sessions once their season is over, they'll all be off on holiday if promoted on/by 2nd May.