CB Fry

It would be a glorified sabbatical. Just at a "big" club, some easy trophies in the bag and guaranteed Champions League. Basically, what I said in my first post about it. I think it is easy to see why that might be a better move for him right now than taking over at, say, Villa (or Saints) just to prove he can finish eighth - sixth in the league. That is not really the gap in his CV. And in a year or two he could easily get a Villa/Toon/Sunderland job - those three are hardly managed by stellar names now, and in 2016 there will be a vacancy somewhere. Personally I would like to see him have a crack at the German League as he said he wanted to. Either way, I can why a move to a middling Prem club right now may not motivate him. Anyway, not really the topic. Can't see him coming to us for the reasons above.

He'll play Champions League matches, that's how. The Celtic role is what it is but it has its benefits as I am sure O'Neill and our Gordon would testify. I can see how that could be more appealing than taking over a middling Premier League team, a role in which he has nothing to prove. Can he manage a team to finish 8th in the Prem? Well, yeah. Taking over at Newcastle, Villa (or Saints) can't be that appealing right now. At least Celtic gives him some guaranteed European football. He'd only need to do a season or two and he'd still walk into a Prem job. He might be bolder and go to a German club but not convinced he is that much of a risk taker. That said if he rocked up at Saints I'd be surprised but delighted.

Easy rumour to pull together. Would be a good move for him, giving him a few fish-in-a-barrel opportunities to win trophies and some much needed CL experience. That might get his eye in again before he lands the big one at Newcastle United. Big old pay cut though.

You're terrible, Muriel.

The commentators would look even more clueless if they kept referring to him as a Southampton player.

Did Fulham sack Les Reed?

My instinctive reaction too. Just happy for him. Lovely goal.

Magath is a funny one. If he had never been at Fulham it would feel like a right coup. But he was there and down they went. And yes, relegation not his fault but it still makes it less appealing for me. If we are asking permission to speak to Fulham it means he's effectively got the job, because we can't make him quit just to be on a bloody shortlist. Luckily, it's only the Daily Mirror. Get YakIN FFS.

Thanks for saving me the trouble of doling out my kit catchphrase. Don't get all this stuff about how plain red allows clubs to be "dramatically different" in a way stripes can't. How have Liverpool, Man United of Arsenal turned out dramatically different kits every season?

Pretty breathtaking revisionism, there.

Depends what you mean by "deal", really. I doubt Pulis signed anything, and come the day of reckoning no one knows what would have really happened, especially as it never looked like we were ever going to sack our George.

Stop being "defamatory" against me. Wahhhh.

I would have thought the clubs lawyers have "more pressing matters" to deal with, like the first team, than raising law suits against newspapers? PS: try and learn what "defamatory" means.

Which brings me back to my original question...what do you want the head of ticketing and hospitality at SMS to do about the "pressing issues" of the first team? Or is it okay for them to carry on with her job?

Brilliant.

I've had some pi ss weak comebacks in my time on here. But, really, hats off for that one.

I am? The ticketing manager will have responsibility for CRM. Do you want her to take the rest of the summer off and only start work once the transfer window is shut? Or, perchance, can she just carry on doing her effing job?

Do you think there is any Saints fan currently breathing oxygen that values the Customer Relationship/Retention system over the players in the team and the manager? And you do realise development of one in no way prevents development of the other?

You want the Ticketing and Hospitality Manager to sort out the manager and the first team? Are you mental?

The club had decided to dispense with the incumbent manager in those cases, of course.

That's nice.

Good god.

Well done on picking out a small client. They have lots of huge clients. What's your point?

Strawlock playing another blinder, then.