CB Fry

Haven't we bought in squad filling "dross" like Elia or Djuricic ourselves recently? Even good old Shane Long at £12m was brought in as basically back up from day one. Don't really understand you listing out random players who have come through in history - that will continue to happen at lots of clubs for as long as football exists. I have no doubt we will bring in one, two great players every few years. But as Shurlock says it is silly for Les Reed to pretend we won't need to buy like other clubs when blatantly we do. Who has been the stand out new stars of the season - Forster, Bertrand, Pelle, Tadic and Mane or JWP, Targett, Reed? Even on our rise, we have relied on bought in (Lambert, Fonte, Clyne, Jay Rod) as much or more than our home-produced players. Morgan will be replaced by a purchase, of that I have little doubt. We're great at youth, lets not over egg it though.

Not quite comparing apples with apples there - lots of those players came through in the lower divisions so comparing them to Chelsea or Man City who are trying to win leagues is rather silly. I think Shurlock has a decent point, I think we can be prone to over egging how many academy products can become truly first team squad material. The Adam Lallana of five years ago probably wouldn't stand a chance of breaking into our first team now. We're good, better than most and we need to be. But Les is getting carried away, as did our little built-up shoe wearing Italian. I doubt the "half the squad" thing will ever happen while we are a top 10 prem team.

If you don't want to see me in full on bark mode, I wouldn't trail back through this particular thread if I were you. Some of my best/worst work. I also put both of my Internet personas to good use, with my "Hypochondriac" creation doing a brilliant job of agreeing with me. Anyway, draw a veil over it. Truth is winning.

Absolutely. Glad we agree Lou.

http://news.sky.com/story/1473806/ex-detective-to-pay-mccanns-357000-for-libel Another victory for truth vs lies today, then. Let's hope they go after Reginald D Hall and his seventeen hour epic fairy tale next.

Who on here has called it a fairy tale? Not many. Most are just pleased for them. The scummer thing? Yawn. Dealt with that in L1. They want to have a rivalry, we like them. Wouldn't it be awful if a foreign rich person helped to bankroll promotion? Oh, I'd so hate that.

Funnily enough, having followed this election for literally days now, I am fully aware of the blue-face-paint reasons to vote SNP. Just expressing the thought that if those people genuinely want a different government then voting in Tracy McBeaker would not be the greatest move.

BBC news report just now on the Paisley constituency. Left leaning Paisley types could vote for a) Douglas Alexander, experienced, solid pretty likable, genuinely local and a perfectly capable member of a new Labour government. or b) A twelve year old girl standing for the SNP. They'd have to be freaking nuts to kick out a clearly capable MP for that, surely? - Like other nationalist parties, a rousing leader but no strength in depth. If it bottoms out how I think it will - Cameron back in Number 10 - he'll be up against a weak opposition if all these SNP whey-faced newbies rock up. He'll be laughing all the way to the merchant bank.

That's our world famous catchment area down the toilet then.

Highly unlikely, unless he loses twelve in a row or something.

Pick your battles.

Box of frogs. His Yuki "experiment" went well being that pretty much everyone on here had rumbled it within a handful of posts. And his Charlie stuff was pretty standard issue troll/wind-up fare, not in the extreme aggressive style of Pastor Patron, or the beautifully constructed razor-sharp comedy gold like what I do.

Lovely. Put "Stewart Lee Dead Bill Hicks" into YouTube. Stew musing on the (not particularly original) thought that dead entertainers have an easier ride than living ones. For 90 seconds material, funny enough.

When we had played every single fixture humanly possible, including a FA Cup third round replay and up to the LC quarter finals , we were sitting pretty in the top four back on January 24th ish. Thankfully we granted the wishes of some of our expert supporters and got dumped out of both cups, providing the team with so much delicious rest, recuperation and relaxation, enabling us to completely focus on the job in hand and finish in the top four. And fair play we've never looked back, have we? Fingers crossed for more early cup exits next season, they've sorted us right out this year they have.

Box of frogs.

I can always tell when you're angry. I quite like it.

Not angry at anything. Just amused at the convoluted lengths you will go to to pretend you didn't say something that you clearly and unequivocally did. All good fun. Any time you want to apologise for making out Hypo and I are the same person, feel free.

Don't quite get SOG giving out the Sherlock Holmes jibes when the only person making dopey deductions is him. "Aha! I put it to you that CB Fry and Hypochondriac are one and the same person". Send for Scotland fuc king yard.

I'm always cool. Was confident I could get SOG to admit that he thinks I am the same person as Hypo within a handful of posts and I did. And you're right up is pointless argument but it is a football forum. It's all pointless. Anyway, I am hoping SOG is getting the mods to "do something" immediately with this dual forum personality I have nurtured on the various Saints forums for over a decade since the Gordon Strachan era. Almost admirable my long game, ain't it?

Yeah, possible. I can't see it myself. Be delighted with 6th anyway. However I can see Hull beating Liverpool on Tuesday though, archetypal April run-in result. That might open things up again.

We're going to finish at least seventh, don't worry about it. It's just whether we can squeak sixth.

Oh dear.

What a strange comment. More likely, I'd say I completely agree with him, because I do.

I'm not the one claiming two different forum contributors are the same person.

Great game, delighted not to lose but clearly could have won too. Lovely to see Pelle right back in form.