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I wonder whether we're actually going to see James move to the wide right spot rather than centre mid. If Otsemobor is an attacking full back, it might be prudent to have a less offensive midfielder in front of him, in a Marsden-Bridge-esque way (although not obviously in terms of quality!).

Given that their fans don't seem to rate him & he's out of the side at the moment, I'm guessing this must be the player who's not having a good time at his current club?

"and from a different source is that a bid for Lee Barnard had been made not 100% on this one." Tac-tics mentioned this about Barnard yesterday. Anyone else heard anything? Would be a good signing if true, IMO.

Norwich have just signed Russell Martin, from Peterborough, who is also a right-back, so could be true.

On the Exeter website (link posted by someone earlier in this thread) they reckon the fee is £275k down up to a max of £475k. That said, other posters said he's actually off to Leicester for £100k. Seems their ITKers are as sound as ours...

Still nothing further on Twitter from Danns... Could he be busy in talks with us? Or is that putting 2 & 2 together and making 5? Also, if his Twitter is broken, how did he put a message on Twitter that his Twitter is broken?

The thought occurs that if, as SSN and the Exeter messageboards believe, we're close to signing Dan Seaborne (Dan S.), has the whole Neil Danns rumour been based around a bit of miscommunication?!!

Ah yes, from memory his dad has something to do with the medicals doesn't he?

Any more from your Palace pal as to whether Danns did actually have a medical with us today?

I think the League and JPT should take priority over the FA Cup. Realistically we're not going to win the latter but we can make the playoffs and I'm sure most of us fancy a day out at Wembley with the JPT.

I can see some merit in this as Tyson would suit Pardew's two systems, as he can play as a central striker or out on the left.

http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/eng/2002-2003/faprem/southam.htm According to Football Squads, he was no. 23 for us in our Cup Final season.

I'll settle for no less than four tomorrow! Stock, Danns, Ward and Jackson or Barnard.

According to his latest tweet, Danns' twitter has been down, hence why he's not responded to any questions. Is he playing for time until a decision's been made on whether or not he's joining us...? I'll help him out: a quick signature on that lovely contract and you can tell the world how pleased you are to be joining your old mate Jose at the Saints. Simples.

So, we have a thread about Brian Stock, which has been withdrawn, and a thread about the thread about Brian Stock, which was withdrawn. But does anyone know, without doing something which gets this thread withdrawn, whether we're actually any closer to signing him?!

He would fit the bill of someone having not done too well with his club of late... Getting released is about as badly as it can go!!

Still all quiet on the Danns twitter front. Promising for us maybe?

I guess the other thing is that, if we are building a side that can compete well at CCC level, if they get more chance to gel, if they're not just thrown together if/when we go up.

To be honest, I can't help feeling £1.5m is a bit overpriced, when someone like Barnard has more league goals, is a bit cheaper and is, reportedly, available for £250k-£500k. That said, if AP wants him that badly, and that's the price, then won't complain if he signs as he'd probably be a good foil for Rickie.

Couldn't we treat ourselves and have both?!

Fair play. I'd imagine he'd probably be told not to put it on Twitter before the OS have had their moment as well! Fingers crossed that you're info is spot on.

Does your latter quote mean you're now doubting your source? Confused.

Welcome Jose! Hopefully you'll be the ball playing centre half we're after to complement Jaidi's strength. Please also feel free to show you're decent at defending too!

Wellington Phoenix in New Zealand, I believe!

Just had a look at Danns' twitter site and he's just asked how his new followers heard about his twitter site and thanked us for our interest. How has he got time to be asking this? Shouldn't he be signing contracts etc???