CB Fry

In a similar situation a couple of weeks ago, you said something slightly different.

Your "everyone's a hypocrite" radar is going like billy-o ain't it? Wait for the kit to come out before going into overdrive, won't you?

...is just about the only one on here that fits the criteria outlined by SC below....

I think we should go for blue shorts. There's a tradition that we used to have them, and it would make us genuinely distinct from Stokunderland. And I think would look rather nice. And white socks.

You're expecting a heck of a lot from one CL campaign. It didn't set Leeds and Newcastle up for life. One season in the CL could be just as much of a flash in the pan as a cup win.

Cacker is up there with Dinlow as genuine high points of the English language.

LOL. Or you could just admit you had and have no idea.

I'd rather be in the EL and finish 12th than not be in it and finish 8th (the highest point that guarantees non EL football). Let's have a bash at it. At the end of the day we are probably only a couple of seasons away from a 12/13/14th place finish anyway (let's not pretend this season is the locked in template for the next two/five/ten, it won't be). Thursday/Sunday is sh ite I give you.

Right you are, then.

It's going to make for a bedging dissertation, and no mistake. I can't wait to kloft the final version. He's gushing the porthole with this one and that's for sure. Straxcellent.

That Katharina? She's lost control.

You do struggle with accurate comparisons don't you Les? Adam Lallana's eight year stint covers coming through the ranks and seeing the club fall to its lowest low and then surge to great heights again. And a little matter of 235 appearances across three divisions of highs and lows. Team captain, one of our own and a massively significant player in the post-Prem-relegation era. Kenwyne Jones played for us for a bit under George Burley. But, sure, every one of those 19 legendary goals he scored will live long in the hearts of every Saints fan. We'd have probably named a lounge or a stand after him if he didn't strop off on strike to go to Sunderland, such was his monumental import.

That's perfectly normal though, unless you are expecting SFC to go into an entirely domestic season with a 30-man European mega-squad.

We'd sell a lot more if they were available to buy in every large supermarket and sports retailer in (non-blue) Hampshire. But the club might make less absolute margin/profit from those sales. Which may explain the policy.

Utterly sickening the way the rich bully boy clubs can act like this. I'd probably say it was patently unjust.

Reminds me of the saps who used to say we weren't ready for the Premier League and we'd be better off having two seasons in the Championship to "get ready". Let's qualify and go for it. We are never, ever going to be more ready than now.

A square bracket never hurt anyone.

That quote looks dubious. Not least because it doesn't read like anything anyone would say out loud.

Our resident in the know forum football expert Crab Lungs basically spent three months openly weeping about Lallana not getting his phone calls returned all summer, working himself up into to a frenzy of fury over how despicable it all was. The rest of normal humanity could see exactly what was going on, but poor old Crabster swallowed it whole. The BBC (or was it the Telegraph?) piece describing how AL "flipped like a burger" summed the whole thing up rather nicely.

This just about sums it up.

Err, I think everyone remembers that. The point is the only "stripes" that are "back" in that message are the adidas stripes. If next season's kit is striped, then the stripes won't be "back" will they? Just like they won't be back for Stoke or Sunderland if they go with stripes next year.

Liverpool. Because if Lallana, Lovren and Rodgers but also... Guildford/Southampton/Yeovil based Liverpool fans: just because you've won pretty much nothing in the last two decades doesn't not make you a glory hunter. You are. You still are.

I don't really understand the question, but a fifth place finish would be an excellent achievement.

Yep. No problem with them winning today. Keeps them in the sweet spot of utter mediocrity in the bottom division. A genuine fight/great escape from relegation could give their fans a(nother) badge of honour and another chapter in their mythology, seeing it as some kind of victory for "real" football, and an "I was there" day for the (s)crapbook. Bimbling around nowhere near anything at 15/16/17th ish is 100% solid tin irrelevance. Just total nothingness. Well done today lads. 1-0 eh.

Nah. Curbishley actually achieved stuff as a top flight manager. Sherwood seems to be touted around as some managerial genius on the back of a handful of matches with someone else's team.