Matthew Le God

Paddington

There are over eight weeks left of the transfer window. Five weeks until the season starts. Heck, pre-season isn't even starting for another two days!

Parachute payments in 2012/13 aren't any different from those that Burnley, Pompey and Hull got.

It is on topic, the rules mentioned in the opening post allow any benefactor to spend as much as they want on infrastructure (which boost revenue streams allowing for more to be spent), and may also allow owners inject money in the form of equity into the club.

The UEFA rules allow for investment of up to £40m over a 3 year period from the owners as long as it is turned into equity. The Football League financial rules will see something similar to this (though perhaps not as large and is still to be decided). The UEFA and Football League financial rules also have spending on stadiums, training grounds and academies exempt from counting towards the figure to break even.

So you have come to this conclusion on the 27th June, before Saints have even slightly shown their hand for summer transfer activity.

Education theory doesn't require children to be present. Teachers whilst training sit through endless lectures at university on child psychology and education theories etc and attend numerous seminars on education techniques. A driving theory test doesn't require a car to be taught.

Because teachers want holidays. Perk of the job. Education is forever changing and evolving. New issues arise, new methods to use etc since staff did teacher training possibly many years earlier.

They do use that during the build up each game, but isn't the song when they are walking through the tunnel "The Saints are coming"?

For those that don't know which song...

Surprised no-one has brought this up. Suggests that they will be training away from Staplewood when pre-season starts. Wonder where they are going in England for this training camp?

Dundee

Hogan

I'm aware of that. Hence my wink at the end of the first sentence.

Don't leave it like that! Tell us more, without leaving yourself liable to legal action.

Edited slightly because it looks good coming from you. It is a slight tangent, I'll give you that. But it shows how (some) Saints fans either have rose-tinted glases and ex-players are the best thing since sliced bread, or are the worst player they have ever seen. Little middle ground.

Did you go to many games over the last two years with Saints in the 3rd tier? Do you not think the managers of Dagenham & Redbridge, Stockport, Walsall, Tranmere, Wycombe, Torquay, Northampton, Yeovil, Southend, Cheltenham, Shrewsbury, Eastleigh, Carlisle, Oldham, Hartlepool, Leyton Orient, Brentford etc etc would bite your arm off to have a striker like David McGoldrick in their sides (if they could afford him)?

Don't get me wrong, I don't think he was that great either. But if you offered him to pretty much every side Saints have played in the last two seasons in League One, he would be their number one striker. Thus to call him "one of the worst players I have seen" is a little odd. Unless of course you didn't watch Saints in the last two seasons and didn't see the standard of many League One strikers.

All I did was add the second sentence, nothing was removed.

Turning on your own kind? Not a good sign when that happens.

SuperMikey said he was "****", he didn't say in reference to what he was "****". Most likely it was a comparison with other strikers in the Championship in the 2008/09 season, but we don't know as he didn't say. You however said "one of the worst player I have ever seen". There is a significant difference between the two statements.

You say that as if you think making statements like that will change me. It won't, surely you have worked that out by now, given the numerous times you have done so. I wasn't the one making ridiculous statements like "McGoldrick is one of the worst players I've ever seen". Which is clearly nonsense, yet you make comments to me rather than him.

I think this thread has come to its natural conclusion. The End (p.s. someone remind me when the day comes to collect from DellDays the £100 to go to a charity of my choosing )

- Saints have been in League One for the last two seasons. - Saints have been playing non league teams in friendlies for his entire life. - Saints have been playing lower league teams in cup competitions for his entire life. Unless he has seen very little football (only at Premier League level) and very little of Saints, he would have seen many players worse than McGoldrick. Even in the last two seasons, McGoldrick would be a regular for pretty much every team Saints have played against in League One.