CB Fry

The "track record" of NC is eighth in the Premier League. The "relative track record" of the current board is better than this three times over - 7th, 6th, 8th and a cup final. What's NC's "track record" since then? If I was appointing someone to lead a club into the top six then all I can see from his CV is a man with no experience of doing this at any professional football club anywhere. Thats called a "level headed" look at things, also known as simple facts.

This coming from the man that argued that Cortese's all-red kit could not be dismissed as not traditional because all traditions had to start somewhere and we might wear that strip for the next twenty years.

The Spurs one is good, and I think the new Palace badge is excellent. A decent new badge can be done, but I'm not really that fussed if we don't change it.

Not really. Changing it actually removes it from the fans and becomes a much more ownable property for the club to control, that's why Arsenal and Chelsea and Everton (I wish we were Everton) have done it. The Juve one just makes it look like a logo for a smartphone app, which I have no doubt was in the design agency's presentation when they suggested it and I am sure they were all high fiving themselves at how "iconic" it all is. If that's genuinely what fans want us to follow then I'm out. Up there with let's get an all red kit for China.

If we lose on Saturday I'll get the ball rolling and start a thread about which Championship grounds people are looking forward to visiting.

Another myth. Keep em coming.

Thank God Les was brave enough to face Cortese down and stop the Italian flogging off Lambert and Morgan too cheap, too soon.

He's thrown a kettle over a pub. What have you done?

I've listened to a bit of it. I think what was not made clear earlier was just how Jim White was feeding him the lines - literally "tell us about the time you sold Alex O-C but only to fund the training ground". And Jim White swooning over him like David Brent round Finchy. Blimey, Jim has just said "We are in the presence of greatness here today". Absolutely cringeworthy.

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.