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Saga and (gulp) Lancashire replace Rasiak and Thomas.

Didn't get one in the end, but I did get a Californian King Snake. Apparently this one escaped when it was a youngster and lived ferrell in the pet shop for a year, eating goldfish in the aquatic section, before it was caught.

DMG scores on is Forest debut. Liebherr out!

That would make more sense. Wish we could be abit more imaginative with our chants though. We used the pigbag tune for Andrew Davies aswell.

Thomas got the ball according to SSN. And I sware I heard the fans singing Saganowski, but he isn't playing. Anyone shed any light on that?

Yay Jofish!!!!!!!!!

Don't worry, I got that joke.

Neil Moss Mikael Nilsson- Darren Powell - Callum Davenport - Steven O'Halloran Adam Hammill - Jermaine Wright - Mark Draper - World Class Ryan Smith Vincent Pericard - Jason Euell Worst Saints XI I can think of, ignoring Ali Dia who was quite literally a joke.

If that is the 11, I'd rather go with: Davis Murty Perry Thomas Molyneux James Wotton Gillett Mills Lallana Rasiak

I'm assuming you know this anyway, but the wreckage landing on Lockerbie was purely 'accidental' and no terrorists were killed in the bombing. Most NATO aircraft don't use cadavers as fuel.

The idea of having Lita, Rasiak, Saga and Lallana available up front should be enough to get people through the gates on its own. Unfortunately I have doubts any of them will be here next season. This is all a bit Karsten Janker if you ask me.

Ketchup?

As I said, I'd have a squad of 30 with 2 players in each possition who are DEFINITELY ready for the first team. Then 7 more young players like Gobern, McLaggon, Thomson, Reeves, Doble etc who have shown glimpses of tallent and MIGHT be pushing for a first team place later in the season. Looking at that list, there are a lot of players who have yet to prove they're up to it. I'm not happy with two inexperienced LBs. Mills looked good at Scunny, but form can be patchy with young players. Gobern and Lancs didn't looking good enough for a relegated CCC team, that doesn't mean they are League 1 standard. Wotton is, in all honnest, crap. Schneiderlin, for all his neet touches looks like a fish up a tree. Maybe I just have high standards, but I've said the last two summers our squad is nowhere near good enough. Both times I was called a negative budgie by people who were certain we'd at least make the play offs and both times we've ended up in a relegation spot going into the final game of the season. One more thing, I disagree about planning on using one player to cover several possitions. Two years ago, in amongst all the Paul Allen stuff, I saw a post something like this: "We've got loads of depth and quality in our squad, look: GK: Davis, Bart, Poke RB: Wright, Thomas CB: Thomas, Lundekvam, Powell, Viafara LB: Skacel, Surman RM: Surman, Viafara CM: Surman, Viafara, Wright, Euell LM: Skacel, Surman ST: Rasiak, BWP, Saga, Euell" Which is all well and good, but there are only 11 outfield players in that "deep" squad. Two injuries and you can't put a team out. I personally would plan on the first choice 11 getting injured before the first game of the season and still be able to put out a competitive team. From the team you've got there, you'd be building a team out of Bart, James, Reeves, Lancashire, Wotton, Gobern and McLaggon. That's 7 players, of which only James and Wotton could be relied upon for first team duties.

I saw that on the online store earlier and thought the same. I don't get why we persist with such abstract designs on the shirts. Plain red and white stripes for the home kit (without mis-matched shoulder panels or sticky back plastic flybe logos) and a plain coloured away shirt with some simple trim.

Damon Hill? :-s Sorry I don't follow. Regarding Euell however, I think he is an old carthorse and has been for the best part of 5 years. He lumbers around contributing fook all for most of the season, yet somehow manages to convince people he is quality with half a dosen decent showings at the end of the season. He's slow, he's uncreative, often lazy, doesn't score and hasn't looked like scoring with any degree of consistency for many years.

As i'm sure has been pointed out in this thread to the idiots who would NOT love him back... we've been playing Anthony f**king Pulis on a regular basis thus far in pre season. Forget Leeds, without Lowe being retarded and his Dad picking him at Stoke, I doubt he'd get into Eastleight reserves. It's about improving our squad. I don't care how far Prutts has fallen from taking Liverpool apart in '05, I'd still pick him ahead of any midfielder put Gillett.

John CDAJFU Euell is sh*te

Second to Bale in the assists chart. Equal with Drew and VFRR in the midfield goals. And your third point is very valid, but ignored by those who love to hate.

I know, that's my point. He scored 17 goals in a season playing in midfield for Hearts, then failed to reproduce it playing most of his Saints career at LB.

All fair enough. Yes both MIGHT be able to do a job for us next season, but I wouldn't bet on it. If I was the manager I'd have a squad of 30. 2 players for each possition, 3 goalies and the other 7 would be players who might be pushing the fringes. Players like Morgan, Paterson, Doble, McLaggon etc. I saw Schneiderlin a few times in November, then a few more appearances dotted accross the season, then his (and Saints) final game of the season against Forest. I can't honnestly say the MS I saw in Nottingham was any better than the one I saw in November. If anything he looked worse. Disinterested, unwilling to get stuck in, no movement, no creativity in the passin, no tracking back. I'm not writing him off, but on that showing he isn't ready for even L1 yet. And you lost all credibility using ridiculous statements like that. All the Skacel haters are just obsessed with the hype (how is this his fault, please explain, I honnestly don't get it) and the fact that he can't reproduce the 17 goals he scored at Hearts playing at LB. Skacel contriubuted as much as Surman and Viafara in our play-off season and easily more than we've ever had the likes of Belmadi, Idiakez, Hammill, Euell, Morgan or Holmes. We're treading on old ground here, back to the point: Holmes cannot be relied upon to be ready for the first team next season. His injury record will mean he is never fully fit and we wont get the best form out of him. Schneiderlin may well look good playing in a team of French teenagers against a team of similarly aged players from the mighty Turkey. Against men however, in the English League, he looks like a fish up a tree.

None of which qualifies him for a place in a promotion chasing League 1 side. Holmes is a poor mans Skacel. He can cross, but his shooting is off and he is crippled. Can can't contribute Jack from the physio room.

We need at least 12 quality players IMO. So far we've lost 8 first team players from last season's squad, plus a few academy rejects. Quality was very scarce last season anyway and we've still got a few players who are blatently not up to the job (Pulis, Holmes, Molyneux, Schneiderlin, Lancashire, Wotton, Euell) in the team. As far as players who are up to it go: GK: Davis, Forecast, Bart/Poke RB: - LB: Mills CB: Perry, Thomas RM: James LM: CM: Gillett ST: Rasiak, Saga, Lallana IMO we are still 2 RBs, 2 CBs, 1 LB, 1 RM, 2 LMs, 3 CMs and a striker (that's 11 players at least) away from having a decent team IMO. Murty CDAJFU at RB, but that's as close as it gets at the mo.

Yes, I'm sure the goal posts are more mobile. We need a player with a bit of intelligent movement, pace and creativity about him. He would work well with either of them, as would Saga, IF he stayed.