VectisSaint

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Pen to Saints

An insightful post indeed

If so, someone needs to inform JP of the rules. Decided tonite, pens if required, no replays

Paul Jones (no, not that one)

Can't really see why Rasiak's price would be in Euros. I think transfers within England are still done in GBPs. Maybe it was just a slip from JP. Still the sooner it happens the better, need to provide the possibility of a couple of loans possibly and we don't need Greg if we have John.

Some really odd things happen on this thread. Keep seeing posts that were not there before suddenly appearing. When I posted the goal, I read the thread and there were no other posts, then all of a sudden several others appeared apparently earlier. Strange. Still I'll get over it I reckon...:confused:

Should we change Woot to Wott?

Yes, goal from Holmes

So you missed the good chance for Lallana which forced a good save from Paul Jones then (no not that Paul Jones)

Thing is Alps, that Spiderman is a CB, just as much as he is a defensive MF. Whereas Wotton is probably better in MF than he is at CB. There were no real CBs really left out. Killer is justifiably rested, and Thomas is clearly not going to be at Saints much longer (IMHO). Our preferred CBs will be Killer and Davies when fit, with 3 others as back up (Perry, Wotton, Schneiderlin). I don't really think the way JP is doing things can be compared to the stupidity of Burley, at least we have CBs, unlike the start of last season.

Maybe not, but not many teams will not have 7 on the bench. In general its a crap idea, there will now be 4 players in every team not taking any part in a game, instead of the current 2. It means the gap between the top teams and the bottom teams will simply grow wider still...

Spiderman now playing CB, with Wotton in MF

I know, can we make this a sticky?

ok, I guess thats because the Prem teams are allowed 7 this year. Seems a little unfair on the smaller teams. The way things are going clubs will have to have bigger squads just to have half of their players sitting on the bench.

Does the League Cup allow 7 subs? Team on the OS suggests it does.

Exeter are League Two, so how does that work?

Think in both cases, the draw was only partly to do with Champs League, more to do with the fact that both supported Liverpool as kids, as I understand it. This will become more of a factor in years to come as nearly all kids support Liverpool, Arse, Manure or Chelski, and if they become top players with a choice of where to go they will seek out a move to the club they followed as a kid. Bit like when Hoddle left us for Spuds, to return to "his spiritual home", he probably wouldn't have dumped us for any other team.

If you hadn't snipped my post when quoting you would have had the source. Its on the OS, of course some people don't believe a word thats written on the OS but thats another story... Most of these contracts can be checked elsewhere but I can't really be arsed. I tend to take people at face value until proved otherwise. Life is too short to check everything you read when really it doesn't matter much in most cases.

Why is it that the only people who ever mention the class thing are the Lowe Luvvies, or Lowe's offspring as in you Scooby. I don't think anyone else ever mentions the class thing. What class is Lowe anyway, he is certainly not "upper class" if such thing still exists outside of the royal family circles? He is new money middle class I guess. But who gives a **** what class he is. Fact is he is an obnoxious, pompous idiot who is a failure when it comes to the financial side of runnig a football club, and who makes many bad decisions that have contributed to where we are now (he also makes some good decisions to be fair). I do hate Lowe for what he has done to this Club in the past, and to respond to Buctootim, who says I have not met him? In any case why do you have to meet someone to know you dislike them, I never met Attila the Hun, but I know he was quite an unpleasant chap, likewise Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Mugabe and Margaret Thatcher. I clearly don't put these people in the same league as Lowe and don't equate what they did with what a second rate plc chairman does, but I do loathe the fact that he is still connected with this Club. But then again my dislike of Wilde is much stronger even than that of Lowe. And I don't like Crouch much either. I do however have a healthy respect for Andrew Cowen, and I am beginning to warm to Jan Poortvliet.

Completely indifferent to Derby. I think hating teams is a bit silly. I don't really even hate Pompey, though the local rivalry thing can be a good laugh. When I was younger I used to hate Forest, because they always seemed to be our bogey team (2 Wembley appearances plus many other bitter results) so maybe I should support Derby as they are Forest's main rivals.

JP on the OS gives all the right reasons for keeping basically the same team, its all about confidence and getting to know how they play together. Apart from Killer (who he confirms cannot play 3 games a wekk yet), he seems to suggest no other changes, although elsewhere it seems Bart is confirmed in goal. Thank goodness we have someone who knows what he is doing, rather than the prat Burley, who would have changed half the team.

4 on target, 2 off target actually. More than Reading and Burnley, same number as Palace, Sheff Utd, Watford, Preston & Ipswich. Actually not bad for an away team. I think some people are actually forgetting we played away on Saturday, at a place where not many teams will get a result.

Actually he signed a 4 year deal http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/?page_id=10251

It was a lot less than £1.5m. It could rise eventually to 1.5m EUROS (which at today's rate is about £1.17m). Its quite possible than Spiderman will be sold at some point, especially if he does well. There is nothing wrong with investing with an eye to a future profit.