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also see Matt Richards at Ipswich and our very own Oscar Gobern's brothers been released by Wolves anyone know anything about him

my first instinct was to say Alan Nielson but the more i look the more i am unsure, but cant come up with another name

That much loved newspaper the Daily Mail are running with a story that Leeds and Leicester will battle it out for the signing of Kelvin Davis. An Everton supporting friend of mine has told me that the word up there is that they are looking at Rudi Skacel, Cant quite see it myself but Moyes does have habbit of getting the best out of average players.

Did anyone else see the game last night? at one point in the 2nd half the camera zoomed in on Shearer's hand and gave a close up of his wedding ring. I'm convinced this was alluding to Mrs Shearer being a Saints fan and the recent speculation. ......... of course my mate who I was watching the game with could've been right when he said "i think they were showing his watch, and the fact time is running out for NUFC" I'll go with my theory.

Brendan Rogers at Watford is apparently very keen on signing Rasiak on a permanent.

1. The Tchenguiz Brothers? They have the funds but the credit crunch has exposed them to hugh loses. Are they right for Saints? Who knows? - 3-1 Did I miss something here? who are the The Tchenguiz brothers, when were they linked? why are they linked?

As I mentioned in another thread I was in the blues end yesterday with my brother-in-law a devoted b'ham fan. Also living up here I can tell you that a lot of there supporters not to dis-similar to us saints fans who have issues with their current board. Also this area has been probably the worst hit during the recession, its a massive manufacturing area and there are firms closing every day and lots of people going down to a 3-4 day working week. The b'ham fans are ****ed off that their board wont lower the prices to get the stadium packed out and people just cant afford to go at the moment. At one point yesterday saints fans were singing "you're support is a pile of ****" to which a guy 3 seats down from me said "you wouldnt believe there gates have fallen from 30,000 to 14,000 would you"

I endured yesterdays game frorm the opposite end of the ground sitting with my brother-in-law a devoted birmingham fan and the rest of the blues fans. But it always puts hairs on the back of my neck when you look across at the saints fans singing and giving it there all. Guys we really can be the 12th man for the remainder of this season so lets really get behind the team and back them all the way to the finish. Anyone notice that for a team that is battling for promotion back to the promised land how empty the stadium was, this area (west midlands) has been hit very badly by the recession and their fans own problems with their board of directors so we are not the only club with dwindling attendances, although i can see a sharp rise in attendances for saints over the following weeks.

All joking apart, we all know we are in need of a striker and I dont think this is a bad move. The Glenn Hoddle Academy (GHA) has been set up to give players that have been released too early by clubs a second chance. Chris Fagan was at one time thought very highly of by the Manchester United coaches. Last week he was called up by the Republic of Ireland U'21's to face Germany. Fagan is looking for his big break back into football and is hungry and is chomping at the bit, which at the moment I think we could do with, is there any harm in trying him over McGoldrick? its not like McGoldrick is actually doing anything productive at the moment is it.

Trialist Ronayne Marsh-Brown played on the right of Defence. OS says Wotte knows him from his time at RKC Waalwijk (where whe was signed by Martin Jol) This is the same Marsh-Brown that has been playing for Dorchester Town this season and this week walked out on the club to take up a community coaching job at Fulham. How did he get lost between Dorchester and Craven Cottage and end up at Staplewood. http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/sport/4117041.O___Donnell___s_men_show_no_mercy/ look about half way down.

The Express and Star did not run the story you refer to so I can only assume it was picked up from elsewhere and wrongly attributed. And as far as we are aware there is no truth in the piece. I hope this clears things up for you. Kind regards Stuart Austen Sports Editor

As I believe this could be big news if true I have emailed the express and star for verification of the article. I shall update when I have heard anything back probably wont be until tomorrow.

thanks ponty. Who is the John 'Lowe' bloke that they keep going on about during the interview?

can someone answer this. on a match day can you get commentary through the radio hants website? I was wondering as i believed you could only get it through saintstv am i correct or am i wasting £30 a year on saintstv?

Just posted this on the donny v norwich thread as well. Read in to this what you will. Just had a message from my mate who i went to norwich game with on tuesday (norwich fan) to say that Mark Wotte is at the Donny v Norwich game. Can anyone confirm this as if true must be scouting for a player as we have played both teams twice already and its a pretty long way to go the night before a game just to watch a game. Any thoughts Lupoli again?

Read in to this what you will. Just had a message from my mate who i went to norwich game with on tuesday to say that Mark Wotte is at the Donny v Norwich game. Can anyone confirm this as if true must be scouting for a player as we have played both teams twice already. Any thoughts

This may be of interest to some of you but not to others and read in to it what you will, and make up your own minds. Lupoli, much to his annoyance, was yet again left on the bench today by Norwich. This was also much to the disgust of a large number of the Canary fan club who were hoping Bryan Gunn would play him in a bid to keep him happy and not jumping ship to a relegation rival. (the final score did dampen the feeling) During the game, Lupoli went for a warm up and certain sections of the Norwich fans started singing his name, to which the Barnsley fans started their own rendition of "oh when the saints" (not oh when the reds or oh when the tykes) This as you can imagine wasnt greated well by Norwich fans. However this does show the rumours are not confined to just Saints and Norwich. When Lupoli did come on, Norwich were awarded a penalty to which Lupoli grabbed the ball to take (typical striker, and good to see) but much to his annoyance the ball was taken off of him by Clingan and words were exchanged. At the end of the whistle and after a 4-0 win, it was all smiles at Norwich, except for one particular Italian.......

The news seems to be in Italy too http://www.firenzeviola.it/?action=read&idnotizia=37078 is that a good sign?

The Pampers St Mary's Stadium

Surely the goalkeeper must go to Micheal Stensgaard. didnt we sign him from Liverpool Denmark's number 2 behind Schmeichel at the time.

And means for people like me and my daughter who live in west midlands but are visiting family in Romsey for New Years wont be able to go coz we cant afford to buy another 4 tickets as well as 2 for Man Utd.

lol as most of the players are from the academy and are probably still on their academy wage of £90 a week it may do.