CB Fry

It's a jolly funny routine you're working up. Keep at it.

I've heard some describe Claude Puel as a "world class manager".

Who is Hirst?

The weather was jolly nice and I had a very good (for football ground) sausage roll, proper handmade style. Those were my highlights. Everyone's said everything about our performance so worth noting that our Claude is sucking the life out of Leicester. Boos at the end. Definitely the quietest I can remember at that ground. Best summary of the match is probably Puel vs Puel. Two teams not trying to lose but not risking a lot going forward. Our fans were great especially first half but dispair did overtake us in the last 20. Mainly because we are nailed on relegated.

Only in the fact that the over-valuing of being undefeated kept that idiot in a job for far too long.

Bournemouth have got 38 points, they are as safe as houses. You've got to go back to 2010-11 for that to relegate a team and before that 2006-7. In the other seasons 38 is typically loads more than required, and Bournemouth have got 38 NOW, with 3 games left. I'll be going to Leicester with a tiny amount of hope and zero expectation. Ultimately it's eff all to do with other clubs and everything to do with what we actually do.

I went to the San Siro and Wembley too but they weren't league games. For people that say how brilliant it all is there ain't half been some pi ssing and moaning over the last two seasons.

You thought last season's league campaign was "brilliant"? Really?

Just to confirm you are massively enjoying this season and loved last season, right? Because you seem to have selected some of our greatest ever seasons as representative of our Premier League existence. I'd take the Burley play off season over this one any day of the week.

Wolves have been through absolute misery this season. See, it's easy this.

I don't know why there are multiple arguments like this harking back to the likes of Lallana and Mane etc etc. If we stay up next season we still haven't got a Lallana and we haven't got a Mane. And we've been pretty sh it in this division this season. No one is saying we'd rather be in the Championship than finish 6th in the Prem as we did under Koeman. But what some are saying is that being in the Championship next year might not be so bad if the prospect is another drab Prem season of nothingness. And the chances are we are going down so you can post all the comments you like - at some point you'll have to get used to it.

I did say "by the time we get to end of the season". Basically I could be bothered to add up last season and the 33 we've played this. There are plenty of pretty tedious Prem seasons we've had in our history and nothing to suggest that next season is going to see us "playing our best football" or whatever if we stay up. I'm perfectly reconciled with idea that a Championship season could just as enjoyable as another drab Prem season.

Jesus wept.

Nor would I, and I didn't in the post you quoted.

By the time we get to the end of this season, I wouldn't describe the last 76 matches as "the best Saints football in decades". Whereas the last 92 matches in L1 and the Championship, I would. Absolutely brilliant. And they meant a hell of a lot more than "less than f'all". But that's just me.

TV coverage/streaming is the main thing and it's nice being high profile. But the Championship is brilliant in that there are so many mid week games and from a personal perspective there are loads of aways I can do, and it's a piece of pi ss to get home tickets when I do return to the city. Just a shame that the EFL have chucked their broadcasting rights in the bin to Talksport and Channel 5 (soon to be QUEST).

The exciting thing about the Championship is the top two seems to be different every season, so it's impossible to predict who will be successful.

Bexy's mum's been on the telly again.

Bizarre. Why would Lallana need convincing to sign for Liverpool? Anyone with any recollection of the events of that summer knows that he wanted to go the minute the offer was in.

I imagine we will hear a bit of drumming at Leicester this week, they go in for a bit of that if I remember rightly.

We finished 14th in his only full season in the Premier League. When he fuc ked off out of it we were eighth but nowhere near top four. The subsequent regime turned us into a team just a win away from the top four, though. Well done them.

Here's me thinking Chelsea would want to qualify for the Champions League but it turns out they just want to win a game of psychological warfare against Southampron.

We should have money in the bank, even ignoring the parachute payments. So we should be set for a Newcastle like scenario but nobody really knows. And, of course, having the money and the players may not be enough as we discovered with Burley.

We have conceded three goals to West Ham and Newcastle in recent weeks. We aren't keeping a clean sheet against Leicester. I certainly admire your optimism but it's gone as far as I'm concerned. If it was us in Brighton's position I doubt you'd be saying we would be going down with five games left to get a point or two.

The Championship really is pretty magnificent as a league with the sheer number of proper big clubs in big cities in it. I've not studied it but I doubt there is an equivalent elsewhere in Europe. Genuinely no shame for SFC to be in a division with Leeds and Forest and Wednesday and Villa (if they stay down). Relegation annoying and utterly avoidable but we've been in the Championship before and we were always going to go down at some point so bring it on.