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since when has D'Urso been the ref for this game?? Thought it was another name. Crossley?? http://www.cafctv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10267~2251573,00.html

11....1764 Forty Two squared.

What do you expect even Man U got relegated that year. I seem to recall Osgood scoring for us though that season,could be wrong

won't be that bad.....I've seen them and they are that bad. Still they're triers all right and they may do a Bahrain in offering nationality to "nearly men" from african nations.

tbh Phil it's probably no more strange than FIFA giving a 220kmx50km,1.6 million inhabitant gulf country a world cup in the middle of summer is it. Administrators make mistakes whatever their level. To me it's laughable that Qatar as host nation will be qualified, it'll be a Turkey shoot.When I was coaching at a provincial town 70 km south of St Etienne we had their national side there for a friendly. Our collection of town hall workers,washer uppers and what have you beat them 2-0, nice lads though.

Barney and Punch look fit....but I don't know how old this article is. http://www.myprotein.com/uk/pages/our_athlete?tab=amb6 click on football.

I think the point is that he was supposed to be in perfect shape before the pre-season training started.He's supposed to have worked really hard all by himself and then AP (and I guess Wally Downes) are supposed to have ruined all that with their training regime. I guess that's what DD was pointing at.

who knows, Barney seems to be shrouded in secrecy of late. StScottoftheNortham tells us he had more surgery on his hand last Tuesday,maybe why he doesn't appear in any of the build up videos. I thought his hand was supposed to be healing up nicely, could be just cosmetic stuff though I guess.

yep, sacked Nicholl and appointed Branfoot for no ostensible reason,up till then we'd had 3 managers in 30 odd years and then the revolving door started. Probably something to do with the changing face of football though.

maybe why his bail was postponed then.Bloke seems to be in the wars of late.

Surely not entirely absent for a month though?? Transfers to negociate and all that surely.

mid-day ?? http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2240656,00.html#continue

I don't think it's a question of the deal not happening, rather a question of whether he has recovered from his Achilles problem.

Anyone looked at the video that goes with this?? 2 of the younger players with the 1st team group, one was Ben Reeves, the other I didn't recognise, seemed to be knackered after a few sprints though.Once again, no Barney or Chaplow visible.

or even when we sacked Chris Nicholl.

Interesting piece on this in the Echo.Only 1 other side in the last 15 years has obtained automatic promotion after being outside the play-off places at Xmas.Looked it up. In 2008/9 Peterborough had 37 points from 21 games and finished with 89 at the end.At that time the second placed side already had 43 points (MK Dons) and finished on 87 for 3rd place.So if we now mirrored Posh's second part of the season we'd finish on 84 points. Good enough for automatic?? who could say.

Yes Pat used to be a regular here, seem to remember him getting into some pretty heated arguments from time to time and also posting up some interesting stuff.Don't know why he stopped(or slowed down) though.He has a son who's a keeper up in East Anglia, don't know if he's still on pro-terms though or where he is now.A lot of his info seemed to come from various goalkeeping coaches, some of whom were pretty close friends of his. Looked him up, he was on yesterday...lounge maybe.Got into some sort of not-so-pro Cortese arguments notably with DD,think they had a bit of a barney when we were appointing our new manager.

According to some sort of twitter feed that I came across Barney is still out,Chaplow and Richardson are last minute decisions (although Richardson was at training and Chaplow didn't seem to be) and Rickie has recovered from his dead leg. Fonte back so Seaborne probably left out. Make of it what you will.

oops wrong thread

I ordered it from Santa's workshop, If he doesn't deliver it you'll have to take it up with their help line....which is no doubt situated in Ceylon or something like that....far far far from the North Pole.

I spent a short while there....been to Switzerland as well, always raining both places.

I doubt if he'd even consider playing for us(or that we'd even consider paying what he'd ask) Sooner or later he'll get an offer from a club that he thinks fitting.Must have put a packet of cash aside so doubt if he's too worried. He's been training at Middlesborough again of late and there is talk of him signing for them again.

nope I don't know that I should do that. Ugly Inside forum, page 4 "Cortese's vision for our future" or something of that ilk.v Thread by Patred, towards the bottom of the page.

Preseason was all the wrong way round anyway,I guess Markus absolutely wanted us to be in Switzerland and all that and as their season (and the French season) starts before ours we were obviously going to play sides further advanced in their preparation than we were.I mean I don't think it was AP who insisted that we spend 10 days or whatever it was in Switzerland...or was it.

AP made Morgan pump a lot of iron last year, Morgan was OK with it according to people round his home town, perhaps he doesn't have to do it now though