Matthew Le God

Plymouth will be relegated before we play them on 2nd May. They are already 8 points adrift from safety, with an inferior goal difference and only 8 games left.

Norwich's Grant Holt isn't exactly quick and he is doing fine as the Championship's 3rd top scorer this season. The Championship isn't much off a step up for good League One sides as Norwich, Leeds and Millwall have shown. Joseph Mills and Simon Gillett both play regularly in the CHampionship and struggled to get in the Saints team. Jason Puncheon is 3rd choice wide player for Saints and is starting games in the Premier League.

Isn't that taken as a given on this forum?

Why would one of Barnard/Lambert have to be sold if Craig Mackail-Smith signed for Saints (and didn't go to Norwich)? David Connolly probably won't get another contract, so that opens up a striker spot in the squad.

But if he was(and you agree he was), then it was a diamond and not 4132.

As Peterborough are behind Saints and Huddersfield are in front, I think a Peterborough win against Huddersfield next weekend would be better for Saints than a draw between them.

It was a diamond. Hammond was sitting just in front of Jaidi and Fonte from kick off in the first half.

Along with the fullbacks attacking, the width is also meant to come from the two strikers pulling out wide and the player in the hole staying central.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IquAh2Tgi10

Why should they? Plymouth shouldn't do things like buy a new pitch for £500k in the summer of 2010 when they knew they couldn't afford to pay for it.

They do already. Solidarity payments given to all 72 Football League clubs each year... http://www.premierleague.com/staticFiles/4a/65/0,,12306~91466,00.pdf

Argyle are going to offer creditors 1p in the pound in the CVA. 20x worse than Pompey!

I agree ^

I'm hurt by that comment.

No longer a rumour. Nigel Adkins confirmed today that Jack Stephens has been to the club to have a look round.

How do you know?

It is not that the Football League would throw them out. It is that the club might be liquidated on business grounds - nothing the Football League would/could do about that.

Lee Barnard is 5 foot 10" or 178cm, which is hardly a midget! Certainly not short enough for a chant about being small. I should be asking you - Are we talking about the same Lee Barnard here? I get to plenty of games as a season ticket holder. Do you?

I was just asking as I genuinely thought it was something else. That line doesn't come across very clear from the Northam when they sing it, to my seat in the Kingsland. Just seemed odd to me they would chant about him being short, when he isn't.

Isn't the the chant...? "he sure is f*cking hard, he's wanted by Scotland Yard, Lee Barnard, Barnard"

Court case adjourned until 13th April. Was due for committal at Southampton Magistrates Court tomorrow.

You can leave blank spaces in the squad, which then count in the same way as home grown players.

I think his point was more that all these clubs (at the time Saints brought the players) were desperate for money and had serious issues. Stephens - Yes on loan, but the Oldham press have said Saints paid Oldham a significant loan fee. Oldham haven't been paying their wages on time. Plymouth, Southend, Charlton, Crystal Palace and Preston all had big problems at the time of the deals and Saints took advantage of them. Not so sure about Brentford/Dickson, I'm unaware of any serious financial problems there. More a case (I think) of Dickson wanting a better deal for himself. It may sound harsh but is an effective transfer policy. Clubs took advantage of Saints in 2009 with Surman and McGoldrick etc going cheap.

He is right footed.

1) Cortese said he put offers in the bin in January. Alex is under contract and could be a Championship regular next season and a Premier League player with Saints before he reaches 20. I think he'll only be sold if we don't go up this season, or again if we don't go straight up next season to the Premier League. 2) Nonsense - Ferguson returned on the 12th January 2011. Peterborough were 5th at that time, 4 points off 2nd with a game in hand on 2nd. 3) We haven't spent as much because the main players for the starting XI had already been put in place. The multi million pound training ground was improved and added to after Markus' death. 4) Selling the best right midfielder to buy a striker when we already had Lambert, Barnard and Guly doesn't help the squad. In any case Premier League chasing Norwich couldn't get him in January as the didn't want to upset their promotion bid. So they certainly wouldn't sell him to one of their main rivals. CMS will be sold in the summer, Peterborough have said as much. Then is the time to buy him (though it will probably be Norwich that get him).