CB Fry

We will definitely win this.

Not really. You can't stream championship matches for a start. If Derby, Forest, Sheffield Weds and Leeds can still pull in 25k more or less then why wouldn't we? Villa and Sunderland/Newcastle/Norwich will see gates like that next season too, in the case of the NE teams much more. In the last five years Championship attendances have held up very well despite the rise of streaming. The total average for the league was about 17k five years ago and it still is. There is not one good reason we couldn't see gates of 25k at least in the Championship. Why on earth you think we are a special case I don't know.

Not really though. If we stop riding high and end up back in the Championship then we'll revert back to those hardcore fans and maintain gates at 25k ish like before. Yes, it's kind of complacency, but football fans are stupidly loyal, and the fly-by-night affluent Prem fans will easily be replaced by those currently "priced out" should the time come.

Jesus H Christ. Why don't we find ten other players that have managed to score three goals in the second tier and offer them contracts too.

No one should be making any decisions until we've heard what Jermaine Jenas has to say.

I thought we were going to definitely maintain the form from our six-match streak for the rest of the season. What happened to that?

Where I come from the "economics" of a business decision do tend to require actually selling the thing you are planning to sink investmet into. You don't split the two. It's the same argument.

I'm glad us selling 10,000 extra seats for every single game doesn't feel unreasonable to you.

Anyone saying we "scraped promotion" from League One or the Championship would be regarded as a total fu cking idiot. Oh yeah.

My going in assumption with anything you post is to assume you write utter drivel. It's served me pretty well thus far.

That's not what my PC said.

Obviously not. Painfully, obviously not. Ipswich and Norwich are 50 miles apart and is a huge derby but that does not mean every club in a 50 mile radius of another club is a derby. Fu ck me. Can't even believe I am having to explain this.

Nigel Pearson lost 4 matches. Harry Redknapp lost 15. How does that equate to Pearson losing 5% more games?

Indeed. Indeed again. Also a team very much constructed by Burley with players he knew well and hand-picked - Rasiak, Skacel, Wright - plus other big names for the level we were at. Scraping that team to 6th on the last day was appalling, acheiving the barest of bare minimums with the resources given. He took over when we were 12/13th and left when we were 12/13th. No progress whatsoever, sowing the seeds for what came later. He was dreadful. (For SOG's benefit - Dreadful for us. Dreadful for Southampton FC. When I say he was dreadful I am specifically talking about him being dreadful for Southampton Football Club. Clear?)

Read the post before. Read Batman's reply. Read them. Really try and read them.

Read the post Batman quoted. Read Batman's reply. All the words. Read all the words in both posts. Read them slowly. Read them in order. Give it a try.

It's pretty much a compulsion to fabricate stuff about other posters isn't it. Batman said he was shyte at Southampton. Clearly and unequivocally. Why you are hacking his post to pretend he said something different us something I'm not sure any of is will understand.

You could quote the entire post, couldn't you. Here it is. Try reading it.

Pretty breathtaking good fortune for Leicester this season. If we'd had that level of consistency in the first team last year, then we'd probably have been two places higher, if not better. Leicester won't be quite that fortunate next season. Or ever.

How about you try reading and understanding the posts before you post utterly irrelevant information? Just a suggestion.

Good for him, and them. Just the small problem that those people are utterly irrelevant. But hey, Jeremy I'd popular with people that are going to vote Labour anyway. Whoopee.

Exactly. Burley was a failure and got the job at Scotland based entirely on about three months work at Hearts two years previously.

It's slightly odd that their goal difference is so excellent but presumably it's just because they've had so many low score draws. If it stays like this then the lid comes down on automatic promotion. Massive club. Massive, massive club.

You seem to be objecting to other, just as rational and just as likely, explanations.

This means beyond doubt that he's fallen out with the board and wants out or something.