CB Fry

Sergei Gotsmamov - Alex Cherednik's special friend.

Correct. He tends to pick the players he rates, and doesn't pick the dross until forced into it by a chronic lack of viable alternatives.

This. Absolutely laughable this is being presented as some validation of Gaston at SFC. At the point of desperation he's found himself on the pitch. When we're back to full strength then he'll be nowhere near again and shipped out in the summer.

Not as good as yesterday but still plenty of clankingly obvious troll comments so clearly telegraphed you could see them from space. 5.6.

Frazer Forster - League One Standard.

You're trying so hard, and I for one think it's lovely.

The only way they can be considered a bigger club than us is if you if you look at it by every single conceivable measure on club size and stature. Just every single one.

Bertrand was about ten million quid and Fonte was closer to two million than £800k. And you should include the compensation we paid for Davis which I think was £800k ish.

I would think that QPR, Norwich and WBA all feel they've dodged a bullet after his high-handed and public rejections of them - Tim is a Tottenham Legend, don't ya know and above your quaint little clubs - although not entirely sure all those clubs even wanted him before his people started going to the press to rule him out. One good thing about Sunderland winning today is that it locks Sherwood's Villa as dead, dead bottom after 10 games. A total, utter failure. Couldn't have happened to a bigger ****. Won't be getting a Prem job for a while now.

Draw was spot on, neither team particularly deserved to win that. Clasie still has some work to do but VVD looks the part.

"Villa fans demand changing of the Garde" Daily Mirror, November 2016.

GASTON MUST PLAY EVERY GAME FROM NOW ON.

What?

Why would you add Forren? He cost at best four million, a decade after we signed Delap.

Quite. I'd be interested to know which players would have needed to be "convinced" to sign new deals being that no CL level clubs came in for any of our players in the entire time NC was in charge. Oh, sorry, one did. And he was sold.

Nice read. Unlikely to stop saps on this forum blubbering like babies about why we're not further up the net spend league.

What changes would have been "resisted" then that haven't subsequently been reversed? [ie Appalling kit selections, treating ex-players, local companies and the media with contempt, rampant ego driven over spending on facilities]

I think the vast majority of people on this forum have moved away from discussions about whether or not he is good enough for Premier or not, beyond a general hope that he does one day because people generally like him, admire him for his success here and his treatment when sacked. What this forum really doesn't need is a couple of tedious one-note trolls forever desperate to remind us how poor they think he is. You can repeat your sh it over and over if you like but your classless glee in a Sheffield United defeat does not suddenly mean Adkins didn't promote us twice. He did. We get it. Jolly well done you.

And look who's slithered out.

What "many on here think he is" is the manager that promoted us, then promoted us again. That's what we think he is, and he fu cking well is. Sorry that upsets you so very much but he's a Saints legend and your pathetic bit ching will never change that.

They won't be getting relegated. The title has probably gone, but still be in the chase for fourth.

If the club historian says he's not injured, he's not injured.

Yep, Five Live reported what I'd written, and as I sent it, they cut to an interview with Cahill. In fairness, Five did say coaching staff.

Already left the stadium and no one from CFC speaking to anyone. Pretty pathetic.

Poortvliet, Wotte, Bassett I immediately shouted at the TV then did a short victory lap round the house.