VectisSaint

Loans run between registration periods, therefore Chaplow's loan expires before the transfer window opens on 1st January, so 31st December is the last day of his loan. Clubs cannot fix a loan to complete on 2nd Jan or 3rd Jan (unless rules have changed this season). A new loan could be started on 1st January, or his loan could be made permanent between now and 1st January. Both are possible, but probability is that the business will not be done tomorrow or Friday (will be glad if it is). Clubs don't usually like to play their cards on the 1st day of the window, most activity will happen as usual in the last few days of Jan. Not sure why you mention Oscar Gobern, completely different type of player (attacking MF) to the cover provided by Wotton (defensive MF). I think NA would be mental to have no more cover for Hammond/Spiderman than Gobern, however good he is.

Backup for Morgan and Hammond, as Chaplow's loan expires before the next game, ecen if he joins permanently unlikely to be completed before Saturday.

Assume no Chaplow or Guly, so there will be changes, would expect Barnard to start as NA says he is now fully fit.

You b***ard. That has ruined my morning, seeing that grin again

According to NA Barnard is fully fit, Guly player. I did not see the game today but endured listening to Dave in the 2nd half, who was fullsome in his praise of Guly. Although no great fan of Merrington I will take his opinion over many on here

Neither is a problem. Frost was on one quarter of pitch, solution, swap the half of the pitch the lines cover. Players might get injured wearing blades. Solution, use proper studs, most pro footballers would have used studs anyway on a pitch like this. It is not compulsory to wear blades.

Gives Burley a few more days before he gets the boot.

Really? I doubt Man U would be interested

Careful, associating wisdom with a pseudo-skate is a very dangerous thing to do, after all it was Conan Doyle who actually penned the phrase.

40,000 is hardly unrealistic, is it? We already have 33k+ capacity. so another 7k? Liverpool & Everton have capacities in excess of 40k, and like Spuds are looking to increase their capacities, in Liverpool's case so that they can compete with Manure. Liverpool are averaging 42.7k this season even though they are crap. Spuds are averaging 35.7k, which is 98.5% of capacity. They could clearly bring in more punters if they had the capacity. Everton likewise. If we had 40k capacity it doesn't mean we would have to have 40k crowds for every home game, but it will allow us to get more plastics in for games against the likes of Manure, Arse and so on, when we know from the past that we can sell out the current ground for these games. 40k really isn't that much of a dream if we are competing in the PL, I might even suggest that to compete in the PL 40k might be somewhat conservative.

Picking up on the Academy/youth part. I would like to know if there are plans to operate the academy satellite again around Bath. We picked up several very good youngsters, including Bale I believe through that route. I know there is still some connection in the area but to get the best youngsters I feel we do have to look further afield than just in Hampshire, and satellites are very helpful for younger kids where the travelling can be rather too much.

Would have to question his fitness working under the Burley regime.

I see your point, but I was referring to the Trumpton references not the boring rumour that Pugh may be signing

Oh no we didn't (as its Pantomime season) http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?26935-January-Transfer-Window-News-and-Rumours/page2 Post #80 As we already have Barney, adding Pugh would be a good signing. If we can get Cuthbert from Swindon the strategy will become clear.

Are we trying to get McGrew as well? Maybe Cuthbert Dibble and Grub less likely.

Oh dear, I was hoping she might have come across as a decent person rather than as a footballer's wife.

I suddenly have this image of a black kettle

Bit light in midfield, misisng having Wotton and Pulis (LOL) as backup I suppose. But surely having kids on a 7 man bench is the point of having kids isn't it? Still have Bart, Harding and DC on the bench, even Gobern and Martin have played quite a lot of games now. What number is Dean, he doesn't have a squad number on the OS?

Can only think they were meaning the previous season when he was at Rovers, though it clearly states "at Southampton". The accuracy is somewhat dubious anyway, 4 goals from 11 starts this year? If you also consider the comments from Cortese earlier in the week that Lambert's problems this season stem from Pardew's pre-season training, the likelihood that Lambert would go to Newcastle, where they already have one of the best CFs in the country is very low. That said if I was Lambert and I was offered big money I would think seriously about it, just don't really think it makse any sense from the Toon's perspective. Now Lallana I could understand.

Think its for others to say whether you are pretty, personally I doubt it.

More to the point, why on earth would Lambert go to Swindon?

I heard he was poached by Newcastle who will be coming for all of our talent now that Mr Pardew is installed with the Toon.

LOL - imagine the scene in Ashley's office "I plan to appoint a manager so that we have a chance of poaching one or two future talents from a L1 Club". I think NUFC have higher aspirations than that (even though those aspirations may be completely misguided). We may rightly think that AL and Oxo are great talents, but in the overall scheme of things I really don't think it would be worth installing a particular manager on the off-chance that these players would blindly follow him to Geordie Land.

We'll have to wait until Nicileaks spill the beans

Thats what I thought, so its just ******