CB Fry

Would be a lovely little role for him in his dotage and a decent appointment for us, I'd say.

Ask not if you can achieve a lower commercial income than Championship Watford, but how. Laughable people believed Cortese's pie in the sky Champions League routine when you look at this.

Your comment makes no sense whatsoever, but, hey, jolly well done on scoring a thread you didn't understand.

Or is it Stoke? Some parochial team anyway. Well done them.

Exactly. And articles like that could be sourced from Poch ' s agent to get him a better deal from Saints. I find it incredibly unlikely Spurs would approach Poch. They will want a big name, not someone with nothing but mid-table to bottom half finishes to his name. Would be a gigantic gamble for Levy after AVB and Sherwood.

This is very different to your claims earlier in the thread.

Would be great to see them come up, just as long as no one, and I mean no one, tries to engineer some weak pun on "El Classico" for our derbies with them. I hate that.

Nah, you've got it all wrong. Remember that awful season we were so terribly distracted by the heavy burden of pointless cup games? Under the weight of a sickening trip to Cardiff we could only scrape eighth place. This season is far better. Free from the heavy shackles of a debilitating cup program we can express ourselves and throw all our energy into a quite brilliant eighth place. Cup runs equals terrible league performance. SAINTS CANNOT EVER DO BOTH. LOOK AT SUNDERLAND FFS. WIGAN WIGAN ETC.

Wes is right. Cortese quit. He was so determined and focused on delivering his visionary vision that he walked out after just one season in the top flight.

Seems pointless, especially if they are just replacing from within. Almost understandable if they'd parachuted in Neil Warnock or Zola or some "big name" crash bang appointment as a last throw of the dice. Don't get me wrong, that would have been nuts too. But if you are going to be mental you might as well go all out mental.

You've got to say that is masterful.

There is no forum thread that cannot be improved by the inclusion of an image of Bill Murray.

I hope they stay up too. It's down the road from me so I am delighted, just need Steve McClaren to do the business and I'm laughing. Leicester is basically as nondescript a city as Southampton. Some okay bits, plenty of diversity but generally just AN Other English mid sized city.

A forum that forgets the same hackneyed old quotes about history is doomed to repeat said quote over and over again.

Congratulations on being the 450th person to post that quote on this forum. Let's all look forward to someone else posting this quote next week.

You're talking about the one person who called him the boot boy.

This time last year Alpine was going weak at the knees at the spirit, fight and determination of Wigan Athletic while confidently predicting they would overtake relegation doomed gutless Saints. The year before that Saints were bottling promotion and WHU were going up automatically in our place. The season before, exactly the same, but Huddersfield. So let's put this latest bed-pi s s in context. Every new season is a cross roads. Like, literally anything could happen. What will probably happen is another fairly solid mid table season, performing either slightly better or slightly worse than this one. What I can guarantee is that Alps will bellyache like an old slag throughout pretty much all of it.

Claus as an inside source is probably up there with a former steward from The Dell who used to know Dennis Rofe, and Dan Harding's father in law. Not a clue.

You forgot nuance. Franko is brilliant at that, remember.

If he's got any sense he'll stay here until he gets a better offer. Likely he'll sign a one-year extension come the summer, but still think he would probably be gone by the following summer. He's not going to stay forever but I don't think he is just going to walk out either.

Le Tiss was taking the photo, presumably. After punching Beattie in the face to get the camera.

Still, 4th doesn't actually mean Champions league qualification, as Everton (and poor old Spurs, LOLZ) found out. Cup is a cup is a cup. A day long.

This. Never had a problem with Man United. I save my irrational big club hatred for Liverpool.

That he did. Clegg just resorted to stupid gags and pointless comparisons. He didn't make a mature case for remaining in Europe. Totally blew it.

Looks like a dynamic revolutionary kit suited to a unique forward thinking global mega club superbrand. Not like the kind of tin pot parochial stuck in the past junk a club like Athletico Madrid would wear.