CB Fry

Forum gold.

Your little obsession with me is awfully sweet.

You leave Sara Davidson alone. She looks lovely and almost real and stuff.

Happy new shortened username. I did that once, true story.

Indeed. He was two games from the chop around December time, IIRC. But reading here the last few days you'd think we were some all conquering megateam week in week out under the last manager. It might still all turn out fine under Peulis* *it might not turn out fine.

If it genuinely isn't working I would expect the club to be more ruthless, more quickly than some might think. I would think Puel has got some time to make this work but if it clearly isn't working by the next international break then the club will act. Will be a massive admission of failure on Les's part and he will have some explaining to do on why he didn't recommend a more proven manager with experience of working in more than one league - hello AVB and especially Garcia. But there's still time for Peulis to win us all over.

LES REED YOU ARE A DISGRACE.

Perfectly feasible that he is pssed off for entirely the opposite reason. The club have done a brilliant job in retaining our critical back line with ambitious, lengthy lucrative fat contracts for all of them, but Jose got his extension all of six months previously and maybe feels like he miss timed his commitment. So he's probably upset that he feels a little bit left behind in the avalanche of generous contract extensions for the backbone of the team. Looks like we have probably sorted it now.

And the myths begin. We didn't force anyone to leave, unless saying "here's a nice new contract and pay rise" is what passes as forcing someone to leave these days.

Peulis has got at least five more games then we can truly judge. We've started poorly in many seasons before.

#raywallace

I think that flight will be quite Saints heavy. Just booked it too. In the Melia Milano which was as close to the ground as I could get and we got it all for just under 200 quid a head so happy with that, esp as we weren't organised enough to get the really early deals.

Is Milan away an 8 o'clock KO? (9pm local but you get my point)

Two replies in an hour is about right. Not sure he deserves one any more than, say, Clasie.

I'd guess it would be relatively easy to get tickets elsewhere in the ground, wouldn't it? Hardly a big game for Inter is it.

We will walk this group.

What is future success exactly and what is the thing that does guarantee future success? Just so we're clear.

We were sniffing around Zaza as well the other day.

I've got to say I couldn't really give a monkeys about how it might impact the balance sheet. I'd like us to get to the knock out stages of Europa in 2017 because it would be, like, good.

We were paying players more than £55k last season, and the season before that and the season before that. Which you know of course. 2/10.

The old drawn out a little longer done deal. My favourite type of done deal.

Or "issued a come and get me plea". Except maybe Terry Waite.

None of that is new info, just a (not unreasonable) conclusion drawn from what Peul said earlier. I'd like the player to say something.

Which media outlet has used the name of our club to "juice up" their story? Google search Chaplow name and of the various reports of this incident none of them lead with Southampton in their heading or sub heading, just listed as standard as one of the clubs he's played for in the body copy, usually with Burnley and West Bromwich. No outlet has used SFC to "juice it up". Not the BBC, not the Sun, the Mirror, the Independent, the Telegraph or Sky Sports. None of them. And nothing to reflect badly on SFC just like it doesn't reflect badly on Burnley either. Sorry, not my opinion. Facts. And quite frankly the incident doesn't "reflect badly" on the club he's playing for now, let alone any club he played for years ago. It's just Richard Chaplow looking like an idiot all by himself. You often come out with tosh but you've excelled yourself here.

What happened today is you ballsed up your first big objective of the season.