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I'd missed that news. This is precisely what this thread needs. A fourth tier Southern club rising like a Phoenix through the divisions, maybe in the Championship in the next five years playing in a brand new stadium. The fact that it is the club where Rickie Lambert made his name makes it even sweeter. Come on The Gas!
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This. It is of no benefit to us whatsoever if Leicester win the league. I quite like them, and I know some Leicester fans but really doesn't matter if they win it or not. If I could pick I think I would rather Arsenal won it.
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Can Saints or West Ham manage to gate crash the top 4 at man Citys expense?
CB Fry replied to Saint IQ's topic in The Saints
If it does, we'll be unbeaten for 18 straight Premier League games, we'll finish on 72 points, probably finishing third and qualifying for the group stages of the Champions League. Not really sure that suggesting we won't do that is particularly controversial but you gotta love this forum. -
How does that benefit Saints or Saints fans?
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Can Saints or West Ham manage to gate crash the top 4 at man Citys expense?
CB Fry replied to Saint IQ's topic in The Saints
....with half the team made up from academy players, remember. -
Holloway was Leicester manager for about five minutes and is hated by pretty much everyone there. He may be a nobhead but he's not Leicester's nobhead.
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Can Saints or West Ham manage to gate crash the top 4 at man Citys expense?
CB Fry replied to Saint IQ's topic in The Saints
I'm not sure you ever read anything Turkish writes. -
Can Saints or West Ham manage to gate crash the top 4 at man Citys expense?
CB Fry replied to Saint IQ's topic in The Saints
1. I'm not sure you ever read anything Turkish writes. He's already clearly outlined who he was taking the p** out of and why. Try reading it again. And has now been said to you repeatedly, no one has ever said we would never make the Champions League. As Leicester are proving, it can be done. 2. We already know the owners plans about expanding. We've been told. We are not expanding the stadium any time soon, there is no business case to do so, as many of us said many times over in the last five years. If in five years time we have a brand new owner and a they announce we will do it then I am sure you will be back on this forum pretending that "people said we would never expand the stadium". So that's something for you to look forward to, ain't it? -
Can Saints or West Ham manage to gate crash the top 4 at man Citys expense?
CB Fry replied to Saint IQ's topic in The Saints
Oh dear. Someone else who "doesn't know their football". -
Can Saints or West Ham manage to gate crash the top 4 at man Citys expense?
CB Fry replied to Saint IQ's topic in The Saints
So broadcasters in Laos are walking away from a potential Premier League TV deal because they might have to broadcast QPR v Burnley one day on Laos Megasport Channel 7HD? Or, are all of those many, many games played at 20k stadiums utterly irrelevant to Premier League TV deals worldwide as have been proved for, oh I don't know, more than a decade? Still have no idea how any of this gets you to us expanding our ground though. -
Can Saints or West Ham manage to gate crash the top 4 at man Citys expense?
CB Fry replied to Saint IQ's topic in The Saints
Arf. Great use of percentages and moving the goal posts to the very snappy 28,400. 2 or 3 clubs a season, with at least one usually going back down, and none of which are of any particular interest to "broadcasters in Laos". In other news, SFC have a capacity higher than the globally recognised standard capacity measure of 28,400. So what's your point again? -
Can Saints or West Ham manage to gate crash the top 4 at man Citys expense?
CB Fry replied to Saint IQ's topic in The Saints
Why would Premier League matches be played in 20k capacity stadiums? Barely any have been in the last ten-fifteen years and, unless you are expecting City, United, Arsenal and the rest to be relegated and replaced by Swindon and Barnsley, I don't see how many will in the future. -
Kane needs to score twice in every single warm up game to keep Rooney out of the side. Probably Vardy and Kane need to score twice each.
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Do we really have the players to do well? No doubt the likes of Barkley and Dier are only one tournament campaign away from being generally regarded as a waste of space and why don't we pick XXX instead. And so it goes on. Will be happy if we make the quarters.
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Can Saints or West Ham manage to gate crash the top 4 at man Citys expense?
CB Fry replied to Saint IQ's topic in The Saints
Interesting you don't consider 8th, 7th and Europa qualification and then 6th to 9th again as "a modicum of success". I'd say, for us, it is. Clubs don't outlay millions and millions of capital on stadium expansion on the off chance they might win a cup, and no sensible football club would commit those same millions on the rationale that "other clubs might not fill theirs". Keep trying. Meanwhile, the management of our football club ruled out any expansion in the foreseeable future some time ago. Oh well. -
It's been their anthem for a while now. Great song and not an obvious terrace anthem. It's a shame Howard Jones or The Delays never quite created a Saints equivalent for us.
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Can Saints or West Ham manage to gate crash the top 4 at man Citys expense?
CB Fry replied to Saint IQ's topic in The Saints
Pretty easy to belittle people who post drivel like this. You don't need to build a stadium expansion to provide evidence that we don't need one and to show how it wouldn't pay back. A fascinating insight into how you think the world works though. -
A simple yes would have been fine. You accept that Spurs are a bigger club than we are. Cheers.
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like a shot.
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No doubt this is true but the city would still go nuts I'd we got to the final and it remains a more likely and achievable moment of joy than finishing fourth (which is a strange delayed gratification in itself anyway). No doubt there is further changes to be imposed on the competition but I'd still like to see both cups maintained.
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There's no evidence to suggest that Poch is any more disloyal than any comparable football manager so no idea where this "he'll be off like a shot" garbage is coming from. As Lord D says, he's no more likely to be "off like a shot" to Chelsea than Koeman would be. And if Poch does above and beyond with Spurs this season - say winning the league - then perversely that makes him far less likely to leave them. There's no way on earth he would lift the league title with Spurs, instantly becoming a club legend and one of their greatest ever managers, only to immediately quit and join non-Champions League Chelsea or Man U. It just wouldn't happen.
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If all the games are at 3pm on Saturday then none of them will be on British TV, free-to-air or otherwise.
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Can Saints or West Ham manage to gate crash the top 4 at man Citys expense?
CB Fry replied to Saint IQ's topic in The Saints
I can distinctly remember aintforever saying in the summer that we should be signing Stoke's third choice centre back and some Austrian full back on a free. And Nathan Dyer. That's what he said we should do. -
Can Saints or West Ham manage to gate crash the top 4 at man Citys expense?
CB Fry replied to Saint IQ's topic in The Saints
Man walking on the moon was the primary reason offered by several people on this forum for why the club should sink several tens of millions of capital expenditure into a stadium expansion there was no evidence we needed or could pay back. Needless to say history has proved me right on that. Didn't need one, not getting one. Now, I've never said it was impossible for us to get into the top four. In fact in those types of debates I've always said that we'll only do it in a season like Leicester's when you put together the best team you can afford to and go for it, with a couple of big club casualties required to ease the way. So while others were whining and grizzling about how the big Swiss woman refuses to "invest in the team" like Manchester City, lickle old Leicester City with a rag tag of free transfers, Championship journeymen, a single player for eight whole million pounds and Robert Huth have marched to the top of the league. And with it, proved me right and smashed the whining "spend spend spend" crybabies theories into a million little pieces. All in all, it's been a highly satisfactory season for me. -
Can Saints or West Ham manage to gate crash the top 4 at man Citys expense?
CB Fry replied to Saint IQ's topic in The Saints
Leicester didn't aim for the Champions League this season did they. It isn't some forum sap that said we were aiming to challenge for the top four, it was Les Reed and he's right. The issue is how that is achieved, and what SFC will and will jot do to achieve it. Despite Les explaining this in very simple terms countless times that gets glossed over by forum dins bawling their eyes out about Net spend and look-who-Palace-have-bought-why-cant-we-be-them and merrily slagging off the likes of Clasie as "cheap" replacements. Lastly I'd suggest you'll struggle to find Turkish having ever said it isn't possible for us to finish top 4.