CB Fry

I support the selection of Boufal. A big match for him to concentrate/show off in, a chance to start and get into the game from the off, and he's playing where he should be - not replacing JWP in midfield but competing with Redmond in the front three. Let's hope he takes the chance.

This. Let the Oirish have their special little day, comedy green hats and all that, but the English are so much bigger and better than this rubbish. What makes me a proud Englishman is the fact we are above such trifling tin pot nonsense. We're not a Catholic country and we don't believe in patron saints. This day has only become a "thing" in the last decade so hopefully not too later to strangle the life out of the lamest day in the calendar. Bag of sh it.

Not exactly "failed miserably later" is it. 100% win record. Where has he failed miserably later?

Setting fire to a mosque later.

Indeed. Bizarre Delldays doesn't remember that pretty basic piece of Saints trivia.

We're 20 years away from it, but eventually the story will be told of the referendum they didn't really want and the referendum they really didn't want to win. The glum faces of Gove and Boris that morning will be the defining image of the age, eventually.

This reads like a closing line of the second act of a quite wonderful five-act play.

Pretty sure there was just the weeniest, teeniest inference through the campaign (and for years before) that controlling immigration would lead to a reduction. I might be wrong but there was a hint. But turns out I'm wrong and all those dins in Grimsby and Boston and Clacton and down Shirley High Street weren't voting for any reduction after all. In fact I remember now all those TV vox pops on the streets of S****horpe and Sleaford where old dears outside the Co-op explicitly saying they were voting simply for the ethereal concept of governmental control and if that meant similar rates of immigration than so be it. After all, whats another Polish shop? I remember now that's what they said. Personally I am heartened by this Daniel Hannan approved approach and delighted to see immigration managed almost identically to before. The people of Rochester and Redcar will be dancing in the streets. Lots and lots more delicious foreigners coming in.

Beautiful.

Not by much. Mid-20% is pretty much your pig-in-a-red-rosette brigade. But Diane Abbott on TV every day for 5 weeks is going to do plenty of damage anyway.

Dear me. The very idea of a mish-mash jumble of Krankie, Steptoe, Lucas and Farron is only going to send even more running to the Tories. No one wants that. I'm not pro-Tory but that would be a bloody mess. GE17 is going to be a clusterfu ck for every other party other then the Tories, who will annihilate every other party. The Tories will clean up in lots of Con/Lab marginals in the Midlands and North. Labour will just get decimated in any seat where the majority is say 4,000 or less. Southampton Test for example. The Lib Dems will fail because they are hamstrung by having to stick to one singular message rather than pretending to be a different party in different constituencies depending on who they are competing with. They won't claw back many seats because their previous Westcountry strongholds all voted leave. They might pick up some metropolitan Labour seats. They will scramble back to pre-1997 levels of 20 or so seats and irrelevance again. UKIP will be virtually seat-less again because Nutall is hopeless and May has stolen all their clothes. No real reason to exist. Maybe 3 seats in Labour areas or if Farage finally gets in. I expect the impressive Ruth D to steal a couple more seats from Krankie based on the SNPs terrible domestic record and fightback against Indyref2. Greens keep Brighton again and that one in Norwich from Labour they nearly got last time, so they'll be happy. It's really only the fact that the SNP will get another 40 odd seats that will stop May getting Blair/Thatch levels of domination. For a died in the wool centre left social democrat its all somewhat sickening because this isn't the country I want my children to grow up in, but that's democracy when the political parties you like are run by total fu cking spanners.

Clearly run by a 14 year old.

Jesus wept.

No opposition party will ever oppose a general election when offered. They can't oppose because they think they will lose, it would look pathetic and they'd get outvoted in the house anyway. The fixed term parliament act was always utterly nonsensical, it was only ever going to last the life of the ConDem coalition and so it proved.

Any excuse like - Pretending people on this forum "are trying to make him out as the saviour of the world" - Pretending we only lost one player last summer and making dopey comparisons to Messi - Failing to grasp that Euro qualifiers against minnows in pre-season time are not remotely comparable to the slog of Thursday-Sunday through the autumn. But yeah, people use, like, any excuse don't dey dough?

Glenn Hoddle.

What is the Saints link to Swindon?

If thats the case it is likely to be something connected with his old gaffer Gary Johnson, so probably a job in the West Country, or maybe GJ is jacking it in and he's taking over at Cheltenham Town.

Even if we had lost our last three games, we'd still be six points clear of relegation.

When Charlie is about, everyone feels really confident.

Not sure what your idea of "progression/regression" is. We are at the level we can be. Sometimes we might finish 6th, sometimes we might finish 14th. In extremes we could win the league/top 4 or get relegated/nearly get relegated. I genuinely don't think there are any investors anywhere who are going to change that. Our next owners will not turn us into Manchester City and quite frankly that's perfect for me. We will carry on being mid table Premier League club. I'd suggest that as much as anything Katharina thinks she has secured her father's legacy and is happy to hand over the grief of running a football club to someone else. It's not some desperate plea for cash.

I wish we could have a 50,000 seater stadium because we could definitely fill it because the Premier League is a global game now so people will come from miles around to get that Premier League experience at St Mary's Stadium and also spend like loads on merchandise and hot dogs. That is what all ambitious true Saints fans want, right?

Yes.

No, like Virgil Van Dijk.

Indeed. Some people on this forum seem to exist in a parallel universe. Our exit from Europe under Koeman was beyond pathetic.