CB Fry

Even by your standards, that is a breathtakingly pointless ramble about nothing whatsoever. Just more flailing about to make up some way we can get into the top four without spending hundreds of millions of pounds, laced with your current "I refuse to accept mediocrity, me" routine. And what you've rambled your way to is a recommendation for to let key players leave at the end of their contract for free. Brilliant. Keep em coming.

I can guarantee you I will never, ever rue the day he left. Cortese quit on us precisely at the point that bigger teams started circling our manager and players. But yeah, Cortese did a breathtaking job of warding of Man United with their multi million pound bids for Danny Fox a couple of years back.

It's looking likely that will be the case - although as long as we get the replacement right we should be clear of the bottom three dross. But Fulham fans probably thought that this time last year.

I apologise for being hysterical and mentioning Les Reed. I know you hate people being hysterical.

Comments like this would have more impact were it not for the fact that throughout every single moment of our "stellar rise", you moaned like a slag. You moaned about not making the L1 play offs in season 1, you merrily wrote off our chances of promotion in season 2 - we were bottling it and Huddersfield were going to pip us easily. Same again the following season, just with West Ham instead. Then in season 4 Wigan had the guts and bottle to stay up and we were definitely relegated. Then during last summer we were as badly run as a seaside hotel. Gash was Gash, you hated Osvaldo, you've moaned extensively about Adkins, Poch, Pardew, Les Reed and Cortese himself. You moaned about not buying players and you moaned about the players we bought. So maybe don't make out you are wistfully looking back at some "stellar rise". From where I'm standing, you hated every minute of it. Except that day the played a match in your village or something.

Basically they are the Ian Brennan of shirt sponsors.

I don't think Veho have paid that much is what I am saying.

What have I taken out of context? I am saying I don't think we'll get the 3-5m you said you think we should be getting. And, for good measure you've said the same thing again. What's out of context about that?

He really isn't. He's not and never will be a Saints fan. He's a man who could double or triple his wages and raise his profile hugely. It's sweet people think he is fretting about the "Project" at a club in a city that two years ago he couldn't point to on a map. We could give him a transfer budget of fifty million and he could still want to go to Spurs.

Poch wasn't at "Poch ' s level" when we hired him.

They've achieved aim number one: not some chavvy gambling brand. Let's see if they've achieved number two - more money than the last lot. MLG ' s £3-5m is a bit fanciful but I'd hope for at least another 500k on top of the reported 1m that aaaaaaap were paying.

Blimey. You really do think Question Time is a conspiracy. What a funny little world you live in, Icke-y.

Hand made of ham.

Basically, it's a conspiracy.

I love the fact that its resemblance to something Barnsley, Aberdeen or Swindon might wear demonstrates what a dynamic, forward thinking club we now are. I was worried we'd up looking like one of those tin pot sides that might win the Champions League and La Liga in the same season.

Well, Wes Tender and his peoples army who are going to rise up and maybe might possibly could one day withhold five whole English pounds from the forum, but only after the likes of me and my "bum-chums" (Wes Tender's non-troll despicable little phrase) are run out of town. It's been a triumph for them and no mistake. I mean, I've not posted since.

Why would Liverpool pay far more than 20 mil for a crap py old squad player?

So the Franko rambling machine rumbles on to another topic. Who exactly are these 16 year olds we are going to be selling left, right and centre? Shaw is 18, probably 19 if he does leave this season, with is the same as Rooney when he left Everton. We've had two solid seasons out of him and if he wants to go (as you've been told countless times before) the club can do nothing except get the best price. And how sweet you call RK niaive when you are demanding we achieve more than 60plus points next season, putting us around sixth because you think it would be "mediocre" of Saints to finish 8th again, a placing we have achieved just twice nearly twenty five years. Oh, and if Liverpool or other clubs offer £100k plus a week, CL football and the chance to play at the very highest level, then we can magically match that because that was the genius "vision" - pay wages we can't afford on commercial incomes smaller than Watford. Yeah, that guy is the niaive one. That guy. Not you.

The same Everton who sell their best players for big fees to Man City, Man United and Arsenal? That Everton? Good. You won't be squinnying like a girl if we end up having to do the same, stamping your feet about how terribly awful and mediocre it is for a huge club like Saints to finish boring old eighth. And nice slating of Krueger for not doing anything of substance yet, from your authoritive position of not having the faintest idea of what he is doing. Do keep supporting our mediocre little club, Franko.

Who has said people did say that then? I don't recall anyone saying the people on here expected fourth this season or next. That's a fact too. Plenty of people "lapped up" the talk though, didn't they? Or are you going to still pretend none of that happened?

No. No one ever said any of it. You're right.

I have to say this is my favourite routine on here. Pretend it never happened. Well done Dig Dig. You're right. No one ever has said anything about us being a Champions League club on here. No one, ever. No one has ever praised Cortese's vision to achieve that. No one. No one ever said "well, he got us from L1 to the Prem so who's to say we can't make the CL?" No one ever said the cups don't matter because we're are aiming for the CL and that was the right thing to do. No one ever said anything like that on here. And no one is now grizzling about that 'vision' being no more. No one. None of it has ever been mentioned on here. No sir.

White sleeves and vertical stripes sounds like a completely different kit to me, but whatever.

Jesus Christ. Get over it. Derby all the way for me, would love to see them go up

So the Leverkusen shirt, but completely different? Agreed.