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I've been told we've got a friendly lined up with Havant & Waterlooville as well - not sure it will be that friendly if we do though!

Supposedly we have made offer for Chris Lines and it has been accepted - £400K or something like that. Its on one of the transfer runours sites so its probably a load of rubbish - but Lines has been linked with us by quite a few people on here so you never know. I worked with a Kiwi who played in the same team as Fallon back in NZ as a teenager - he was amazed Fallon was now a professional footballer over here as he thought he was sh*te as a youngster. Saying that my workmate was pretty good at football and had played at a high level in NZ. He probably would have made it as a professional himself if he'd grown up over here.

Craig Bryson - from Scotland - young central midfielder!?

If Harding is the best left back in League 1 we are unlikely to sign a better left back from the CCC just so they can sit on the bench. If Dickson is the second best left back in League 1 it gives us real strength in depth - and real competition for places. We need 22 first team players - two for each position - if we are going to 'walk this league' in the coming season - and then a couple of good utilities players who can do a job in a number of positions. Also at 23 Dickson is at a good age and can get a lot better. Harding at 28 is probably near his peak from a fitness and experience point of view. I think its a good signing. Lets hope Inigo Calderon follows shortly along with a couple of others to add some real depth to the squad.

Did you post that on there though? That is the question!?

Eastwood and Tyson would both be good signings - they both have good track records in League 1 and scored lots of goals at this level. I'd think about getting them both in on loan. Eastwood as cover for Lambert and Tyson to replace Waigo.

I'd take him back he can play on the left or in the middle - in either a 3 man or 4 man midfield. He can also cover at left back he's also a great passer of the ball - and with Lallana, Schneiderlin and Lambert would take our passing up a level he's a Saint and would definately playfor the shirt he's a level above League 1 that's for sure

its worth remembering that both Hudderfield and Swindon have wealthy owners - not in Liebherrs bracket - but still wealthy - and both clubs have spent quite a lot of money over the last few season for this division. I can only see players leaving those two clubs for clubs in the CCC - and mostly because Swindon and Hudds wont and dont need to sell to a promotion rival - sorry!

It seems AA is trying to fix the vote on accepting the CVA by counting a debt to Pompey from Cantberbury (the kit sponsor/supplier that went bust) as a debt from Pompey to Canterbury - meaning they are actually £4million better off than they pretend to be - and this £4 million reduces the % of the debt owed to HMRC and there ability to vote against the CVA. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/may/14/portsmouth-debt-administration-missing-funds HMRC have reserved the right to challenge AA's position as administrator - and if the CVA gets passed I can see them doing this! Reading between the lines it looks as though HMRC are determined not to let Pompey get away with it. At the very least Pompey should start next season with a points reduction and be forced to use all of the 4 years parchute payment to pay-off their debts. Still nice new away shirt for them - wasn't pink on of their original kit colurs!?

Surely Oakley would be the cover for Schneiderlin that we lack so badly - and a replacement for Hammond if we want to sit on a lead as for signing Saints fans - it's a good idea - as least we know they will want to play for the shirt!

Stoke and Pulis owe us a big favour after we signed Junior Pulis in my book

I'd rather have Matthew Oakley back - who is the same age and a better player - and if rumours our correct could be leaving Leicester this summer. He might come back just to get his testimonial - he was here for 12 years or something like that!

the panels are clear to let more sunlight on to the pitch - or so I always thought - so they probably can't be changed much really otherwise great ideas

a wage restriction for the whole squad based on a % of a clubs turnover would work - its already applied in League 2 and other countries - and it would encourage clubs to manage their squads better I'd still like to see a maximum weekly wage though so clubs like Man Utd, Citeh and Chelsea can't just buy the league! there still have bigger and better sqauds based on their turnovers - but they wouldn't be able to have 25 players on £100K plus a week along with the qoutas for first team squads - minimum number of home grown players a maximum number of foreign players - it would make football a lot more competitive. its the way American sport is run - with the worst team getting the first pick on the NFL draft for example as well as salary caps football is a sport and sport is not business! its a cultural things like art!

Someone has leaked West Ham's palyers wages! Naughty Naughty! take a look: http://www.football-rumours.com/whufc.php When you see players like Boa Morte and Gabbidon are on £70K and £50K per week respectively you know football has gone made. Both are CCC standard players nowadays! None of the WHU players should be on more than £30K a week given the size of the club. Football needs a salary cap - both in terms of a weekly wage for players and as a % of clubs annual turnover - say £50K and 60%. The players are eating the game - biting the very hand that feeds them! I know its not Saints related - but I thought we'd all be interested!

Freddie Eastwood as an alternative to Lambert? Now that Coventry failed to get promoted within 2 years Sansom and SISU are going to want their money back! They've already sacked the manager and sold a few players. Nathan Tyson from Forest to give us some pace? Forest gave got far too many strikers. Both have been top scorers in League 1 in the past I believe. I think we'll take a look at Adam Le Fondre and Simeon Jackson though. And I have a feeling Connolly, Waigo and maybe even Barnard will leave.

Your too young to remember a Tory government I take it then!?!

Depressingly the English on their own probably would elect a Conservative government with a huge majority - partly due to the first past the post system we have. However the conservatives are really the UKIP and the BNP by another name. They are a party that believe in the United Kingdom and Britain. Clegg and Cameron, Osborne and Redwood are from the British ruling class - Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Oxford, Cambridge and St Andrews! I bet most Scots would bite your hand-off right now if you offered them full devolution! It's a shame we can't devolve England from the UK and the British!

You do realize over 60% of the people voted against the Tory's. And in Southampton the majority voted for Labour.

Did you live through the 80s and early 90s - the loss of our manufacturing industry, the widening of the poverty gap, the massive increase in the jobless, the poor and the abandoned! Even a decade of Labour government failed to do more than scratch the surface of the damage Thatchet and the Tories did to this country!

You do realize we are now ruled by people straight from the playing fields of Eton! Quite literally. Both Cameron and Clegg went to Eton and both were members of the Bullingdon Club at Oxford! The ruling class has returned!

Schafenfraude! the Germans have a word for it! the enjoyment of others misfortune or dismay! Teutonic!

I just spoke to a friend who works at the printers - as far as he know they printed 5000 programmes on Friday and there was nothing wrong with them he also said he read AP's notes - or whatever its called - and he doesn't think it said anything bad - other than disappointed not to make the play-off - and stuff about building for next season there could be a commercial reason - and advertiser or sponsor asking for it to be pulled because of something wrong with an ad - its happened to magazines before - and I worked somewhere a long time ago where 50,000 + brochures were dumped because somebody's name had been mis-spelt as a rude word!

I think Glen Hoddle was lined up to take the job when Sturrock got sacked - but Lowe chickened out at the last minute in the face of opposition from other directors and fans I have been told that Mark Hughes has been lined up to replace Pardew - and by someone that does have some good contacts - but I not sure I believed it then or now For one thing I'm not sure Mark Hughes is any better than AP and for another I can't see Hughes dropping down to League 1 plus he's already rejected the chance to manage Saints when we were in the Premier League according to some people as it was too far South and he wanted to stay in the North West

Let's get him in on loan if nothing else