Wildgoose

Thought you may be interested in this as regards the left back position: I saw a die-hard Swindon supporter today and he came up to me and before I could say anything said "Saints were way to strong for us the other night......apart from your left back who was awful, don't know what his name was, Saints played some awesome football at times." I must admit I didn't know who was playing left back that night so had to look it up and it was Dickson. I was relieved to find it wasn't Fox based on what some of you guys have been saying on here...... I'm sure Adkins and the coaching team believe they can make him into a top player.

lol at the humour!

Link:http://sport.stv.tv/football/scottish-premier/celtic/268460-celtic-defender-jos-hooiveld-set-for-southampton-switch/?

Looks like it's loan till January.....giving us cover until we can sign a top target in the next window. Makes sense to me

Best proven manager SO FAR: Redknapp then Adkins If you mean best manager for US: Adkins by a long way

1. Nick Holmes 2. Chris Nicholl by a long long way for me.......

Good Post! Right with ya

Totally agree. Great post!

Nice one! lol

Would be great I think, if true. Maybe Solent got wind of it and he is set to sign soon, or maybe it was just a wind up after all.......

Good sensible post and discussion. Makes the Forum still worth reading......

Interesting......thanks for the detail

This morning one paper saying we have offered £3m for Billy Sharp......another that a £2.8m from Saints has been snubbed. Don't know whether the £3m is supposedly a new bid or not.....

Paul Williams - didn't expect much fro him when he was signed but at times he was immense and a good, consistent performer

How do we know they haven't? Nothing is going to happen about the squad gelling before pre-season training begins so do we have to sign players just to stop us fans from getting frustrated???

I agree that this has often been the case and doesn't help us get off to a good start. However.......we have a whole new and settled management team in place now for the first time on years I will only start to think 'here we go again' if we haven't made some decent signings before pre-season begins

1. Golac 2. Pahars 3. Lundekvam I never seem to think of Monkou as a foreign import somehow......

Agreed! I don't think there's any truth in that view at all.........

I'm pretty sure I understood at the time that they were written off and the new club bought for 12m plus, without any debt. There's a good post from Derry on this thread to that effect. That's what I remember, and am pretty sure that it was not just rumour. If I get chance, I'll see if I can find the articles referring to it.

Oh Okay. Thanks. I know those were the figures being mentioned somewhere.....I thought it may have been the administrator. The key bit though is the chairman saying we were debt free......

From my memory of the situation, and from reading official club statememnts at the time, the debt was 32m plus but was written off when the club went into administration and the club was bought for around 12m plus I think. We started the new era with a clean slate. There would be no debt now other than anything that might have been accrued in the last two seasons.....

.....or it was never going to happen in the first place.....? I haven't a clue!

Best wishes on your birthday big Ron! You are still my all time favourite Saints player! I was brought up on your awesome headed goals. Brilliant brilliant memories! Thank you Andrew Leakey

+1 I'm amazed at some of the negativity on here, but I guess we shouldn't be surprised anymore

Thanks. They somehow look even better on the video and able to enjoy them again. Much appreciated