CB Fry

Okay then.

Brilliant stuff from Les. All the dins on this forum could do with having a listen to the great man but why bother when you can spew out ill informed knee jerk bile?

Being that we've done it before, that may suggest we've tried it before and we may have tried it with Clyne. But create a culture where you are so driven by fear that you are extending contracts year after year is going to create even more of a player power situation. So this time last year Clyne gets a pay rise, what about, say, Victor? And if he did, then why not Victor again this season, another pay rise, just to keep the wolves from the door. So would Mane, Pelle and Tadic deserve a pay rise then if Victor's getting one? Bertrand only signed his six months ago but if Victor, Mane and Tadic getting one does he deserve another pay rise? What's the gamble we take on JWP right now? Five years on £80k to stop him being poached? Or we leave him out of the pay rise club for now, and decide we don't want to demonstrate how much we want to keep him, but do some others? Fonte as club captain is seeing annual pay rises being doled out, so where's his? Starting a culture where we are renewing contracts with two, three years left on them is probably not what Les and co have in mind.

When is he due to get old and rubbish? I thought that was supposed to be 2 years ago. Was expecting to still be watching that match at 8 o'clock tonight. Gah.

I will laughing about this all weekend. Laughing and laughing. Because nothing makes me laugh more than things going wrong with transfers for clubs I have no interest in. Oh Stoke are truly the laughing stock of football.

And Keegan and Shearer up front.

Is "let's extend everyone's contracts at the earliest opportunity" this season's "why don't we get our business done early"? Isn't it easy to come up with simple solutions? Next up, score more goals than the other team.

This thread is proper mental. Thankfully I don't have time to take down the pages of utter fu ckwittery it contains. Suffice to say, well done. Seriously, well done.

Ol' swivel eyes is back.

....powered by a mandate as the party with the most seats in 1945, so shouldn't you "shut the fu ck up" about it and accept the result?

This coming season is clearly a write off. Let's start building for 2016-17 where hopefully we will bounce straight back and not be reliant on the play offs.

Absolutely correct. I will not reply.

This is what is known by some round these parts as "ambition".

80s, whatever, I couldn't really follow what your pi ss weak analogy was so I thought you were talking about the semi before 1976 (I have no idea who played in the other semi) I was 5 to 7 ish when we had those two semis in the eighties, so not particularly strong memories anyway. Did you not celebrate getting to those semis?

Your "finishing seventh in the Championship" analogy will take some beating in the utterly ridiculous strawman stakes. Although your slightly demented ranting about fictional third place games in 1970s FA Cup rums it close. Exceptional stuff.

Finishing in a better position than 21 other teams in the tournament sounds like success to me. Would certainly be successful for England men in a World Cup or Saints in any cup you care to name. Or a GB Football team, Hockey team, Curling team or any other GB team or either stripe in either one of the Olympics. They did great. Brilliantly. Get over it.

Just celebrating your victory. Congratulations.

Weak. You could have tried a bit harder to structure that as a Haiku.

Nothing to be embarrassed about. Ireland showed the way with that referendum thing a couple of weeks back.

Dead giveaway.

I've Googled "Toby Alderweireld is happy". Except not the word happy. Another word. That means the same. But also means something else. Personally I think he'll be pleased he is now in the navy. And white kit of Spurs.

We need to nuture the next generation of Alpines, and I like this guy. He made a strong start with his rants where he clearly demonstrated a laughably pitiful lack of understanding about how ticketing works for the incredibly popular last game of the season. Exceptional work. And now he's taking it up a notch. This is a serious talent we've got here. Like Fergie with Giggs back in the day let's not put too much pressure on the lad. He needs time and space to develop into the all-consuming walking clusterf uck of knee jerk ing total idiocy that Alpine has grown into. But I can see he is going to get there.

No we don't and clearly we won't be signing another one.

Not really. Just wildly over - interpreted by people on here. He gave a vague politician style "no concrete deal done" statement and the forum went nuts. "This trumps everything!". Or, no.

Like Wyclef Jean did not say, he'll be gone by September.