CB Fry

Thoroughly enjoyed their recent 3 - part documentary on seventies prog legend Brian Pern.

People know my views on the cup thing but I think Sheffield Utd is about Cloughie sorting out an under performing squad. The cup run is not a cause, it's an effect. Sunderland I'd say the same thing. Cup runs are neither detrimental or beneficial to league form: Wigan went down because they were a poor, weak squad. Not because they won the cup.

Nani and Young likely to be cleared out, and it's just a hunch based on Moyes wanting players he thinks he can actually manage. Not sure they desperately needed Fellani last summer but he chucked some serious coin at getting him in. What Man U mainly need is a different manager.

For some reason Lallana to Manchester United seems plausible to me. I don't think Adam has any great desire to move, but it just seems like the kind of slightly odd panic buy that Moyes would do while Chelsea and Man City are out buying the biggest megastars from the WC. If United lob 25 mil at us we probably would sell. Which, weirdly, might see us keep Shaw one more season...or I might just be mental.

Brilliant. Disappointing lack of man - hug selfie, though. Come on, it's the feel good story of the year. My only question is has Pap met Dune before to know that BS isn't him?

Can't open the file, but if it is the movie "Once in a lifetime" from about six/seven years ago then yeah, it's a brilliant film and well worth a watch.

So, nothing like that then.

Red and white version of that current Philly shirt would be quality. Steve Moran-tastic

Don't cry luvvie. You can't help being pitifully wrong about everything. You're just plain dumb. You can probably get help. All the best with it.

If you want to ever remind me about how wrong I am about our catchment area and just how many fans we'll be turning away this season, let me know. It gets boring reminding you about how spectacularly wrong you are about pretty much everything. Chin up, though, sweetheart.

It's a little bit rich you talking about people "never responding to posts" when I've been waiting several days to explain how Saints have "broken glass ceilings and turned over "preconceptions" and "established views" by the earth shattering achievement of spending thirty million quid to get to ninth in the league. Especially as only a day or so later you were piping up "what's so great about finishing eighth". So ninth is breaking down "established views" and "glass ceilings" but eighth "isn't great"? Brilliant. That's the problem with you Franko. Just words on words on words saying everything and absolutely nothing. Contradicting yourself through constant double backing on every single thought you have. Just a torrent of brain sludge signifying absolutely eff all. So carry on "cracking up". The rest of us patiently await your next 700 word round the houses aimless ramble with all the instances of "the" typed wrong.

Really can't see Pochettino being a serious candidate for Inter Milan (unless Cortese ends up there). He's not done enough to warrant it. Might as well give the Inter job to Alan Pardew, who has been far more successful. And is mental enough to fit right in on an Italian touchline.

I believe "key, key, key" outranks "top, top" in the player quality scale.

Too true. Mid table teams run out of steam at this point in the season, regardless of whether or not they are in the cup or not. Swansea (cup winners) and West Brom (nothing in the cups) both has similarly drab and lifeless ends to the season last year, yet still managed to finish 8th/9th as we will. Not being in the cup is not the match-winning wonder drug some on here seemed to think it was a couple of weeks ago. Basically we should have bloody tried at Sunderland. As most of us know. We'll finish ninth or eighth whatever from here. We've got the wins in us to do it. Let's just get some of these boys to Brazil.

I think it is jolly sweet that you and Les hold up these "concepts" about probability and possibility like you've just invented the water - powered motor car. Probability, pragmatism, possibility, realism, aspiration. How you manage to wring so much vacuous verbiage about nothing is truly spectacular. So my old chum, stop slapping yourself on the back that I don't understand clever old you. Seriously, you say eff all of any value whatsoever. Understand that.

What red mist? Just seeing what you want to see. Hilarious lottery gag, like, just so clever of you. We were never going to become a Champions League club. If you think predicting that obvious outcome is as complex as predicting the flamin' lottery then I am sorry that you are actually that dim. To you last point, review what "situation" on what terms? What will be, will be, and I'll support us anyway. I won't be pining for some Italian in a suit, whatever happens. And being that you take huge joy from mocking those who want us to win stuff and progress into European football I struggle to conceive what you want from your club anyway.

My primary aim on here is to get chuckles. Not from everyone - 90% of this forum are utter helmets - but from some. There is a pitchfork mob of the great and the good gathering against me on another thread at the moment. I think they might finally defeat me, hastening my retirement from the forum. If Ottery turns up with his usual barrage of smilies, I think that might be the end.

People can hope what they like. But it hasn't happened and it was never going to. I'm not angry about people's hopes but I am not going to have tedious lectures about probable/possible/etc etc when it boils down to far simpler themes. People swallowed the pie in the sky stuff from our tiny Italian wizard of Oz, greedily maneuvering for more of the dead man's cash. Some didn't. And those that didn't were spot on. You lot can keep rabbiting on about probably/possible horses hit till the cows come home. Fill your boots. Boo hoo. Our chief executive has gone and all our dreams are over. Boo hoo.

So our two posters who revelled in the fact we limped out of the cup by mocking other fans for being disappointed minutes after the final whistle are having a pop at me. Bless your lickle trolling hearts.

I am amazed that such a scholar of nuance and interminably long forum posts such as you still needs little old me to explain my posts to him. Tell you what Les, get Frank to explain it to you: he'll give you a snappy 800 word reply, perfect for your oh - so - long attention span. Anyway, clearly progress with you today. At least you do accept people saying exactly what I said they did, despite you suggesting no one did only a couple of posts before. Apology accepted. And back on topic. Ambition is great. Top ten for the next ten years is massive ambition. I doubt we'll achieve it, but I'd love to see us try, especially as it will give us a platform to go for cups and Europe. Ambition. Right there. Us being a Champions League club and turning over the established order of world football (or whatever Lord Nuance of Subtleshire was droning on about) is not ambition. Just infantile day dreaming. It was never going to happen and it isn't happening. Those of us with the attention span and savvy enough to see beyond a couple of quotes on a Sky Sports interview could see that clear as day. You want to pay more attention sunshine....forget revelling in nuance and give the big picture a try.

Don't worry. Dalek never means anything he ever posts anyway. He's simply a rib - tickling hilarious comedy troll. Hang about and he'll do his "we're sleepwalking to relegation" routine. Oh, he's just so funny I nearly wet myself.

Thank God it's all the players' fault. I was starting to think he was just a pis spoor manager but clearly this has set me straight.

So 8th in the Prem - something our club has done a grand total of zero fu cking times in the last decade - is not success to you. It is to me matey. And presumably the aspiration for Saints for you next year is for us to win the league and both cups, yes? Or are you applying arbitrary glass ceilings on your "possibilty" routine? But yours - some vague undefined non commital (Frank classic) success - is right, but mine: top ten every season and try and get to Wembley and Europa League - is wrong?

What seems to have gone over your head is the fact that Frank uses layer upon layer of equivocal "...but on the other hand" vagueness in every 300 word arse aching post he writes. I'm trying to cut through and get what his actual point is. Frank doesn't do "nuance", just have it all ways nothingness. And if you seriously believe no one on this forum has ever used the line of argument that "Cortese took us up two divisions, so why can't he take into the Champions league? " or "well, noone would have believed four years ago that we would have....so why can't we believe that..." a heck of a lot of this forum has gone over your head, sunshine. Flip me, you even quote captain nuance saying it. "You could be forgiven for believing. .." It's all going over your head, sweetheart.

This is a lovely idea. Unfortunately, Saints fans won't consider it until Man City fans have sung it about a different player. And will need to be on Sky Sports for at least three years before the Northam crack on with their version. Which will still manage to be awful.