CB Fry

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.

You said we had a choice, we had no such choice. And the choice of "no club" is not true. Simple.

Hello spanners on the internet. Listen up. Matthew Le Tissier will be commenting about matters ascertaining to Southampton Football Club for some time yet. How about at least once a month, every month, for the next thirty years. Now you strange people can hop from foot to foot getting jolly upset about it, grizzle that your opinion is just as jolly well important, whine about how unqualified he is. You can all do that for the next thirty years. Fill yer boots. And you can even squinney and shreik that Matt Le Tissier might say something that might upset the faceless bloke in a suit who haopens to run the club at present. And why not - because thats why we all love football isn't it? To get behind chief executives. We've all got our favourite chief executives, haven't we? They are what make football simply magical. So sure, if Matt puts that at wonderful thing at risk, you people stand up for what you believe in. Grizzle your little hearts out. The rest of us will be still here. Looking on at you. Pointing, and laughing. Pointing and laughing.

I imagine Frankie will be too busy fielding calls from Sky Sports News, BBC Five Live, and the national press to respond on here. His opinion is just as important as Matthew Le Tissier's apparently. Although not as important as Ghandi's. That would be ridiculous.

Are you saying, by any chance, that we should all move on?