SNSUN

The stat that suprised me that I noticed today is that we've only lost 7 games all season in all competitions! FAR too many draws though...

A win's a win. I'd like to see Papa get more chances, think he'd be a quality permanent signing if we can get him. Needs more opportunities. Happy, hopefully the start of a winning run!

I bet Fonte feels good about that particular comment! If Danns wants to come, then Warnock can suck it. If Palace aren't careful, we'll be spanking them next season in League One. He did say "No", but yes he very swiftly moved on! Quality players are always required if they're at the right price. Yes the squad is big, but if we can sign a player at the right price now, why wait until the summer. The rebuilding for next season has already begun! I would agree with you if he was an average player though. Exactly! He would say that...

Actually, that was just a chance for my to moan about my ex-manager! :-D

A collection for the Skates is on a parallel to a collection being taken where I work for a manager who, for the last seven years has made my life a living hell, and who is retiring. I told the person taking the collection to sod off. I only give money to good causes or people I like.

For a rebuuilding season, I think the rebuilding has gone mother ****ing well! A JPT trophy or victory over the Skates and a high mid-table finish would please most Saints fans, and with a couple of quality additions in the summer...........I genuinely can't see why we can't win the league next season. We'll be the team to beat - and I hope we relish in that title!

Good signing, pleased with this. On a par with Leeds signing Gradel IMO and we all know what their expectations are! He'll only be presented today, he won't play, but we shouldn't need him against bottom of the table Stockport. They players we have currently should prove enough. I bet MK Dons are ****ed! It's a shame we're not bringing in a midfielder, but at least Puncheon can play in attack if needed so that calms my fears about not having enough strikers. That said, I still wouldn't be suprised to see one brought in before the end of the window, this management would love to suprise us, I'm sure. If the price is right, there'll be one more.

Yes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/8468624.stm But not for the JPT, just so we can cement that trophy!

It's a shame for him, but if he's taken mutual termination then he's effectively resigned from his job. Either: He gets a job. Any job, maybe not even in football, like many of the part timers do, to tie him over until the summer. OK, he can't play football which is a shame for him, but surely he could do SOMETHING... OR: The FA should make Notts Forest continue to pay his wages until the summer. I'm not sure how that would work though. Or they'll just break their own rules somehow.

He's a right midfielder than can play in central midfield, and he's hugely influential for Palace. He's the sort of player that can come straight intothe team and have a big impact, according to my (ever so gutted Palace supporting) mate.

A jail. Or we could buy the land and build a huge shrine to MLT.

Could be a messy game.

I always buy a programme as a momento of the game itself. It's also where I keep my ticket stubs. I got the Ipswich programme although, because I fold it up and stick it in my back pocket, it won't fetch much in resale.

ITV will be showing "Hook" starring Robin Williams, in the void where our game should be.

I'll leave my reservations about him until I've seen him play. Naturally I'd rather have a "name" in central midfield, a player like Stock or Danns or Scholes (!) that could immediately come in and have an impact. Would Arfield? If Pardew thinks so, then I bloody hope so.

I almost feel sorry for him. No, I think I feel sorry for all the players that played for us for the few years until the beginning of this season. Either way, he won't go down as a Saints legend, but has his hundreds of thousands of pounds, so someone's happy. (I still think we're a striker light by the way...)

I'd keep Poke for another season IMO, losing Forecast and Poke could find us scratching around for keepers next season. Gobern could potentially have a future with us, and Holmes seems currently back in favour, but I agree with the rest. I'd be suprised if Perry and Wotton were kept on next season even if they don't retire, for that matter will Jaidi have another season?

I get in from work, turn to Sky Sports News and get hit with this bombshell. Now I come on here and have to read through 5 pages of stuff! You lot talk too much! Great that we're linked with a player of Puncheon's calibre. I watched him play against us and he looks dangerous. Reading about whether he could join us now or in the summer, whether we'll sign him at all, or whether we'll give the Dons Gobern, I don't know what to think! If we do give them Gobern, I hope it's only a loan, as I think he may have a big future. It'd be good to rid them of one of their best players before the second leg of the JPT, but more of a shame that we couldn't play him. If he signs, great! If not, Sky becomes even more unreliable for Saints gossip. As has been said on this thread already, I'll believe it only when it's on the OS. (Or perhaps has a Sticky on this forum!)

There could be ten teams on the pitch - Kelvin would be equal to them all!

Hartlepool fans really won't know what they're letting themselves in for... TBF though, two games in one day WOULD solve fixture congestion. Amen to big squads.

If we sign him and he does play poorly, that's one more player on the pitch performing poorly. In a season where every point counts we can't be seen taking risks. Signing of a player of a calibre of Stock or Danns or even the guy that just left Wycombe for instance, wouldn't be seen as taking a risk because these are experienced pros. I wouldn't mind us trying a player like Bostock in the summer, but it would unsettle me if we signed him now. (Of course if we sign him and he plays well, I will happily eat my words!)

I am ITK.

If Brentford, a team that plays at our level, don't rate him, I don't see why we should risk trying him. It could also mean he has an attitude problem. We need a senior midfielder to come in and start performing straight away, a player like Stock or Danns who have quality and could come in and immediately have an impact on how we play. Risks on players with potential should be kept until the summer, not now when we need instant results.

From what I've seen this season (although I didn't go to tonights game), it seems we're more effective as the 4-5-1 than the 4-4-2. Since Barnard joined, Pards has played both strikers. If Lambert is going to be rested, do it against Stockport, have BArnard up front and play Holmes and Waigo/Antonio. (Granted, we've also gone to 4-4-2 due to a lack of midfielders...)