CB Fry

Last year's eighth placed team: Steve Clarke's seminal West Bromwich Albion team. Football gods from one to eleven. Breathtaking to watch they were.

8th, 6th, 8th, 7th. Cup final. Couple of Euro campaigns. Pochettino needs to do significantly better than this of course, as that is the record of a "terrible manager".

Well he predicted plenty of times that we wouldn't win and we didn't. Let's never forget this whole thing is not about accuracy. it never has been, it never will be. Divs on here just want the media to predict we'll win every single game. Every single game we ever play. Please Lawro. Please. Please Lawro. Please say we'll win. Please Lawro. Please. Please Lawro. Please. Please.

Turns out Lawro was generally spot on. 2-0 Saints. Not that any of the utter ****wits on here will ever admit it.

If we don't do well in the next two games it basically rules out any chance whatsoever of us winning four games in a row in, say, February or April. Or going eight matches unbeaten in November to the New Year. Would be a shame but there you go.

Nice headline/opening paragraph vs what-was-actually-said stand-off there. Nothing to see here. Anti-Saints conspiracy lying journo scum etc etc etc.

Maybe. If Lawro had said anything resembling that in his predictions this forum would be going apesh it.

You think Palace are going to do us two nil? Fair enough mate.

We didn't have an all red kit in the eighties, Delldays. But I think we established your 'not bothered' position many, many months ago. but still you go on.

Hopefully from the next round. Winning this should be our number one priority this season (beyond staying up, which we will do anyway). Winning the league cup a much more satisfying achievement than finishing, say, eighth rather than thirteenth.

Hopefully from the next round. Winning this should be our number one priority this season (beyond staying up, which we will do anyway). Winning the league cup a much more satisfying achievement than finishing, say, eighth rather than thirteenth.

What? Don't think I have ever posted that. And I read the forum on Tapatalk so 90% of the time I don't know what threads are where anyway. All I can rely on is whatever the thread, you'll write something inexplicible. Just nuts.

He was a nothing manager hyped up beyond belief. Acheived nothing except promotion from the bottom tier, the kind of thing that the likes of Steve Cotterill/Paul Sturrock/Martin Allen/loads of managers none of us have ever heard of has achieved. Mouthing off about not drinking coke or taking the sugar out of the training ground cafe or other such rubbish like he was some football revolutionary. He isn't. Won't work in the Premier League again unless he gets promoted there.

You enjoy yourself mush. You don't make us look the slightest bit tin pot. Oh no.

We only needed ten wins to stay up on the first of August. We now need eight. Either way, we clearly aint going down this season.

About 10th?

He's no more than Paul Sturrock in better trousers. Promoted from league two with Swindon. Amazing. Something countless others could do.

Are you this mental in all the other languages you speak?

Yes but we have a completely brand new team who have never played together this year.

Those scorelines are a bit mental but I am convinced we'll win. 2-1 or 1-0 maybe. At 5pm cue the "seee, seee, we are Champions League" nutcases coming out of the woodwork.

This is going to upset the thousands of fans who pour into St Mary's from Devon, Cornwall and Somerset for every home game. Digraceful we are turning our back on our catchment area.

Not sure how anyone who regularly buys hot food at a football ground can ever be described as a winner.

Quite right. The football authorities should recognise free-scoring beautiful footballing teams like Saints. After all we've rained in two goals already this season which is amazing. And they should punish football-murdering bore-teams like West Ham. After all they've scored only two goals this season which is utterly pathetic.

It's not looking like the gigantic leap forward some were expecting. We are very solid these days but quite dull/predictable for a side with so many potentially exciting players. MP is doing okay, we won't be anywhere near relegation with him, but not sure he is much more than a, say, Steve McClaren with a more exciting name. A functional, technocrat, cautious "coach's coach". We will click over a few games this season: For example, Liverpool away I think is a perfect fixture for us - footballing side/away/no expectation/they're due a loss. So winnable. Overall, we will be fine. Just not amazing.

We weren't better than Arsenal this time last season.