CB Fry

There's a favourite routine on this thread about the German car manufacturers "banging on Merkel's door" at the point of Brexit as if that's the key to the UK securing everything they ever wanted from the EU. Now, while that is fanciful, I think there will be a lot of "banging on the door" of the Prime Minister 's office. Mainly from the service, hospitality, construction, health care and farming industries seeking very quick assurance that he's not really going to stop free movement of people is he? You hear it trickle through occasionally in the debates - the Brexit farming leaders, the guy from Wetherspoons, just letting slip that actually it's very good for business and actually we need it and always have. Even dispassionately it's bizarre to listen to Brexit people talking about getting rid of red tape on one hand then suggesting they'll stop growth by adding on loads more red tape stopping the business people who supported their cause from employing who they want. Brexiteers - politicians still lie. Post Brexit the justification for maintaining free movement for our own growth will commence. Brace yourself for it.

He's Craig Maskell's brother-in-law.

Everton aren't really any more likely to get into the CL than a host of other clubs, West Ham and us included. As others have said, that £100m in the context of the new TV deal and them selling Stones is in the ball park of what Newcastle burned through this season.

The usual drivel.

Who is pretending they give a s#*# about the problems caused by the housing services etc etc? You think the de-regulating right wingers on the Brexit side give a s#$# about it? The most successful con-trick they are pulling is the suggestion that they gave any intention in stopping mass immigration. They really, really don't and really, really won't but it gives a great and easy scapegoat to get people to vote the way they want. You're about eight months away from Prime Minister Boris blustering on the news about "well, we need free movement for a stronger economy and the net benefit outweighs the cost etc etc etc" while explaining how the farm and hospitality lobby have ensured that any "points system" lets in every single Gregorz and Filemina that they need. Every single one. Fascinating that the Brexiteers, most old enough to know better, really don't think the politicians on their side are stringing the people along. They don't "give a s $!×*#" any more than anyone else. The drawbridge ain't coming up folks. It really really isn't.

It's brilliant to know all errors of judgement and mistakes by politicians and bankers will be a thing of the past forever the day after Brexit.

I think I missed the point in 2007 when Michael Gove, Boris Johnson, Peter Bone and Kate Hoey ("I've always admired her, I have") predicted the global economic crash.

Who's running this post-Brexit utopia if it isn't bankers, politicians and big business leaders? They might not want us to leave now but if we do leave they'll still be there running everything, controlling everything and owning everything. They'll still want cheap labour and they'll want in on the common market. Their giving a **** about the lives of normal people will be the same or less. Come Brexit, they're not going to run away defeated like the bad guys in a He-Man cartoon. They win, whatever.

I'm looking for something negative said about Southampton Football Club.

That reply was very specifically to someone asking the forum moderators to shut this thread down. My conclusion was that this was a mental thing to do.

What part of this story is something negative said about our football club?

Leg not healed up then?

Absolute cast iron guarantee he is not going to say the second thing tomorrow, even if he has spent his entire life dreaming about being Everton manager.

Mods = please delete my previous post as Charlie was agreeing with me after all. Thank you mods.

Mods = please help me feel sorry for myself.

It almost certainly hasn't even come from Everton. There are layers and layers of brokers and agents chatting multiple layers of sh it that the papers are happy to hoover up. I would think Everton probably won't even bother appointing anyone for at least two weeks anyway, it won't be before Sunday so that's many days of backpages to go between then and now. People needing to see the club "doing something" in the bloody papers is just mental, especially when multiple times over the last season we've seen pretty much the same people whining about "... and they said talks with Clyne were progressing and look how that turned out!!!!!". On balance it's sensible for the club to say as little as flipping posible.

Are you having a breakdown?

This constitutes lots does it? Good-o.

Being that I am specifically responding after two posters in succession mentioned about lack of quotes then I don't know what your point is. Meanwhile the hunt for "chatter that he is interested" goes on, right?

Have you actually found any chatter that Koeman is interested yet?

I don't think it will happen, it's a bit of brokers/agents talking and quite frankly it's not really a great move for Koeman - a sideways move to just another club that could potentially finish sixth, just without the two year head start he has with us. It's not going to get him any nearer to managing Barcelona than we are. But stop asking for quotes in newspaper stories people. Quotes in many many cases are not indicators of veracity - quotes can be from no-mark sources. True, good sources would provide info without giving usable quotes. Judge stories on their merits, it's not that difficult.

Have a Wispa and calm down.

This is correct.

Lee Holmes was very good at Derby away. The solitary, glorious moment of hope of the Poortvliet era.

This is a pretty horrific opinion to hold.