CB Fry

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.

Daily Star are consistently full of shi t, so have no problem disregarding this. There are things Cortese might do before Christmas, including sacking Nigel, but appointing Redknapp is definitely not one of them.

Something about bumming?

Not really - he's a football pundit. All he said was he won't sign for us. Much like you did. He probably gave it a milisecond of thought before he offered that opinion. It certainly wasn't layered with the layers of paranoid schizo meaning you have given it... Oh effing pur-lease you freaking mentalist. You said he wouldn't sign, and that's a-o-kay. Lawrenson says it and it's crime of the f u cking century. And being that you didn't even want the kid to sign - let's remember this, everyone - you'd rather he didn't sign - why do you care that some pundit on an internet only mini opinion show said he thought he wouldn't sign. You don't want him here anyway. You are mental. Utterly mental.

Right you are then Alpine.

What? I'm not squinnying about a horrid man on the TV.

Looks like Lawro has "got away with it" then. Boo hoo.

No he doesn't. Cortese thinks you are a mentalist. Just like the rest of us.

Some people won't listen to this kind of sense. Luckily Cortese is no fool.

What are you on about now? We have a new stadium. It's called St Mary's. It's plenty big enough for us this season and no current evidence we need to invest heavily to expand it. Man United at home is one game.

This is a futile argument and pretty much all you've got left. You're railing against something you have decided people think even though no one does. Of course we could sell more tickets for Man United at home. So can Yeovil. So fu cking what?

If anything it shows support for Saints is about the same as it was last time we were in the Prem despite all the horsesh it you come out with.

A douche that some Saints fans are so pathetic they need a heartfelt apology from? Laughable.

I'm talking about Lowe having a £50m pot in the club coffers not as a personal fortune. And you have no idea what he would have done. What we do know is Lowe invested in training facilities, youth development, scouting, stadium infrastructure and growth through commercial activities. Just the same as Cortese. How much has Cortese "put back in to the club" by the way?