Matthew Le God

Care to elaborate...?

This isn't particularly cryptic...

? I said he had signed as a 1st year scholar, he hadn't signed as a 1st year scholar when those photos were taken.

What would Adidas have to do to a red and white striped shirt for it to be a "Southampton kit" and not "Stoke kit"? Putting a Southampton badge on it is about it.

My point was that even though it was the last game of season it still had something significant riding on it. Not that it was the only game we played with something significant riding on it.

The £5m game?

Hard to take Simon Jones seriously as a journalist when he spells Seaborne incorrectly as Seabourne.

I thought Di Canio left Swindon?

Concerning "half our catchment area is in the sea", that can apply to a large number of English clubs. Saints are hardly unique for that.

In action for Saints...

I was actually told about this in January by the Chelsea researcher for Football Manager who has very good connections, but forgot to put it on here. I was ITK again, but let it pass me by!

Well a mod can do that to save confusion.

I didn't say it was the first signing.

He signed a contract for Saints, so its a SIGNING!

Former Chelsea under 16 left back Joshua Debayo has been given a scholarship & will be in Jason Dodd's under 18 team next season. New 1st year scholars... Joshua Debayo Niall Mason George Mells Josh Sims Kyle Clinton Harry Isted Will Wood Daniel Demkiv Carel Kayembe

Still Danny Fox at the moment. Even Clyne would probably be ahead of Targett in the pecking order for left back cover if we get another right back.

That is what they said in the early Saints Player videos last year. Looks like they might have too much to do to get the main pavilion building finished in under a month but other buildings on the site (academy, security hut, groundsman building and spectator stands), pitches and landscaping may be ready for when the players come back.

I'd like to see 1885 somewhere on the badge.

I quite like the new Crystal Palace badge this summer compared to the one it replaces. Shows it is possible to keep many of the key elements of old badges and modernise them. Same could be done with... The Palace eagle badges are from the 1970's when Malcom Allison arrived as manager in 1973 and totally rebranded the club. He changed the shirt colours to red and blue stripes and introduced the Eagles nickname. The Saints badge is also a relic of the 1970's and could do with some modern styling.

Clubs alter their badges all the time, every club in England has made numerous changes over the years. Just two examples of badge changes this summer. Bolton Wanderers badge from 2002 to 2013... New Bolton Wanderers badge from 2013 onwards... Crystal Palace's badge history... From 2013/14 onwards...

Bolton Wanderers badge from 2002 to 2013... New Bolton Wanderers badge from 2013 onwards...

Thats something for the photoshop experts to cobble together!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2336872/Nigel-Adkins-cheesy-message-Reading-supporters.html It is likely to be a reference to this which the Daily Mail overlooks... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/see-heartwarming-message-sacked-nigel-1544926 Even though Adkins didn't actually write the message and it was from before he was sacked.

Wooden facade now going up...

I've already listened to it on Talksport listen again service. Not a great deal of detail given.