CB Fry

HE SCORED HE SCORED HE SCORED! Apart from that, dogs hit.

Makes sense. Arsenal vs AN Other Prem club at home is probably not a creative choice for a TV match. ITV would have picked it, obviously.

It hasn't killed the competition because the competition isn't dead. TV revenues have never been higher and last year's race for the title was one of the very best for decades - wide open, exciting, brilliant. How is that a dead competition? You make it sound like Saints, or teams like Saints, were winning the league left right and centre before. And making out it isn't a Saints issue is disingenuous, as is all the "for the good of football" stuff. People on here just want any old small club to succeed do they? Do people really think the competition would be so much better if, say, Norwich or Bolton or Crystal Palace were in the top six instead? That's what this forum wants to see for the "good of football"? Sorry, it's hard to see any of this debate beyond a temper tantrum that Saints ain't going to be in the Champions League. And not winning the league, of course: all that talk of "ambition" on here rarely stretched that far: just scraping fourth to get into the Champions League. But that's only "for the good of football" of course. Not to get money for us to Lord it over smaller clubs than us. Oh no. Just for the good of football.

Except they have done no such thing. They've signed a gaggle of freebies and cheapos with barely a top flight appearance between them.

Maybe that "similar thing happening every window" should tell you something.

LOL. Forum gold.

If he's still tweeting come April we've had a bloody good season.

You've got to admire the deftness in which Alpine can turn a situation you'd think he'd be happy with (player he despises shipped out) into a situation he can complain about. We can file "Taider is just a Tommy Forecast" alongside "we will be replacing Pochettino with a Steve Wigley standard manager" in the Alpine hall of fame.

Quite. Us taking 9,000 to a third round LC game would actually be rather quite odd.

I think we may need to stop worrying about a dodgy half away at Millwall. Well done QPR. You too, Villa.

For exactly the same reason, Derby away. Or Forest. Or Burton.

We have "shown it is possible" by spending a ton of money. It certainly was a pretty ordinary comeback story - nothing about our double promotion has "shown" anyone anything not already obvious. Newsflash: richest clubs more likely to be successful. The likes of Blackpool, Watford, Swansea had better stories. Was us plundering other clubs for their players "for the good of football" as the original poster says? We signed players like Billy Sharp for big money basically for six months work then shipped him out on loan before finally getting shot. We plundered Burnley for Jay Rod, and Twente for Tadic. Us being owned by a billionaire meant we went up while other clubs didn't. Don't really understand how we have a right to complain about the cards stacked against us when we've been in an unbelievably fortunate position for half a decade.

Man would never have landed on the Moon from Everest with that attitude.

He is entirely a creature of the English league system and entirely an "English Football" player. Nationality pretty irrelevant there. I think if Long is valued at £12m then in that universe Townsend is £10m. Not sure I particularly want him and pretty sure he isn't falling over himself to come. Can't see it.

The days of us signing well regarded players from Celtic for £10 million plus and signing centre backs from second tier European clubs for £8m are clearly long behind us.

Nothing in his career so far suggests he will keep them up.

You didn't say that did you? Just imagining something that wasn't there. Pretty typical behaviour from you.

The word abuse in the context you used it was moronic yesterday, as it would have been last week, last month, or tomorrow. But you have a pretty weak grasp of the English language so people should cut you some slack.

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Koeman clearly didn't say anything to the media that he hadn't already said to the players. And we won the game, and we played better in the second half, meaning the "we were poor" stuff is addressed to the media as something that was "fixed" at half time. Happy days. So not really sure how what you've posted here applies in this case.

Just keep imagining that post in your head, sweetheart. Meanwhile today, on this very thread, a few posts up you accuse the board of SFC of "abusing" you. Well done.

Sky have it at 90+1. ART: never knowingly not bonkers.

It wasn't pathetic or weak whatsoever. It was, if anything, an aggressive put down of someone who ranks alongside you as one of this forums biggest fu cking idiots. "Waaah Ralph Krueger abused me". Fu ck me.

Jesus H Christ you type some rubbish.

He hasn't signed for us yet. If he turns down Arsenal for us he's fu cking mental.