CB Fry

It would be the final freak in this freak season if a team that has conceded as many goals as we have were to go up automatically. We've already let in more than nearly every club that have gone up automatically has in a whole season, so it's not looking great for us.

It means we need to get promoted this year. Not “well we did quite well considering”.

It's not our relegation year. It's year one of the greatest era in our history.

We have. The "perspective" you need is that Sports Republic have an aim to get back to the Premier League immediately, which is why Wilcox was brought in, which is why we spent more than any other club on a single player, which is why we managed to sign top drawer players for this level like Fraser, Downes and THB, which is why we kept KWP and Sulemana and Smallbone and Adams, which is why we signed big name loanees like Brooks and Rothwell. Which is why the club is expecting to get promoted - not to "not do that badly". He's not managing some plucky underdog team cobbled together with "free transfers" like you seem to think. Martin is doing well, we are bang on two points a game which in any "normal" season is autos all day long, so good. If we finish the season on 2 points a game then he's done a very good job, it will be by far the best season of his career. But, if we don't go up, he will also have failed in his key objective. That's the non disingenuous perspective you need.

All there in my original reply this morning, sunshine. Read it again if you like.

Pretty obvious that isn't the disingenuous part, sweetheart.

I was replying to your ridiculously disingenous post in the first place, so I wouldn't chuck that word around too much if I were you.

Maybe Russell Martin should send the team out wearing 50s and 60s boots on Wednesday. After all iT nEvEr diD tErRy pAiNe aNy hARm nO iT dIdN't

Don't try and explain the word "analyse" to me when you have used the phrase "you can't analyse football" when, obviously, you can.

Cool story. Meanwhile we spent the most on a single player in the Championship last summer. You're pretending Flynn Downes and Taylor Harwood-Bellis are cast offs we scrimped together rather than high performing brilliant promotion level Championship talent? We've got £25m players coming off the bench yesterday. Russell Martin was employed to get us promoted. This season. Stop pretending it is some unbelievable miracle that we are fourth. We are at the bare minimum for the investment made and the support given.

Replace the word "football" here with the word "blue whales" or "inner city children's cognitive development" or "the flow of traffic in metropolitan areas" and you might understand how moronic your statement is. You can "analyse" anything.

One small consolation of failure to get promoted* will indeed be the prospect of a proper Derby match next season. A match against Derby which is just down the road from me.

Yes sorry, should not have quoted you

We've already conceded more goals than pretty much every automatically promoted team in the last decade or so. And we have 11 still to play. We're fourth, not in some one on one shoot out for top. We have Ipswich and Leeds to get past. But yeah you can have a fucking great time sticking it to me when you prove me wrong and we lift the title. Enjoy it x x

I knew we'd score.

Too many subs and we will be wide open. More likely to be a fourth for them than us.

You don't finish in the automatics conceding goal after goal after goal after goal. Abysmal.

HAVE ITTTTTTT

If only we let him do that against Liverpool.

If Stansfield was playing for us in that position he'd be expected to trap it, control it and work it back to the goalkeeper.

We missed those kind of through balls from Brooks vs Liverpool on Wednesday.

I don't think anyone could have foreseen that the manager of a Swansea team that conceded 64 goals last season would be so shit at setting up a team defensively.

They've scored far too early.

Just been having a look at a map of Southampton City Centre trying to work through the ideal open top bus route.

If Leeds drop two points that puts a bit of pressure on Ipswich to take their chance, then they choke and lose, and then we fucking steam on in there on the back of a 4-0 annihilation of Birmingham.