CB Fry

Only people in Saint George's utterly fictional world.

This. It's naive to think we are a "commercial strategy" away from breaking America or Japan or wherever. The only "commercial strategy" that is going to "work" is us winning trophies and being the Champions League. I have no doubt Manchester City have more fans in the USA than they did when Shaun Goater was playing for them but it isn't because of some great commercial strategy. If they'd finished 10th for the last five seasons no one in Seattle would give a stuff. As you say, most of commercial opportunities will be with people a bit closer to home, including those who live in the UK like Saint George.

The ramblings of a fantasist. I'd forgotten his classic routine about red and white stripes. Saint George gold, straight outta Sholing. "All the folks I know in America where I live and everything honest I do live there I mean here honest gee whizz howdy anyway all my good old American friends I live with all hate red and white striped items of clothing they do oh you limeys that's what we call you here where I live in America oh I love a Twinkie bar me. Yee-ha."

At absolute best, no short term change. But over time we will remain tied to all EU trading regulations/standards etc but with no say whatsoever in how they are devised. Either way in a short time we'd be weaker in Europe than now, and lots of small businesses could struggle, and larger businesses could reassess where they should be. You want to believe the Alex Salmond-style argument where we leave the EU and lose all the bad stuff but keep all of the good stuff but I don't.

Because it's the biggest and our biggest market, and on our doorstep. Maybe that's why.

And the EU, even without us will still be five times bigger. And contains 3 of the top ten, all three of which won't be falling over themselves to give a standalone UK a better deal than they're getting.

Well, there is this. Once we're not the translator/best friend of the US in Europe - I imagine the US has never had any dealings with Germany without us as matchmaker - then those yanks will be crawling to us. Crawling.

We'd have the whip hand, Tim. The whip hand I tells ya.

Where does Butcher say that Roy is, or should be, playing Butland in order to stop Hart getting injured on the artificial turf? It's not in the quote you've posted.

I think you might be the one foaming. Pretty obvious what Tim was saying, not sure you're falling about pretending to misunderstand it. Good for you. Anyway, the good news is Wes Tender has told us all we'll have the "whip hand" versus the EU once we're out, so that's okay then. The whip hand.

I've not read one of your stroppy teenage bit ch-fests about Dusan Tadic for a while. Why not bang another one of them out for us.

There are lots of important governmental roles in this country that no one gets to vote on full stop.

The candidates are 1. Go English - right now the only genuine contender is Pardew, and he will need to finish top ten and a have reasonable cup run this season. Maybe Garry Monk. 2. The skip-a-generation contender. The give it to Gary Neville and hope route. 3. Carlo Ancelotti. 4. Cave in to Talk Sport and appoint a top, top, top manager. Kevin Bond putting the cones out. Triffic.

It's almost like the top ten of the Premier League is a higher standard than League One and the Championship.

In, all day long. Looking forward to hearing a confident case put forward by all the various In campaigns.

Except they've only got one game left.

Gallagher, like all our loanees, is never going to make it at SFC. Just trying to find a club that will take him off us.

A Californian grape with an American Express black card.

A single molecule of a beast with the body of a horse and the head and torso of a man.

A roman army officer who has scored 100 runs in a single first class innings.

Still reads like the ramblings of a fantasist to me, with a smattering of obvious rent-a-troll button pushing phrases designed to get a reaction. He lives in Sholing. I know it. You know it. He knows it.

Angry from Sholing is off again I see. Go on, go and have a wander down to The Swan for a pint. Might cheer you up.

The life cycle of any football team will mean that is going to happen anyway. If you'd rather we only bought players that the richest clubs won't touch with a bargepole then fine, but we'd likely be a sh it team. Producing a team every season with two or three players the top four want is a great way to maintain us as a club in the top ten. There isn't any other strategy that will do that any better, if you accept as you need to that we will never try and match Champions League wages. Seriously, our current strategy is the most sustainable we'll get to.

We do it because it is sustainable. And really don't understand why it wouldn't be. It's happening at football clubs all over - say Celtic, or Feyenoord - so what's the problem?

I hope someone does. A forum legend and no mistake.