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Good report by Chris Bevan. Hits the spot for me. January is the last throw of the dice both in terms of personnel and results. I am not at all hopeful!

Can't see Baird coming back to be honest.

Adam Lallana has no idea about such a move. He expects to be a Saints player for the rest of this season at least. Source? His father who confirmed the same to me on Friday. This "going to Fulham" has been around for some time, and I mean months. Adam and his Agent have no knowledge or approach. Yesterday just before the match one of my sporadic sources (he told me about the Molyneau signing before it was announced) said he had heard Surman was going on loan to Fulham with Baird coming here on loan in return. Having spoken to Drew's dad only a few minutes before, I was able to put him right on that rumour. Pretty good sources, would you not agree. Of couse someone might come in with an offer that Saints feel they cannot turn down and if it means first team football in the Premership for Drew or Adam, may be they would go but they are not thinking about that at the moment. They feel they have unfinished business with Saints.

You have a PM

I was with Drew's Dad today. He is not aware of any deal! All paper talk with no substance.

To answer the question I say it is drivel. I believe Wilde has no time for Crouch but that the feeling is mutual. On that basis it is unlikely Wilde will sell to him. Why does Wilde not sell direct to Fulthorpe? Probably because, despite all his bluster, does not have the investers his fantasies hoped for. Any takeover was likely to be linked to a large property deal/development in the area. Big investors will not be interested without. It is not SFC they are interested in, it is the potential of the area. That said most of the countries linked with investment are deep in recession, have suffered big falls in investment income and property values and with an uncertain future are not likely to move at this time. There has been a suggestion of redevelopment in the area but I have been informed by a poster on here that no such approaches have been made as yet and even if there was it would not happen in the short term. There has been a suggestion from someone else I know that they have already purchased land in the area but I went on the web site of the present owners and they have not announced any sale to the Stock Market. They still have plans for development themselves. No investor/s will put money into SFC in isolation. So all in all, like it or not, I am afraid we are stuck with Lowe and Wilde for the forseeable future and anyone who thinks different is clutching at straws.

Bugger

When the shares are bought back by a company they are cancelled and of no value. The idea is to enhanse the value of the shares still in circulation. If you want to issue more new shares it can only be done with shareholders authority. The club say the recent intem on the AGM agenda was there to be used if necessary but no immediate intention of doing so.

Despite several comments on forums claiming Drew's absence was just an excuse before selling him I can confirm he did have a nasty gash on his ankle and unfortunately the Reading game came just too soon after Plymouth. He is training and will be absolutely gutted if he's not playing on Sunday. Of course he might have been sold by then but although there is some interest from a few clubs no offers have yet been made. As I said earlier, I am told Adam is at least 2 games away from a return.

I was told by someone at the Notts Forest game that two dutch players were training with the club. It was not from my usual sources but he also told me that we were about to sign Moleneaux (he assumed on loan) who was also training. He got that one right (except it was a permenant signing) so maybe he right with the Dutch pair. Not heard anything further from my other sources on the subject though.

They may say that but he will not be fit.

Lallana has an ankle injury that put him out on crutches. He is at least 2 weeks away from fitness.

Dyer on his way to Swansea?

Wins it for me.

None of them. There is no good goal if it is scored against Saints so there cannot be a best one. Rephrase: What was the least bad goal

He has to get international clearance first

Agree Duncan. It was really posted as an antidote to those who just knock Lowe for Lowe knocking sake. Lowe is not going so we have to wish for success with him in charge of the club.

I go along with that. Good post imo

Good luck with your attempt to stabilise our finances. Good luck with your experiement with the Dutch coaches and the style of football Good luck with the plan to continue to use home grown players from the Academy. Success in all three will mean success for SFC and that means so much to us all......doesn't it????

I am worried we have not heard already. Suggests Chelsea may be looking at a loan to a lower Premiership club. Hope he comes back but if not we can deal with it.

Appointed Captain of England's Under 19 tour of South Africa. Also in the squad from Hampshire Academy are Hamza Riazuddin and Chris Wood.

Problem is that the club is only a small part of Fulthorpe's investors vision for investment. There are many parts that have to come together and that takes time, months not weeks. That is why Fulthorpe/Cousins saying to close friends and others that it will happen any day meets with cynicism and in some cases disbelief. For me, and a few I know, it is cloud cuckoo land but we still live in hope.

If we compare this with the FTSE AIM All Share index rebased over the past 6 months they should be about 12.5p. So the movement is nothing much to write home about.

I asked Drew Surman about this but the only answer he was aware of was that the winter sun is lower in the second half and is less troublesome to those kicking towards the Chapel end.

Sundance Beast post is not a discussion item but an antogonistic one and should be ignored. In my opinion of course. SB is capable of contructive and sometimes intellegent posts but his attempts go goad posters into replying to some on his more controversial views puts him in the same camp as..................no, I will not go there