CB Fry

We prefer "The Kat Pack".

Jesus. That effing printing firm thing is going to be a permanent fixture on every thread now?

Saints selling a footballer, eh? How ever will we cope?

No. Its announced name was the FP Stadium. Until fans kicked off and Rupert changed it.

Cortesedome.

Should shut up the effwits blathering about "asset stripping". Well done Katherina.

As Buctootim has already said, finance is what got those players and this manager in, far more than some nebulous rebrand you are pretending happened. And we've had some positive coverage in the media, but nothing more than, say, Middlesborough under Steves Gibson and McClaren with benovolent investor and emphasis on young players and a Europa League final. Or Swansea last season. Or Newcastle with Alan Carr's dad and the first intake of wonder frenchmen. Bolton's finishing 6th, 7th, 7th and 8th in concecutive seasons. Hodgson turning around Fulham and WBA. Steve flipping Clarke at WBA last season, third in November or whatever it was. There's always a "new kid on the block" club for the press to get excited about. Next season it could be Derby County. Or West Brom again. We're pootling around in ninth place. We have not become a "force to be taken seriously" unless you believe WBA and Swansea were a "force to be taken seriously" last year. It's fair to say Cortese has done a cracking branding job on himself with a parade of poor saps convinced he is some messiah and his achievements are hyped up far more than the reality.

That nice Mr Cortese did that kind of thing all the time.

His innovation stretched to pretending we could fill a 50,000 seater stadium and pretending we could be a CL with half the team from the academy. Innovative. Or pie in the sky.

Says the man who a) dreams about us playing in a 25,000 stadium in Stoneham b) spent a year spitting blood that we didn't sell up to those well known gazillionaires at SISU.

LOL. Lack of judgement in appointing a manager who had delivered four top eight finishes in a row, including a sixth place finish. Who yhen steered Bkackburn to a top half finish. The kind of record MP would kill for. Terrible judgement, yeah.

Brian Kidd and Paul Ince the only two howlers I can see. Both understandable mistakes. Other than he has picked decent managers delivering top half/top eight prem football consistently. Would do us.

Is he still at Man City? If he is then I guess he might have to do a few months gardening leave before he came to us. Not a reason not to take him on but might mean he doesn't get going until the summer.

Coming down the tunnel to The Imperial March would be good.

You're right. One of them has spent a long time cultivating a media image through selected press sychphants that he is some king midas whose departure would spell disaster for any club. And the other one is the current manager of QPR.

Anyone reading the papers this week will see just how similar they are.

LOL. Sweet, precious Nicola with howwible journalists bothering him. How dare they. No, you're right. He was probably on the phone to Neil Ashton. Or organising an "official" sactioned conversation with Neil Ashton through Neil's PA.

He's the sports editor. The funny thing if we were talking, say, Harry Redknapp, none of you divs for a minute would question the idea that he would have the phone numbers of a key journalist or two. Bless your little hearts you think your Nicky is everso different.

Computer says yes.

Is that how it works in your computer game? Fair enough then.

I think it's bizarre you think he wouldn't have it. Solent have been Cortese's pet media outlet locally - he's tickled the tummy of the Mail, the Sun and Sky Sports too of course - for the last five years. Do you think they have been writing letters to each other all this time? It's entirely possible that Nicola Cortese has no intention of coming back and is trying to stop stupid rumours about a comeback getting everyone's hopes up.

I know you're heart broken that for the last three years you've been pompously claiming how the press deal in undubstantiated rumours and we do our business properly and all that rot....while all the time Cortese has been building a coterie of hacks, falling over themselves to spout of some Nicola pearls of wisdom. While you've been belittling the press on your hero's behalf, he's been all over them. So spare me the "really" routine. Blackmore could have easily rung Cortese. He's a frigging unemployed football administrator, not Kim Jung Un. He's probably sat by the phone right now waiting for his sweetheart Neil Ashton to ring him. Remember: real life. Not a computer game.

Blackmore has been as good a mouthpiece for Cortese as any in recent times. Blackmore not quite as sycophantic as some of Cortese's chums on the nationals who have reached Redknapp levels of hero worship, granted.

More or less, yeah. Far more likely than Blackmore ringing the SFC press office for confirmation of a story that is about their ex Chief Exec and a potential buyer, which was MLG's sweet little theory.

Jesus Christ, MLG. Blackmore's source is almost certainly Cortese or someone very close. You realise your hero who you used to pretend did his business "properly" and "privately" has spent the last week blabbing to anyone who will listen in the press like an evicted Celebrity Big Brother housemate.