Matthew Le God

A bizarre line of enquiry/logic from both of you. It shows as a newly promoted team, with a relatively weak squad Saints can attract circa 29,000 fans against a weak Prem team. For a large number of games this season many people will be left disappointed. If 29,000 Saints fans want to goto the Wigan game, do you honestly believe the 29,000 Saints fans with tickets for the Man Utd game is all there is wanting to goto that game? Wigan is the low mark, Man Utd the high mark but the 29,000 seats in the home end restrict home attendances to the same amount. Plus consider any stadium expansion would be done to support/help achieve a higher level of product/players on the pitch. At the moment we are the relegation favourites. Give it a few years and if we are mid table/upper half the matchgoing fanbase for games vs Wigan will grow.

Given it was probably against the least attractive opponent and still during holiday season I fail to see what is wrong with 29,604. As I said, if Wigan had brought 3,000 rather that what "700?" the attendance would have been circa 31,000 and no-one would raise an eyebrow. Well Turkish, Kraken etc might...

I'd love you to talk me through that. How many Wigan fans were there? Had they brought 3,000 what do you think the attendance would have been? Given today it was 29,604.

Had Wigan filled the away end with 3,000 fans no-one would make a comment as the attendance would have been circa 31,000.

€ not £.

Beat you to it by 1 minute. http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?39281-Maya-YOSHIDA-Centre-Back&p=1452451#post1452451

Update - 24th August 2012 The story bubbles to the surface again... http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4502020/Maya-is-piece-in-Saints-jigsaw.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

He was capped for Scotland under 19's today in a 2-1 over Norway and is still only aged 16 years old.

It is a true story aswell.

Ian Holloway publicly confirmed Saints made a £5m bid for Matt Phillips.

Peach - "Will there be any more signings before Saturday?" Adkins - "Who knows!" Picture paints a thousand words...

As I said... news about FM13 will be unveiled in mid September. If you think all they do each year is change the colour-scheme and update the database you are very much mistaken.

Saints online ticketing has been outsourced to Tickets.com this season.

Paulo Gazzaniga - similar age, South American, speaks Spanish. Of course that is no guarantee they will get on with each other, but its a start...

News on FM13 was going to be in late August, now won't be until mid September as Sports Interactive's Managing Director Miles Jacobson's mother has had a stroke in last few days.

Copy and paste time please hypochondriac.

Gaston signs!

Simon Peach is a Press Association journalist, a Saints fan and is quite matey with those in the Saints media department. Compared to many journalists, he is reliable for Saints news.

Pompey maths = 20% of 1160 =232 2% of 232 = 5 Pompey fans at Colchester last night! The nurse on the right doesn't count. She is the man in wheelchairs enabler (either that or she is Westwood's enabler).

How is it "blindness"? Adkins has publicly stated he wants one or two centre backs in before the window closes. Just because we know about talks for Ramirez and Phillips, it does not mean at the same time they aren't in talks for centre backs.

Read the second half of my post beyond mentioning the goal.

Can you not see why it is unprofessional if the club were to start revealing details of transfer negotiations and talking about other teams players publicly?

Not great really, considering every game could be your last.

So two goals you can think of...! They don't want to obstruct the path for Luke Shaw. He will relatively soon be our left back, Fox is good enough in the mean time whilst Shaw develops.

In that video he scores at the San Siro against a very good AC Milan side, looks composed on the ball and makes a number of good dribbles (many of which end because he is fouled alot).