CB Fry

What does this even mean?

You're basing your opinion of Frank Field and Kate Hoey based entirely on the fact they happen to agree with you on one issue. That's the single, only reason you suddenly have "respect for their opinions".

We'll sell loads of those socks in China.

I'd hazard a tiny guess that Buctootim would not consider Anne Widdecombe "fine" in any circumstance. You're the one who has brought her into this thread because she has come out on your side, if she had released a frothing rhetoric for a the stay campaign you wouldn't be so keen would you? Even at the height of her career she was a political pygmy. Much like Kate Hoey who the out campaign, and our very own Lord Duckhunter, are now swooning over her as a collosus of Labour entirely driven by the side she's picked, ignoring the fact she is and was an utter non-entity. So nice line of argument Wes but I think it is the Out campaign displaying that behaviour infinitely more than the In side.

Yes, yes, yes but you are missing the forum experts view. When we were bimbling around ninth/eighth place for the entire season with a threadbare squad we were apparently "pulsating with ambition". When we actually were challenging for fourth right up until the last weeks of the season, and challenging for sixth on the last day, we apparently were being run by people whose are lying to us about the ambition of the club and we can't "inherently believe the words coming out of their mouths". You couldn't make up the delusion, you really, really couldn't.

Being that you have a rap sheet a mile long of you earnestly whining about religion in football on this forum, and as one of the single most humourless dullards this forum has ever known, I think you can rest assured that no-one, absolutely no-one, will believe you did this as a wind up. Stick to your little computer game world. Life is much simpler there.

Cortese ran for the hills before he ever had to deliver any of his promises so remember that when you swoon over him - he quit, he ran, he did not stick it out and face into the challenge. No ambition. Quitter. Not employed anywhere else. I think you need to accept that we are not going to finish higher and higher and higher every single season forever. You saying sixth is the "absolute minimum" is ridiculous for a club like us. As for not believing Les, I'd like to know what he says that hasn't been true. He's been very clear about what we absolutely will not do, and that's been consistent for several years. Your complaint seems to be we are not doing things you want, but those are the things he said we won't do. He's not lying, he's just not doing what you want. Very different. My recommendation is enjoy the moment now because it's fleeting and whining about what we're not doing is distracting you from what we are doing. Which is just great and will not last forever.

MLG making it so easy for the rest of us. He's like a gift from God.

With all due respect, you're not really making any sense now. Either the Champions League thing is "a fantasy, what I'd like to see happen" or its something you can berate the club for not having "a pathway" for. You seem to try and have it both ways. I'll repeat what I said earlier - how is pootling into 9th in January 2014 "showing ambition" but registering our record points total in the Premier and highest finish for nearly 30 years is airily dismissed as "steadying the ship"? Just nonsense I'm afraid. You seem to really dislike the fact that we got far closer to UCL under the current management than any previous management. It's a fact. Accept it. Lastly, Stoke are currently 9th and clearly aren't "happy to stay up season after season" - they are trying to push for Europe just like us. Here's how this works. Les has explained it, Cortese used to say much the same. We will try to finish in the CL spots, trying to be ready when big clubs fail. But we will not match big clubs budgets and the whole thing requires everything to fall into place perfectly as well as the fundementals we can control (good management, signing well scouted players, good infrastructure, team spirit and purpose). If we had the injury record Leicester have had this season, last season I personally think we might have been two places higher, maybe knocking on the door more than that. Still, this season we are still there. 7th. Not 15th. Not 17th. Not even 12th. 7th. That's not "happy to have stayed up". On my planet, that's called seventh place. Les Reed and Cortese both explained our European ambition and how we will achieve it in much the same way. Many, many times now. Read or Listen to what they say, get your head around it, and then enjoy the most successful period we've had for thirty years. At some point in your lifetime and mine, we'll be back in the Championship so Christ knows how you'll manage to cope with that.

This.

Having the blessed good fortune to live in Derby and having heard the news, I tuned on BBC Radio Derby on the drive home to see if they were talking about it. They were. Phone in with the chief exec, confirming it is a potential nine week deal where Saggy is a coaching mentor/consultant. Short term, no transfer involvement and just their to help out Darren Wassell either on the bench or at the training ground. The guy kept talking about coaching and how Arry is going to help with coaching. Coaching. Redknapp. Coaching. Good luck to em.

Spot on - well put. We've done a great job of not letting players go into their last year, so I'd like to think we'd do the same with the manager. Pretty sure we will do. There's a possibility the process may result in us having a new manager, but more than likely Ron will sign a little extension.

That's funny because there are plenty of interviews with players - our captain Fonte especially - and club management - our Ralph and Les - that talk specifically about our ambition to make it to the Champions League. It's identical to the stuff the Italian used to say, just without the "half the squad from the academy" fairytale. And when we "pulsate with ambition" under the last guy we got to ninth. When we apparently "shrug our shoulders" we smash our points record and finish higher than we ever have for nearly thirty years. And by "infrastructure and pathway" why don't you just be honest about what you mean? If you want to whine like a toddler because that big rich woman won't spend infinite money just to satisfy your Football Manager fantasies then fine but do try not to wrap it up in bullsh it speak about pathways. Get over it. Hilarious, hilarious that the predicted collapse post the Italian leaving has not happened, and is not happening but people like you are so desperate to have the argument and pretend it has anyway. Finished seventh last year, pi ssing all over anything he achieved and nicely on track to finish in a similar spot this season. Pulsating with ambition my effing backside.

When does our coefficient go down the toilet and we are left with only three CL places?

The incentive was that Poch would have been given a man-size golden teaspoon upon finishing eighth. Well, I say man-size. It was the same height as Nicola Cortese so better described as "adequately sized".

Well, I think that's simply adorable.

Also - you're swooning over what Leicester have done, but they've done it without buying loads of players or spending the cash that you think we could have "easily" have done. I don't think Leicester have bought anyone for ten million quid and we've bought loads of them all over the pitch. So it's not really that easy is it. Last little hint for you - the era of "morale consistency and ambition" ended when we're were ninth place in January 2014. Since then we've finished 7th and we're 7th now. Suggesting just as much consistency and morale as before. It's fascinating to see the Cult of Cortese bristle with frustration and annoyance that the doom they predicted just doggedly refused to happen - breaks your little hearts don't it? Southampton FC - doing just fine. Sorry and that.

What "great players" did Leicester keep then? Hint - Leicester were battling relegation all last season. Hint 2 - Jamie Vardy scored 5 league goals last season.

Good luck to Leicester on Monday night.

How sweet.

Bournemouth probably need two points and they're safe. Basically they are safe now.

A stellar line up and no mistake. Sports minister for five minutes and pro fox-hunting nut job Kate Hoey. I wish she was running the country I really do. If she wasn't on your side I doubt you'd have a single good word to say about her.

What will we see?

David Howells was a Dave Jones signing so definitely not before Sky. I remember the Arsenal 2-2 under Wigley was broadcast from the Channon suite or whichever one it was. It was only semi regular thing as I remember, which was a shame. Being that people are streaming matches all over the shop nowadays the club could host a broadcast of every away and make a couple of quid. Won't be allowed of course.

So when you ask "why can Boro get the best our of talent and we can't?" your entire frame of reference is the last fortnight. Smashing stuff.