John B

Dont recall seeing Wolves playing down the Dell until George Kirby had left for Swansea I think it was. Rather ironic as I remember a game where he had laid out three Swansea players all of whom needed attention with Mr Gallagher our trainer helping one of them

What is there to say that is positive I agree there is nothing negative going on at the moment although some fans are having minor problems getting season tickets and others like my brother are having to pay more because they are in their early 60s But the team is in the same state as it was at the end of last season . I have no problem with that because no doubt some more players will be added before the end of August. However there was/is an expectation that because of the plan to get to the PL in the next 3 years we would have to buy a number of quality players to achieve this objective. It does surprise me that quality players such as Cork and possibly Sharpe have not joined us on our way to the PL.

Makes you realise how small Tony Godfrey was - He could not catch high crosses and continually punched the ball away

I started watching Saints about the time George joined one of my favorite players hard and dirty I remember him laying out three swansea players at the same time . But like you say a real gent I remember meeting him when I was queueing up for a semi-final ticket in 1963 Died rather young in 2003

As older fan I totally agree with Andoverian. By the way you may not agree with him but there is no need to be so rude he does have a point

I am glad you only post three times because I could not take anymore

Well obviously it is a gut feeling as you have little real idea what is happening at SFC with regard to transfers. Like me and other posters you just hope for the best but Cortese is running the club and will do what he considers is best

I dont see the relevance of this post because in 2009 Markus only bought the club in early July and Pardew was only appointed 17 July But now we have a five year plan to get to the PL and I would have thought that planning to bring in new players for this season should have been done sometime ago. Of course I expect we will hear some transfer news in the next few days but if we dont then perhaps the plan is to consolidate in the league this season which has been suggested by a number of posters

Yes I agree but I dont think QPR spent that much when they first were taken over Although if I remember they did have a lot of managers

We are hardly likely to get to the PL with the current squad so I was expecting us to sign a few players capable of getting us there That said we do seem to have a lot of players but I doubt we will get rid of them and replace them with better. I dont really know if Barnard Hammond Dickson Harding Jaidi Seaborne Martin Butterfield Connolly and Richardson will be quality Championship players I know some have played there before but they will be good enough to keep SFC in a reasonable position in the League. So I expect that they will gradually be replaced over the next two/three seasons when we should have a team capable of pressing for promotion So I expect gradually over the next

It is not surprising with our squad in League 1 Adkin's rating is good

Thats how I see it too There is a lot of competition in the Championship and a lot of good managers also looking for players so lets hope we have something to offer them

It is nothing to do with negativity just common sense which on this subject you appear to have none

Try this one http://www.doncasterrovers-mad.co.uk/footydb/loadtmrs.asp?ssnno=140&teamno=184 I think Four Penalties last season and the season before

Been out all day since just after this thread started Is there any truth in this rumour are we likely to get Billy Sharpe?

I would not be surprised if most football fans in this country thought it was nuts that SFC would replace one of say Man U Liverpool Chelsea Arsenal Man City in the Champions League based on the whim of an Italian Banker with little knowledge of English football. However I dont think they would think it nuts if we played in the PL sometime in the not so distant future

Yes I agree I would like all effort and money put into getting us a team which can compete and stay in the PL before we think about extending the stadium. It would be a disaster if we were building a bigger stadium and got relegated

I think Cortese maybe difficult to deal with so as it is not the first time this has been raised But that seems how he operates and it appears to be working very well at the moment and I feel confident that new players will arrive and we will have a successful season like the previous two.

We dont know whether Cortese is difficult to deal with but there is rumblings that he is Whether by being more flexible Cortese would get in better players is purely hypothetical We will obviously get in some new ones but may of course miss out on some others but that is life but overall I would like to think that having a CEO and manager who were well respected in the football world would be an advantage to the club . So that other clubs and agents would want to do business with us this may well be the case at present but if it is not it is a shame as there is going to be real competition between Championship Clubs to this close season to get in high quality players.

I would have thought if SFC was a good club to deal with Agents would be persuading their players to move here over another club which was more difficult to deal with likewise I would have thought if SFC was a bad club to deal with Agents would be persuading their players to move to another club which was more easy to deal with But we dont really know how easy SFC are to deal with anyway so it is all conjecture based on one agent Just hope some clubs and agents find SFC easy to deal with so we get in a few more players

You need her more than she needs you

How come you are such a sensible poster when loads of others live in cloud cuckoo land where every thing SFC do is right and we are heading to the Champions League. I did notice on the another thread that there is some realism as posters suggested that Cortese knows the finances and should not over spend something a previous Chairman was pilliored for. However I doubt whether success ie being a top eight team in the PL will happen without out spending loads of dosh Dont current PL teams have academies but very few of the top teams seem to bring players through to play in the First Team regularly so why should it be any different with SFC Although we have produced a lot a of decent footballers from the Academy in the last ten years or so not many are playing regularly in the PL. The coming season is the 50th seaon I have watched the Saints and I dont really mind what Division they play in all I know is I will follow every game either live on TV or through the internet. The last two seasons have been pretty good and so were the first twenty five lets hope the next few are good as well

If we wanted CMS and did not get him I think Cortese is the mug To get decent players you have to pay the going rate

Neither am I Top 5 in five years is highly unlikely in my opinion without out spending £300m on transfer fees and loads more on wages Where is the money coming from Since the sad death of Marcus we have spent feck all despite bidding for some players apparently

I agree with you from what has happened in the last nine months or so but of course money maybe forthcoming in the next few weeks We will just have to wait and see