CB Fry

There are always articles about that stuff from time to time. However, lots wouldn't agree that the current set up is particularly "harmful" to the league. What's harmful about it and who is it harming? And haven't we we "ripped" players from Burnley, Palace, Twente, Feyenoord and others with big fees and "wages on offer"? But you're "complicit" in us doing that, right?

Has to be Lambert. Apart from the goals he was, as a flagship signing, symbolic of our intent to spend our way up the divisions. Later he became a symbol of how the nucleus of a L1 team could establish themselves as a Premier league force. I, for one, won't be "getting over" Rickie Lambert any time soon.

Our manager won't, thank f uck. Go for it Ronald.

Saw Daniel Kitson and Tim Key in "Tree" last night. Two very funny comedians in something a little too slight for their talents. Amusing enough but could have been funnier. Kitson as a compere or doing straight stand up is peerless but might just be letting his desire to be different overcome his innate ability to be hilarious. Still love him.

This. Winning all six is fairyland stuff and if we do we're nailed on third, let alone fourth. We'll lose at least one of the next six but it doesn't mean we can't make fourth.

This.

How many keepers get loaned for whole/half seasons between, say, Hampshire League clubs? Genuine question, can't imagine it is that many. I think the point is that I am not sure the FA have jurisdiction over the Premier and Football League loan system. We already know the two leagues have different loan rules to each other, and the agreement from a couple of years ago for Prem teams to loan between themselves was agreed by the 20 clubs, it wasn't an FA ruling. So the FA rules is not where we should be going for guidance on this, I guess.

Don't worry. I don't think we'll make any progress in the cup today at all.

It's not a "false claim" to say that you said that 9 points from 10 games was "the level required" for 5th/6th. You wrote it. The only "false claims" we get is the constant protests you never said things that are quoted directly back at you. But this false claiming from you has been going on for a long time now. Worth pointing out though when you try and blame others.

Ha. I did the same thing last week for about 6 minutes and thought the same. Not sure why it is presented by Dame Judi Dench now, either.

If we actually do get into the Champions League I think there might be a few confused and disappointed people on here.

We're going to clean up on half and half scarves, especially when we play the big guns like Maribor or Standard Leige.

Just failed to recognise Fraser Forster on the picture board round on Question of Sport. Plum.

I heard the contract length just now on five live and blurted out a "effing hell" at the radio. But eighty grand a week. It gets better. Don't go getting relegated, will you Sunderland?

Or the ref, might be a judgement call from a different ref to before. Match played under lights too rather than 3pm, not sure if that's a factor.

We're off and running. Didn't think it would take long. Do tell us what your "open mind" saying happened, because you're open minded and not just cut and pasting stuff from conspiro-idiot websites.

Because we haven't secured the 57 points we need to be mathematically safe.

I wonder how they structure the deals personally. Do you think Man United pay for each destabilising article a journalist writes about us, or is it some kind of bundle deal? My point is, is this the end of the last arrangement, or the start of a new one?

Agree it could be the difference for Toby or Victor staying. CL qualification I see more as a retention driver than a recruitment driver. I worry fans are going to get carried away - European football is in our vision but so is being a sustainable club. "It" will not be "gone for". Unless that "it" is the cup....

You don't get to decide that spelling English with a small e isn't a mistake. It is. Let it go.

Next season we will most likely be a top 8 to top 4 side, regardless of whether we win the FA Cup, get knocked out of the CL qualifier or make the CL group stage. Not sure we will suddenly hugely change our acquisition strategy, we're still going to be buying Tadic types. And we won't budget for regular CL campaigns, meaning we aren't going to throw 4 year CL contracts at CL "level" players. CL qualification might keep Morgan (or Toby) here but it might not. The only certainty if we win the FA Cup in 2015 is that we would have won the FA Cup in 2015. Finishing fourth might not be the gates to paradise some "long term thinkers" believe it to be. A desire to win the FA Cup is as equally a long term perspective.

This is why I'd rather we won the cup.

Give over. Keep on going for it in the cup, Ronald. I reckon he will, too.

Rest everyone so they're fresh for the Palace cup tie or something.

I've got some work to do tonight so don't equalise FFS.