CB Fry

The democratically elected current government renewed the BBC royal charter. Democracy. The will of the people enacted. These whining, grizzling, sore loser snowflakes complaining better suck it up. They truly are the enemies of the people. Sent from my HTC Desire 510 using Tapatalk

Get over it snowflake.

This. And it's safe until 2027 at least so the Murdoch-ettes and Daily Mail dinlows will have to wait a little longer before one of the finest broadcasting institutions in the world is dismantled purely to make some Americans slightly richer instead.

Still amazed even though it's been explained to you more than once?

Genuinely when it happened the only thought that came into my head was "oh, that's quite nice, I wonder who we have copied that from".

So slow hand claps and w*nker signs throughout the Watford game, then. I'm not going but can someone loudly berate Cedric for being "an absolute effing disgrace to the shirt" for the entire first 45 mins on my behalf please.

But what are you suggesting "we" actually do?

This and this. The people around me didn't know what it was about either. Certainly I didn't see it mentioned on here before. The idea that Gary Neville knew and then knowingly mocked it is classic Forum-dinlow response. Obviously he didn't.

How can it possibly be a fact? Such a silly reply. Personally I think he's right. While we gave him that extension last year with a view on keeping him for three seasons, I think he's got just too good too quickly. He'd get into the Man city side and I think they or someone will pay at least £50m. At which point he's gone.

Textbook.

Hardly. Liverpool fans are hopeful they will sign Southampton's Manolo Gabbiadini, 25, after the striker scored two goals against Manchester United in the EFL Cup final. (Talksport)

Yesterday didn't feel like an ending. It felt like a beginning. He picked an unchanged side. He's found a system. We have our goalscorer. JWP seems to have found his position. Boufal, Long, PEH on the bench suddenly seems like a strong squad. I hope we can take this form into the last matches of the season. No Europe next season but let's finish as strongly as we can.

Warren Beatty has just announced that we won the cup.

Again, you're all over the shop. Sure, it's me that can't argue a point. We've got a strategy that is proven to work - keep wages under control, let players that want to leave go for a good price. Replace with the next lot who, all being well, will also prove to be CL level class. Get them when they're hungry and ambitious to be elite. Sell well, invest well. 8th, 7th, 6th. Arguably the most successful era in our entire history. You've written off that very successful strategy as "roulette" but when pressed to show me a club who isn't playing roulette, you can't, or you just name clubs that are far bigger and richer than us. Round of applause. Your point about how close we got to those clubs proves my point, not yours. It ain't roulette, it's a bloody successful strategy. Yeah, we're mid table right now but then why wouldn't we be, it's pretty normal kind of position for us. Your non-roulette clubs - Liverpool, Spurs, City, United - are all underperforming this season and before relative to their size and spend. Some are hugely underperforming, season after season after season. They're allowed to underperform then, and you drool over them, but Southampton never are? No club our size has been more consistently successful across as we have over these last few seasons. Go back 20 years of the Premier League of a club that's been top eight 3 times in a row and kept it going and going and going. Bolton got close, Fulham a bit, Middlesbrough. Even clubs far bigger: Newcastle, Villa couldn't do it. Leicester win the league, keep their players, spend a fortune and wake up this morning in the relegation zone. It's effing difficult. But we have a strategy, the best strategy, to keep us competitive and hungry. Not fu cking roulette in any way at all. Keep trying. I'm off to Wembley.

Milling about Baker Street waiting for my brother (and ticket) to turn up. Fair few sashes seen so far. Sat on a packed train from the midlands, but packed with rugger types and a handful of plastic Mancs.

Gawd knows what you're blathering about. But if we go by your list we can summarise your copper-bottomed strategic masterplan as being Waaah waah waah why can't we be Man City waah waah waah why can't we be Liverpool or Spurs. Brilliant stuff as ever.

We've finished sixth, seventh, eighth and all you can see is doom. In the week we've seen the club that followed pretty much to the letter your wet-dream non-roulette strategy of spunking huge wages to KEEP THEIR BEST PLAYERS plus spunked more and more in INVESTING IN THE SQUAD be shown to be in absolute chaos and facing a relegation dogfight. Players want leave, let them go if we get the fees, replace them and go again. It's so odd that people so despise a strategy that works when there is no evidence anywhere that anyone else's strategy is better for a club our size. I'll ask again which club is winning this roulette game better than us? Which one?

How many other clubs of our size can you name that have finished so consistently high over the last five years? Nah, we messed up this January so we're sh it at everything forever. Enjoy the cup final.

Can you give us an example of a football club that doesn't play roulette every season?

I'm starting to think he despises Southampton Football Club nearly as much as you do.

I don't remember sacking anyone.

That's pretty bloody shameful. He had earned the right to relegate them quite frankly. And I think a lot of Leicester fans would have forgiven him that. That said, I fully expected CR to cobble together enough points to stay up.

Not really relevant. The referendum was myriad issues/gripes/concerns/agendas wrapped up in a diametric yes/no question. A general election is all of those issues, plus loads more, wrapped up in a far more complicated parliamentary system. As we saw in 2015, immigration will be one issue but so will everything else that impacts people lives. If Party A don't achieve the immigration level people want, do folk really think that the electorate will then neatly vote in Party B to achieve it instead. To hell with any other policy either party A or B esposes, because every election from now on is just a straw poll on the immigration number. Yay sovereignty.

Hahahahahaha. If you seriously believe that entire general elections are based on single issues like immigration then bless you. Thankfully them Tories took a right kicking in 2015 following their complete failure to deliver on their "tens of thousands" pledge in 2010. Lastly, the establishment of big business and government will decide on immigration and they really won't give a stuff what you vote.

Looking forward to the game. Just had a little tip off from someone in the know that I thought I'd share for those who like a flutter. All I'm saying is that there are already a couple of online bookies that a running a book on Katharina eating a large cream scone during the second half. Get on it now while there's still a bit of value.