CB Fry

Somebody write an open letter FFS.

If WHU score we're in the bottom 3.

He has got to go.

I wouldn't want to blame individuals but yes it is all his fault.

Lucky to nip off with a point at this rate.

The most inevitable goal is inevitably scored.

McCarthy seizes his chance.

Please please please don't concede.

I couldn't listen to all of it, was just platitudes, waffle and most disappointing of all was blaming all our woes on VVD which I think is fu cking outrageous, letting the manager and all the players off the hook for a pi ss-poor half of a season. I think we are stuck with this manager for a while yet. Gawd help us.

Sloppy at times. Thankfully Palace not much kop either.

GOALS GOALS GOALS GOALS

SkyNet Sports 1 on Flawless.

It's going to be two-nil.

Thanks for the PM. I won't tell anyone that you are Craig Maskell.

John Gittens. I have it on 100% authority that I cannot reveal that he left and re-signed for us. If anyone wants to PM me then I will tell them that Kevin Davies also did.

This is it - there is no abuse. Just a couple of people posting up a couple of rumours on a message board thinking that means that everyone should treat them like flipping Moses coming down from Mount Sinai. Post up info, or don't. Do what you like. Just don't expect instant hero worship because you're not going to get it.

Literally he's gone from "here's a snippet" to the classic ITK "I don't know why I bother" temper tantrum within TWO pi ssy little posts. If he never posts again he won't be missed if his entire contribution thus far is " we've signed a player who will be announced one day soon but I won't name him". Effing genius. There are some good ITK on here - nice to see a line from VFTT on here today - and the secret is to just not be a bellend about it. There's been a couple of wannabes recently who have comprehensively failed this test.

Jesus wept.

Ekambi is a new one on me.

I do agree with this - we have strayed a little too much into Eric Djemba-Djemba territory, where just because a player is not good enough for x big club, it doesn't mean they are good enough for us, it might be they just ain't no good. However, our Djemba-Djembas are at least young. We haven't gone the full Sunderland yet. Now VVD is gone and Davis is aging we do miss some authority especially with the mess we're in. We need a bit of experience and steel. Walcott, the oldest young prospect in the world, may at least provide some experience. Not sure about steel though.

So just to recap, you post about you do want/you don't want/you do want/you don't want us to pay "overs" by listing a great big list of players but you weren't talking about players after all but managers. Clear. And now we learn that Lazio and Napoli, CL and Europa League regulars are clubs beneath us and Watford and Burnley and Leicester because mid table Premier League towers over 4th place Serie A and we shouldn't lower ourselves to sign their dreadful players from Napoli and Lazio who are the same level as relegated Norwich. Its an opinion. Clear. And I must respect your right to drag up Adam Lallana and Luke Shaw because you were, like, assessing Les Reed's entire SFC career so how dare I suggest they're not really relevent now. But not relevant to the discussion are Mario Lemina or P-E Hojberg because they are merely players that we actually signed, are actually in the squad and will actually play for Southampton Football Club tomorrow. How dare I bring them into the debate without your permission. Shaw/Lallana: relevant to discussion. Lemina/Hojberg: not relevant. Clear. And lastly you have now described Gabbiadini, Hoedt and Shane Long as "bargain bin" signings. We've already covered the other two as our record signings for their positions for us so let's move on but hey, you're right about Shane Long because I distinctly remember the outrage at the tiny little fee we paid for bargain bin cheapo Shane Long And how everyone reacted to that tiny fee we paid for Shane Long. I'll try and help you out. All I can see is you don't like the fact we signed Nathan Redmond and based on that premise you are trying build some bullsh it manifesto/magic formula that guarantees we only ever sign brilliant players and never sign bad players and we do and don't and do and don't pay "overs". Because all other football clubs have cracked that formula and only Les Reed gets it wrong. But I can see you're struggling because you don't seem to have got much further than "don't sign Nathan Redmond". I'd turn it in if I were you. Happy New Year.

Why do we always leave it so late?

Please please please can you go out of your way and spare some precious time to give us some inside info please. Please can you do that. Please can you please can you please.

Tricky if true. Everton can and will pay more but he wouldnt have to uproot himself to sign for us and there's a nice symmetry to his career if he comes to us. Get the feeling our Arsenal twitter genius was taking a punt and hoping he was right. I'd like to see him here so fingers crossed.

Indeed, especially as we would want to announce it as soon as possible. "End of next week" is classic ITK tactics. If it falls through then, well, some things changed but I was right at the time etc.