CB Fry

No one on that thread on that link says "they are much smaller than us". One person, one person, says they think their club is bigger than Saints. And that person is jealous of us. And no one on that thread dishes out a bitter abuse fuelled rant against us like you have just done against them. Lord only knows what your reaction would be if they did. Some Saints fans have a weird obsession about WHU, like we have 'history' with them or something. From what I can see WHU don't give a sh ite about us. If anything they admire us right now. Maybe that makes them bigger after all.

If Cortese wanted to do it then obviously it would be a brilliant thing to do and only contribute to our success on the pitch. Indeed, many on here are convinced that having a plain red kit is a genuine contributory factor in our current on-field success. The word Saints is very important to Oriental people as well so can only build on our massive presence there and stuff.

My favourite bit was when Armstrong said the Saints way of playing could be compared to Jack Charlton's Middlesbrough team of the 1970s. Brilliant.

I remember a bit of that but comparing getting promotion from the NPC when we were runaway leaders from the get-go is not the same as winning the Premier League where we have been 6th - 3rd all season. People saying we won't win the league are not pessimists.

99.5% IMO.

I will, but it gets tiresome when people put mathmatical store in something that simply won't happen. We won't get relegated this season. Feel free to chastise me for my assured, concrete opinion. In fact I encourage it. Fill your boots. I won't care because I'm right. We are safe safe safe safe safe safe.

Try telling that to the nutcases that think we could still get relegated this season.

I mentioned this ridiculous sentiment the other day and was accused of making stuff up. Well here it is again. We can win the FA Cup this season, but if we do it clearly will not then result in our relegation. I take it you have seen us play this season?

We're now massive in all Oriental nations because of our kit being all red and that.

Should be going all out to get Bridgey back IMO.

Alpine's greatest hits in the Cortese era: We've bottled promotion to the Championship (we didn't) We've bottled promotion to the Premier League (we didn't) You're all being complacent, I can see us being overtaken by Wigan/we're going down (we didn't). But anyway, that negative old media, eh?

It's fair to say absolutely none of this success would have happened if we were still wearing a striped kit. Great point.

What seasons did he "damn near relegate" Wigan and Sunderland then? He saved Wigan following a disasterous start to the season under Hutchings I think. And he took Sunderland to solid mid table and was sacked probably prematurely and it's not like they have done any better since. And needless to say got the Sunderland job because of his good record at Wigan also known as not "damn near" relegating them.

Utterly moronic statement. Solid mid table performances with not one, not two but three Premier League sides. And on track for a fourth. Pray tell, which club has he been a "disaster" at?

Morgan gives a lot of credit to Pardew for his development too.

This and this. There's a real beauty to the way the team has been built organically. I said in September that we'd had the perfect transfer window: three key players, better than what we had, straight down the spine of the team. Add to that the smooth introduction of our own youth, and the core of the side remaining together over the last five seasons. Almost a masterclass in building a Premier League squad. We are a phenomenon at the moment, let's hope we can keep going this season and beyond.

We've earned the right to lose them both but I think we probably won't.

Possibly, but this is different. Those others paid over the odds for tat no one was bothered about like the Football League and fourth tier missable Prem games. That said BT could go pop just because of the amount they've spent. Can't see it being free for broadband subscribers when the CL kicks in, though. If nothing else it is a massive gap in the Sky schedules now.

I'll take a bet on you finding anywhere on this forum that I have said anything resembling "we'll be lucky to stay up" for this season. Or even last season. In fact, one of the central points of my disappointment in not going for it in the Carling Cup was the fact that I think we are at no danger of going down. Something I've repeated several times in the last couple of days. My prediction at start of season was somewhere between 8-12th. So remind me, what the fu ck is your point again?

I remember now. I remember saying that we simply must play the entire first eleven in that game and how dare we ever play any of these so called young players. Strawlock was the lone voice of reason that night.

Why not? We did it with JWP last season and Chambers this season. You think Reed is a great prospect but you think playing at home when we are in the form of our lives against Hull City is beyond him?

The way Strawlock has been going on, you'd think the average age of Wednesday's team was about 17.

Window Cleaner talking about the casualties and specifically Wigan and Birmingham about ten posts ago. Not the only reference to "would you rather be Wigan" type stuff in the last few days, my old chum Le God Third Coming went down that exact route too. And search "Champions League or nothing". Some plank said it. And there are some who "see no reason we can't finish fourth". So there you go. M-board thinking. Some on this thread. Kinda not imaginary. Next question.

I would like to take moment to salute the beauty of current M-board thinking. Don't try and win the league cup: finish fourth. Do try and win the league cup: relegated. I think some people need to work out whether they think we are Wigan or Chelsea.

Thankfully there are absolutely no casualties to attest to the challenges arising from getting into the Champions League. Newcastle and Leeds never looked back. After they were relegated.