Matthew Le God

Successive promotions from League One to the Premier League suggests to me their transfer policy worked quite well.

Le Tissier wasn't bad in the air, scored a number of headed goals in his younger days.

Plus Billy Sharp was the Championship's 3rd top scorer last season.

Simon Peach ‏@SimonPeach #SaintsFC fans, brace yourself for an announcement at 5.30pm.

Have you read the article or just the URL?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/jack-butland-has-been-advised-to-snub-870593

Rodriguez 15 league goals - he got a further 6 in the cups (4 against Burton Albion) Sharp 19 league goals and was the Championship's 3rd top scorer

How does that make it not "tapping up"? Burnley could report them if true.

Well that is easily rectified.

No it doesn't, merely says they will take place in France.

FC Lucerne perhaps...? http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.luzernerzeitung.ch%2Fzentralschweiz%2Fsport%2Ffc_luzern%2FFC-Luzern-Geht-Renggli-Kommt-Dortmund%3Bart98%2C179692&act=url

The league isn't theirs, they merely sponsor it.

Worse than that, it would be admin #4 - 1998, 2010, 2012 plus your new one.

Wasn't talking to you.

Just take a look at FM for how I rate Davis in comparison to Green.

I would go for Green, as would Nigel Adkins (and so would a number of current/former England managers) if this rumour of Saints interest is correct. If it is true, Green would be joining on a large wage and would be the number 1, pointless him leaving West Ham otherwise.

You are taking my comments out of context. Show me where I said that such polls should be used as the only source to determine which is the better player? I was commenting that if you determine such polls to be a credible factor then the most recent one has a larger weighting than an older one. I did not say I gave such polls a huge degree of credit in determining which is the best player. I think they give an insight, but shouldn't be used in isolation.

You have overlooked the question in my last post. "Surely last season is the most relevant as to their current ability?" Does Green's current ability offer being voted the PFA Premier League keeper of 2011/12? No. He was in the Championship along with Davis in 2011/12 and Davis beat him to an award both could have won. I'm not saying such an award is the be all and end all of deciding which is better, far from it. But as I also said... "If you follow through your own logic of deeming PFA polls to be credible factors, Davis is better than Green" based on the most up to date information in this area. As for your comment of "you never seem to offer an opinion of your own", whose opinion do you think I am expressing? Or even when we have our never ending attendance debates, whose opinion do you think I'm expressing then? I know you don't agree with them, but I can confidently say they are my own.

Not saying I don't agree with you overall, but using the above as a factor doesn't make a lot of sense when if using the most recent PFA poll from last season, Davis had more votes than Green whilst both in the same division. Surely last season is the most relevant as to their current ability? So if you follow through your own logic of deeming PFA polls to be credible factors, Davis is better than Green.

As there are a lot of home friendlies, it would be good if they could bundle the home friendlies together at a discount. A "pre-season season ticket" if you will.

I was talking in general terms about a team selection policy shouldn't be based on sentimentality, which is why I said at the start of my post...

Take out the Davis/Green debate over who is better and I'd prefer Saints to take the route of aiming to put out the best XI they can rather than pursuing team selection based on sentimentality.

Games against... Arsenal - 3rd in England 2011/12 Rangers - 2nd in Scotland 2011/12 (admittedly 2nd in Scotland isn't much of an achievement, but they are still a big club) Udinese - 3rd in Italy 2011/12 Evian - 9th in France in 2011/12 Ajax - 1st in Holland 2011/12 + Wolves and Bristol City ...you describe as "completely underwhelming". What were you expecting/hoping for? In terms of a pre-season I think that is the best we've had in years. Lots of home games against high profile clubs and a training camp/two games in a very attractive, relatively close region of Europe.

Looks like someone has stolen a stripe!

Under which law?