CB Fry

Going by this thread, the average Saints fan is very likely to notice the contradiction between a right-leaning political standpoint and reading the Guardian.

By some distance the funniest thing you have ever posted on this forum.

On the patron front, they've still got Sean Bean on board plus a couple of other people no one has heard of. Have we got that many patrons?

He's a bit broader than that in his explanation, he is clear in his support for what Jessica Ennis and the others have done. I think his point is sound: Evans really shouldn't expect to just ease back in to exactly the job he had before he went to prison. I know the "he's done his time" gang will hate this idea but there are very few professions where an ex con (of any crime, not just rape) simply strolls back into their old job, picks up a pen/scalpel/hod and carries on like nothing ever happened. Surely a "new start" somewhere else is a perfectly acceptable part of the rebuilding/rehabilitation process. Can't see anything wrong with that at all.

We've got Radhi Jaidi on that job anyway. Or is that East Africa?

That's true of gardening leave in almost all industries in fairness.

Definitely be at least three months. I'm on three month notice right now, and my sphere of influence/risk around my role does not quite stretch to the acquisition of multi million pound footballers. (Obviously I'm a pretty big old cog in my current company. That toner doesn't replace itself, you know.) I would think it could even be six months, he might not get going until next summer.

Completely. We would be a nightmare club to try and buy from in January, especially as any player Lovren-ing for a move out is going to look like a monumental c8nt. We're probably safe. Just them journalists to worry about, really.

Not impossible. A "double bubble" signing for some clubs - strengthening them, weakening us. Clyne, J-Rod probably the likeliest candidates.

The destabilising impact if this story alone is probably going to be worth ten or eleven league points, a real hammer blow to our Champions League challenge. So, money well spent by whichever club it is paying journalists to make up stories about us, which is definitely happening and no mistake.

Pretty obvious this thread would end up here, really.

Packed international football schedule + no serious competition to his place = greatest England striker ever.

Or, he doesn't do that at all.

The law also doesn't say he has a divine right to go back to the precise same job he did before. And the law doesn't stop Jessica Ennis, SUFC sponsors and supporters making it difficult/impossible for him to get a contract there. Or other people connected with other clubs doing the same in the future to stop him signing for them, too. So no cherry picking going on, and do do try and remember who the victim is here.

Alan Carr's old man always gets plenty of coverage.

The kit is not a f*€king abortion in fabric, and we are not run by an absolute c@#t. The myth we could only achieve stuff with a short arse weasel faced belle nd In charge has been smashed into dust. Easily the most satisfying season in my living memory. Delicious, simply delicious.

You and the other intellectuals keep weeping about the newspapers trying to destabilise us. I can never keep up with that brain power, that's for sure. Don't tell me, you nevva said dat.

Blog away. I'll just pretend I never said it, accuse you of not understanding nuance and then type out exactly the same thing again.

Err, you've just typed out exactly what I said you said. Odd. Don't flatter yourself with "nuance" sunshine, especially when you have such a pi ss poor grasp on how newspapers actually behave. The media has nuance but not in Hint: no-one is releasing certain stories, probably about Koeman and our senior players, to try to contribute towards a drop in form. No one is doing that. Although I fully expect you to come back and say you never said that, even though I've just fu cking pasted it from your post above. Crack on, captain nuance.

That's an "important principle" to you? Seriously? Okay then footballers. Rape who you want, as much as you want. They'll always be a game for you, and football fans like you will swoon over you like some martyr. We love a rogue, don't we eh? Kicking a football outranks anything you might ever do in the real world. If you're good enough, you're rapey enough. I love "principles", me.

Nothing better than the "I never said that" defence. So, anything you are prepared to admit you did say? Of course, you've never used the word "destabilise" on this forum in the last week? And you never said the media are placing negative stories about us because we are doing well, which you think they don't do for bigger clubs when they are doing well? My point was the Mitchell story was in the papers because it was, you know, kinda true and not there as part of a mission to destabilise us. But, you don't think that and never said anything remotely like that. So that's okay then. It's great when we agree entirely.

LOL. It's only a "non news story" to you because of your disingenuous paranoia. Why wouldn't Spurs poaching a member of our famed academy be covered by the press? You'll have noticed our academy has had quite a lot of coverage recently. Which is weird when you remember the entire British Press are apparently on a mission to destroy our Champions League push. Funny really.

That was aintforever's point in fairness.

There are plenty of figures in the entertainment industry who have seen their careers wrecked by convictions. He can try and earn a living but no football club is obliged to give him one. Let's see if those taking pre-emptive action against by removing sponsorship from SUFC succeed. I'd like to think so. Obviously all the cases you roll out are all identical and Luke McCormack didn't accept guilt and apologise to his victims. Oh. He did. And there was plenty of fuss at the time. Weak memory you have there. Part of Evans "rehabilitation" might start by doing something similar, but probably not while Internet fan-boys protest his innocence, bring forward their snippet-fuelled "well she was pi ss ed anyway" defence, and assuming he's going to be cleared eventually because he is now complaining to the CCRC. There's your bandwagon right there.

Since when do footballers get contracts on "entitlement"? If he's "entitled" to play for Sheffield United, then Jessica Ennis is "entitled" to take her name off their stand, sponsors are entitled to pull their sponsorship and fans are entitled to write, chant, complain etc. They are entitled to make it not commercially and corporately viable for SUFC to employ him. Trump his supposed "entitlement". I really like Nigel Clough and I'd like to think he'd resign if SUFC go ahead with signing him. He's entitled to do that too. The plumber comparison is totally retarded. If Ched Evans wants the same treatment as a plumber then he can come round my house and bleed my radiators. There are other professions where he wouldn't get immediate re employment back where he was, with the wider entertainment industry being a pretty decent example. A better example than effing plumbing.