saintant

They were dealt with by the FA who are handling the Tonda Eckert case. It will be a bit rich if they hammer him after the leniency shown to Chelsea who were done for a high number of offences yet even had their points deduction suspended. Hopefully our lawyers are ready to act if Tonda has the book thrown at him.

I think that ship has sailed because he'll not have had a proper pre-season fitness regime which, for a player with his injury history, is going to make life tough for him. He may be rapidly burning all his bridges.

There has been plenty of pearl clutching on this forum.

He is but I suspect he'll be disappointed and may well regret not sorting out a contract with us. His stock is not that high although being a free agent might help but, even then, he comes with a very bad injury history and will no doubt want decent money which few clubs at this level can afford to pay. I still think he's been badly advised by his agent but let's see how it pans out.

Injured. Hurt his back I believe.

This is the time when agents start agitating things to make themselves a nice few quid. Parasites of football.

I don't see him coming back now. If we wanted him surely he'd have signed in time to start pre-season training with the rest of the lads. As it stands he's not taking part in a structured training plan which won't help him because this pre-season stuff is very important and missing it sets a player back. Stewart can't afford anything that impacts on his fitness levels.

It's starting to look as though his agent may have dropped a clanger. Ross remains a free agent and didn't get the opportunity to showcase his talents in the World Cup. You'd have to say it is unlikely a Premier league side will be interested given his injury record. Which leaves Scotland, the Championship or a European club. None of these are likely to pay him what he was earning with us and will also be wary of that injury history. My take is that he has been badly misadvised and will find his career prospects going backwards. With careful nurturing by the fitness team he was building a reputation with the management and fans at Southampton but might struggle to do the same at another club where he'd be starting again.

Eventually we always revert to Russball.

And now I'm beginning to believe you. Things must be good if DD is cooking.

The long unbeaten run goes on (excluding the FA Cup)

Just as he hits peak form people want rid of him.

Took it round the keeper past a defender before cooly slotting into an empty net from 4 yards.

He's knocking on the door.

From what I recall he said something along the lines of he was looking forward to getting back to Staplewood for pre-season training.