CB Fry

Looks like quite a catch to me.

Err - you know it's you getting upset about this ad, right? My knickers are in no twist, I'd love to see you quote anything from this thread that shows different. As Verbal has just pointed out above, you seem to do an awful of "projecting" of your own thoughts into others and then getting upset. If I'd seen it first in the cinema I would have groaned as well. It's mawkish beyond belief and a poor use of ad spend in my opinion - I've already said that on this thread. Pay attention.

I'm not outraged by anything here, mock or otherwise. You're about to post up the letters you've written to Sainsbury's, AMV BBDO and The Royal British Legion, I take it. Looking forward to reading them.

Indeed. Any idiot can do it.

It's not a skill. Too easy for that. A bit like mocking gullible saps fawning over internet conspiracies.

Here's some "cheap shots", ignoring the "point" of an advertisement from Sainsbury's. Laughable. How you managed to compare it to cigarette ads took mind-bending skills of disingenuousness, but well done all the same. Laughable. Clue: that 2 minute advert was not trying to "compress the nightmare that lasted 4 years into something decent that lasted a few hours". Just a cheap shot of spectacular misunderstanding from you. Your shots are Aldi-cheap. Keep taking them.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/fa_cup/4071255.stm More than a few years ago. Ten years ago.

Didn't that get stopped a few years ago?

Which ones are you suggesting are nonplussed about implied anti-semitic remarks?

The Guardian broke the story.

Fair article overall, if a little obvious. The phrase "paper-thin squad" is harsh in Saints-world, but not so harsh if we are talking about being a top four club. At the highest level we are thin. We need luck with injuries because we're not going to ever truly have a full top-4 squad. We've got a strong first 14/5 though. I think the other clubs getting it together is the biggest threat, and Man U and Liverpool I think will get it together eventually. Spurs not so much. We're in the mix like never before (in the CL era) but there's a long old way to go.

Common sense prevails. Well done SUFC.

I marked him down because we're not safe from relegation yet and we need five or six more wins before I can relax and look at me aren't I just hilarious.

Taking the pi ss out of you making out that the British public will now think everyone had a lovely time during the First World War because of one two minute advertisement is the only enjoyment I get in my miserable bed-sit bound lonely life.

In this example, the integrity and as you say personality of this site would be compromised to an extent that it would almost certainly be abandoned by its audience. "The Man" would only take control of this site to monetise it, and closing down discussion to that extent would have the opposite impact. I know you are making a wider point but I think it still stands. Comment threads on newspaper websites is a click driver far more than it is some platform for free speech. It's Internet landfill. As others have said the decisions to not open threads are going to largely be economic/technical/legal rather than a way to stop free speech.

I hope we don't play them for a decade. They need it - right now, they really need it - and we don't. Fu ck em.

He's got that annoying Dave Jones-ism of saying "This/The Football Club" over and again. Apart from that, hilarious. Please don't let it stop.

Made me laugh anyway.

I hope a mod locks this thread.

I haven't poured scorn on a small part of your argument. I've poured scorn on all of it.

He'd be brilliant these days - he'd be fitter because he'd be doing the regimes that the squad do now. It's always silly to transplant footballers from one era into another. Just different worlds. Nice read, thanks for the link OP.

SOG's contributions bear re-reading. Pure comedy gold complaining that a two minute supermarket advertisement doesn't go into significant detail about the slaughter and suffering of the full four years of the first world war. Basically if the ad had shown soldiers climbing out of the trenches and being shot, that would have been better. I don't particularly like the ad, but mainly because I think strategically they have made an poor call. This is a gigantic Christmas for the big four supermarkets, and instead of talking about their own point of difference or what they are really about versus Aldi/Lidl, Sainsbury's have decided to do a John Lewis vanity ad. Not sure it is going to pay off for them. The complaints are just pointless noise. Corporation uses heartwarming historical event to sell stuff shocker.

Ban this filth.

Not sure anyone has said he hasn't.

Personally I'd agree with them. The big battle for the campaigners is to get Evans cast out of Sheffield United. Evans and the PFA know this too, SUFC is the only club the PFA can apply some pressure to in order to get him re-signed. That's his best immediate hope. Once he's on the open market, he's at the mercy of clubs with no obligation to him at all, and like you say the bandwagon will roll on. Eventually he'll get a game somewhere but this will be probably be a long and difficult process for him. If nothing else he might learn a bit of contrition through it.