CB Fry

This just makes last season's defeat against Sheffield United even more annoying.

Found it. Just in time for us to be terrible again.

What channel on Sportsmania is it on?

Gah.

If you listen to the press conference and pretty much everything Ron has said and done since joinng you'd know that wasn't true. And Ron 's point was that "the project" is a nebulous meaningless concept as proven by our previous "long term" manager buggering off at the earliest possible opportunity. Only a complete sap would agree with your interpretation.

This will be one of those 'strawman' posts that doesn't exist.

Are you saying that no one on here is expecting/wanting the club to "invest"/"push on"/"change philosophy"/"break the glass ceiling" to break into the top six? If so, fair enough. Can't say that's the impression I get from this forum but clearly it's all a strawman made up in my head. Sorry about that.

Dell. Sized. Mentality.

Just watched the video and have to say it was pretty much identical to a typical Alpine rant.My favourite bit was when he called the club a tin pot club with no ambition and called Les Reed clueless and useless. Ron later confirmed that Mane was definitely off because we'd been linked in one tabloid to some winger from the Championship.

I'm certainly refusing to get carried away. But, in a weird way, I am more comfortable with a quarter final where there would be no shame in losing, unlike the Sunderland and Sheffield United debacles of the last two seasons. Biggest game of the season tomorrow, after the long forgotten Midgetland match, so let's effing go for it.

He's got January panic buy written all over him, so highly likely someone (Hello Villa, Newcastle) might lob that kind of money at him.

What are you blathering about? I'm happy to criticise where appropriate. I'm also happy to call out your fantasy land nonsense about Poch and Koeman and young players. Don't talk to me about "demonstrably true facts" when your threshold for Pochettino "young players" while at Saints is around 24 but your threshold for Koeman "young players" is 21.and under. Awfully convenient for you.

Not like the good old days when Pochettino blooded one whole player, is it? And Pochettino was so awfully brave to select young players like Lallana and Morgan, who up to that point had been languishing in the first team having been first choice selections for only the previous four managers of the club.

"Fighting a general election at 72", ie four years time. Obviously he won't be leader then anyway. Originally I gave him until the conference of 2017 but now I'd be amazed if he lasts beyond the elections next May. He's worse than my lowest expectations and probably will go down as the worst leader of any British political party in history.

He has a nightly chatshow on CBS in the US, which is a reasonably big deal.

Edit. GB beat USA, Australia and France on the way to the final, so even if our final opponents weren't the very best, we've earnt it.

It's not my rules, but it is extremely strange.

Gawd know's what point you're making.

So when Pochettino was manager you define young players as Morgan, Jay Rod and Lallana at twenty four ish, but now Pochettino isn't manager anymore, young players you now define as under twenty one and we're "significantly older" with the likes of Cedric, Clasie and Virgil who are washed up decrepit has-beens at twenty four ish. These people with agendas and axes to grind, eh? They'll say anything.

Why have you combined Lawrie and Ted? I can't be bothered to add it up but they probably managed for more time than the rest of the list combined, so why not separate them?

Not really. We should have beaten them, we had a big enough and strong enough squad to beat them regardless of Wanyama. The manager picked an odd team with an odd approach and we were dreadful. To be honest I don't know what your point is.

Saw in the paper yesterday that the lowest any Premier League team has finished after being top (as of yesterday morning) is sixth, suggesting Leicester may well now be nailed on for that spare Europa spot - I think they'll finish seventh. So really it is about the cups and rightly we are going for it.

And Reed deserves a chance because, well, he's, err, been through the academy.

I wish we hadn't signed any players at all and just blooded all our brilliant youngsters like we did in the good old days when Pochettino was manager.

He says he quit and was not sacked.