CB Fry

Frank saying something intelligent? Where's that then? Just a reheat of the age old "Cortese got us from League 1 to the Premier League therefore he would have delivered Champions League because everything he promised he delivered". Well that was painfully obvious nonsense eighteen months ago when me and others said it won't pan out like that. Of course I get accused of trolling but look around you. I was right. And tell you what son. I'll carry on supporting Saints whatever the hell happens, I don't need some capital letter IF demanding success like a toddler screaming for a lollypop. What IF the club don't "continue to be successful"? What then? Will you cry? Boo hoo.

Is the big picture the fact that we were never going to crack the Champions League in a 50,000 seat stadium but utter saps like you lapped it up? That big picture? Boo hoo. Boo hoo. A chief executive walks out on the football club he worked at. Boo hoo. Keep sobbing.

"Not a penny more than £35 million", Frankie? Chicken feed. Let's get these Swiss parasites out of the club then. Just remember who effing well owns us.

He's at the biggest club in the world as the world's most expensive ever footballer. But still people on here say he'd have been better off staying at Saints for another season. Got to love this forum.

Don't worry. Saints Fan CaM is well known for providing proof for stuff, so he'll be able to come up with evidence to support his claims. It's not like he will come up with a lame excuse why he can't prove it.

You want proof that the Leibherr family own the club and bankrolled it into the Premier League? Are you actually fourteen years old? Maybe you can tell us how much money Cortese "wonderfully bestowed" on us. Because you have some form of proof, right? Round it to the nearest million if you like. Come on, spill the beans. I bet you'll have some lame excuse why you can't prove a thing. Think back. Did the Leibherr family own us when we bought Lovren or not? "Boo hoo. Boo hoo. Boo hoo. A chief executive has left my football club. Boo hoo. Boo hoo." Think a bit harder before you accuse other fans of being pathetic. Because your blubbing is as lame as it gets.

KL's "interference" allowed us to buy the likes of Lovren, you ungrateful fool. Cult of Cortese living on I see.

Get behind the lads FFS.

So he has an amazing gift to see "way, way ahead" but utterly incapable of forseeing the owners of the business wouldn't want some level of input and not just let him run it like his own private fiefdom. He walked out.

Okay, so you're fine that red kits are also boring and unoriginal. Great.

You think about it. You're just using your own interpretations of the words. You've decided "popular" is something fans would like that you like, while you've wheeled out "populist" as a perjoritive term to mean something fans would like that you don't like. The actual semantic difference between the two words in this scenario is totally negligible. Happy to help.

How the holy mother of f uck do we stand out in a plain red kit?

The very fact he used the media to ramp up his Champions League hype just when he realised the money was running out (ie just after his summer hissy fit) shows me he is the opposite of what you say. His primary "ideal" seemed to be "spend as much of the dead guys money to pursue a dream". His vision on the academy was and is the right one but frankly not that revolutionary. Middlesborough doing it a decade back and had a European final to show for it. Cortese's revolution has got us no further than Lowes. He didn't waste the money. That's to his credit.

Cortese was thinking so "way ahead" he quit halfway through his second season in the top flight? A little "short sighted" to use your words, no? And you accuse others of writing drivel.

You definitely can't. Anyway, you have contradicted yourself.

Looks like you've been "institutionalised" by the Cortese "mantra" that we were going to qualify for the Champions League with a team of academy kids. Just to confirm: total number of glass ceilings, preconceptions and established views challenged successfully: zero.

I'm okay with it, Hypo. Eighth is lovely for me - there is no next level for us from here, unless we have some kind of miracle season, which I can't see happening. Newcastle did it a couple of seasons back, but even they are a significantly bigger club than we are anyway and couldn't maintain it in the following season. Burley's Ipswich or Sam Allardyce with Bolton are the only other comparable recent examples, but still have to go back a decade or more. Big Sam getting Bolton to 7th (twice), 8th and 6th in four concecutive seasons now seems utterly impossible for any club outside the current top six to achieve these days. Eighth to fourteenth in any given Prem season sounds just dandy for me for the next few years, and I think folk on here are too quick to underestimate what an achievement that would be. The only thing we should be finding space for is a few decent runs in the cups, of course...but I think we all know where we all stand on that now.

The Stanley Cup?

I'd say the quality of that cheerleading team needs significant improvement. Freddy Krueger out.

Keep it dusty.

Run along and tell us what howwible things other fans are saying about us....Wahhh we're a laughing stock.

The magical seventh argument? Is that some Samaurai thing? Delldays, your entire forum persona is based on back referencing your take on other people's old opinions. Look at your opening post on this thread you utter plum.

I remember a time way, way back (lets call it about six weeks ago) when you would be falling over yourself to proclaim how "not bothered" you are about how we may look in the papers or be perceived by other fans. "Not bothered, not bothered, not bothered". These days you've turned in to a pant-pi ss ing hysterical old woman. Good work Delldays.

I am crying with laughter at how one person can be so funny. You're, like, the wittiest trolling wind up merchant the internet has ever seen. Do your yo-yo strategy material again. Just exceptional.

Great question. I remember Pochettino being the resounding choice of all Saints fans for weeks before he was appointed.