CB Fry

Yes, incredibly easily.

If it feels good and it doesn't hurt anyone, do it. That's what I say.

Why should we give hand outs to people just because they happen to be employed by us? That's just like Tesco giving money to a corner shop or something.

Why should ticket paying fans benefit from handouts from the TV deal? It would be just the same as Tesco giving money to a corner shop or something.

That's nonsense. Clearly they weren't strong enough in the coalition negotiations to demand a vote on PR, they only got about the same number of seats in 2010 as in 2005. And if they had made such a self serving, narrow subject a "clear red line" you, I have no doubt, would have accused them of pushing their own hobby horses rather than entering coalition for the national good. Of course they wanted PR, but they were never going to get it in this coalition. And I am thoroughly looking forward to the party of seat-preserving Tory defectors demonstrating how a party can be about "principles" and not howwible old "naked power" like what the Lib Dems are. Of course Honest Nige has no interest in power at all. Arf.

"It has ended" said he. About six weeks ago.

Gemmel playing blinder tonight then.

Maybe you should consider that before you accuse others of "not understanding". And just as an additional, any other lower league club lucky enough to receive a transfer fee windfall like we did for Alex OC (not that they would without the power of a billionaire) would not then spend every last penny of it on fees for new players. They'd live within their means and spend it on the upkeep of the club. You quote your £2m thing like we somehow scrimped and scraped to the Premier League on small change. Hereford got wound up for £100k.

Now that's good.

Funded by little things like the fact we wouldn't have got anywhere near the fee for Oxlade-Chamberlain if we weren't owned by a freaking billionaire in the first place.

Absolutely. The TV deal exists because the mass market want to pay to watch Man United and Liverpool. It's only a sense of fairness from those clubs that means clubs like Saints - who no one apart from their own fanbase really want to see - benefit from the handouts. Saints in the PL are completely subsidised by the market power of the big clubs. In a way it's kinda the same as Tesco giving money to a corner shop.

It's going to obliterate our massive fanbase in Dawlish, Torbay and Stroud in a stroke.

Err, no. Clubs would just sell their own home games.

That was it. Lol.

Money from the TV deal goes to the Premier League and they distribute it. The Premier League as an entity is not "competing" with the clubs in the Football League who benefit from solidarity payments. Southampton FC aren't giving its "competitors" money.

Handouts, basically.

Have to say my personal favourite golden era was Help me Rhondda/LifeLongSaint/Barry the Briefcase (someone please put the photo up) and Saintlee's ITK takeover epic fail. I got invited to one of (possibly the first) meetings that Saintlee organised for that, but couldn't go. I can't actually remember who Lee's contact actually was - was it our favourite photocopier salesman? Or someone else?

We didn't "live within our means" in the lower divisions, we were bankrolled by "handouts" from a billionaire.

The phrase "Pompey scum" is still sung at every match, in more than one song.

No we're not, and Koeman and Reed have said as much in interviews. Our aim is to be the best team outside of the biggest and richest clubs. Those biggest and richest clubs will pay higher wages and fees than we will, and we will continue to see players leave for those clubs.

Did it mention Southampton Company Union Men Because that really was really real and everything.

Form an orderly queue outside the gents, lads. Far left cubicle.

First line of the linked article?

Hoddle and Curbishley fit the bill. If it was 2002.

I imagine they'll be seeing if they can prise Neil Lennon out of Bolton.