CB Fry

Not so much that, more that we aren't in the lower divisions anymore. That's what allowed us to risk Chamberlain, Bale etc. An Adam Lallana coming through now might not ever have made it.

Isn't Reed the one that our Les describes as the best young talent he's ever seen? That, combined with his previously stated policy (In the main, to not loan players out) suggests Harrison Reed will not be going anywhere.

What do you mean "nothing was not true"? It was pretty much entirely his opinion about things, primarily spoon fed to him by some disgruntled mate of Adam Lallana. So nothing true or false about it - his opinions, which did, very quickly prove to be way, way off the mark. It was how he presented them as grand revelations that was the funny bit for me, especially when they eventually dribbled out and the true source - a spoilt stroppy footballer angling for his payday - was painfully obvious. Crabby's utter inability to process the info he was privy to was from whence the comedy arose. To save face he decided to cling on to his Forster opinion as a final stick to beat Les and Co with but unfortunately for him we ended up with the second best defensive record in the division and Forster recognised as an excellent Premier League keeper.

I saw Jay Rod in the Chilworth Arms once and can confirm he did not have an eight inch biffter on the go.

Except the "reach" is the pointless assertion that if nothing bad happened to us in the season we'd have finished in X position. Jack Cork didn't shoot Swansea above us when they had us in their sights last season, after all.

Which two seasons did Alan Pardew near-relegate you? He was gone for the half season local passionate understands the club super Geordie John Carver nearly relegated you. The season you were in the quarter finals of the Europa League you finished 16th but only dropped to there very late in the season and didn't spend a single week in the relegation zone, mainly being mid table. Maybe the fact you were also in the quarter finals of the Europa League was a factor. Maybe you mean the season you finished fifth? If he was from Gosforth you'd effing love him.

Isn't he from Street Fighter 2?

Bob Mortimer praising the bestest fans on Twitter. Can't move for replies saying "we are always like that". Of course.

Hyped to the hills but always looked one that could go either way to me. Former assistant to Carlo Ancelotti. A role previously held by managerial greats like, er, Ray Wilkins.

And who have actually won the league in the living memory of lots of people who are actually living human beings.

Your own description of Shaqiri reads exactly like a description of someone who has failed at two big name clubs.

Brilliant.

Announced it on Five Live and presenter went straight to resident expert Kevin Kilbane for a view on it. He burbled something about Stoke signing Shakiri and then eventually said "yeah, good signing". Never in the history of spoets broadcasting has an expert so blatantly never heard of a player. Brilliant.

3/10.

Anyone who thought we would come put of this window with an on paper "upgrades" to three of our best players leaving us with an on paper "stronger first eleven" is a fool. If upgrades on Morgan, Clyne and Toby were easily available then I'd suggest Man U, Spurs and Liverpool would be signing them instead of the inferior Morgan, Clyne and Toby. Cedric is a perfect example of the replacements we are going to secure - youth, potential, some relevant experience and a chance he is worth £18m in a couple of years himself, at which point we can all have a good old whine about the length of his contract, how we "co cked up" keeping him and how our replacement isn't an upgrade. The replacements to TA and MS will fit the same pattern. Obviously. Fu cking obviously. Get used to it. The CM and the CB will be signed and we will have a lovely team all good and ready for the season ahead. And jolly good it will be too.

LOL. Currently tearing it up in the Latvian second tier.

Good. You forgot the ba ba ba ba ba baa bit that would also work as a chant. Unfortunately this will never be sung in SMS. We need another club to adopt this as a chant first which we then copy.

It hasn't caught on. When the Northam are singing it and a BT Sport commentator says something like "you can tell the home fans are happy as they launch into another verse of their famous Woolston Ferry song" then it's caught on. Glad all over = caught on. Sunshine on Leith = caught on. Sheffield United Annie's Song thing = caught on. Oh when the Spurs go marching in = etc. Woolston Ferry has gone the way of Ice Skating in the Bannister Road area since the late eighties. Ain't no one doing it.

We used to have a zoo, We used to have a zoo, Elephants, birds and fuc king bears We used to have a zoo.

And neither will we. The "let's get Woolston Ferry as our song" thing has been around for at least 20 odd years when the (paper based) Ugly Inside used to go on about it. It's never going to happen, mainly because the song is more than a bit lame and I'm Southampton born and bred and the Woolston ferry means zip to me. In fact, just Wiki'ed it and it shut down six weeks before I was born. For too many people (especially potential terrace singers) it's not a thing. Now if there was a song called "We used to have a fu cking Zoo here!" you might be on to something.

Last season they had an Android streams section and you picked the matches. Perfect for a busy guy on the move like me who wants to watch the game on his phone while doing other things like sorting the kids out, cooking tea or masterbating. They've taken that functionality away now. Interestingly the helpful admin guy said it was because "people were stealing the streams". Because those guys at Sportsmania believe stealing content is wrong. Anyway, his advice was Kodi and some other stuff I either couldn't understand or my phone couldn't cope with. I've given up so will look at exciting TV based boxes instead.

Nice one, cheers TDD. I'll have a look at it. I used to mainly use Sportsmania on my phone but the no-Android rule has killed me, my old S4 can't handle Kodi without keeling over, so have decided to move to TV instead. That looks like it will do nicely. Missus will probably think it is porn machine.

I am looking forward to seeing how the footballing mega powers of Stoke, Swansea and Crystal Palace do this season. After reading this thread I think I might lump on all three of them to finish joint fourth. They sound effing brilliant.

I was looking at Raspberry Pi thing and they all look like do-it-yourself circuit board kits, the kind of thing a CB radio enthusiast would buy. I don't have a soldering iron and don't want to build anything. Is there a ready to use one?