Over land and sea

The under 18 page has now been updated to include 9 out of the 10 of the 1st year scholars, including Racine. Lewis Page and Jeffrey Imudia are still not included.

Racine, McNish and Imudia are all still around. As I mentioned in my post above, Racine, McNish and the eight other 1st year scholars have yet to make it to the OS squad listing - it's not that they were there and have been taken off. Similarly Imudia (a 2nd year scholar, I think), who was given the number 29 shirt when the squad numbers were announced, and Dolinajec (2nd year scholar) have never made it to the list. As I said above, the OS seem to be working on it. They have prepared profiles but they have not added links to enable you to access them (useful!) - see http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/team/?page...&player_id=165 among others which shows that Racine is the only 1st year scholar to be given a squad number - backing up that he's considered to be useful. Profiles have also been preapred for most of the other 1st year scholars, including McNish. As far as I can tell only Page and Imudia do not have profiles prepared.

Mainly because it's not been updated to include the 10 new scholars who signed on in summer (Aarran Racine, Callum McNish, Sam Argent, Ryan Tafazolli, Lewis Page, Ben Reeves, Garyn Preen, Tom Dunford, Tony Garrod and Daryl McLean). In addition, Jeffrey Imudia and Mikael Dolinajec are also missing. However, it seems the OS are working on it. If you click on one of the players and go to their profile then amend the ID number at the end to 163 (or above) you get incomplete profiles (no photos) of most of the above (but not Page and not Imudia). For example, here is Aarran Racine's profile (which shows he's been given the number 38 shirt). http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/team/?page_id=6587&player_id=165 I see that Poke and Saga have both been removed - unlike last season when loaned out players were still listed.

http://www.morecambefc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10866~1330180,00.html According to this link - not exactly a definitive source - it is 7 subs for FA Cup and League Cup, though I've also seen a different interpretation which is that Premiership sides can name 7 subs in these competitons and others can only name 5. I can't believe that different sides could have different number of subs in the same competition depending on which division they were from so I'm assuming it is 7 for all sides.

http://www.morecambefc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10866~1330180,00.html According to this link - not exactly a definitive source - it is 7 subs for FA Cup and League Cup, though I've also seen a different interpretation which is that Premiership sides can name 7 subs in these competitons and others can only name 5. I can't believe that you could have different number of subs in the same competition so I'm assuming it is 7 for all sides.

We can have 7 subs in the League Cup (and FA Cup) - so presumably the seven will be all those listed in the squad who are not in the starting XI i.e. Forecast, Hatch. Mills, Lacashire, Dyer, John and White. The list of those omitted is quite telling. Davis, BWP, Skacel, Thomas, Euell and Rasiak - all those we would offload if we got a suitable offer so we don't want them cup tied. Given where the goals came from last year, good to see that Stern John isn't one of them.