Jimmy_D

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Not sure I ever posted it on here, but I remember being gutted when SISU fell through and they ended up going for Coventry instead... I also remember confidently predicting to a mate that the Dutch Experiment playing the kids would see us playing like Arsenal and being a joy to watch

Whichever way you look at it, that is a shocking thing for a chairman to say.

Apparently proposed move is a loan til January with a fee agreed for a permenant move. They're not sure whether the paperwork went through on time, might not be confirmed (or otherwise) until tomorrow morning. Part of me does find it quite funny he might have to play a few more months with the youth team.

Still hasn't been confirmed by QPR that the paperwork went through yet, which is a strange one as they have confirmed for other signings. Reckon it must have been right on the deadline.

Former Champions League player on loan. He hasn't endeared himself to Celtic fans but could be he needs a different club, like we've seen with Puncheon. (ok, Puncheon maybe isn't the best example...) Loan is a perfect way to give him a chance and we could have a good player on our hands.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14645578.stm Also BBC reporting that Bristol City are saying the move has fallen through.

Heh, very slightly, more down to the heat than anything, but I'm a fan of roller coasters, so... I also went on the Skycoaster: I couldn't remember the price off hand, it was all booked years ago. I just looked up a quick price for if I was going at short notice for the benefit of the mastercard ad style post. Indeed I have I've loved every minute of our rise, and 'tis slightly annoying that I missed the moment we made it to the top. Of course the challenge now is to stay there during our away tours coming up, to see if we can end up being remembered as one of the great teams in history. Back to Saints, I just hope me coming back won't change our fortunes, because it'd be bloody expensive to get back out there! Hopefully we'll be able to combine this good start with our ususal route of improving as the season progresses.

Return flight out to Orlando: £1600. 21 Day Disney Ticket: £275. Mobile Data Charges: £5 per megabyte. Being in the Hollywood Studios park, in a Saints kit, and running into a dyed in the wool, been a fan all his life, fully decked out in kit, supporter from Leeds: Priceless. Having a random person see me in my Saints shirt and come up to me to make sure I knew what the score had been: Also priceless. What a start to the season we've had! Kind of feels like I've returned to a parallel universe where England are suddenly good at Cricket and Saints are on a 10 league game winning streak, but I'm not going to complain Sounds like we should have been wrapping games up a bit more comfortably than we have been, but the luck has helped us out with that so far. Hopefully we can improve on our closing out of games so we don't need so much luck. It safe to say that hopes, and even expectations to a certain extent, have been raised a fair bit by our start!

Apparently, according to Cotterill, all the players are 'knackered' after their exausting trip out to the US. It's ok though, because they'll probably miss their final friendly due to their flight back from the US being cancelled.

That's interesting. Pretty sure it was after the Saints Bournemouth game that they first started the South Coast Club thingy.

Really good game to watch. De Ridder was basically making fun of their players and it looks like he already has a great understanding with Butterfield, Cork showed great awareness in the middle. Fonte and Seabourne were solid at the back until Martin came on for Harding and Seabourne was pushed out to left back, looked like they caught us while Martin was still cold. We certainly didn't look like we were against a better team tonight. Doesn't feel like Oxo is going anywhere as if he was we wouldn't be playing him in a pre season friendly, after all he might have, uh, got injured...

I'd imagine Kelvin will be first choice, at least to start with, but I'd like to see Bart start to break through and challenge for a first team place this season.

Slightly disappointing to lose, but at least it sounded like a good run out and an entertaining game

That's actually quite funny

all draws go to a penalty shoot out, 2 points for the winner of the shootout, 1 for the loser.

Don't think any of them would be in the first 11 now.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11700_7054730,00.html Probably taken from that same interview on Saints Player. Good to hear though, and he makes a good point about him still being only 17.

He seems to be two footed so I can see him and Lallana swapping wings every so often if we're playing Lallana out wide.

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_De_Ridder 1M Euros according to the foreign Wiki For those interested: http://twitter.com/#!/stief87 and Wes already found his Facebook page.

I love that this club can sign good (just from what I've seen on youtube, OS etc. hopefully he lives up to it) players out of the blue like that.

The pub!

Is that the same league as last year?

By that logic, if we're going to keep him here this season on the basis it'd cost more to replace him than we'd lose by keeping him here a season, might be we end up keeping him here next season as well as we'd still be due compensation at the end of his contract due to him being a youth player.

... Well that little feeling of hope didn't last long!