Matthew Le God

Can't have a player may sign for Saints thread without a highlights video. Brian Howard vs Doncaster... The Saints spokesman on Twitter putting a dampener on it does make it hard to believe it is going to happen though.

He sounded interested when asked about it in January. Plus at his age he will be looking for one of the last big pay days in his career. His wages if he joined Saints would increase massively compared to what Peterborough can afford to pay him.

The club have been doing that this season with the Saints foundation on the kit.

I doubt Pressman will come to Saints. Saints have Jim Stannard as senior goalkeeper coach and Vince Bartram with the youth teams. With Adkins, Crosby and Wilkins, I'm not even sure if we would need Baraclough.

He means they will miss out on 3 to 4 million pounds in TV and League money. Plus lower crowds and sponsorship money.

This article seems pretty clear to me... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2279036,00.html The opening sentence sums it up for a start!

The 2nd year academy scholars find out about their future at Saints tomorrow.

Nope, Saints can still guarantee 2nd spot without winning every game... - A win and a draw from the two games in hand over Peterborough puts Saints ahead. - Two wins a a defeat from the three games in hand over Huddersfield puts Saints ahead.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_2/live_scores/default.stm

Why are you willing to tell strangers one by one using PM's, but not post it on here?

It is going to dramatically increased the number of hours England's best young players have with top coaches. At the moment is lagging behind most other top European leagues. The players will end up better, plus they will still benefit the smaller clubs by going out on loan and if deemed not good enough they will still sign for smaller clubs having had much more coaching at a higher level. Very few English clubs will get category one. Saints will be able to use their position to hoover up a lot of the regions best players (as they do already) as Saints will be more attractive and between the ages of 9 to 12 the only option in many cases for players and their parents as teams like Pompey etc will be restricted.

If ever there was a need to change a thread title this is it.

Because games can only be rescheduled for when both teams are available. For example Saints had a game postponed against Rochdale. Rochdale however are playing Notts County tonight, so Saints can't play that game etc etc

Why do you think that Steve? It will be brought in, maybe with a few tweaks/concessions but nothing major. The Premier League academies have far more power to bring this through no matter what the Football League clubs think. Plus the FA thinks it will benefit the national team. In any case, as we are all Saints fans we should be hoping it does happen. As Saints will be one of the few clubs in England that will significantly benefit from it!

It will cost roughly £2.5 million per year to run a category 1 academy when these plans come in for 2012/13. Plus you need the facilities to get category 1 - hence the multi million pound development of Staplewood announced. There won't be very many clubs with category 1 academies, but Saints will be one of them. Those thinking the owners aren't investing really have flimsy foundations to their argument.

So the same age as Lallana and plays in the same position. He would have to be absolutely exceptional to make it worthwhile adding to the squad and blocking the path of academy wingers.

How do you know they haven't?

Some people in this forum keep overestimating the Championship. It really isn't that great... - Saints 3rd choice left back Joseph Mills is playing on loan for a mid table Championship side. - Saints "rejects" Wayne Thomas and Simon Gillet are playing for a mid table Championship side. - Saints 3rd choice winger Jason Puncheon is on loan in the Premier League. - Leeds and Norwich have very similar squads to those of their League One promotion campaigns and are both in the Championship playoff places. Millwall not too far behind. Forte - has played 120 games at Championship level! Hammond - has played 88 games at Championship level! Harding - Has played 91 games at Championship level! Butterfield - Has played 356 games at Championship level! 7 in the Premier League. Richardson - Has played 96 games at Championship level! 4 in the Premier League. Chaplow - Has played 177 games at Championship level! 11 in the Premier League. Holmes - Has played 58 games at Championship level! Lallana - Has played 46 games at Championship level! Schneiderlin - Has played 30 games at Championship level! Fonte - Has played 88 games at Championship level! Plus 37 in the Portuguese top flight! Bialkowski - Has played 17 games at Championship level! Davis - Has played 350 games at Championship level! Plus 33 in the Premier League. Jaidi - Has played 68 games at Championship level! Plus 61 in the Premier League. Connolly - Has played 232 games at Championship level! Plus 22 in the Premier League. Mills - Has played 22 games at Championship level. Puncheon - Has played 21 games at Championship level! Plus 3 in the Premier League. Barnard - Has played 3 games at Premier League level! Dickson - has played 5 games at Championship level! Guly - A key player in a promotion winning Serie B side. ...all have good experience of the Championship or higher. Admittedly Connolly, Holmes and Jaidi may well be released at the end of season for age and injury reasons.

Very common in football, as it is not solely down to the manager to make player purchases from the start of the process of identifying targets to the completion of the deal. The scouting team under Pardew would have identified potential targets, just because Pardew left it doesn't mean the club are no longer interested or still tracking players they identified earlier.

Nonsense. - Puncheon is playing games in the Premier League this season. - West Ham in January made a bid for the 4th choice centre back - Aarron Martin. - Why only "possibly" a fee for Fonte, that is absurd. He'd make it into every Championship and a few Premier League squads. - Saints 3rd choice left back is a regular out on loan for Championship side Doncaster. - Wayne Thomas and Simon Gillett also play for Doncaster in the Championship despite neither being good enough to make the Saints first XI. - To suggest Mills, Puncheon, Martin, Gobern, Hammond, Harding, Dickson, Barnard, Guly etc wouldn't have a transfer fee if sold really is strange!

Explain how it isn't?

Why is that embarrassing to you? Unless you were one of the idiots, all you have as a connection with them is a following of the same football team by shear chance. No need to be embarrassed by them as you have no control over their actions.

No, it was moved to an earlier time in the day because of the England vs Wales game (football not rugby). It was never going to be a Sky game.

Bartley is a Burnley player!

Unlike you to be negative. Especially after 3 wins in a row for Saints.