CB Fry

Banging on Merkel's door they will be. Banging on the door. ....... Porsche asks UK buyers to commit to 10% no-deal Brexit surcharge https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/15/porsche-asks-uk-buyers-to-commit-to-10-no-deal-brexit-surcharge?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

I imagine Nicola Cortese has taken this passion for real estate/property development, which he never got round to doing any of at SFC, into his subsequent career. Weird that Gao decided to buy the single most expensive piece of real estate in the area, the one with most of the ball-ache of a going concern attached to it rather than just buy all around it and start this development he us so desperate to get started on. Personally I cannot wait to see Gao-town take shape in Southampton. Presumably it will be just like all the other major urban regeneration projects has taken on in his time. So excited [emoji2956][emoji2956][emoji16][emoji16][emoji16]

Time will tell, won't it. All I know is if a Chinese businessman wanted to spend millions/billions developing property in Southampton then buying the local, privately owned football club is utterly pointless and completely unnecessary course of action. Just buy some land, mate. That, kinda, "open doors" with "council chiefs" entirely by itself. If he wants to schmooze council leaders at the football then he could just buy an executive box.

Is lying bad now?

This season you only need to win five games and you're safe. FACT. Someone's mate said so and he does the numbers for a betting company so he would know.

And he's still going.

You should be arrested for that post. 0.5/10.

If you're that interested, read up on the EU and what it does. There's plenty out there. But you're not that interested. All you want to do is draw an utterly ridiculous false equivalence making out the zero planning or strategic direction from the architects of Brexit is equal and opposite to the fairly straightforward maintenance of the status quo and returning to business as usual day to day politics if remain had won in 2016. You've made your sh itty point, have a peanut. Run along now. Off you go and read lots of EU literature about their objectives because you really want to know, right? Let us know what you learn. https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/eu-in-brief_en

Somebody will do the maths but I would think that if Ralph gets to the end of the season then he will have managed more Premier League matches than Hughes did with us. Plus the same number of transfer windows. If we go down, then Ralph will be a very significant factor.

Too right. How often do we hear managers saying how they are just two or three sales away from the squad they need, or that if they can definitely sell this player it would be the last piece of jigsaw.

Do people still believe this utter horsesh it?

Yes I agree. What an absolute disgrace that the remain campaign didn't set out in clear terms their specific plan for dealing with the Irish border issue in the event of us remaining in the EU. How remiss of them. Where was the plan I ask you? Where was the fu cking plan for the Irish border if remain won? No plan, that's what. No plan. Disgrace.

It's not one poor result, it's three. 2 points from those three games is pathetic.

Signed a good week before deadline day, incredibly well known by the manager and clearly tracked for a while. And we desperately needed forwards at that point. If anything we signed him six months late because he was the striker we needed in the summer. So the opposite of a panic buy.

This year we signed no one. Last year we refused to sign any pacy wingers and nearly went down. Season before we refused to replace Fonte and had the worst second half of a season in living memory with a dreadful run of home games in the stretch. Yeah, not signing people and not having horrible horrible panic buying is absolutely a winner.

As a club I think we will have done fewer panic buys than any other club in Britain. This has come up recently and still I can't see anyone naming an actual "panic buy" we've made. We spend entire transfer windows popping champagne corks because we HAVEN'T signed players and "do things a different way" and not being held to ransom and blah blah blah. Literally the opposite of panic buying. Maybe a couple of impulsive buys now and then would stop having shi tfest transfer windows over and over again.

We clearly had been planning the exit of Cadric and Gabbiadini for weeks before the window even opened, so organising for replacements for a similar time would not have been "panic buying".

I thought we would do better in these three games than this. I also thought that the transfer window was a clusterf uck. Pretty easy to think both things. Danny Ings currently injured. Obviously we could only know that would happen this season with the benefit of hindsight

It's not hindsight to say that window was a disaster. It clearly was and here we are bottom 3 having completely blown a lovely run of three very winnable matches winning zero. Total fu ck up has consequences. Pretty much the opposite of hindsight.

Squads of "experienced, top flight pros" get relegated every single season. What's your point?

I about three weeks we've gone from hopefully looking up the table and dreaming of a decent second half of the season to the thumping dreadful realisation that we are the same sack of sh it team we were under Pellegrino and Hughes. The only thing we've got to celebrate is yay, yay, yay we've got rid of some players let's all high five each other and yay yay yay we're playing a cluster of a Championship at best level players but hero worship them because they happen to be young. Hopefully we will still do enough to stay up, but losing to Cardiff home and away does not suggest we are capable of doing enough.

Two draws in a row against Palace and Burnley is hardly some stellar run we've been on. The Leicester result was a great backs against the wall job but since then it's relegation form again.

He wanted to go because he wasn't going to get any game time under this manager. It would have been easier to keep Gabbiadini - for scenarios exactly like today - then to flog him and hope for the best, i.e. Ings never being injured and/or pulling a replacement out of the bag. Whether people like it or not, this was a decision made by our manager. Shane Long was chosen ahead of Gabbiadini.

So we recruit a high-profile top manager on a decent wage and to much fanfare. In his very first window we immediately sell a striker that was central to his plans completely against his will. That's what you are saying? You really sure about that? Because Gabbiadini himself doesn't seem to think that.

If Hasenhutl had wanted Gabbiadini to stay ha'd be here and playing.