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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

Madine is a bit of a bad lad, he's got a packet of community service to do as well. Would be a decent signing but I really can't see us paying a lot of money for a player who's supposed to be a bit of a problem case off the field..

depends if they're dropping the ticket prices to a tenner doesn't it. Don't think there's any mention of that as yet.

22 teams, Brighton have Poyet and that gives them a head start on all the others.We should have got him,even if it cost us some of those millions that we're supposed to have and got us a filthy reputation for manager poaching. Wonder if he applied.

The play-offs would be acceptable if we win them and gain promotion. It is the only thing that matters this season and I'm sure the CEO sees it that way as well.

And some of them still beat us.................whoops I'm not supposed to say that am I !!!

won't change much for them, it's 2 home games and they're up to date with their fixtures so far.

We'll know more by this time next week. 2 crucial matches. Need 4 points at least from them.Until we've got these 2 out of the way it's impossible to predict our future trajectory.