CB Fry

Dave Jones is the only one for eons to have completed two full seasons, start to finish. Burley and Adkins didn't achieve that.

Only one thing predictable about this thread. Thanks for being there, everyone.

The only explanation I have is UEFA having a clear anti-Saints agenda.

Thanks for being there.

Quite frankly a team from Norway is Odd.

Odd.

I need to hear it from The9.

Basically the seeding is going to be marginal and we'll end up on the wrong side of it, won't we? (sorry to be all Alpine about it).

Noel Edmunds?

I don't need to go on any poxy website. We were signing £1m/£1.5m players when we were in League One. We signed centre backs from the division above. I can remember that far back. We spent big to go up.

What relegation happened in 2007/8 then? We were in the Championship the season before and the season after that season. Your figures don't even sound right anyway, and even if they technically are - I'd like to see how you break this down season by season - you are cherry picking. One killer point people conveniently ignore is small things like a) if we weren't owned by a billionaire we could never have got the fee we got for Chamberlain, and b) if we weren't owned by a billionaire that fee would go into club running costs not spunked entirely on new players and fees. And Batman has already covered the small matter of the millions converted into equity. But, nah, let's look on fu cking transfermarkt.com and pretend we did it all on the cheap.

Bournemouth's is truly a rags to riches story.

All you seem to do on this forum is post up links to mildly amusing news stories. You're like the Saintsweb equivalent of Steve Wright in the Afternoon.

Is that it?

LOL. Game set and match.

Yeah, but that's Koeman's masterplan. Suddenly unleash a completely brand new untried system on the unsuspecting rest of the league. The very last thing they expect us to do. Genius.

Lazyliegenschweinhund scumbagstein journalists, yes?

Don't really understand this reference - Hooiveld is an example of a player good enough for the Championship not being good enough for the Premier League, one of many, many examples. The fact that two years before he happened to play in Scotland doesn't feel relevant. Saints bought him to help get us promoted and he did.

This. Although am already readying myself to be utterly furious if we don't sign him. I mean, like, Marcus Rojo and everything. The whole thing feels a bit like an agent flushing out either a) a new contract for his lad or b) another club to come in. At this point I am not buying it but we'll see.

I hate the way football is all about money these days it makes me sick all the greed and it's nothing but a business these days and greed and money and oh I hate it but please please please for the love of god can we sneak into the richest competition in world football so we can have loads more money than the other teams below us and invest in fees and wages and fees and wages and have loads of fu cking money oh I wish we had loads more fuc king money.

I was talking about "traditional" kits in general, as was MLG who as you can see doesn't believe clubs have traditional kits, a point he made way back when, when he liked to talk about our Cortese plain red becoming our new traditional kit from the point we started wearing it. Because we were going to wear plain red for decades to come so we were.

What's that got to do with anything? I was gutted at Sunderland away. I was more gutted at SUFC away as I was there, because I want us to win trophies. I think I mentioned that.

Devalued by who? Sky? Rich clubs controlled by money that say you don't like? You "hate" them/say they're ghastly but accept their agenda? Well it is not devalued by me. I wanted us to win the FA Cup when I was 10 and I still do with exactly the same passion today. Not one once of devaluation from me. Try it yourself. Devaluation is in the eye of the beholder. Embrace achievement, success and silverware.

I think not having yellow - and - blue every season is fine - once every five seasons probably works in our new kit every year era. I dont feel particularly affectionate to it as Ive liked other aways in my time and wasn't born in 1976 anyway. I would suggest while Gecko was no doubt right, it's also true that yer Yellow top is less popular as an item of leisurewear so we might shift less compared to our recent dark blue/black efforts. Goes so well with the jeans, darling. I think we can file "Operation Seattle" next to "our plain red kit is going to conquer China for SFC" in the world of kit-centric silliness.