CB Fry

There are forum geniuses still amongst us that tell us we only need to spend £15m a season to "compete with the big boys". Reckon we can stretch to that so our dream is unquestionably still real. The enlighted ones will have the last laugh.

Quite. And the behaviours demonstrated by our owners since we got promoted. Hilarious I get asked for evidence to "prove" something pitifully obvious.

Add to that the fact that Cortese's pet Daily Mail journo Neil Ashton said on Five Live when he left saying that the rat faced dwarf had no plans to make any signing in January anyway. Our transfer window dealings have been no different following the change of leadership. People need to calm down.

Not quite. Cortese leaving is directly related to the fact that his "vision" was pie in the sky and never realistically going to happen. Cortese thought he could rely on the Leibherrs to bankroll the club to the Champions League but it was pretty obvious they were never that mental.

We've got the right combination of ingredients - some young and fresh, some nicely matured. Our base is fine English stock but expertly blended with a tasty fusion of world cuisine. And our head chef is clever enough to know when there is just a little too much Italian spice. With experts scouring the world for the next tasty morsel to add to the mix and our owner planning to have us dining at the top table for years to come, it is safe to say Saints have the perfect recipe for success.

Whatever you say, Strawlock.

Yeah. If there's one thing big club managers love it's their players being picked for international duty. Love it, they do.

What did you expect him to say? I bet it is an honour. It's Juventus.

Yes. It is.

Three weeks ago you would have put Sharp ahead of Gallagher. None of those players were ever going to play for Saints again. None of them. Not even in a post-apocalypictic St Mary's distopia caused by Osvaldo's tongs burning down the stadium and killing the entire first team squad. None of them will (or would have) played for Saints again. None of them. Ever. Get over it.

Spot on. Have to say am amazed Man City are bringing in two more on mega money. Looking nailed on to win the league anyway and it all looks a bit (ironically) cheap. You're seriously going to spend £40-50m every single window now, City? Quite happy not to support a club like that.

This. We are clearly not going to suddenly sell one of our big names today. Calm down people.

Blatantly this. We sign some striker none of us have ever heard of - finish eighth or ninth. We don't - finish eighth or ninth. Last January we signed Forren. That's it. And we kinda finished the season fine. And the cup will be what will be. I am desperate for us to do well in a cup but you don't make signings for a cup run. As it happens, I think we will sign a player today. But I am fine if we don't.

Did the club ever say 50% under 25 then? Not sure they ever did. I reckon one day James Ward Prowse will be 26 and everything.

Just one of those made up footballers names like Carlos Kickaball or Jermaine McSporran.

The comedy king is back. Do your yo-yo policy routine again, or why not pretend we desperately need a gigantic points total to stay up. Oh, how we laugh.

50% of the team from the academy and us playing Champions League football. That was the vision. Both of those things.

Better kit, but that's about it.

Especially when it smells like Sugar Puffs.

Any player signing for Saints expecting to play in the Champions League is effing retarded.

She should be proud of what she, the manager and the players have achieved, especially over the last year or so.

Who's going to bite? Well, you.

He had a pretty long tenure as it was. Put together what will always be my favourite ever Saints team - the free scoring, 4-2-4ing, Liverpool destroying wonder team but couldn't keep it going. His sacking was fair enough, he had more than a decent crack of the whip, but obiously the replacement with Branfoot and the clogging horrendous era that followed was a travesty. Slightly odd that he never really worked meaningfully again, little stint at Walsall, and now he goes to grounds in the midlands and counts the corners and throw ins for the press association or something. As soon as I saw the thread title I presumed Chris was dead or ill.

There was a brilliant line about how amazingly detailed the shoes were.

Shearer came through in 1988, a decade before Lowe arrived. Rod Wallace very shortly after and then pretty much eff all until Wayne Bridge arrived in the Lowe era, with Oakley the only one in the decade between: the hit rate of any old club, rather than one with a strong youth set up. Our youth set up was pretty weak during the Branfoot to Souness years.