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1st Nov – Saints 9th – 21 points from 14 games Peterborough 5th 22 points from 14 games 1st Jan – Saints 2nd - 34 points from 21 games Peterborough 11th 30 points from 20 1st March Saints 5th – 52 points from 31 games Peterborough 4th 53 points from 32 Today Saints 4th – 61 points from 34 games Peterborough 3rd 65 points from 36 Hardly closing fast. You have been listening to too much hype

Players and staff now told to sign contracts agreeing to work for free or the club will close http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/plymouth_argyle/9427611.stm

Sad to say it looks unlikely now. If Howard/Agent has not held talks with Saints yet despite enquiries to Reading last week (or the weekend at the latest) it may be terms could not be agreed with Reading and we are looking elsewhere. We have another week to find someone so no panic yet.

Emergency Loan period ends 5pm on 4th Thursday of March according to Football League rules. So no panic yet as today is the 3rd Thursday in March.

Echo say Adkins approached Reading last week so the Gobern ban was not the reason. Schneiderlin's long term injury was likely to be the reason. They say there are still major stumbling blocks. I should say so. Howard has a good contract with Reading that still has about 18 months to go. He is on good wages and not likely to take a drop. Unlikely Reading would fund some of it. Then there is the issue on playing Div 1 football. I doubt Howard would want that long term. Then there is the fee to make the deal long term if we persuaded him to stay....promotion would be the only persuasion in my opinion. Reading will try to sqeeze as much as they can. With this out in the open on in the media and forums will this ruin any talks? Who is manipulating the media. Reading? Howard? Howards friends? It certainly won't be Southampton FC. It might happen, then again we know the history of so called deals when they have broken before they are finalized. Good it it happens but I am not holding my breath.

Lambert (Norwich Manager) rated him so much he followed Drew when he was on honeymoon, spoke to him and signed him up. When Drew was injured the first time he was brought straight back into the team but was injured again against Leeds. As soon as he was fit again he was back in the team. He is one of Norwich City's highest paid players. He still has a love for Saints but happy at Norwich. If they get into the Premier I predict he will still be a regular choice in midfield. Shame we had to sell him when in Administration.

Turner, Middleton, Boulton, Montgomery, Wells

I agree with this post. As we were leaving "Derry" said to me,"the result was better than the game" Cannot argue with that although we did sparkle late on as Swindon became deflated.

No, it is the same team that started against Hartlepool

This post is like trying to read a foreign language without having a clue what language it is!!!!

I know two who have spoken directly to Benali but they do not shout about it on forums because they have not spoken to Cortese.

In those days;_ -------------------------------Goalkeeper-------------------------- --------------Right Back------------------------ Left Back ------------Right Half----------Centre Half-----------Left Half------- Outside Right---Inside Right----Centre Forward---Inside Left---Outside Left Ah those were the days 2-3-5

No, a half back as they were called then. No 6 on his back

Jimmy Gabrial?

It does take time before proceedings are issued. There is a civil claims protocol to follow with proceedings being the last resort. The court case manage it from then onwards. I suspect Cortese was not paying the "rent" himself. He is employed by the club (they are a limited company). If so the employers are vicariously liable for the actions of the employee. They will have a right of recovery from him if they consider his gross negligence was outside the terms of his contract. So Cortese might be right that he is not aware of any action against himself. The action will be against the club. There may have been a symbiotic relationship at the time. So if Benali had issues with Cortese actions in him home and asked him to leave the club may have considered that symbiotic relationship was at and end. I heard rumour that Benali business has since failed but I may be wrong. Maybe that smybiotic arrangement was used to prop up the business? However the relationship and business failure are just conjecture on my part

So it is. Thanks

Bill the poster is good friends with MLT or at least was so some while ago. His post was critical of MLT. He might well have had second thoughts and asked for it's removal. I did that once when I made a comment about Wilde but after Wilde contacted me to indicate it breached his privacy I asked for it to be removed and it was, beyond trace. Same here I would think

But you do not express a view on something you have not read Phil. It was aimed at those who expressed harse opinions without reading it.

There was a very interesting post on here a moment ago which has disappeared. It did not break the rules so I assume the poster had second thoughts and asked for it's removal. I will not repeat it but it concerned MLT. As the poster is or was a friend of MLT I found the post an eye opener. It shows it is not all Cortese continuing the rift

I also wonder how many on here who have expressed an opinion have read the whole article.

Duncan, thanks for drawing it to our attention. I have just read the article. I see is all as a "right to reply" He talks about the celebrations and the award. No problem with that. He expresses his sadness that the club had to ring the BBC to distance them from the event and the award. They are entitled to do that and he is entitled to comment on that call. He praises Cortese for his financial steering of the club and his ability to turn big clubs away from trying top by our best players. He wishes him well He is puzzled why the club seem to think he is against the club or Cortese. He says he is not. He hints at media turning support for Pardew into criticism of Cortese at the end of last season. The second part was not the case. I thought it was a decent article almost offering an olive branch to the club. I hope Mr Cortese reads it and gives McMenemy a call.

I have never had any concerns over the loss of the Ted Bates Trophy. It was set up at a time when there was no other tribute to Ted. We were a Premier side and it gave us a chance to test ourselves against good European teams. Since then we have an excellent tribute being the statue outside the main entrance to the ground. We have dpopped into the lower regions of the league and as a result do not have a team who can challenge the better teams in Europe. To make it meaningful the opposition would have to be a Championship team. Hardly fitting to such early aspirations. As for renaming stands I would prefer they stay as they are. That is the history of the area.

Mr Cortese gets upset very easily on anything SFC. Nick went public over his concerns that the club had changed their season ticket policy at short notice and his punishment was withdrawal of that facility for him. Cortese and the club will not go public. It was an impulsive act on the clubs behalf and it looks like they will not back down, at least not this season.

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