CB Fry

He was really handy at Sunderland a few seasons back.

Breath of fresh air.

I love a flounce out, me. Especially from people who have already flounced out never-to-return a week previously.

7th in the League and Europa Cup winners. 34k average gates. There's your model right there.

I'd suggest never based on them winning the league when we won the Cup, finishing fifth when we lost to Arsenal in Cardiff and us never finishing above them before this season.

Fair enough. We had marginally more fans than Carlisle. About 25,000 more.

This will be us next year.

Did you go to our JPT final at Wembley?

Nah. Freak season. You'll notice that this season Spurs didn't last and West Ham didn't last.

That's pretty much the scenario that I think is happening which is why I think they will end up agreeing a rolling contract extension which will then mean he will go after year three. We're probably trying to get him tied down for three or two more but we'll compromise on a rolling, which will be spun as an additional year (he sees out his contract, which immediately becomes a rolling one-year deal, so on paper that's a commitment to at least the end of 2017-2018). The club get to announce an extension, Ron gets a pay rise, there's no significant additional commitment and we get three years of our who may be our best ever manager. And if we finish 12th next year and the job offers dry up, he's still got a job and he's not limping out like Big Sam did at WHU. Basically I can't see us terminating early, and I can't really see him committing for three more years, he's going to want to do something else, but I don't think we will let him run it down under any circumstances. But I think there's a resolution there to suit everyone. But darling, it's a life of surprises.

You want a consistent team moulded over the last two years but it's not about the past its about now so why aren't we picking the latest flavour of the month players from Leicester and Spurs. Clear.

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I have no idea about that kid but needless to say if that was us I'd feel uneasy not excited. I'm not convinced WHU or us are ready for £31m signings.

Austin's on fire.

I think that's right - as far as I can see there is no such thing as a EL play off - basically that round is the winners of EL Q3 and the losers from the CL play-offs - no one qualifies for that round without playing at least one other match.

How many Tunnocks Tea Cakes can you eat in one sitting?

Cheers. My favourite bit was when I started day-dreaming about West Brom winning the league cup. The very thought of Pulis in his suit at Wembley made me go all funny in the tummy.

It is fair on Palace to not give Bournemouth a free hit at the 3 million quid for another place in the league, though. Regardless of the team selected, I think United will struggle for intensity, whereas Cherries will be desperate to win.

Shane Long. Bertrand.

Do we have a good bit of rivalry with Brighton? It's only the promotion season I think I ever gave them a second thought, and that was mainly because we were trying to get promoted too, could have been anyone really.

We don't have a shot at CL in any scenario - just the difference between Europa Group stage or qualifying like last year. If Palace win the cup and United get a point tonight, we finish sixth and take the third most prestigous Europa spot, gong in to qualifying. Either United losing today or winning the cup on Saturday means we take the second most prestigious spot and go straight into the groups. We need one of those things to happen. Liverpool winning EL final or not makes no difference to us.

City finished fourth, even if they didn't finish fourth they would have finished fifth, not flippng eighth. And, crucially, they did not win the Champions League. They did win the League Cup though, not "no cups". These are facts that prove my point not yours. Even in your desperate world of might-have-beens then Liverpool were a couple of kicks away from winning the League Cup - infinitely closer than City got to winning the CL. Your scenario will never happen. Check in with me every season for the next fifty years if you like and let's see who has command of logic and which one, well, doesn't.

Seriously, who gives a fu ck? There will never, ever be a situation where both the Europa League winners and the Champions League winners are both so bad domestically that they both finish outside all the other qualification spots. Not relevant to Saints, not relevant to the reality of life on planet earth. You're a loon.

That row 4 is right anyway, so what's your point.

Doesn't fourth place then become the proxy for "the highest non-CL league position", though? It takes the role of fifth in that dopey scenario. If, say, West Brom win the League Cup in March then that's it, surely? They'd be talking about their European tour from then onwards and that's the end of it. I've never known it be dependent on other results. When Wigan and Swansea won the cups that was that. Everton got jack for finishing higher than both of them.