CB Fry

What are you taking about - we got to a cup final and Europe, finished mid table solidly for several seasons including eighth and tenth, moved to new ground, Le Tiss scored pretty much every single one of his most famous goals including the last ever at the Dell, we also saw brilliant players from Ekeland to Pahars, from Richards to Killer, from Berkovic and Beattie to Crouch. We had the amazing Alan Ball season, and under Hoddle, Jones and Strachan some great days. Fourth in the table at Christmas under Gordon. Dark days and "some horrible past life event" between 1993 and 2009? You are joking, right?

No, he was out of contract but we had to pay compensation to Palace.

Lots of reasons offered that I've seen, but none whatsoever mention "inherent weakness" but David in Sweden and Vectis say so so must be the reason. Must be.

I fully expect the club historian to make sure these stats are correctly recorded.

Heaven forbid ol' Swivel-eyes would ever credit the club with creating a situation where Jose is happy to stay. You'd be the first b itch whining if he was linked with a move away in January.

No. He's a fantasist who likes to pretend he lives in the United States.

What a load of nonsense.

Always nice to read another dispatch from Sholing's very own Walter Mitty.

How about the US, they've got elections to win, or is that not sovereign enough for you? If we go out of Europe we'd be utterly helpless in negotiations with the US and we'd be signing up deeper and quicker than the EU ever will. Also, Europe does have elections.

People that say "write off [the next tournament] and build for the [tournament after that]" are, frankly, Talksport-ian idiots. What would be the point of being intentionally rubbish or selling tickets for matches knowing there's a high chance if throwing the match driven by knowingly selecting a sub standard team. Secondly a flop qualification campaign would be a utterly harrowing experience for the players involved. There's this nice little preconception that chucking a load of young kids to fifteen months of utter failure, humiliation and national opprobrium would magically and conveniently turn that same group into a high performance winning machine just in time for the very next qualification campaign (the one we're not going to "throw away" of course) but being that the manager will have been hounded out by then and the players may well be figures of derision and/or fun, I'm not so sure. I'd also wonder how much better than 30 points out of 30 our "write off 2014" alternative squad would have been. Or, they are partying in the streets of Amsterdam this weekend knowing that the 2018 WC campaign is going to be an utter triumph. Watch out for the Greeks too - they've written 2016 off so much I think I'll stick a tenner on them winning the whole damn thing.

I looked at it once. Pitifully unfunny.

His little legs don't reach the floor, bless him.

Absolute comedy gold.

By winning every single game?

Bit of a dig from Factless there, I think.

He'd have to win a trophy or two with us to get anywhere near the Arsenal job, and even then he wouldn't get it. The chances of Koeman being he in summer 2018 seem remote to me. If he sees this season out and does one more that will be your lot. What I think will happen is he will sign a rolling "extension" to avoid a year of will he/won't he nonsense but leave in Summer 2017 anyway. He will obviously be the Dutch coach one day, hopefully later rather than sooner.

Frank, Soggy various people called Nick, loads of others on the bandwagon. About twenty times more people than called Pelle the best in the world or whatever you were going on about yesterday.

Next qualifier. I would think they will very popular friendly opponents pre-France 2016.

Not sure people on this forum cam give it the large about catchment areas, given the horses hit spouted about it on here in the past.

Handed their season tickets back because being charged to park in the car park, I believe.

Talking ***** like this: "He has been excellent in his role in charge of the Saints" "It would be a hammer blow for Southampton, however, if Koeman left." You know, talking ******.

For broadcasting rather than gate receipts but yeah, basically. Us and Germany/Italy/Spain have to be in bigger groups for the pan-European TV deal that was agreed.

It's only about four hours on the train from central station to Manchester for you, so you could have a little day out to investigate.

It should be something like this, maybe a bit the Davis Cup thrown in where the smaller nations have to qualify for the qualification groups proper. But won't happen, yet - the FA need to pay for Wembley and can still sell 70k tickets for pointless qualifiers against no marks. Ditto other nations who want a fat calendar of fixtures. One day the powerful club bloc might smash it, but feels a way off.

Of course we don't suffer any more than any other club. Just paranoid dins on here.