CB Fry

Your post has proven my post completely, thanks for that. I said this: These people genuinely think that our football club, once it had finished sixth for the first time in 30 odd years, would never, ever slip below that level ever again and just keep progressing and progressing and progressing without failure, forever. And your response that this isn't the case goes on to say that: Being mid-table is now apparently "acceptable to a degree" . How generous of you. And yeah, we simply needed to cement ourselves as top 5/6/7 forever because we finished sixth once. Of course. Easy. Thanks for making my point for me.

The level of delusion that a 60 year old man was suddenly a FAN of a football club based on a single year of his life is really rather beautiful. Enjoying and waving at Wembley is one thing, facing into the relentless money-pit grind of the Premier League is quite another. How much more to finish fifth? How much more? Another striker? Another one? Another new contract? Another one? When the fun stops, stop. And none of us can say that he would be spunking his children's inheritance away just because a few dins on a web forum wanted us to sign Christian Benteke. You know who I reckon had a decent idea about what he was really like? His daughter. Just a tiny hunch.

Errr ML was the owner for a year and managed to get through 60 years of his life without being a FAN of Southampton Football Club, which he was for about one year. You have absolutely no effing idea what he would have been like once we'd made it to the Premier League. No idea at all. Tell you what though, it's a far better bet that he wouldn't be burning through cash to turn us into a south coast PSG or whatever fantasy you have cooked up in the Rolo-addled slab of saturated fat you call a brain.

I thought Cortese ran the club like a crappy seaside B&B?

The thing that gets me is the idea that nothing is ever actually an achievement, it's just a platform that other achievements must then be delivered against without fail. Sixth to these people was never "brilliant, we've finished sixth" but dismissed as the new normal, the platform and now if we don't better that we've failed. There's occasional whines about Leicester on this forum, but I have absolutely no doubt that had we done what Leicester had done, then this forum last season would have been absolute misery about how we had the chance to join the elite but blew it and what a disaster and we didn't invest and push on and etc etc etc.

This is the Christmas, Easter and Birthday that the dinlows on this forum have been waiting for for so very, very long. Let them enjoy it. I KNEW I WAS RIGHT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT I KNEW IT. These people genuinely think that our football club, once it had finished sixth for the first time in 30 odd years, would never, ever slip below that level ever again and just keep progressing and progressing and progressing without failure, forever. Just the same as, well, no football club on earth, ever. Well, this is their moment. Their perfect moment. Let them enjoy it.

I think the main thing we all need to be mindful of, at difficult times like this, is that the scrawny little rat faced cu nt is long, long gone and almost certain to never come back. Ain't that just delicious?

Yeah, just saw that now. At least they've moved quickly. Hodgson not a bad appointment - his record at clubs like Palace - WBA and Fulham - is excellent. Perfectly capable of getting them organised enough to stay up.

Will Sammy Lee be in charge on Saturday then?

Last season you said we had easily the seventh best squad in the league. Easily. It takes a special little guy to give credit for that to an administrator who left three years before. Bless x x x

Well done Les on building "Easily the 7th best squad in the league". No mean feat. All over the shop.

Arf.

If he stays for three seasons, he'll turn into the next Alex Ferguson.

How on earth would that do us "the world of good" you effing mentalist? Why can't we just, say, change the manager if required, sign some different players, change things up in the division we're in? Current clubs being done the "world of good" by a "restart/rebuild" in the Championship: Sunderland Aston Villa Norwich Fulham Hull City QPR Derby Forest Ipswich And so on and on.

Well, he did it with Pochettino so you can see why he has an addiction to it. But you are correct, his desire to be clever-clever backfired last year and we are risking it blowing up again this year.

My recommendation would be to not write sh it in the first place.

If we had appointed him, the reaction would have been overwhelmingly positive, just because that's what happens once someone is appointed - Silva would have been just as popular signing as MP was. There were just as many disparaging comments about Pellegrino (mid table, barely any goals, only one decent season, notable failure, Puel-alike) as there were disparaging comments about Silva. Let's not make up a fictional narrative in your head, where the fanbase rejected Silva and embraced Pellegrino but only jolly clever old you saw through it, eh?

Not sure you have any idea as to why we didn't appoint Silva.

We've got to so something different. Gabbiadini needs support, and we should be starting Austin - the current line up is not scoring and he's the closest we've got to a proven goalscorer at this level. I'd stick em both in. Redmond needs dropping, but then so does Tadic and Boufal has done nothing to justify a place. There's very little there to excite me at the moment. Its clear we've dropped another bo llock in the window - someone , anyone to freshen up an underperforming and overrated attack. Next week could be a who-gets-sacked-first play off.

BEIN Sports 12 working.

Boufal will hand them their arses on a plate. Redmond to torment Watford again. 2-0.

This is the chance Boufal.

Have it your way. Reed wad in charge of all football operations and was integral to every decision that saw us through L1, the Championship and on to three top 8 finishes and a major cup final. If you're desperate to dump Gaston at his door, fill your boots, I don't mind. But his record despite that has been simply excellent (promotion, promotion, 14th, 8th, 7th, 6th, 8th) and unparalled for a club our size in the last twenty years. Unparalleled. Brilliant stuff Les. Hilarious. Only the cultists believe that man has any of the qualities required to lead a football club in the highest tier of the spirt. History proves he just wasn't up to the job. Lower league : fine. Top flight: a real struggle to adjust from being the richest club bully boy in the league to being mid-stream. Couldn't cope. There is a reason we gave gone from strength to strength to strength to strength (both on and off the pitch) from the minute he bottled it and walked out.

You're struggling to split apart Commercial Activity - Cortese's job, pitiful in the Premier League - and football activity - Reed's job, generally excellent. Occasionally Cortese blundered into this area (Gaston). What the Italian was brilliant at was bravery to act on the recommendations of the sporting department (Poch). Pretty simple to understand - why can't you grasp that?

A brilliant appointment by the black box/sporting department, not the commercial department. Absolutely Cortese was brave enough to action the decision with the critical intel from the football experts at the club.