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But if his old man doesn't even think he's good enough to play, why should anyone else? Usually you pick your own kid for a team before anyone else, due to the rose-tinted specs effect, but in this case even Pulis does not have enough faith in his ability to risk him in the 1st team either at Stoke or anywhere else he has been. Still as I said earlier we do need a scapegoat replacement now that we no longer have Jasmine. Everyone else in the team (with the possible exception of BWP) are just to nice and liked by the supporters. We need someone else to slag off when the inevitable happens and we lose a game.

No, he is on loan until January. The original rumours were for all season, but that is not the deal. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/articles/article.php?page_id=10497

By the same token, Phillips should not have slagged Saints off when he left, we were the reason his career was resurrected. People do not dislike him because of what he did on the pitch but the nasty comments he made, which were complete unneccessary.

Are you just being Sarky? Horses indeed, new fangled things, they will never replace our oxen in my opinion.

Hellboy 2, is that a new name for Rupes since his return?

Surely we won't be using him as an outfield player will we? Even Burley never resorted to that, though at times we did wonder whether he would.

Yesterday the squad was on the OS, today it seems to have mysteriously disappeared. Anyway when it was there it seemed to suggest that Thomas and Wotton would be playing which would bump the average age up a bit. I reckon Surman is getting worried that he maybe considered too old for the team...

I think this is a gross insult to halfwits

No changes unless unavoidable, that must be Jan's mantra. We know Killer will be rested. Whether Cork will replace him or remain at RB where he finished the Derby gameand bring Wotton in is the only decision Jan should have to make. If Holmes is injured then bring in Dyer (there is no case for Skacel yet).

About 2/1 for Saints, 11/10 Brum or http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/?page_id=10443

usual crap from the Skate troll. As usual he is just about the only person to mention class. No-one gives a toss about class. The dislike of Lowe has nothing to do with class, there are much better reasons to dislike the arrogant tosser than old fashioned class issues

That all sounds very familiar...

They did? What vote was that exactly? Who voted him out and then wanted to vote him back in? No-one ever voted Lowe out, and no-one voted him back in.

He took a huge risk, and I really don't believe that JP and Wotte are together significantly cheaper than NP, that was just spin to help explain an unpleasant (but necessary from Lowe's pov) action. So far JP has won one league game. I am liking the guy, but its rather early days to say he is significantly better than NP who inherited a completely dispirited and unfit team from Burley and Dodd/Gorman and took some time to take it out of freefall. Take a look at the League One table, early days again I know, but 7 points from 9 for a dispirited Leicester is a reasonable start. NP and JP are clearly very different animals, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. The similarity though is that both are very good with young players and both I believe would have been good candidates to work with the team in current circumstances.

Goodish report, shame they got the goal scorer wrong though...

The problem with Lowe is that he always made some good decisions, but he has more than balanced that with some truly appalling decisions, and of course lead us to relegation. His problem is and always has been lack of investment, along with his smugness alienation of the supporter base. I will give credit to Lowe for appointing JP who I have grown to like, on the other hand I think it was disgusting the way he treated Pearson, who I also liked very much. The day whe Lowe and especially Wilde (and Crouch) have nothing more to do with this Club cannot come soon enough for me, but that doesn't have to mean getting rid of JP, I really believe this guy could work wonders if he actually had some funds as well. Still at the end of the day we have currently won 1 league match against a team that has not won for almost a year, lets not get carried away just yet.

Doubtful, why would he suddenly turn bad after all the seasons and seasons of success he has had. The only blot on his copy book is his time at Saints, and even then he was one of our most successful managers. Luggy is a very good manager and CCC and below levels, Plymouth though are currently a very poor side and he will have to rebuild, but I would back him to do so successfully.

No, not until we get some proper full backs... But another striker would help, preferably someone with some height and pace, to give us a different option when needed

I would welcome a takeover, but really don't want Shearer in charge in any event. As soon as Keegan gets the push at Newcastle all the stories linking Shearer to Newcastle will start and we will be ****ed up again, even if he does not take it. If Fulthorpe comes in he should see what JP is doing with no funds, and give him the chance to take it further WITH funds. Apart from that the sooner we can be rid of Lowe and Wilde the better, as long as we have proper funding.

Lallana scored, McG agreed, it was already over the line, McG just followed up to make sure as all good strikers should do. It will be credited to Lallana whatever Sky or the BBC say.

McG isn't claimimg it. Lallana was interviewed on radio afterwards and stated that McG agreed it was Lallana's goal, but well done to McG for following up to make sure...

They've gone down the pub with all those that wanted Chris Coleman...

But Armstrong mentioned it again later and said it was very close to something happening...I'll tune in on Friday. I really don't think Dave Armstrong would be saying such things unless he was very certain that something was actually going on, sounds like someone very close to Armstrong involved.

Which mong was you then Delldays?

Dave Armstrong says it was definitely Lallana that scored, Cope just agrees with him.