S-Clarke

well he played for us tonight so it looks like we may sign him, we can only hope that the fee is a joke - but that's the number doing the rounds with the preston fans.

yeh it's the preston fella

sounds to me like 2 rumours have got merged into one there. Carter is the guy we've apparently agreed a 1.2m fee for.

youth team player, andy robinson i think his name is

typical pre-season bore-fest by the sounds of it.

30 mins played, Saints looking bright and closing down well. Barnard has just had Saints best chance, curling an effort wide #saintsfc

It was something along those lines, i think he was saying that he needed to improve his touch or something.

Some west brom views, gives a bit of a balanced view - ''I would think he would add some good experience for you. Hes a big lad with a decent range of passing. He scored one of the best goals ever to be scored up the Hawthorns (see link below). To be honest he wasn't the most impressive of young talents ive seen he didnt impress me here and he didn't impress me based on the coverage i caught of Preston last year. I think league one is his level to be honest hes got great potential to do well for you while your there mate.'' ''You will get a very mixed reaction to Carter on here. A bit like Marmite some love him, some hate him. I was one of those who rated Carter , a very decent player in the stripes and I think he will do very well in League 1. Thought he had some very good games for us, but then again some times he does go missing and had a quite a few average games'' ''Average championship player. Should do well for you. Decent work rate tidy passer and can get the odd spectacular goal.''

don't think anyone is writing him off, just reserving judgment as he's had a few pretty rubbish years football-wise.

we could have got stock for that!

Trialist i'd guess, club would have announced if he'd signed (they would have had to i think) Hopefully there's an option to take him on loan.

a hammond type of player iirc, nothing special, just a bog standard CM.

Carter really struggled for PNE and their fans could not stand him, but i think that's got more to do with their situation rather than him as a player. He was always pretty highly rated when at Brum and was decent for WBA in our play-off season. He's too good for this level anyway, would be a good signing - but wouldn't want to see us pay over £1m for him.

Cortese has probably pulled the deal by now, seeing as it leaked out before it was offically annouced.

i hope your player ITK isn't lambo, otherwise Cortese may banish him to the St Mary's Cells for the season.

anymore snippets? any truth in this Vassell rumour? and what's the situation with Danns/Stock (if we're bidding for them again)

doubt he'll play though, he didn't feature too much for blackpool last season (maybe a bit at the start) His performances for us were shocking though, he never looked like a footballer during the games i watched.

you have a good first team, suprised you've managed to keep hold of Tudgay, Beevers, Potter etc - all v good players in the championship, so they will be very good at this level. What sort of depth do you have though if those players are injured?

Difference is that Vassell actually has some sort of ability, whereas Euell is a poor excuse for a footballer.

Tyson (possible), Lambert, Barnard, Connolly, Lallana, Puncheon compared with - Mellor, Tudguy, Heffernen, Morrison, Teale, Johnson tbf i think they're both very evenly matched attacking options. I still believe we have the slight edge because most of our lads have had a full season playing together.

That's what happens on the net, a site gets hold of a rumour and it trickles through the news sites. Wouldn't suprise me if this was put in the media as a high-profile curve ball, so we can secure who we really want without the media attention.

yeh, it's saint lamdens site i believe.

that guy gets his info direct from mo. gimpel

''i want to be part of an ambitious project that will enable me to achieve something within the length of a contract'' i found that comment from him very interesting. tbf we are low down in the football world atm, but we have a real opportunity to potentially have 2/3 really really fun seasons. Who wouldn't want to be part of that? If he's reasonable with the wage requests, you never know. You'll get more fun and enjoyment here in the next couple of years, than you would get at a club like Bolton/Wigan/blackburn...IMO.