CB Fry

Businesses the world over would have the Finance Director to step in if the CEO stood down unexpectedly/suddenly/died. Pretty standard practice. But quite lovely to see the assorted divs on here getting excited/belittling/sneering/forecasting doom. Bless you all. Good luck Gareth, although barely needed as you are filling in for someone utterly replaceable.

He's right. You're a swivel eyed nutcase ranting about nothing. In every single post. Keep dreaming about our spiritual home in Stoneham, Richmond.

Probably happen again in our lifetimes. We're certainly getting relegated at some point in the next decade. All part of the fun, TDD.

What, a cup final, eighth and fourth at Christmas? Yes, I can safely say I will.

You missed the "our dream is real" stuff then? The CD of a made up stadium? Mumbo Jumbo'ed with the best of em did the rat faced little weasel.

Hardly. Big Kats walk proud. With feet on the ground. Italian weasels can eff off. He can take some other provincial club to the Champions League if he can find another bottomless pit to leech off.

Yes, yes, but what about that printing firm, eh? Eh? Eh?

We prefer "The Kat Pack".

Jesus. That effing printing firm thing is going to be a permanent fixture on every thread now?

Saints selling a footballer, eh? How ever will we cope?

No. Its announced name was the FP Stadium. Until fans kicked off and Rupert changed it.

Cortesedome.

Should shut up the effwits blathering about "asset stripping". Well done Katherina.

As Buctootim has already said, finance is what got those players and this manager in, far more than some nebulous rebrand you are pretending happened. And we've had some positive coverage in the media, but nothing more than, say, Middlesborough under Steves Gibson and McClaren with benovolent investor and emphasis on young players and a Europa League final. Or Swansea last season. Or Newcastle with Alan Carr's dad and the first intake of wonder frenchmen. Bolton's finishing 6th, 7th, 7th and 8th in concecutive seasons. Hodgson turning around Fulham and WBA. Steve flipping Clarke at WBA last season, third in November or whatever it was. There's always a "new kid on the block" club for the press to get excited about. Next season it could be Derby County. Or West Brom again. We're pootling around in ninth place. We have not become a "force to be taken seriously" unless you believe WBA and Swansea were a "force to be taken seriously" last year. It's fair to say Cortese has done a cracking branding job on himself with a parade of poor saps convinced he is some messiah and his achievements are hyped up far more than the reality.

That nice Mr Cortese did that kind of thing all the time.

His innovation stretched to pretending we could fill a 50,000 seater stadium and pretending we could be a CL with half the team from the academy. Innovative. Or pie in the sky.

Says the man who a) dreams about us playing in a 25,000 stadium in Stoneham b) spent a year spitting blood that we didn't sell up to those well known gazillionaires at SISU.

LOL. Lack of judgement in appointing a manager who had delivered four top eight finishes in a row, including a sixth place finish. Who yhen steered Bkackburn to a top half finish. The kind of record MP would kill for. Terrible judgement, yeah.

Brian Kidd and Paul Ince the only two howlers I can see. Both understandable mistakes. Other than he has picked decent managers delivering top half/top eight prem football consistently. Would do us.

Is he still at Man City? If he is then I guess he might have to do a few months gardening leave before he came to us. Not a reason not to take him on but might mean he doesn't get going until the summer.

Coming down the tunnel to The Imperial March would be good.

You're right. One of them has spent a long time cultivating a media image through selected press sychphants that he is some king midas whose departure would spell disaster for any club. And the other one is the current manager of QPR.

Anyone reading the papers this week will see just how similar they are.

LOL. Sweet, precious Nicola with howwible journalists bothering him. How dare they. No, you're right. He was probably on the phone to Neil Ashton. Or organising an "official" sactioned conversation with Neil Ashton through Neil's PA.

He's the sports editor. The funny thing if we were talking, say, Harry Redknapp, none of you divs for a minute would question the idea that he would have the phone numbers of a key journalist or two. Bless your little hearts you think your Nicky is everso different.