Saints confirm Dickson signing (From Daily Echo)

Great signing COYR

Nice to see its official strange area to strengthe though. Nicky Baily then Freddy Adu will do nicely this summer :)
COYWWASOR
Come on you reds with a Sach of red :))

Must admit - dont know much about this guy as didnt see him play against us, but people on here seem happy with this signing and sky sports says he is one of the most promising left backs outside the premiership, so this on paper sounds a really good bit of business, hopefully we can get him for closer the £100K mark, meaning more money to spend for Pards

COYR's

COME ON YOU WHITES(and a flash of red)

So, Harding to right back then

What I like are Dickson's comments
about the Club - the enthusiasm he
found from NC and AP leaving him in
no doubt about choosing us over
Championship clubs.He wants to play
in a higher league and believes he will
get there by joining us. Similar comments to Fonte's when he joined us. It is now up to us -THE
FANS- to get behind the team.
I am confident we will gain promotion
but it will not be easy because every
team will raise their game against us.
There will be one or two sticky patches and this,especially, is when
the team will need our support.
Looking forward to the other
signings that appear to be in the
pipeline. COYR>

Good young signing, haven't heard too much about him, but if Brentford fans are sad to see him go, then that can only be good news for us, building a great squad now, Alan Pardew has got what it takes, with a little bit of patience from the fans and his employers to get us back into the Premier League, and we should have a very strong and competent team when we get there, unlike when we left.

hopefully he will do the same to other teams wot he did to us , looks like cracking signin
go reds

This is from the saintsfc.co.uk website:

Reliable news first on the Official Website

With heightened speculation surrounding the Club during this transfer window, the Club urges fans to take any rumours with a pinch of salt.

"We remind all Saints fans that news will appear first exclusively on our official website. We have already seen a number of cases where agents publicly link their players with us for no other reason than to strengthen their position when negotiating contracts with other Clubs. That even extends as far as certain players declaring that they have been offered a contract by the Club when they have not" explained Club Spokesman Jordan Sibley.

"The Club has identified clear targets with the view of strengthening the side further and the people in charge know what they are doing. Fans can rest assured that any signings will be exclusively communicated on this website as soon as there is an announcement to be made." Sibley added.

Think they might be taking a bit of a swipe at the recent tabloid speculation there, concerning Mr Pardew?

And the spanish guy at Brighton!

Will SFC ever rebuild their relationship with the Echo?

Do bigger clubs like Liverpool and Manchester Utd have such a poor relationship with their local papers?

Someone needs to sort this out, because fans just want to buy their local paper and trust what the journalists write is unbiased, and will not be misleading towards its readers with petty in-fighting and point scoring!

Bury the hatchet and move forward because the paper survives and has thrived over the years due to the thousands of Saints fans buying it regularly.

Big welcome Ryan. Fast track to the Prem with Pards Red Army and the mighty Southampton Football Club.

For once glad the league tribunal is there to sort this out.. for a change it seems amiable and sensible. Anyway Ryan we hope you enjoy every second, every goal and every tackle in your pending three years.

Up The Saints

gosportsaint wrote:
COME ON YOU WHITES(and a flash of red) So, Harding to right back then

This is definitely a signing ready for the Championship,Just like Fonte.
Unfortunately I don't think many of our current squad will be good enough when we go up. This includes Harding.Good enough for League 1,but not enough for the Championship

I agree and our next signings must be from strong Chamionship clubs. Anyone got any suggestions for a goal to goal midfielder?

Oh dear, we seem to have signed the best player from another club! We really should stop doing this as we will end up awfully unpopular! Anyway NC made a tidy packet (2 season tickets & 3 shirts!) out of me yesterday and I demand more signings now!

Is the 5 year plan getting back to the prem or winning it?

Nick bailey from charlton. He scored I think 10 or 12 goals from CM last season. Pardew has links with him anyway as he signed him when he was at charlton. Best bet

someone said,red stripe beer would be our next sponsors,no,no,no,fa
r to cheap,noticed on sundays canadian grand prix,the winners podium was awash with MUMM CHAMPAGNE,red stripe on white background,there's our next sponsor,especially as we will be playing champagne footie next year,

gosportsaint wrote:
COME ON YOU WHITES(and a flash of red)

So, Harding to right back then

Harding can do one!!! Mills is cover for the new left back!! BYEBYE HARDING

Folkestone Saint wrote:
Is the 5 year plan getting back to the prem or winning it?

It's 3 years to get back, 5 years to win it. :-P

SouthamptonLegend wrote:

gosportsaint wrote: COME ON YOU WHITES(and a flash of red) So, Harding to right back then

Harding can do one!!! Mills is cover for the new left back!! BYEBYE HARDING

Mrs Mills has more talent. I think you will see Mills on his way now, he would struggle to get in the Bournemouth team.

NZ playing Slovakia.. All Whites doing okay so far.. Chris Killen (Contract at Boro Up this month now free) has had a couple of chances, Ryan Nelson organising his line snuffing em out. Rory Fallon aerially superior..
Slovakia have the pace and accuracy to take control..

Tirau Dan wrote:
NZ playing Slovakia.. All Whites doing okay so far.. Chris Killen (Contract at Boro Up this month now free) has had a couple of chances, Ryan Nelson organising his line snuffing em out. Rory Fallon aerially superior.. Slovakia have the pace and accuracy to take control..

well done good goal

byngman wrote:

Tirau Dan wrote:
NZ playing Slovakia.. All Whites doing okay so far.. Chris Killen (Contract at Boro Up this month now free) has had a couple of chances, Ryan Nelson organising his line snuffing em out. Rory Fallon aerially superior.. Slovakia have the pace and accuracy to take control..

well done good goal

Cheers...brilliant best ever result in world cup footy for NZ. Winston Reid 21yrs 6'3" CB / RB playing in Denmark... hmmm make the call Pards.

Robert Green has trained today and in 3 hours he had 4,000 shots fired at him and did not concede a single goal. Tomorrow, he & Heskey will train with the rest of the squad :-)

SaintL-Y wrote:
Robert Green has trained today and in 3 hours he had 4,000 shots fired at him and did not concede a single goal. Tomorrow, he & Heskey will train with the rest of the squad :-)

Bro - you've got too much time on your hands!!

Up the Kiwi's Dan cracking last min goal. 1-1 my moneys on you guys as the shock outsiders hope they make the next round. They made good account of themselves and did you all proud.

dly397 wrote:

SaintL-Y wrote: Robert Green has trained today and in 3 hours he had 4,000 shots fired at him and did not concede a single goal. Tomorrow, he & Heskey will train with the rest of the squad :-)

Bro - you've got too much time on your hands!!

THERE you are!

FOR ANY1 THAT DOES NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT RYAN DICKSON:
he ran half the bloody pitch beat 4 of our players (at home!!) got to the byline, pinged a perfect cross to the back post for them to score.
attacking full back.

Cannot understand people on here slgging off Dan Harding he was one of the most consistent players for us last season, not much got pass him & he had some good runs forward, also dont forget the great job filling in at right back for the JP cup final.

mbetts wrote:
This is from the saintsfc.co.uk website: Reliable news first on the Official Website With heightened speculation surrounding the Club during this transfer window, the Club urges fans to take any rumours with a pinch of salt. "We remind all Saints fans that news will appear first exclusively on our official website. We have already seen a number of cases where agents publicly link their players with us for no other reason than to strengthen their position when negotiating contracts with other Clubs. That even extends as far as certain players declaring that they have been offered a contract by the Club when they have not" explained Club Spokesman Jordan Sibley. "The Club has identified clear targets with the view of strengthening the side further and the people in charge know what they are doing. Fans can rest assured that any signings will be exclusively communicated on this website as soon as there is an announcement to be made." Sibley added. Think they might be taking a bit of a swipe at the recent tabloid speculation there, concerning Mr Pardew? And the spanish guy at Brighton! Will SFC ever rebuild their relationship with the Echo? Do bigger clubs like Liverpool and Manchester Utd have such a poor relationship with their local papers? Someone needs to sort this out, because fans just want to buy their local paper and trust what the journalists write is unbiased, and will not be misleading towards its readers with petty in-fighting and point scoring! Bury the hatchet and move forward because the paper survives and has thrived over the years due to the thousands of Saints fans buying it regularly.

SPOT ON . MAKES GOOD SENSE. COME ON SAINTS AND THE ECHO FORGET THE PAST LETS GO FORWARD TOGETHER IN THE FUTURE. SAINTS TO ISSUE STATEMENTS AND THE ECHO TO PRINT WHEN THERE TOLD AND WHAT YOUR TOLD.

hedge end bob wrote:

mbetts wrote: This is from the saintsfc.co.uk website: Reliable news first on the Official Website With heightened speculation surrounding the Club during this transfer window, the Club urges fans to take any rumours with a pinch of salt. "We remind all Saints fans that news will appear first exclusively on our official website. We have already seen a number of cases where agents publicly link their players with us for no other reason than to strengthen their position when negotiating contracts with other Clubs. That even extends as far as certain players declaring that they have been offered a contract by the Club when they have not" explained Club Spokesman Jordan Sibley. "The Club has identified clear targets with the view of strengthening the side further and the people in charge know what they are doing. Fans can rest assured that any signings will be exclusively communicated on this website as soon as there is an announcement to be made." Sibley added. Think they might be taking a bit of a swipe at the recent tabloid speculation there, concerning Mr Pardew? And the spanish guy at Brighton! Will SFC ever rebuild their relationship with the Echo? Do bigger clubs like Liverpool and Manchester Utd have such a poor relationship with their local papers? Someone needs to sort this out, because fans just want to buy their local paper and trust what the journalists write is unbiased, and will not be misleading towards its readers with petty in-fighting and point scoring! Bury the hatchet and move forward because the paper survives and has thrived over the years due to the thousands of Saints fans buying it regularly.

SPOT ON . MAKES GOOD SENSE. COME ON SAINTS AND THE ECHO FORGET THE PAST LETS GO FORWARD TOGETHER IN THE FUTURE. SAINTS TO ISSUE STATEMENTS AND THE ECHO TO PRINT WHEN THERE TOLD AND WHAT YOUR TOLD.

I'd like to see an outbreak of peace as well but no paper will allow itself to be dictated to over what and when to publish. I think its called freedom of the press It would be better for us ifthe OS let us comment on there releases as the DE does
SW fire-away I'm there to be shot down

pleased about this signing and love the new kit !........anything else happened ?

Don't know much about Dickson, but when I told a Brentford fan he just went 'NOOOOOOO!' so he might be quite good.

slugger wrote:
pleased about this signing and love the new kit !........anything else happened ?

Drew Germany,Argentina ,Holland and Slovenia in the golf club draw!!!....Come on Slovenia!!!..;0)

franiow wrote:
Don't know much about Dickson, but when I told a Brentford fan he just went 'NOOOOOOO!' so he might be quite good.

Brentford mate of mine says that he is,has been,and will remain in his world their best player!!...He is ours now!!...Bring it on!!!

Harleysaint wrote:

slugger wrote: pleased about this signing and love the new kit !........anything else happened ?

Drew Germany,Argentina ,Holland and Slovenia in the golf club draw!!!....Come on Slovenia!!!..;0)

Noise at Le-Mans I always found very similar to the Horns at the World Cup!....EEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH
HHHHHHHH!....wHATS IT ALL ABOUT????

Harleysaint wrote:

Harleysaint wrote:

slugger wrote: pleased about this signing and love the new kit !........anything else happened ?

Drew Germany,Argentina ,Holland and Slovenia in the golf club draw!!!....Come on Slovenia!!!..;0)

Noise at Le-Mans I always found very similar to the Horns at the World Cup!....EEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH HHHHHHHH!....wHATS IT ALL ABOUT????

i got germany in our pub draw , as for the noise...iv'e still lost my voice from shouting over it......what a week iv'e had,brilliant laugh !!!!!

Rob Green has trained today & in 3 hours he had 4,000 shots fired at him and did not concede a single goal. Tomorrow, he and Heskey will train with the rest of the squad.

i kid you not sw drop-keep.
, i'm seriously concerned how the echo produce these !!!!!!!

I want to comment on something different, I read the article on the Saints official site about Dixon signing and at the bottom of the article was a snipe aimed towards the Echo, about only believing story's from the Official site.
Well I actually read the Echo Saints pages 20-1 over the Siants official site, I feel the Official site is extremley poor for news and speculation and offers absolutley no inrteractivity with the readers. So I for one actually am proud to say I prefer the Echo website over the Official one by a country mile.
Feel free to comment on this..

tonifitz wrote:
Cannot understand people on here slgging off Dan Harding he was one of the most consistent players for us last season, not much got pass him & he had some good runs forward, also dont forget the great job filling in at right back for the JP cup final.

Couldn't agree more

sisaydo wrote:
I want to comment on something different, I read the article on the Saints official site about Dixon signing and at the bottom of the article was a snipe aimed towards the Echo, about only believing story's from the Official site. Well I actually read the Echo Saints pages 20-1 over the Siants official site, I feel the Official site is extremley poor for news and speculation and offers absolutley no inrteractivity with the readers. So I for one actually am proud to say I prefer the Echo website over the Official one by a country mile. Feel free to comment on this..

Well said, I also love this facility, something saints don't offer. They have even stopped individual topics on their new facebook page.
The Echo site is much better than the News site, which is to easy to delete from.
Keep it up Echo, this is the best forum in the South

Saint Bean wrote:
Up the Kiwi's Dan cracking last min goal. 1-1 my moneys on you guys as the shock outsiders hope they make the next round. They made good account of themselves and did you all proud.

Take a look at the OS..
C'mon the Saintly All Whites
I never knew Ricki Herbert was a Saint.
Made my day that has :)

Tirau Dan wrote:

Saint Bean wrote:
Up the Kiwi's Dan cracking last min goal. 1-1 my moneys on you guys as the shock outsiders hope they make the next round. They made good account of themselves and did you all proud.

Take a look at the OS..
C'mon the Saintly All Whites
I never knew Ricki Herbert was a Saint.
Made my day that has :)

He was a saint for 1 trial game dan.

I thought you were from Southampton??

SouthamptonLegend wrote:

Tirau Dan wrote:

Saint Bean wrote:
Up the Kiwi's Dan cracking last min goal. 1-1 my moneys on you guys as the shock outsiders hope they make the next round. They made good account of themselves and did you all proud.

Take a look at the OS..
C'mon the Saintly All Whites
I never knew Ricki Herbert was a Saint.
Made my day that has :)

He was a saint for 1 trial game dan.

I thought you were from Southampton??

Absolutely but lived in NZ since '74.
Ricki's trial Jan 1982 was 3 reserve games and a friendly against IFK Gothenburg.. lol didn't go well but at least he got 90 mins in a Saints Shirt at the Dell. I doubt if many Sotonians could name every trialist or reserve squad member but hats off to those who can recall that sort of stuff.. always good on a quiz team.

Tirau Dan wrote:

SouthamptonLegend wrote:

Tirau Dan wrote:

Saint Bean wrote: Up the Kiwi's Dan cracking last min goal. 1-1 my moneys on you guys as the shock outsiders hope they make the next round. They made good account of themselves and did you all proud.

Take a look at the OS.. C'mon the Saintly All Whites I never knew Ricki Herbert was a Saint. Made my day that has :)

He was a saint for 1 trial game dan. I thought you were from Southampton??

Absolutely but lived in NZ since '74. Ricki's trial Jan 1982 was 3 reserve games and a friendly against IFK Gothenburg.. lol didn't go well but at least he got 90 mins in a Saints Shirt at the Dell. I doubt if many Sotonians could name every trialist or reserve squad member but hats off to those who can recall that sort of stuff.. always good on a quiz team.

Don't slag off Dan on this one - if you had lived in NZ in the 70's and 80's you would realise that any news on football was a weekly one hour highlights show one week late, and any news on saints was when family back home sent you the odd newspaper cutting....
C'mon saint Ricki!!

s/w lord-goal - he sure is!