CB Fry

...so in your example who is calling who a moronic idiot over and over? And what is this horse sh it example based on?

Say for example I saved you and all your family from drowning (hypothetically of course) and then you announced you were having a party and refused me entry who would be in the wrong?

I think this is what happened to Kevin Davies when sold him to Blackburn, funnily enough for a similar sum. Couldn't dislodge the incumbent centre forward and marooned off to the wing. Doesn't score, what a waste of money, good riddance. Lets hope manager and player find a way, although now we have 57 forwards to choose from I am not sure this will end well for our Jay. Who remembers being excited when we signed him?

So we should be. It's Matthew Le Tissier. He's worth fifty chief execs, Swiss or otherwise.

Those seats were for the Olympic family.

Good move. Could be the final piece of the puzzle in our six-up-front formation. Although we'd better sign Owen as well as back up. Sort it out Nicola.

10 wins. 21 defeats. Relegated. Superb football. Absolutely superb football.

No we didn't.

Yep. Although four of our back five probably not good enough.

Maybe. Blackpool didn't sign £12m wonderkids though.

Care to name even one contributor on this forum who has "fallen for it". If you can get to "so many" then you've done very well. Anyway, first name please....

Pardew would have final say and Pardew is responible for putting the team out and Pardew is responsible for that team winning or losing. If Newcastle were appalling, no one would be blaming the scouting team. The underlying resentment on this forum that Pardew has done bloody well at Newcastle is rather tiresome. He's a proven Premier League manager, as he was before he even turned up at SMS.

Pardew was sacked for lots and lots of terrible performances was he? If you say so. We'll see if they are clueless about Cortese being trigger happy come October/November.

Pretty much no teams stay up with that few if I remember rightly....we'll need more than that. We won't get fifty but mid forties hopefully.

Presumably that guy who does our comedy T Shirts is working on a Fray Bentos Pie Tin themed item as we speak? We must be told.

I am a big defender of journos on here. But not The Star. This is a made up story. The writing policy is "make stuff up so it looks like we have an exclusive story when we don't" You don't need Simon Peach here.

They're not "doing the rounds". A made up story has been in the Daily Star.

It wouldn't surprise me if he never got another job. I guess he has given a degree of commitment to the BBC...and he won't need the money and I doubt he wants the arseache of managing QPR, or Reading (they've got new owners too) or going back to WHU. And he won't go above the M4 so his choice is pretty limited. I think the only thing that would see HR back in work is Hodgson losing three in a row for Rio.

I have decided to go for two all. This is new Southampton and we are going to be banging them in. And letting them in.

Absolutley right. Guardiola, or a slightly cheaper, slightly more realistic Guardiola. I hear Roberto Donadoni is in the frame.

Yeah. That's the kind of thing. Hold that thought until about the end of October....

The judgement is on two games because he's played two games and the newspaper story has come out today, and the news story is about him being replaced. I'm not judging Adkins anyway. Today, right now, Redknapp represents a higher calibre of manager for that journalist for the purposes of this newspaper article. And, anyway, trying to make out Adkins has somehow been more successful than Redknapp is utterly futile. Redknapp has achieved a hell of a lot more than Adkins has. Let's not forget you have already written off our new look team - it lacks pace, we shouldn't have got rid of Sharp, etc etc - before they've kicked a ball. So leave off the "wee bit premature" stuff.

....I'm going for young, glamourous foreigner. Somebody of the standing of Andre Villas-Boas before he packed his bags for London. I'm not enough of a world football scholar to know an actual name, but basically we'll employ the Spanish/Portuguese/Italian/Dutch Brendan Rodgers.

Does Harry Redknapp "represent a higher calibre of manager?" Yes. He has won a major trophy and he took a famously underachieving big club to 4th, 5th, 4th, and a respectable run in the Champs League. And was the nation's choice for England manager. So Harry Redknapp does represent a higher calibre of manager. Whether I like him, rate him, think he's good or think he's a caaant is immaterial. You can guess what I think of him. Nigel Adkins has managed two games in the Premier League and lost them both, so at this point in time Harry "represents a higher calibre of manager".

It's a complete fabrication by the Daily Star, typical behaviour from the Richard Desmond Stable who are an utter disgrace to journalism. But yes, Harry does respresent a higher calibre of manager. Of course he does, especially in the Star's mind.