CB Fry

Worst thing about Peterboro away last season was driving home having to listen to an hour of fawning over Reading on Five Live after they secured promotion that night. Brilliant game and atmosphere as you say though.

So you're saying don't judge a new manager on the early results gained with a well drilled team coached by the previous very popular manager? Wise words.

Err, what? Why not ask Nicola to show some class and donate his entire years wages to it.

£100 on every season ticket would be another two million quid. If Nige screws that out of us then you have to say fair play to him. Would be doing the new guy a favour as it might make the Don think twice before binning him off this time next year.

Me neither. I can't stand Lawrie Mac. And I really like Nige. Hey ho.

Maybe. Not necessarily.

No. Probably in the contract in the first place, or written into the compromise agreement.

Not really. Adkins has achieved fu ck all. Lawrie achieved at lot. There you go, over already.

So what you are saying is finishing second in the league was actually far more of a test of actual management skills than it is today, where it is just about how much cash you have. Yes?

Nige is no fool. He'll have his compo being paid for the x months so simply won't need to work, he can wait for a nice, big(ish) proper job. Blackpool is so turn-downable its untrue.

I put Matt somewhere between John Burridge and Hassan Kachloul. About 14th. Honest I do, and I always have. Nothing to do with crawling up the arse of the current chairman.

Can't you just Move on?

Franky's never going to fill his 50,000 German-model stadium with that attitude.

You did. Missed it.

I'm amazed no one has mentioned our fabulous all red kit which was specifically designed to attract two or three billion new Chinese fans.

"The current manager" will suffice.

I know. It was tragic all those people jumping off the Itchen Bridge over Adkins. What a waste of life. Well done you for staying so strong. An example to us all.

I think you need to be more pragmatic, TTD. That's what I've learnt from you over the last couple of days. If he goes, who cares? Not me. Just like Dean Hammond all over again.

And we can have no doubt the writer of that article has a clear agenda re Saints. Fact. Hunt him down.

Ohh, I know. I mean look at that headline. So eye-grabbing. So controversial. What the Daily Telegraph is famous for of course. I don't know how they sleep at night.

Just imagine the number of copies they've sold on the back of a Southampton match report. Must run into the hundred thousands.

This might not be our day....

Beat me to it.

I believe he has an ego problem.

Chris Perry? Surman? Utterly irrelevent. But a creative argument. Well done. We outspent nearly every club in Europe this summer as you know. We had a Championship team in League One and outspent most other teams in the Championship, spending nearly four million quid on forwards this time last year, only for them to be replaced by 12m worth of forwards only months later. So, dear, I am not looking at one years spend, but four. And, dear, our spending has not been modest. Not in L1. Not in the Championship. Not now. Engage with that argument. Engage with those facts.