CB Fry

Surely the easiest argument against the nutjobs is it would be at least ten times harder to execute the hoax than it was to land on the moon. So there you go. End of debate.

Another sparklingly correct prediction from me then. Haven't changed my view though - It's all a bit lame in my opinion - if the "team of the year" is not one, but two multisport organisations made up of countless governing bodies, coaches, individuals and athletes, then you might as well give the 2012 SPOTY Award to, like, "everyone". Just stupid.

Blimey. Think that they'd maintain a similar level of gates to us (plus a bit because of size) if they came up now.

Sheff Wed get gates in the 25k region in the champ (and in L 1), v similar to us. Did they really get sub 20k attendances in the Prem last time? Seems unlikely.

Not our very best eleven but enough there to beat Reading at home. No excuses.

Yes. Our catchment area is ten times bigger at least. Massive it is.

So your current arguments focus on Swansea (22k stadium) and rambling on about what if we were in Stoneham (we're not). I think I preferred the classic stuff about Chelsea 1984. Come on, play us one we know.

Sounds like they followed the "man walked on the moon" business plan, so favoured by some of the geniuses on here for us. Who'd have thought it could ever not work?

The prize will go to the "Team GB Cycling Team". And rightly so. Can't see team of the year being given to the entire Team GB olympic team - its not a team, just an organisation, and some areas - swimming, team sports - massively underperformed.

Err, not really. Plenty of mid table finishes throughout the 90s and early 2000s.

You want to lay off the Cake, my son.

Don't know what to make of this post! Tragic.

I don't think we will lose both either, but we need bare minimum four points. But you can't use future games as evidence that a managers job is no longer untenable. Having winnable games ahead doesn't ease pressure, it ramps it up.

Shall we wait until we have played those two games before we describe them as "good". If we lose them both I think his job becomes more untenable than ever and he will be in a world of pain.

Correct. We'll see how it pans out but at this precise moment in time we have overpaid for this kid - which is why no other club went near him over the summer. People are deluded if Gaston is some investment for the future, he was a gamble for now. Five years time he might blossom into a £20m megastar but he might not, right now, at best, both scenarios are equally likely.

He's going to have to score twenty goals and play like Messi for the remainder of this season for us to make a "tidy profit" on him. It's not like we snapped him up for a couple of mil. If a big club wants to buy an exciting attacker from a small club, they're better off going for someone like Michu who they could probably get for less than we paid for Gaston in the first place. A profit on Ramires is way off in the distance.

You missed off "The Barclays-Premier-League is the hardest league in the world"

The only result that anyone should want is a replay. Total f ucking carnage.

It's probably all to do with keeping our payments to agents down to a minimum which is infinitely more important than signing players we actually need in positions where we are short. Well played Saints.

Don't forget West Ham are going to drop like a stone now they are playing all the big teams. The forum said so.

Pretty good now we are in the Prem, although Norwich was a bit dodgy. As we're playing Liverpool on Saturday I'd imagine there will be loads of good quality streams out there. If you can handle pop ups everywhere, it's good.

I vote for corndogs and renaming the stadium Huckerbee Fields or something.

He'll be in the jungle with Ant & Dec next year at this rate.

It was called "Solent Green". Which only in later years did I realise may have been a tribute to Soylent Green, albeit a weird in-joke tribute from someone on the design team. I had that kit though. Great stuff. Oh, and this years kit is easily the worst of all time. Utter, utter sh it.

We need O'Neil to lose it and walk out on Sunderland, preferably on the 1st February. All we can do is stay in the mix which we will do because we can score goals. 17th would be just fine this year.