CB Fry

Are there any social media links for grown men having a nervous breakdown driven by bitterness caused by a previous employer that seems to be eating them up inside?

#earlobes

The momentum curve has Leicester back in the Championship by now so the swing that Puel has delivered is simply stunning. Stunning.

Okay sweetheart. Really, I was just reflecting on how Les Reed and Ralph took us from strength to strength to strength since Jan 2014. It's tricky now sure but no other leadership team has ever got us anywhere near the heights they took us to in the Prem era, so let's hope they can pull it round. Because you want that too, right?

Southampton Football Club are the only football club in the world who secured their highest top flight finish in 30 years by being complacent. Although presumably Burnley are being complacent now and Leicester were complacent from the second Claudio Ranieri walked in the door. And of course no one on earth uses a bell curve as a performance forecasting tool but if you think we will definitely be back in League One for the start of the 2019-20 season as you have now repeatedly predicted with some authority with your chart then fair play for sticking by your guns. This truly is wonderful stuff. Personally I think you were on stronger ground when you used to do your routine about how Stoke had always been and always would be a bigger club that was a level above Southampton. After they've failed to finish above us for the multiple seasons since you started saying it you don't mention it so much these days. You're still right though, right?

When you say "nobody has mentioned" you ignore the post I actually replied to in the first place who said we'd been in decline since Cortese left. Which was January 2014. You then bundled in on it and are still blabbering on now pretending people like me haven't noticed things have have got worse since Koeman left. Guess what - we fu cking know. Guess what, we've fu cking noticed. No sh it. Great job on making up your own pi ssy little strawman though. My advice to you is don't get on the high horse poncing about "things that nobody has mentioned" and "things you don't seem to grasp" when you are making up sh it that no one thinks and then arguing about it. Try "grasping" that, if you can.

12th is part of the top 10 in the Premier League now? I always thought it only included the top ten teams but right you are.

Weird how little momentum they had from winning the league. I thought momentum lasted, like, for seasons and seasons and seasons.

We can dream can't we? Well worth his own thread. If we do sign him, it's a better signing than Walcott in my opinion. And an actual track record of scoring actual goals. Please can people post YouTube videos so I can get more excited.

Even a draw, which feels like the optimal result, would see us in the bottom 3 which has got to be sacking offence, surely? Surely?

Forren it is. Cheers!

Yes. We've signed players without a manager before. Five years ago this week we appointed Poch and signed that Scandinavian centre back whose name has now completely escaped me. I think Bertrand was signed before Koeman and Redmond was definitely signed before Puel.

I count the first game, whoever it is.

This is his first game.

In a way we need to go into the Spurs game second bottom. We fu cking deserve to.

Yes it was. I agree. The biggest mistake not appointing a big name manager when we were sixth and in the Europa League. The seeds of decline started then. Now we're going down with the Argentine Steve Wigley and this season has been a shambles. It's a well trodden path for football clubs, but we hit a high that lots of other clubs would love to achieve.

Looks like it. No fear of the Championship for me.

Newcastle relegated since. Reading in the Championship. Villa finished sixth three times in a row, not twice actually. Now in the Championship. So it's okay for those clubs to falter after finishing high up the table but not us. Clear.

Fu cking brilliant. I think you're supporting the wrong club then because by your measure we've never ever been successful so it's pretty certain we never ever will be regardless of who owns us or runs us. And all those clubs you've listed (some of them just about fit the criteria) are where now? Built on their fleeting success and now at the top end of football? They finished seventh and then grew and grew and grew? Did they do that? Did they? Of course they didn't. They are all nowhere, especially on your standards, all of them are absolutely nowhere. You may have noticed that Bolton and Blackburn and Fulham have gone through a teeny tiny bit of bother actually worse than were doing now. Which is entirely my point you ****i g imbecile.

If finishing sixth in the Premier League is being looked down on, fine by me. Just means that no owner or manager has delivered any success to our club since 1976. None of them. They've all failed. Not my personal opinion but if it's yours then good to know.

What a lovely list of clubs and what a lovely swivel eyed rant about fu ck all. Just remind which of those clubs finished 7th and then 6th in the richest league in the world? Just list them. Off you pop.

I was only joking anyway. I don't want Sam Gallagher any where near my fuc king football club.

Even Saints twitter legend Leandre Griffit has joined the no to Carillo camp tonight. "Not a fan" apparently. The game's up, he's obviously sh it. Just get Gallagher and the Yeovil one back and be done with it. Bring on Leeds and Ipswich Town next year.

In 2014 we finished 8th (half a season after Cortese left in the January) In 2015 we finished 7th In 2016 we finished 6th So that's 30 months of progress in the time the person I replied to said our decline had been since Cortese left - so from January 2014 - when clearly, patently, no decline. In 2017 we finished 8th and got to a cup final - yes people can talk about points but sorry it's not a decline. If people genuinely, genuinely thought we would just get better and better and better every season - with the result being us winning the league no later than 2021 - then god help them. 8th, for us, in any season, is good. 2018 we are dreadful, not sure where I have said any different. I want the manager out, Reed has co cked it right up. But I stand by the point I made which is that decline did not start in January 2014. You want to talk about our peak - very happy to, delighted to - it all happened since Cortese left in January 2014. We hit a peak, and then smashed through it the following season, and followed up by holding firm under the increased fixture congestion as a result of hitting that peak. Yeah, now we've been struggling to maintain it but we hit a peak, boy did we hit a peak. Now we're having a drop. Other clubs would kill to have the peak we've had since January 2014. But to hit those peaks, to hit those huge peaks we hit after January 2014, I wouldn't want to change a single thing.

A club that is paying Jack Stephens and Matty Targett £50k a week is possibly running the shi ttest asset strip in the history of business.