CB Fry

We said there was a bomb on the plane to cover up Prime Minister's Questions? The other stuff you talk about I knew about through hearing about it/reading about it on the news. Which is, like, the media and stuff. As cover ups go, pretty weak effort then.

Martina was not a replacement for Chambers. Toby was in the role of RB cover if needed, with £8m on Gardos as back up CB if Toby was needed at RB. As it turned out he spent more time as DCM cover. Since then it seems that Yoshi has been earmarked that role, with Caulker covering the back up CB role. Martina is squad meat to cover Europa/League Cup fixture strain, clearly not really required now. Football Club makes poor signing shock.

Tweet from @footiebizawards Hats off to the club - it was genuinely rather funny. I subsequently enjoyed Tom Davis in Murder In Successville. And he was in Brian Pern last night too. He is, however, actually a WHU fan so I'd expect Pluto to start a thread about that shortly.

There is no evidence that there are "many potential ticket sales going to waste", quite the opposite. And you think it takes a "skilled" businessman to tie up, say £50m in capital/loans to build a load of seats there is no evidence we need and no business case that they would pay back? The "big decision" has been made - the club do not need to expand the ground, and doing so would be an aimless punt driven by vanity.

I think I'd better confess that I am Saint George and have been for some time. Fair to say I've run out of steam with him, and it was all getting a bit samey and really rather obvious, although the Scholing "accidental" mis-spelling was a nice final flourish. Anyway, I am working on a new character who I hope you will love/hate just as much. She's going to be a right feisty one.

Very good. Really good.

I thought they were sacked because they are woofters.

A definite contender for the role of "this is our traditional song it is, honest it is our traditional song" despite the fact no fu cker has actually ever sung it at a football match. It's about time Woolston Ferry had some much needed competition.

In fairness I'm not sure that Pompey fan was suggesting it as a song no one has ever sung at a football match before. Really don't think our own fanbase has any moral high ground on originating football chants.

Pretend you're living in Durban. Express lots of admiration for the way Ian Smith did things in Rhodesia. That kind of thing.

A man from Southampton and currently living in Sholing pretending to an American living in America is accusing other people of being obsessed. 10/10. I think it's well worth you trying out a new character, George. My suggestion would be a white South African pensioner pining for the good old days when "they knew their place". You'll get some cracking bites with this one. Your one-note by-numbers American act, clanging all the pitifully obvious troll bells you can muster up? Not so much. You'll notice you get nothing but pointing and laughing these days. Come on, give us a new character!

Also worth pointing out that it is SOG who likes to retread his arguments on this forum in front of different people on another forum, where the response generally ranges from total disinterest to "why do you keep bringing debates from the other forum over here?" and not much in between. So his complaints about being "followed" around is trumped by own obsession with dragging his SWF debates with him where ever he goes on the Internet.

Except the Spurs fans saying Toby is "excellent" as in the original post weren't being verbally attacked by rivals. They just think he is excellent. And the fans that Shurlock referring to it sounds like do have a poor opinion of Poch for buying Saints players. It's kinda what he said in his post.

That was the 90s, though. As Ray would say, "What a personal disaster".

Yep, standard. I work with a genuine not-plastic scouser and he talks about us mugging them for well over a year. He is starting to accept that Clyne is excellent though.

Please see the universal "observation" that football fans tend to be the fiercest critics of their own players, or have you failed to notice the slagging off by some in the ground and on here of Tadic/Mane/Cedric/Yoshi/JWP/Davis/pretty much any player you could ever care to name in the history of our club. Spurs fans, West Ham, S****horpe, St Mirren fans would be no different. No fans say they think a player is excellent just because they would "hardly admit" the opposite to a fan of the club they bought him from. No fans do that. It's nonsense and you know it. Also if, as you say, Spurs fans have higher expectations than us, then they'd have higher standards than us and would expect better than us, so I'd anything more likely to slag off poor players and management, which they do, and have done throughout my entire lifetime. Spurs fans saying Toby and Poch are "excellent" or "good" say that because that's what they think, rose tinted or not, and not, ever, because they would "hardly admit" the opposite to the club they signed them from. You need to work on your "observations", as usual.

But they've pretty much never beaten us. Beyond tinpot.

As does the ever youthful Nwa nkwo Kanu.

He looks like a 36 year old insurance salesman.

What you said was this: Why on earth would Spurs fans "hardly admit that the manager they got from us were poor decisions"? Spurs fans say they thing their manager is good and their centre back is good because they are good. Nothing to do with "hardly admitting" anything. If Pochettino and Toby were sh it they'd "accept" that just like any fans of any club.

Obviously I don't, it was an observation on the usual drivel from Wes Tender.

"I love you Pompey" to that tune would sound rather good, to be fair.

The9 can probably do the maths but I doubt our coefficient would be much better than this year - we lost to a lower seeded team so technically proved to "worse" than our initial coefficient suggested. Unless we get an improved score based on the fact we qualify from England twice in a row, of course.

"He's going to mention Stephen Lawrence in a minute" thinks me to myself. And boom! Off he goes. Still ludicrous. Reckon he's only five posts away from the Holocaust, which I have no doubt he'll pretend other people here have never heard of, but, like, Charlie has. He'll be demanding people "now admit" that it happened and everything. Really rather sweet to accuse others of being out of their depth when one's entire position is to pompously argue against an entirely fabricated opposing position that no one has said and then get jolly outraged about it, replete with more Grandstanding than Des Lynam and Steve Rider put together. But crack on in your little fantasy land Charlie. It's like having a debate in chuffing Narnia.

Arf. Answer the question. Laughable. Teach us all, oh wise one, teach us all more about stuff every effing single one of us already knows all about.