Andy Durman

Good morning all!! Excited about the day. My son wants to meet Wanyama so let's make that happen. Excited about the day. Alpine I would be delighted to meet you. Any supporter of Saints is a friend of mine. As for the game it will be tough and It will be interesting to see how Saints squad plays against Schalke's strongest team. Have a great day all!

Good morning all!! Excited about the day. My son wants to meet Wanyama so let's make that happen. Excited about the day. Alpine I would be delighted to meet you. Any supporter of Saints is a friend of mine. As for the game it will be tough and It will be interesting to see how Saints squad plays against Schalke's strongest team. Have a great day all!

I will go down to the training ground around 10am and will sit on the terrace and watch the training hopefully as a guest of the groundsman. My new friend. I will be at the stadium 2 hours before t he match to make sure I get tickets. Maybe I'll see you you there Alpine.

Villach is 24 km from the training ground. This is where I'm based

Ow did you here the one about the overloaded coach. Will tell you more tomorrow

Ok so I found the training ground at Sportplatz, Villach. Met the Saints staff who were putting the Saints perimeter advertising around 3 sides of the training ground. They told me that Saints are staying at Schloss Villach. So I went with my son & father to the hotel and met Mr Cortese (who broke his leg whilst walking in Switzerland) along with Rickie & Kelvin. They've used the new Saints coach for the first time and it looks amazing. The hotel is the best in Wörtersee and it mUst be costing a fortune. The funniest thing for me was seeing Cortese on crutches & watching the trainers filling the training water bottles with bottled water. The drinking water here is probably the best in Europe. Training tonight and tomorrow will be intense and expect 2 different sides for both halves. MP will make sure that the players are tired before they play the matches to increase fitness. Training pitch and Stadium pitch are excellent. What a little stadium with an athletics track around. Schalke will have one half of the stadium as they are bringing about a 1000 supporters. Looking forward to watching training and the match tomorrow.

I have just arrived at my Hotel in Villach. Does anybody know which hotel they are staying at. What time they are training etc. Would be grateful for some help. Will be leaving shortly by car to check out the stadium and training area. I will post any info that I kind get hold of.

Alpine thanks very much for your very useful information.

A really good read! Thanks for that

Guys I will be going to both matches in Villach with my family. Alpine can you recommend a good hotel to stay at for 4 days????? Do you think Saints will be staying at Hotel Warmbad????? How do IU purchase tickets for the games????

Does anybody have any information on where Saints will be staying in Austria and where they will play against Schalke???

Does anybody have any information on where Saints will be staying & where they will be playing Schalke as I would like to watch them train and play as I'm living in Austria

Why don't you all stop worrying. How many times can a player say he's staying? The only thing he can't to is turn 18 tomorrow. Please have a bit of patience.

Pure theatre!!!!!!

I think Cortese will announce on Sunday that he's staying. Everyone will love him and there will be the momentum to push us on united into the next season. Yaaaaaaay!!!!. What alot of drama. More like bloody Hollywood

Not really just a bad day at the office

Maybe Shaw is not playing in so many games because he is being well managed.

Sorry but first 3 goals should not have counted. Top European match, but where was the top European Referee & Assisitants. A disgrace. Bayern were far better and worthy of a 2-0 lead, but lets play to to the rules. Why bother having a 5th official when he's also blind.

Outplayed and fair result

Sorry but Le Fondre is not wrong. I recorded the game in Austria and we've looked at it many times. Jay had his studs up and using the letter of the law this is a red. I thought the goal should have been disallowed on seeing the replays. The thing is that when you see it in real time it looks a goal and the referee did not give a foul so history shows it was a goal. If the goalie had have done a Boruc I think he could have been injured. Therefore it was a dangerous tackle. What goes around comes around. It was our turn to have a decision go for us. If anybody watches the replay and is honest then they must have sympathy for Adkins.

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/u21s-face-gunners-tonight-707545.aspx Match kicks off at 7pm Liverpool U21 drew 3-3 at home to West Ham U21. Equaliser in the last seconds of extra time by West Ham (against the run of play).

On reflection 1-1 was the correct result. How much did we spend on Forren? 4 million? If i'm paying that amount of money I would want something a little special. He will need to improve although it was his first game.

He is slow

Forren looks very slow

Steve Davis improves the team and was an excellent signing