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He's out of contract with us still, so it'll be for nout.

Has he signed his contract yet? Don't see what's holding it up, as it was drawn up a while ago.

Comments from Adam as well, confirms he's not going anywhere. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~1733562,00.html

Agreed. I don't know why people seem to think we'll struggle all season with the likes of Carlisle, Exeter, Hartlepool, Stockport...... Fair enough we start with -10, but Leeds started with -15 and still wiped the floor with league 1. Most teams in this leauge would die for most of our players, and at last it looks like we have a manager who is able to mold it all together.

You say he spoke to us about a move....was this recently? Because i know Wotte tried to get him on loan towards the backend of last season.

He didn't actually, which is odd. Goals: Smith 4, Thornton pen 23, McGleish 52, Mkandawire 54, Jarvis 82, Baker 87 Scowcroft was subbed at HT.

Nope.. Full strength Newcastle team too...

He will always score goals, if you provide the service. In the likes of James/Harding/Holmes we have players with proven delivery - if we use the width properly, he'll get 20-30 in league 1 IMO.

Great game by the sounds of it. Let's take a moment out to laugh at Newcastle... LEYTON ORIENT 6 NEWCASTLE UNITED 1

He's the sort of player we should be looking at tbh. Loads of experience, a lot of that in top level European competition with bolton too. Obviously he's not as good as he was then, but he'd cope with league 1 - I'd offer him a 1 year contract, see what he can do.

The man speaks so much sense. Glad he isn't rushing into stuff for the sake of it. Murty was brought in by Wotte anyway, so it makes sense that pards wants to take a longer look.

Can't say i've seen much of him tbh. Who's he with at the mo?

I'd agree with Lambert if we weren't keeping stern. But as we have Stern (by the looks of it) then our priority must be a pacey striker.

Whaley, Kisnorbo and Hughes were free. Wiggins was a 'nominal fee'. Don't blame AP for missing out on these targets, blame those morons at Pinnacle who killed our pre-season preparations.

The point he made was a valid one though. These young kids confidence has been ruined because they were all thrown into a loosing side. A couple of players have come out of this better, i.e James, but the majority of them look a fragile mess (look at lancashire and Thompson a year ago - a huge difference) Yes they're good young players, but they weren't ready for week in week out football last year, a few appearances here and there would have prepared them much better. In a way last year has possibly slowed their progress.

I haven't heard anything, but it bet it's at 2pm

Burley got slated for NOT having this attitude. In our playoff season, even though we spent £8m, all he said was ''we'll see if we can make the top 6'' - even though we did, i admit we should have been pushing more for the top 2. If your manager is ambitious, the players attitudes often follow..

Not sure if he's been mentioned, but what about nathan delfouneso? good young player at villa, similar mold as agbonlahor with lots of pace. Obviously im not talking a transfer fee, but a season long loan would be good IMO.

Exactly. Also Loan's aren't exactly free either, the ''best'' loans command some sort of loan fee. What about Nathan Delfounsou (Sp?) from villa. He was linked to leeds a while back as part of a swap deal for Delph, but that died in the water.

Read this line... '' “There are players contracted to other clubs that I do feel would do well for Southampton. “Some of those I’ve put in tentative approaches to say ‘If there is a possible situation where a player might move on from your club I would be interested.’ “But I’m focusing very much on the market where there’s no transfer fee at the moment. '' Makes sense to snap up the best avaliable free's, rather than splashing the cash on a player who is possibly equal? he's doing it the right way round IMO.

Wally Downes would be a great appointment. He was one of the brains behind readings ''walk of the league'', he was very highly rated and was loved by the reading players - he is a defensive coach i believe.

Club for me. I still follow England when they play, but it doesn't ruin my weekend if England loose.

They had eugene bopp playing lastnight He scored 2 goals and is apparently Hart's 'Top target' He was released by crewe for petes sake! Times are very very hard over there by the sounds of it.

Patterson would be great as an option to bring on to replace stern. I wouldn't start him with stern....I'm not sure that would work, but I'd like to see him alongside a pacey player who'll open up more space.

Sensible is the key word. If we want a player i cannot see us paying over the odds for them. We'll offer what they're worth and that's it. Sounds as if AP is going about this steadily and carefully.