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And anyone who is thought to be any good goes to another club.

But Rupes decides who is signed, not them as is generally known.

So We need a specialist left back. Very true. We have been pointing this out for weeks. But Harte is slow. So just not good enough. Problem not solved. Next...

Whatever happened to keeping the wage bill down? I thought we could not afford more than 25 players.

We can't have Paine on one wing without Sydenham on the other - please...

But Brooklyn is small enough. He would nutmeg the lot!

On the OS now http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/?page_id=10557 Well done lads. Sounds like a good fight-back after conceding early.

There has always been an inference in the national press that Saints current league placings have been because Burley left, and that he had been doing a good job at St Mary's with poor material. Perhaps this view may be redressed now.

Anyone know how they got on at Staplewood on Saturday? There's no news on the OS yet (Sunday morning) http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/?page_id=10550

I did cut back by not getting a season ticket this year, since I was unable to get to several midweek games last year. That is my economy. But I still intend to go to as many games as I did last year with the ST. So for me it is small savings like that only.

Saints deserve to win and get my vote against England who don't.

Ok - I'll go back to blaming the feckless FA for all our ills and the Sports Minister (not forgetting Rupes and 'arry)

Ok - I'll go back to blaming the feckless FA for all our ills and the Sports Minister (not forgetting Rupes and 'arry)

Do you work for Sky?

Do you work for Sky?

Are you sure it doesn't read 'appy

Are you sure it doesn't read 'appy

You can buy tickets from the ticket office next week, but probably only in the second tier.

Thanks for the clarification. I always thought that The Premiership held their own rights.

Ironically, your last sentence has truth in it. Yet, despite all the odds, grass-roots non-league football lives on, and if not thriving seems to be doing ok and will always survive. Sure, of course Sky does not make the footballing decisions, but its overwhelming funding and world-wide viewing figures gives it enormous power over the decision makers. Remove Sky and Setanta's money which depends on advertising revenues (not an improbability) and the effects would be seismic.

In today's Guardian - an ongoing poll:- http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/poll/2008/sep/03/curbishley.manager.transfers Overwhelmingly 88% of supporters don't want anyone but managers in charge of transfers.

That is very debatable. Sky money is now destroying English football.

Brilliant, he deserves better news at last. (And sign him now.)

Whilst having loads of unlimited dosh is crucial, it could be argued that perhaps more important is the kind of stability that evolves over a long time when all parties are pulling together for the common cause. Saints under Ted Bates had this, which is one reason that we were promoted to the old Div 1 and over-achieved for years, despite being paupers. Wenger's Arsenal have that unity of purpose. But Lowe's Premiership Saints and subsequent regimes here really didn't, which is one reason that we gradually disintegrated and find ourselves where we are now.. IF this common sense of purpose and unity can be achieved by Lowe/Poortvliet/Wilde et all we could surprise everybody.

Busy was Rupes - planning his coup.