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I think he's injured, ditto Chilwell, Rose. I don't think the u21`s started with a proper left back either.

Ah OK. Article refers to Sims runs down the left and the right, so perhaps he was playing off a front man. Regardless, a defeat to a non league side a pretty poor show!

Other than Bertrand, who was available?

I didn't see the pics. O'Connor was left back. Sims wouldn't have been in the middle of the park, so can only be right back, or perhaps dropping off Delfise up front.

Article said Ferry and Hesketh were on the wings, but mentioned Sims running wide. Can only assume he played at right back. If so I wander if he was just filling in or we're trying to convert him.

Dunno, but he's nowhere near their 1st team. He's playing youth football for them.

Cheers. He dominates it and takes every thread down a political route. Shame as there's some half decent posters over there, even after recent departures.

Del, was that idiot Boris on the Ugly ever over here?

I think the good ship media career has sailed sadly. I like Matt, he's a great bloke with a big heart. He has a point with some of his comments, but he's been suckered into the conspiracy nonsense and just gone too far with his opinions. Until yesterday I think he would have been OK after a short break, but I think he's ruined it for himself now. Shame

Yep...the site has been on/off for ages and as soon as its open a little tiff resumes. Bless.

Dragon

Trying to come into a home page is impossible, the gateway is bad. I've found that if I go to my history and then open a sub page that I've visited, ie this one, I can get in (mostly) and navigate from there.

Boy

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He's been loaned out for years. Throw the loan fees on top of the £8m, and we've done very well out of a lad we produced.

Agreed. He's been working with someone outside the club to sort a few body niggles. Hopefully that, and the confidence he got from his end of season form, will mean he comes out firing.

Brilliant, thanks for that explanation, much appreciated 👍

Brilliant, thanks for that explanation, much appreciated 👍

Could be Mccarthy going. He has resale value. I wouldn't want that, but weirder things have happened at Saints.

I'm unsure, but I had understood that a loan fee comes into the club but doesn't impact on amortisation. Example, Lemina amortisation is £6.2m for the balance of his contract, if loan fees are say £2m per year for the next 2 years, then keeping and loaning him has a value of £10.2 m. If we sold him for say £8m we're down, plus we'd have to pay him a loyalty bonus if he doesn't formally request the move. That's how I understand these things to work, but as I say, I'm unsure. There is also cash flow of course and getting real money may make selling at a loss attractive. Either way, the sad fact is this lad is good, and if he'd shown the right attitude we'd have a cracking player. Never mind.

Someone can correct me if I've got this wrong, but I think we'd lose money by selling him for less than say £10m rather than taking a loan fee and having his wages covered. I think his amortisation value is £3.1m per year so with 2 years to go its £6.2m. If I understand things correctly, that means we'd need to sell for more than the total of £6.2m + loyalty bonus which would be due to him if we sell + agents fees + the loan fees we'd get for the next 2 years.

Please sort it Steve - I've ventured over to the Ugly and and there's a much higher concentration of divs over there.

Sure was. It didn't look a move designed to help his career.

That's more plausible than fitness. Didn't LeG (?) say something akin to that, basically that he has no future whilst Ralph is here?

He was in great shape. Worked his nuts off. I don't accept he was moved on for fitness reasons.