CB Fry

This has the potential to be the most rib tickling routine you've ever come up with. Stick with it for the next four or five years and I reckon the entire forum will agree you truly are the funniest man on the Internet.

Do your Hoddle routine.

The only reason Tadic has joined us is because of deep disillusionment with the vision and ambition of Twente.

Please can I be the first to fabricate the fee were are demanding? - I'm going to say we have been told that we want not a penny less than forty million. I can then get absolutely furious about the club not achieving said made up fee, and I can get all arsey pretending the club said they were definitely going to hold out for that fee so are a bunch of gutless liars. I think that's how it works, right?

Yeah, good point. Getting promoted from League one is the preserve of the uber rich mega clubs like Yeovil, Brentford and Rotherham. We'd probably still be there now.

Oh he am so funny everyone.

Far rather have this guy than Pelle. (And I know precisely the same amount about both players - eff all).

Always worth making the distinction - he didn't save us but his money did turn us into a Premier League club quicker than would otherwise have happened. He saved us from many years of Championship level drudgery, like Derby or Forest. Absolutely no way should we change the names of the stands, they're good now.

White with red pinstripes?

Good work Saints.

No. Liverpool wanted to buy him and he wanted to go. That's what "happened next".

I think the person lying to himself to make them feel better is you son.

But when people say the same about George you dismiss it as made up by the "anti Burley brigade"? Right-o.

This is like a civil war reenactment, old swords dusted down. But, regardless, what a load of nonsense. The anti - Burley "brigade" were anti Burley because he was an appalling manager who managed to utterly blow the best chance we had of a Premier league return, despite having unprecedented funds and total freedom to build the squad he wanted. Your suggestion he had a "tough time" is garbage - the relative resources he had far outstripped any of his predecessors. And with all that he left us in a far worse state than he inherited us. Utter, abject, pathetic failure. The drinking stuff was not just made up by people on this forum, now was it? And drawing a correlation to footballers 30 years previously is a pretty ridiculous comparison.

This is the kind of thing people used to say about Alan McCloughlin.

Koeman singles out Vlaar for praise on his twitter feed last night. Just a case of wrapping up personal terms now, surely....

Leave the stands as they are, they are well named as it is and as Hypo says we have stuff named after ML already.

We CANNOT all stand by and be complicit in us not signing Loic Remy.

No idea what point you're trying to make with this list of WC performances that we all know. The prem was far more English in 1994 than now.

The utter mentalness has started TDD. I like the new regime, I'm confident we will make decent signings but it is pretty clear next season will be transitional and we are very likely to be weaker than last season. That's a fine thing to think. Don't think the world needs the likes of NickG making out a ragbag of Saints reserves is already a top half team. I think he still thinks we finished in "realistic" 6th place last season....

Don't worry, NickG is very good at saying stuff, unequivocal and clear as day but even when it is directly quoted back at him will still point blank deny he ever said it.

Just like we were definitely going to appoint a Steve Wigley / Billy Davies standard manager? Pitifully, pathetically wrong. You never, ever learn do you? At least we can all look forward to a blubbering "well, its easy in hindsight" backtrack from you, regular as clockwork.

Would be astonishing business from us but stupid business for Liverpool.

We had a very English division one in the seventies and couldn't even qualify for the world cup. We did great in 86 (still a terrible group phase performance), okay in 82 but appalling in 88 and didn't qualify in 1984. Oh for an English only football league.

But if we didn't have red and white shirts, and had the revolutionary and forward thinking plain red strips from last season, do you think a significant portion of the 90% would then embrace Southampton? Of course they wouldn't. If and when that 90% decide to follow EPL football, then they will follow the top six clubs. The basic rules of brand size/market share will apply. And, funnily enough there are already three of that top six wearing revolutionary forward thinking plain red. Basically the point is we don't need to adapt our kit to revolutionary forward thinking plain red. We will only ever be a niche proposition in overseas markets anyway and the only factor that will build that niche is winning stuff, playing well. Whoring our identity and history for some shred of acceptance from people that frankly don't give a s hit is the football branding equivalent of what that pis sed up dopey cow in Magaluf decided was a good idea last weekend.