CB Fry

They've achieved aim number one: not some chavvy gambling brand. Let's see if they've achieved number two - more money than the last lot. MLG ' s £3-5m is a bit fanciful but I'd hope for at least another 500k on top of the reported 1m that aaaaaaap were paying.

Blimey. You really do think Question Time is a conspiracy. What a funny little world you live in, Icke-y.

Hand made of ham.

Basically, it's a conspiracy.

I love the fact that its resemblance to something Barnsley, Aberdeen or Swindon might wear demonstrates what a dynamic, forward thinking club we now are. I was worried we'd up looking like one of those tin pot sides that might win the Champions League and La Liga in the same season.

Well, Wes Tender and his peoples army who are going to rise up and maybe might possibly could one day withhold five whole English pounds from the forum, but only after the likes of me and my "bum-chums" (Wes Tender's non-troll despicable little phrase) are run out of town. It's been a triumph for them and no mistake. I mean, I've not posted since.

Why would Liverpool pay far more than 20 mil for a crap py old squad player?

So the Franko rambling machine rumbles on to another topic. Who exactly are these 16 year olds we are going to be selling left, right and centre? Shaw is 18, probably 19 if he does leave this season, with is the same as Rooney when he left Everton. We've had two solid seasons out of him and if he wants to go (as you've been told countless times before) the club can do nothing except get the best price. And how sweet you call RK niaive when you are demanding we achieve more than 60plus points next season, putting us around sixth because you think it would be "mediocre" of Saints to finish 8th again, a placing we have achieved just twice nearly twenty five years. Oh, and if Liverpool or other clubs offer £100k plus a week, CL football and the chance to play at the very highest level, then we can magically match that because that was the genius "vision" - pay wages we can't afford on commercial incomes smaller than Watford. Yeah, that guy is the niaive one. That guy. Not you.

The same Everton who sell their best players for big fees to Man City, Man United and Arsenal? That Everton? Good. You won't be squinnying like a girl if we end up having to do the same, stamping your feet about how terribly awful and mediocre it is for a huge club like Saints to finish boring old eighth. And nice slating of Krueger for not doing anything of substance yet, from your authoritive position of not having the faintest idea of what he is doing. Do keep supporting our mediocre little club, Franko.

Who has said people did say that then? I don't recall anyone saying the people on here expected fourth this season or next. That's a fact too. Plenty of people "lapped up" the talk though, didn't they? Or are you going to still pretend none of that happened?

No. No one ever said any of it. You're right.

I have to say this is my favourite routine on here. Pretend it never happened. Well done Dig Dig. You're right. No one ever has said anything about us being a Champions League club on here. No one, ever. No one has ever praised Cortese's vision to achieve that. No one. No one ever said "well, he got us from L1 to the Prem so who's to say we can't make the CL?" No one ever said the cups don't matter because we're are aiming for the CL and that was the right thing to do. No one ever said anything like that on here. And no one is now grizzling about that 'vision' being no more. No one. None of it has ever been mentioned on here. No sir.

White sleeves and vertical stripes sounds like a completely different kit to me, but whatever.

Jesus Christ. Get over it. Derby all the way for me, would love to see them go up

So the Leverkusen shirt, but completely different? Agreed.

Parochial stripes, dear me.

Never knowingly not swivel - eyed.

I think that deserves a Whoosh.

I think there was an interview with Jay Rod who talked about the time Cortese told the first team he'd thrown some old books in a skip. So motivated by this they then went on to smash four past Hull. Let's hope RK throws more old stuff in a bin next season, as it is so clearly linked with success on the pitch.

Not great but easily better than our last two fabric abortions. And far better than the Bayer Leverkusen one.

Quite an odd wish, but fill your boots. I fully expect us to be challenging for fourth place because some Italian said we would on Sky Sports. Or there will be hell to pay, I can tell ya.

I've said my piece to the gullible old soak, so I won't carry on. The opening post was great to read. We're a club with soul, and loads to be proud of. What will be will be, and if we are hovering around tenth or eleventh (the shame of it) next season I won't be weeping into my beer like some of the delusionals on here.

For as long as people churn out guff about how no players or the manager would ever leave if the Italian was still here, then I'll keep reminding people. He was first out the door, so how the hell he is the poster boy for keeping people at SMS when he couldn't get out quick enough is beyond me.

I'm the one with 'ingrained prejudices' says the man who has decided that RK stands for nothing but mediocrity for no other reason than he is not Nicola Cortese. Right you are then. And the man with the ingrained prejudice that Cortese's proclamations were "ambition" when they were nothing more than aimless posturing and media sound - biting. You want to believe that junk, fine. Cortese didn't believe in it enough to stick around to deliver on it. Ran for the effing hills before he ever had to face into a tough, tough summer. Such determination and drive. Almost like it was all total bulls hi t, Franko, ain't it? Keep believing it you utter mug.

Not bowled over by platitudes he says. But absolutely lapped up the pie in the sky Daily Mail friendly nonsense the Italian came out with. Some of us remember you go weak at the knees over the Italian's "ask not if...but how" platitudes, Franko. Hook, line, sinker. And we're is this oh - so - determined driven "bastard" now? The drive and determination to see it through against the odds? Or did he walk out in January? No points for TRYING to answer that.