CB Fry

Feels like our stadium is kinda the right size, doesn't it?

Burley had the benefit of the Saints go Wilde euphoria in his full season. And pots and pots of cash. And six months "bedding in" before that season started. Everything, everything, everything that experts on here like to say a manager needs. Burley had it all. He blew it. We dribbled into the play offs when we should have strolled in. Don't make out he was hard done by. He was one of the luckiest managers we've ever had.

You did read the breathless "£6m is an absolute bargain" stuff about Butland in the summer? On the back of half an hour in League 2. Butland makes this kid look like John Burridge. Edit: actually no he doesn't. I thought he'd played all season for Gills. Oh well. I liked that John Burridge line too.

I heard Alan Nixon made it all up.

Including me. Did a good job at Derby in fairness. With Raziak and Idiakez when they were good.

I don't think it's a press release, it's an interview. Any journalist is going to ask Adkins about his future right now - we've lost four in a row, and like it or not he is favourite for the sack with the bookies, and there has been a little bit of speculation about it too. Nigel's comments are fairly standard issue in my opinion. Nothing in that interview has radically changed my view about what might happen if we, say, lose two from the next three.

Bizarre. You could read your original statement 100 times and it reads like you are comparing Hillsborough to VE Day, you are suggesting that TDD should "feel the same" about Hillsborough and Easter Sunday and VE Day. that's what your question implied. The phrase is "mentioned in the same breath" which is what you did. Anyway, you're saying you didn't mean it like that, which is fine, but don't suggest that is everyone else's fault. Why anyone would want to have a Liverpool song on their ipod is beyond me but fill your boots.

When?

Personally, I think Dodd is a legend.

I think it smells strongly of Lowe recommending the club to Cortese and Harry Redknapp ringing up Leibherr and convincing him to buy the club. Or whatever garbage you were coming out with the other day. They call you the Fox for your razor sharp perception, do they not?

It's almost like buying Gaston Ramirez was, say, the Johnstone's Paint Trophy, whereas buying a centre back and a left back was, say, getting into the League 1 play offs. Sometimes people just don't agree on priorities.

Sounds about right to me.

I think he is pumping himself up a little. I doubt he gets final say on all first team transfers. You can be "head of recruitment" in a business without being the person who employs everyone. On first team players there is clearly a committee thing going on but Adkins has a say no doubt.

Clearly not a rant was it. File it under whimsical quip. Toyed with putting something about finally signing Skacel but decided it was far too funny.

By then we'd be celebrating 98 years in our 50,000 seat stadium. Having sold it out four times in that time.

Does winning the Champions League not count as "real footy"?

When was this?

Hillsborough is the same as VE day now? Jees.

No he isn't. Cortese talked about expecting to be champions last year, and not in April or May but way back about this time last year. And the schedule thing doesn't really make sense anyway. If we were still in the Championship, and we go promoted in 2013 instead, do you really think that team would be any better prepared for the Premier League than the team we have now? Simply, no. I remember making this point this time last year too, when people on here used to go on about "we don't want to get promoted too soon". Any team that gets promoted after a long time out (ie not the likes of WHU) are quite simply not going to have a team "ready" for the Premier League. You've got to learn and build on the job, and that's what Nigel and the players need to do. You don't prepare for the Premier League by being in the championship.

Just thinking we contrast with Blackpool in that they didn't really pay Prem wages in the Prem and spent their Prem money on infrastructure. And they are smaller and carry less expectation than us. I agree with your point but I can't see it. Adkins won't survive relegation IMO.

Keep trying. One day you might come up with something that is remotely amusing.

Personally would let Adkins take us down and be given the opportunity to take us back up. But given the resources he's been given and what I think Cortese is expecting, he's going to have to start winning, at very least four points from next three games. Minimum or I think he's gone.

Dear me. We're having this thread are we? No short memories. No one has forgotten three years ago. It was three years ago. Seriously, if you don't want discussion of our current situation, this forum probably not for you. Give it a rest.

This. No surprise the old "moaning on a messageboard stops the team winning you know" routine is being wheeled out. Just another season on this forum.

They'll be back. But Southampton will no longer be the megaclub of the south of britain on the march to a fifty thousand seater stadium and european domination. Oh no. Instead we'll be plucky tiny underdogs who nearly went bust and we were bottom of league one not long ago and I can't believe people are so impatient and unrealistic etc.