CB Fry

You seriously think that if we'd said "yeah ok Ronald you can run your contract down" he wouldn't have left for Everton for more money? You utter mug.

Huh? No idea. Last year I wanted Rudi Garcia but I hadn't heard of any of these people until names gets knocked about on here and I have a read up on them. I don't follow European football so it's always all new to me. I'm sure we've got a couple of names lined up and club are perfectly capable of getting someone decent in. Even our flop/disastrous appointment is likely going to get us top ten so I think we can appoint a strong candidate.

Based on my standard Wikipedia research, I would approve of this appointment.

Jesus wept. I think you'll find he "made it clear" that he was off to Everton for lots more money. If he wanted to stay at SFC he could have "made that clear" to Everton but funnily enough he didn't.

Yeah, fingers and toes crossed.

That penalty miss was definitely Peul's fault.

A team sh it enough to grab an unlikely win. I still like Clasie. 4-1.

If we still had Koeman running his contract down the dins on this forum would be into effing meltdown about now. I can't believe dopey Les has let this drag on we could all see his contract is up where's the ambition get him signed up Les we are a laughing stock etc etc etc etc.

When were we this before Led Reed turned up? I can't remember it.

Modern football summed up in 15 words: "Modern football summed up in 8 words, "We still have a great shot at eighth'"

Brilliant.

Manager of club that have finished top eight in the eight of the last ten seasons, including fifth three times manages to get them to seventh. A breathtaking achievement and no mistake. A miracle worker he is.

LOL. If only Dodd and Williams were still here we'd probably be in the Europa final this season.

None because they fell out with Led Reed.

Since the end of January, no. You not noticed?

You believe wrong. He was sacked when they were in the relegation zone though.

8 wins in 24 = absolutely nowhere near relegation form. Stretched across a season - mid table easily.

I think we just go for it - sell 16 and buy 16. Proper revolution. A bit like that episode of Emmerdale when they crashed a plane into the village and killed everyone.

The chocolate fountain of bullish it.

Agree, I was waiting for it to click - maybe if Gabbi didn't get crocked it would have. But he did and it didnt. We can do better.

If you were trying to make out you'd felt we'd reached a level that, while high, you fully expected us to beat the following season then my recommendation would be to use a different phrase than "high water mark". Poor choice. And if you you seriously expected us to be higher this season than last then fu cking god help you.

Try and be more clear in your posts then - you said the high water mark was the team Koeman inherited (so 2014) and since then it has been a slide into boringness. If you don't mean it, don't say it. Also, if you agree that last season was a high water mark, don't be surprised when we go down a bit.

The high water mark was when we finished 8th (spent a lot of time in 9th) not when we finished 7th and then 6th? Last season was a slide into boringness? Really? The utter desperation of some people to engineer a false narrative continues to astound me. Our ambition hasn't actually changed - it was the same under Poch as Koeman as now. It hasn't changed and it won't change (pending new owner, still I would be doubtful). The idea that under Poch we had a one way ticket to guaranteed progress forever was, and is, total garbage. A club our size is going to finish 9th or 10th or 14th from time to time. We don't want to, but we will. Leicester finished fourteenth two seasons ago. Puel may have turned out to be a dud appointment but guess what, a club our size might make a dud appointment now and then too. The ambition remains - be the best of the rest and try and capitalise when the top 6 have a bad time. Try and qualify for Europe. This is not a guarantee we will achieve this, without fail forever. We won't. Get over it.

Yes. None of those numbers is £51m.

Just reading that thread and all a bit weird how everyone is all chummy and polite. It's like Shelbyville in forum form. Good info though if rather disconcerting.