CB Fry

What did you expect him to say? I bet it is an honour. It's Juventus.

Yes. It is.

Three weeks ago you would have put Sharp ahead of Gallagher. None of those players were ever going to play for Saints again. None of them. Not even in a post-apocalypictic St Mary's distopia caused by Osvaldo's tongs burning down the stadium and killing the entire first team squad. None of them will (or would have) played for Saints again. None of them. Ever. Get over it.

Spot on. Have to say am amazed Man City are bringing in two more on mega money. Looking nailed on to win the league anyway and it all looks a bit (ironically) cheap. You're seriously going to spend £40-50m every single window now, City? Quite happy not to support a club like that.

This. We are clearly not going to suddenly sell one of our big names today. Calm down people.

Blatantly this. We sign some striker none of us have ever heard of - finish eighth or ninth. We don't - finish eighth or ninth. Last January we signed Forren. That's it. And we kinda finished the season fine. And the cup will be what will be. I am desperate for us to do well in a cup but you don't make signings for a cup run. As it happens, I think we will sign a player today. But I am fine if we don't.

Did the club ever say 50% under 25 then? Not sure they ever did. I reckon one day James Ward Prowse will be 26 and everything.

Just one of those made up footballers names like Carlos Kickaball or Jermaine McSporran.

The comedy king is back. Do your yo-yo policy routine again, or why not pretend we desperately need a gigantic points total to stay up. Oh, how we laugh.

50% of the team from the academy and us playing Champions League football. That was the vision. Both of those things.

Better kit, but that's about it.

Especially when it smells like Sugar Puffs.

Any player signing for Saints expecting to play in the Champions League is effing retarded.

She should be proud of what she, the manager and the players have achieved, especially over the last year or so.

Who's going to bite? Well, you.

He had a pretty long tenure as it was. Put together what will always be my favourite ever Saints team - the free scoring, 4-2-4ing, Liverpool destroying wonder team but couldn't keep it going. His sacking was fair enough, he had more than a decent crack of the whip, but obiously the replacement with Branfoot and the clogging horrendous era that followed was a travesty. Slightly odd that he never really worked meaningfully again, little stint at Walsall, and now he goes to grounds in the midlands and counts the corners and throw ins for the press association or something. As soon as I saw the thread title I presumed Chris was dead or ill.

There was a brilliant line about how amazingly detailed the shoes were.

Shearer came through in 1988, a decade before Lowe arrived. Rod Wallace very shortly after and then pretty much eff all until Wayne Bridge arrived in the Lowe era, with Oakley the only one in the decade between: the hit rate of any old club, rather than one with a strong youth set up. Our youth set up was pretty weak during the Branfoot to Souness years.

Pretty easy to seperate the two things. Was in a london cab on friday telling the QPR cabbie how much I despise the man. You can do that and still accept he has a far superior record than Joe freaking Royle.

Steve McClaren's last job: assistant to H Redknapp.

Where is that supposed quote from me from? Do show. Joe Royle and McClaren don't have better records. Smith couldn't hack the Premier League. O'Neill is one. Not better, just about as good. Who are these other stellar managers?

Martn O'Neill definitely counts and is the only one I could name who has a comparable record to Redknapp. Excellent at Leicester and Villa and a decent Euro record with Celtic. He suffers from being, like old Saggy chops, someone the general dinlows on this forum have decided is terrible regardless of facts. Which is why Tamesaint is desperately quoting Joe Royle instead of more obvious names like O'Neill.

Joe Royle's astonishing achievement of finishing top six one whole time, his relegation of Man City and his abject failure to take Ipswich back up are the hallmarks of a truly "stellar" career in management. And the fact he couldn't get arrested after that (apart from going back to Oldham) only prove how truly, truly outstanding he was. Not one of those managers who are rubbish and keep getting jobs at top flight clubs. Not Stellar Joe Royle. Okay, that's one name. Joe Royle, unquestionably one of Britains finest ever managers. But you must have loads more, right? Must be tripping off the tongue.

Not really. Take it out then. Still an excellent record. Well, yes it is. Who are all these British managers with so much better records over the last thirty years? Certainly better than any other manager we have ever had.

No. I answered the question posed, and now I've answered yours.