CB Fry

Should we have kept Mark Wotte when we got relegated four years ago?

That'll be the dynamic pricing model in German Beerhalls, great for getting bums on seats, and at great prices for the common man: pubs in Southampton really should be following suit.

Is it just me who is familiar with the short-lived early 90s BBC sitcom of the same name? Not strictly Saints related, but it did have the wonderful Jim Broadbent in it.

We're only three days away from people saying ten games is not enough to get a true picture, let's see where we are at Christmas.

As am I but he has to be responsible for our defensive unit. It's his team. It's his defensive unit. You seem to be making out that he is an innocent bystander to our defence.

Who gets the credit for our promotion then? Presumably Adkins had nothing to do with it?

No we didn't.

I would be surprised if any West Ham fans give us a moments thought to be honest.

Wrong. Cortese said it, quoted, in, I think, early September. Might have been late August.

Cortese expected us to win the league last season. The idea that Adkins acheived anything "early" is simply wrong.

You honestly think normal people have a "preferred" way of buying a football programme? I know its an unfair question to ask you, as you don't qualify as normal to any extent. But have a go.

The first rule of the Cult of Cortese is eye watering disengenuousness must be used to justify any decision. So Frank you are actually saying that when you got laid off if you had just got a letter through the door with no warning you would have felt exactly the same as being sat down and spoken to as part of a formal consultation period? Because when I got laid off I would be significantly more fu cked off if that had happened rather than what I did get which was explanation, thanks and empathy. But then I am not bending over backwards making ludicrous points to justify my defence of an appaling piece of contempt for human resources by the club. Well done though.

No one is moaning about the attendences per se. You have to remember thus forum has endured a summer with the supposed "visionary" geniuses telling the rest of us we've "maxed out" St Mary's and we need to build thousands more seats and now. We were told there would be a mad scramble for tickets as demand massively outstrips our tiny little stadium. We were told thousands of brand new Saints fans would come to SMS from Wiltshire, Devon and Kent. We were told thousands more would come as neutrals, just coming from miles around to watch Premier League football. And we were told not buying into this utter horse-sh it meant you were negative, anti-Saints and wanted the manager sacked. These threads are related to that moronic garbage spouted over the summer. Don't know about you but I am not convinced we have seen a dramatic increase of neutral fans from the Somerset area coming to the stadium to watch just any old Premier League game. But then, I'm just anti-Saints.

Your thoughts are typical of the negative, Dell sized mentality on this forum. The enlightened ones, the visionaries, know we have maxed out our stadium and we could definitely sell 45,000 against Villa dynamically priced at ten pound a pop. With kids for a quid. And we don't do debt as we are bankrolled by billionaires so thankfully it is all risk free. You need vision, son, like the intelligent posters on this forum. Build it now. FFS.

Can I take this opportunity to remind everyone that three years ago we were literally two hours and ten minutes away from being officially wound up and liquidised and we were bottom of league one and everything and stuff and that. Therefore, this news is fantastic and well done all involved.

Is it a good thing to effectively spend four years worth of parachute payments in one transfer window? I thought parachute payments were supposed to be there to aid the descent into the lower league. Like a parachute. Not to borrow against.

So, just to confirm, all those people smugly and rabidly parrotting through the summer that "we don't do debt/we are now run debt free" are actually quite happy that we have debt again and debt is fine and not all debt is bad and is just part of business. Just checking.

There isn't a Whoooooosh big enough for this post.

Don't worry. The sacred texts are being rewritten. First line is "You people need to get real, not all debt is bad." Second line is something about Cortese debt actually being better than free money and don't you remember where we were three years ago or something.

The rational explanation is we need more money than we currently have to hand to spend on new players, a new training ground, Premier League wages and a fifty thousand seat stadium we are absolutely desperate for.

Alan Nixon told me about this weeks ago.

That's because you're only ever about ten posts away from a reminder on here. I felt it was my turn to chip in.

Can I just take this opportunity to remind everyone who has forgotten that three years ago we were literally thirty five minutes away from definitely going out of business forever and we were bottom of league one and everything and stuff.

I expected five points by now, winning one of Villa/Wigan drawing the other leaving one point from the four others. It's not uncommon for the big teams to drop points early in the season, and to drop them to new teams playing out of their skins is also not uncommon. And let's calm down about Everton. They've suddenly become world beaters? Traditionally they start terribly so expecting a possible point from them at the start of the season not that unreasonable. I guess we'll now be lumping Fulham in with the Champion's League contenders now because they've had a good start? So I expected five, we got three. So far, not bad. We only need to win ten more games and we're safe so perfectly calm for now.

Les Reed won't ever be manager, save for a couple of games as caretaker. Although if is Reed is appointed it will be hilarious to see the Cult of Cortese defend it as a masterstroke.