VectisSaint

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 ******

I thought we had received everything already for Bale (including a dodgy keeper). But there is article on Beeb today about Bale that suggests otherwise: "He (Bale) cost Tottenham an initial £5m to sign the Welsh international from the Saints in the summer of 2007 - a fee that could rise to £10m." http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/t/tottenham_hotspur/9262190.stm Anyone any idea of the conditions still outstanding?

Walking the League might be stretching it a bit, perhaps we will limp or hobble this League with all these top class injured players we are about to sign.

Well it would be difficult to be busy on here! Marie Celeste would be in good company here this weekend, anyone would think there was no game on.

Perhaps the Cheltenham game didn't happen, figment of our imagination, or perhaps it didn't matter as it was only the FA Cup, and we should be concentrating on the League. I'm joking. I got 10 points as well, so equally miffed about lack of update, but I guess in the overall scheme of things this is not as big a problem as world hunger.

Was Bignall a figment of my imagination? Admittedly not with us long, but the Club did actually bring in backup.

But this sums up some folks attititude in a nutshell. Probably only aware of football since the Premier League existed (or is it the EPL?) and think that Blackpool are a noddy club. They are frankly as big as us, have a similar record and before the world as some know it post Sky were for a while a massive club. No sense of history or of the magic of the FA Cup. Just because it was before you (and me for that matter) were born that Blackpool were one of the biggest clubs in the country, does not make them noddy, only that they have had a lean spell, much like we are experiencing at the moment. We need a few more seasons in the top flight to match their record, so who is the big club? In my view, we are actually very similar in terms of our historical success, and as things stand right now, they are 2 divisions above us.