VectisSaint

My first game was also Forsyth's last, the 3-5 home defeat to Chelsea in Jan 1968, so memories of him are minimal. Though I do remember the Shilton goal on TV the previous season. Campbell kept a clean sheet for Scotland in the game against the Auld Enemy a couple of seasons earlier when he was with Kilmarnock, Scotland won 1-0 at Hampden, also played in the Fairs Cup for Killie. Eventually replaced by Eric Martin (though Dave Maclaren was brought in before Martin), who like Fraser never got a Scotland call up while he was with Southampton, because they considered Southampton too far away.

Isgrove qualifies for u21 until end of this season, but will be ineligible next season. Sinclair and Rowe will still be classed as u21 next season. the only other player who looks like he is inelgible next season is Cody Cropper, but then the u21 competition rules allow an overage keeper anyway.

9 goals in 2 seasons for Braga, 13 the season before that. Maybe he has gone off the boil and needs a fresh start but to be honest doesn't sound particularly promising.

Fits the profile, has an accent in his name: Éder

Interesting point, I realise you were probably saying this in jest (maybe not) but Premier League rules prevent clubs loaning out more than one goalkeeper per season: "Rule V7.7 a Club may transfer the registration of no more than one of its goalkeepers by wayof temporary Transfer to another Club each Season, subject to any furtherTemporary Transfer of one of its goalkeepers pursuant to Rule V.7.6.2;" So having loaned out Boruc to Boscombe, we would not have been allowed to loan out any of the other 6 keepers on our books (unless Johns may still have been covered by other rules that apply specifically to Youth players).

Clearly won't be going to Spuds, given that he says that he doesn't want to be sitting at home watching TV on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. He didn't mention Thursdays, so seems clear he will go to PL/CL club. Will be sad to see him go, but he is so clearly a player that gives his all to the club he is contracted to that you have to respect it and wish him well. Shame that we didn't put in place a good enough squad that could have sustained our CL push, because it is clear we were not that far away.

I think the Opta Stats quoted in the Mail are a bit suspect. That is not far off Usain Bolt standard (36km v 44km). Still I guess we could have had the fastest sprinter in the league if we had signed Bolt like was being rumoured a year or so ago.

If you like. You could b be right about Peter Cech I suppos. As for the person being discussed your Dell sized mentality clearly presents you with a problem.

Thanks for confirming what I thought.

In other words out for a week/until the internationals are done. Bet he plays against us.

Very sad for Forster, this is far worse than a broken knee cap, and it seems there is some risk of never making a full recovery. Wish the guy well. But it does mean that the Club will have to plan for the worst and we will need a new #1 for next season, whether that player is then seen as #2 longer term or not will be difficult o determine. We always did need a new keeper in the summer, now it looks like we might need two otherwise we will be in the same position next season as we were this, a serious injury away from being in the **** (due respect to Kelvin who is a proven great shot stopper, but in all other respects is not a PL standard keeper). By the way, the thoughts of getting Cech is not as silly as some on here would suggest. He is stated today as looking for #1 role (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32055622), and perhaps a loan from Chelsea could be worked out rather than us having to pay full wages, which agreed would otherwise be astronomical. If we make Europe, Petr Cech might consider a season long loan. Probably unlikely but not as far fetched as some would have you believe (certainly not so far fetched that idiots need to label people as loons for suggesting it).

Or Vertonghen wants to join Saints to play with Toby.

But would he sing in Walloon, he comes from Antwerp so would be more likely a Flemish speaker.

So the setback was due to an infection. I have not seen that reported before. Suggests the news could be good, it is not really the original injury which has delayed his return (possibly, maybe). Still seems unlikely to me he will really be in contention for a place this season when we only have 8 games left.

This is not strictly true. Section V.7.6.2 of the Premier league rules state "the Temporary Transfer of a goalkeeper which in its absolute discretionthe Board may allow in circumstances it considers to be exceptional;" This was mooted by Newcastle Utd before Xmas, and the understanding was that exceptional circumstances would mean that the club had only one fit professional keeper. So although technically such a transfer can take place, there is no way this could be applied to Saints since we clearly currently have at least three fit pro keepers (Davis, Gazza and Cropper) not forgetting Will Britt and Chris Johns are also probably classified as professionals. Premier League Rules: http://m.premierleague.com/content/dam/premierleague/site-content/News/publications/handbooks/premier-league-handbook-2014-15.pdf

Correct, just as Toby has stated he wants to stay. Your remark earlier is so easily proven as nonsense. That said I don't expect Toby to be here next season, neither do i think he will be at Spuds.

Yes but 17th is special. Especially for those with a sink plunger appendage.

At least we know we can't finish 17th.

AOC and Gibbs last season

Bit early this year, 28th when we won it, my way of remembering the wife's birthday.

No rhey didn't. Some always highlighted Fonte getting Lovern out of trouble. But Toby is top class.

They will have rejoined their clubs, Arsenal, Manu, Liverpool and City well before our players get back having reached the latter stages with their own countries.

Davenport arrested on suspicion of assault http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-31958766

You mean he wasn't able to cover Costa when the defenders who should have picked him up failed to mark him properly. Anyone who thinks it was Davis' job to mark Costa in the penalty area for a cross really has a serious misunderstanding of how football works. Davis did lose possession a couple of times granted, it wasn't his best game, but clearly we went seriously backwards when his replacement was brought on.

Apart from Lambert that is (and the Skate). Seems like SRL's brief England career is over.