CB Fry

Interesting. Certainly a possible explanation for Ron's extended holiday and seeming to not be that desperate to charge up the M6 to join that gigantic club of the north with their global historic reputation of being the first club in the world to have hot and cold running water. However, I do think a there can be a bit too much made of players hating the manager. It's not necessarily a bad thing, as is the opposite. Everyone seems to love Stuart Gray and Steve McClaren.

Laughable. 1970s good old British food the finest finest finest in the world not like that foreign muck like Heinz Ravioli.

We're not going to "dominate world trade" - we're an importer nor an exporter, which is why we get the "they need us more than we need them" stuff from the Brexiteers as if our entire nation is a simply demanding rich old woman in a hat shop: "well, I'll just jolly well take my money elsewhere". Read a bit about the impact on the food industry which gives a better insight into what is more likely to happen - our supermarkets packed with cheap crap chicken and beef from Thailand and the USA as our post Brexit government chuck out howwible old red tape and regulations and food standards. Can't wait to see our evolution into Car Boot Britain.

Read the thread.

So that's a whole month each for Pards and Steve Bruce. So we might put Koeman on leave until the first week of July. Go us.

Sorry it's such a shock.

No. He signed for Manchester United. Surprised you missed it. It was in the newspapers before it happened.

Except it very rarely happens with football managers. It does happen in the case of some kind of investigation (Dave Jones) and there's a similar thing when managers get sacked they will continue to be paid compensation but that stops if they get another job which is why you often see managers taking a break after a sacking. But gardening leave as you get with chief execs is not a thing in football. The other factor to consider is if we appoint another manager while RK is on gardening leave that could be interpreted as constructive dismissal/breach of contract as there is no good, objective reason for RK to be on gardening leave (ie he isn't ill/depressed/under investigation for historic abuse). Really can't see it.

How can an article containing lots of equivocal phrases like "we understand that" and "it is believed that" be presented "as gospel"? How does that actually work?

We weren't awesome in our first match against the Swiss - we were pretty poor actually. And saying we were "utter ****e" tonight is ridiculous.

Wilshire - 24 and has played for one club - is a journeyman? Okay then. He was fine when he came on. We should have finished far better and Kane was poor.

A fan of Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool or Chelsea wouldn't need to come on a Southampton Football Club forum to list out all the reasons why his club is so big. That's a fact.

Proper kicking off in the stadium with Russian fans charging the English, according to Radio Five. Shame there's adverts on ITV.

Or not.

And Lallana does the whole game. Blimey.

Have Bournemouth got the right category academy to enter this new trophy? Because the Skate galacticos playing the AFCB kids would be far funnier than them playing us.

The lad has done well. A bit late-period Beckham at points running around trying to do everything but rather good. We should be at least one up by now. Russia awful.

We will definitely win this.

Yes. That's the only scenario where it is common in football. Would be staggered if we put Koeman on gardening leave. Would be difficult for all concerned.

My utterly parochial EuroSaints fantasy league team paying off already. Just need Forster to score a hattrick tonight.

I wasn't comparing Koeman with Adkins but your post was jolly fascinating. Thanks.

Nigel Adkins walked out on Scu nthorpe to come to us, or does that not count?

Germany need us more than we need them? You sure about that?

That widely renowned loyal manager Steve Bruce. FFS.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36505735 The debate now completely jumps the shark here. Dyson is arguing as a positive the very thing the German car manufacturers will be banging on Angela's door to stop and the Leave campaign say will definitely not happen. Meanwhile the remain team are using the "he was wrong about the Euro" line against him. Brilliant.