VectisSaint

Are you sure? No-one ever thinks Guly had a good game, do they

Spurs have a good track record identifying young keepers.

I thought his name was Mugabi, not Lowe

I like this message on their board: "One player we need to keep. Shows how far he has come that prem clubs are after him" Makes me feel good. No idea about Martinez, I'm sure if we are after him that he is what is needed, but would be more excited if we were in for Ince. No reason we couldn't get both though.

Sorry if I'm being dense but how does this relate to the Skates? Have they been demoted to the Conference?

We should just rebrand ourselves as The Football Club. Everyone will know it is us because we are the only club worth knowing about. No need to suggest our location, just world domination. I considered Roman Empire Saints but realised this would exclude our Japanese customers, not inclusive enough. The New Saints has also already been done, so not an option. In answer to the OP, NO!!!

Still think the shirts would look better with black shorts rather than red, as the kid in the OS photos demonstrates (even if they are not proper black footy shorts).

Would Messi "make you wet" or would he make you messy? He's a footballer, he's not meant to make you wet.

Topman would be lucky to have 20 customers in a day. Most other shops don't have demand like this where hundreds of people all want to buy a single product on the same day because they can't wait. Look what happens when the gaming geeks want their new nerdy game the moment it comes out. You can't suddenly build in 20 extra tills and 20 extra staff for a one-off event. Given most people thought the new kit was gash I'm surprised there was a queue at all, and given we don't even know what squad numbers will be seems a bit odd getting numbers printed, unless you want 7 I suppose.

Fortunately players are picked by football coaches and managers, rather then press officers, who with all due respect may be about as knowledgeable about football as Redknapp (Louise)

Not good enough for Saints? You must be joking, a fit Jenas would be a very good addition. I just have my doubts that Spuds would be letting him go before they appoint a new manager who might want to run the rule over all of his players first.

Slightly odd article, based around the single premis that Reading have purchased a striker who has played 12 games in the PL for 1m less than we have paid for a striker who has not played in the PL. Do they really think this is the extent of the business we or Reading will do this summer (Reading have since signed Guthrie of course). And Reading apparently are odds on to go down yet we are evens (and how Wet Sham are 9/4 is beyond me). Lets not forget also that the last Club to win back to back promotions (before Norwich who have done very well) was the crap team Man City who went straight back down (before coming back up and winning the title). So much is written on the web these days that the talent for this writing is spread very thinly indeed, as displayed very well by this article which quite frankly could have been written by a 10 year old. Only time will tell, but I am confident of a mid table finish, and that Reading will stay up as well.

and fourth. We also need some CMs who can chip in with a few goals. Davis is hardly prolific but 17 in 140 is not too shabby for CM

Excuse my ignorance, but who is Steve Knight (ex-The County)?

Suppose I'm seeing things, but I thought there were stripes on the shirt, is it just my PC monitor playing up? Oh well if the shirt is just plain red then I hate it.

I think Tommy Fourpast is in the 12th row on the left. I was going to mention Rudi Skacel but thought better of it.

How about we use the away kit at home and the home kit away, and substitutite black shorts for the red, then it would be OK. Its really a bit of a shock to go from the white with red sash to this in 2 years. Hence why I prefer the away kit I think.

Considering he's 24 it would have been difficult to include him in an u21 squad last summer without someone smelling a rat. Still Pearce bashing seems to be in vogue at the moment so lets blame Pearce for Lallana being born 2 or 3 years too early.

Did you copy that from the BBC site comments, or are there 2 different people who really don't have a clue about Stuart Pearce in the world? How anyone can accuse him of being egotistic is beyond belief, and even more so when its as part of a discussion about goldenballsup. Beckham Inc. is a joke, retired from serious football several years ago, and quite rightly has not been included in a GB football squad. Anyway, whats this got to do with Saints? Unless Jack Cork is picked (highly unlikely) its really not going to impact us.

I believe Ottery. Did he give any hints about which team Hammond might be playing for when he gets this award? It won't be Saints, thats for sure.

We already have a keeper ready and able to do the business from the get-go. What we need is a very good backup with long term potential ready to step up if needed and not prone to a fit of the colly-wobbles when he gets a chance. Butland seems to fit the bill if our scouts are good (not forgetting that our manager is an ex-GK), although like many others I can't say for sure that I have ever seen him play (never went out of my way to watch Cheltenham).

So JayRod, now JaySpear, so is there a player called Jay Fly or Jay Pole? All seems a bit fishy to me. Maybe NA feels more comfortbale with a lot of scouse lads around, overcomes the language problems perhaps.

It never stopped Dowie

Its true that some clubs were following suit, but it seems that at least one of the clubs that we "followed" (Tottenham) with the benefit of more experience than us with having a Prem League squad are re-considering because they are finding that the opposition that they can find is not up to the standard they perhaps expected and it is not helping them get their fringe players prepared for introduction into the prem league. I can see it is a bit different in the lower leasgues, where the standard of opposition in the Combination is quite awful (even some non-league teams competing). There are also other considerations for smaller clubs, not least cost which may make them take the decision not to run a reserve team. But is playing against Hoddle's academy really the right preparation for fringe players? Still it will be interesting to see if we have entered or not, I'd like to know when the fixtures come out, because it would impact what we need to sign to support a reserve team.

I haven't seen anything yet that confirms one way or the other whether we will enter the Premier Reserve League next season. Saints seem to prefer the approach of not committing to reserve team football. We are not alone in that view, there were only 16 teams last season, and all three relegated teams were involved so numbers could be as low as 13 this coming term. There are moves afoot to restructure the Reserve League next season (2013-14) but it would be interesting to know, from the point of view of having players available what is our strategy this season. I guess the fixtures will be out soon and we will know. In the meantime here is an article about Spuds who were one of the teams that went the same route as us, and now may be re-considering whether the experiment has worked. http://www.footballfancast.com/2012/06/football-blogs/is-it-time-for-tottenham-to-contemplate-a-return