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Much like the rest of us then. If someone is offering £4m then NC should bite their hand off. Taxi for Mr Forren.

Sorry, didn't realise you meant Townsend was non-league as well.

Quite shocking really, only 60, couple of years older than me. I know he was not Saints but still he was a part of that great day.

Apart from Saturday he has done nothing to impress. Bambi on Ice comes to mind. But he must be better than he has looked, no-one could do what he did at YB and the ANC and be complete crap.

Is it? Why on earth do you think Adkins had no say in who went out on loan, yet you think MP will have a say. Fair enough if you don't like Reed, but just making things up to suit is a bit silly.

How can you claim Alf Ramsey as home grown, he played for Skates before us. CB Fry played for top amateur clubs before joining Saints as a pro. Doddsy played for Bath City, Townsend played 140 times for Welling and 40 times for Weymouth before us. Morgan joined us from Strasbourg. So most of these are not "home grown" in the true sense of the phrase. My choice: Bob Charles, Chris Baird, Malcolm Waldron, Manny Andrusewski, Wayne Bridge, Terry Paine, Steve Williams, Gareth Bale, Matt Le Tissier, Mick Channon, Martin Chivers. Sorry no room for Wallace(s), Walcott, Oakley, Shearer or Oxlade-Chamberlain amongst others. MF/Strikers we are blessed, but GK/Defenders not so. Sorry but Manutd would win this hands down.

These are dreams, MP uses the word on more than one occassion. Only the headline the dailyfaily says this is a target, and then goes on to quote a load of stuff about freaming, aiming for the stars. Seems like some people have difficulty with comprehension, I blame the present day education system.

To be honest it is not his result predictions that are irritating, its more that the predictions does not bear any resemblance to the comments about the game. Often he says positive things about a team and then predicts them to lose, or vice versa. Predicting correct scores (not results) is feandishly difficult, yo uonly need to look at the Prediction League this season. One person predicted the correct score 6 times, no-one predicted the correct score more than 4 times and most like me got it spot on once or twice at most. Correct result in the Prediction league was done at most 21 times, so somewhere around the same level as lawro at best. the fact is that Lawro has no more skill at this than any average person.

Might make more sense to call up J-Rod, at least he fits in with the young player idea. Given Rickie also has a back problem does anyone really think that it would be good for Saints calling him up for meaningless friendly internationals.

This is a very good point and one that I alluded to earlier. I remain of the opinion that since the sad demise of Markus, NC does not have an enthused owner by his side to drive him on and support him in his ambitions. In this way we must be almost unique, and I seriously believe this was what NC was trying to get from Katherina. If not he had other backers in the background as he has alluded to before that could have replaced KL and provided that more personal backing. There is more to it than simply saying here is a pot of money, go figure. But I'm delighted that NC seems to have enthused KL enough to dispell this perceived issue, maybe we will see KL at more games in the future, though at the moment I wouldn't recognise her anyway, the Liebherrs do seem very shy of the media.

50/50 chance of getting a dud then...

Many players have come out and said they will consider their position if Arry leaves. If he leaves they will consider staying.

That would give about 8 weeks at most to get the 2nd tier done if we qualify for the Europa Noddy Cup. What they gonna do put up some scaffolding?

I heard he had a problem with the french doors.

You're not wrong there buddy.

I think it may have been an innovation of the Roman Catholic church in the 7th Century, but hey if Lowe wants to claim it fair enough.

This is fair comment. The current system just cuts you off when you get the message that all operators are busy. It stinks. There's a web site set up by a guy who helps everyone get the options on these menu systems, we should try to get Saints ticket office added, can't find the link at the moment, have it at home.

No, thats Terry Paine. Hope that helps.

Hear hear!

I'd rather see a proper enactment and Owen dive when MP goes near him :-)

Presumably we can expect the same again at the end of next season when the Chairman and the owner have their annual talks. This turned out be a nothing story, just run of the mill performance appraisal. The only thing that seems to have happened of significant note is that we once again have an owner, it seems that the long drawn out probate system in Switzerland has come to an end and Katharina is now the owner. Others may have been bequeathed some shares but it is clear that she is the main person now. Hopefully we can stop all these references to the Liebherr family and the Trust now. There is a lot of misunderstanding about the involvement of what is referred to as the Liebherr family. Markus' direct family is the only part with any significant involvement as far as can be told.

Only made 5 league appearances, has not been involved for some time now, not sure if he was injured or just not good enough.

No, not funny at all

What were you expecting, one of the nuns that adorn the matchday threads?

Its Katharina. I was informed of this by members of the Cult of Cortese.