krissyboy31

Murty got a dead leg in the last game, should be fit for tomorrow though.

3-0, minus 6, let's get this part started!!

I don't think anybody believed we would get anywhere near the playoffs last season, with the management structure and team we were left with.

The Barmy Army sing that in Australia. "Than a boooooriiing Aussie fan!"

I'm delighted that we have got 2 players, in Hammond and Trotman, that will give us a much bigger presence on the field and hopefully compete for set-piece ball at both ends of the pitch. What still worries me is the often sloppy marking when we are defending corners and free-kicks. You can have all the height in the world but if you don't mark properly, you will still concede. Likewise, our shorter players could have made it a darn-site more difficult for opposing players to get headers on target, even if they were never going to get their head to the ball themselves, by marking and challenging properly.

But Leibherr bought us out of Administration for around £16 million (this years interest on his personal fortune), no debt, no stadium to build and no training complex to develop. The only further outlay is to fund the playing budget over the year (a percentage being self funding anyway) and in 4, 5, 6 years all being well he will own a Premier League club worth several times his outlay. The guys buying you will have to pay SG around £40 million, take on a similar value in debts and liabilities fund a stadium which will cost £80/100 million a training complex @ approx £15/20 million before any cash goes into funding the football team. If it's going to take £50 million to rebuild the squad to where you were under Redknapp then that's going to cost these guys a quarter of a billion. I think Stoke is a safer bet TBH.

He was sh!t though TBF!!!

What I think Wes is saying is why spend £xmillion on PFC and then take on all your liabilities and still have to stump up to build a new stadium and new training complex, when there are similar sized clubs in the premier league who have not sold all their best players, have already got decent facilities and have nowhere near as many debts as you?

What type? Adult?

All several inches taller and much stronger than Cox, with infinitely more talent, playing in top tier football with brick sh!thouse enforcers around them. Ridiculous comparison IMO!

A space between the comma following police (which isn't actually needed) and the 'c' in comma, please!

Exactly why you need big, tall, athletic footballers at this level.

No what I said was he has a certain amount of talent but because of his size will never have the career to match.

If you're skilled enough you are not playing in 3rd tier football.

what about misspelling misspelling?

Sold over 600 in 3 hours....Didn't realise he'd have to queue up himself though! http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~1762743,00.html

Just got mine using Nectar points. Not like spending real money, so she who must be obeyed can't accuse me of wasting it!

5' 5.5" and 5' 9". SWP is an exceptional player, whose skill balance and pace makes up for his lack of height, AY although shortish for a Pro-footballer these days, isn't particularly that short. Cox is 5' 4" FFS 1.5" shorter than SWP without any of his attributes. Same reason Gillett isn't playing and is never likely to make the career that his talent deserves.

Who is? Forecast is on a moths loan, Poke and Pernecky are still here AFAIK!

Lol, after seeing David James in his shocking pink kit, I'm not sure who gives what!

1st September.

The only thing I can think of is that Spurs are paying part if not all of his wages as part of the Bale settlement. It just doesn't make sense when we were off loading players left-right-and-centre, and trying to trim the wage bill to a bare minimum, why you would sign a player you did not need and give them a five year contract.

Agreed! 12 or 36 IMO.

Why should HE get preferential treatment, he's only a loanee! Matt Paterson, or Patterson, or Pattinson, or Pattison may have something to say about that!!

No. That was an incorrect translation from Bablefish (or similar). He definitely lives in Switzerland.