CB Fry

93% wages to turn over is not that great an example of "smart, tight finances". We've done well but not for the reasons you say here. With a big wage bill and some significant tranfer fee outlay, we've spent our way up. Money is far more important to our progress rather than guff about "true love of the game".

I think you cult of Cortese people need to get your story straight. So is it We are breaking new ground in East Africa definitely East Africa to unearth the next Haile Gebreselassie to play right wing or It is actually the entirity of Africa that Jaidi is scouting or When Les Reed says East Africa, he actually means the Ivory Coast after all and of course he definitely doesn't mean actually East Africa as it actually I think it really stretches from...etc etc.... Just work out which party line you people are all going with because you're falling to pieces at the moment.

Ask 100 people to "calculate" an average, and at least 90% would do the "add them all up and divide by the number of things" calculation that is the common usage of average that we all learn at school. The other ten percent might ask the question about mode and median, but they'd just be showing off. "Average" is mean in British common parlance. It just is. And the AVERAGE command on Microsoft excel does the mean as well. Funnily enough. And, although no one knows the exact details of Bayern's structure, the news reports majored on the £104 figure. If there was a more newsworthy, and lower, number, which there would need to be to make the AVERAGE around £100, then don't you think that would have been in the news reports? So lets just agree that the average season ticket price is not £100, shall we?

You're not wrong. I'd say it's North Africa. And far better to scout out there than East Africa, which although certainly "thinking outside the box" might be a wee too much for a medium sized English football club to take on. SolentCitySaintsFC academy in Uganda anyone? Hmmm.

That managerial stability thing is the biggest myth in football. Pretty much every successful manager in every successful club is successful within a year (or a first full season). And that includes common poster boys for stability Moyes and Wenger, both successful very quickly. And all our successful managers since the eighties have been instant successes: Ball, Hoddle, Jones, Strachan, Pardew, Adkins. Instant success works, so you can see why chairmen chop and change. If the team aint working after a year or so, twisting is just as good as sticking. Thankfully for us is it is working, so no need to do anything except support our Nige.

Was it balls. Actually it was Frank's Cousin's original idea, but he had it as a 4,000 word badly spelt ramble. I turned it into a handy seven letter acronym.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/products.php?term=HCDAJFU&defid=2684427 Get your HCDAJFU mousemats here. Nothing to do with me BTW.

You've forced me into it. I have said this a couple of times before. I invented HCDAJFU. So there. I was the first person to use it, and I did the first HCDAJFU mega thread, it was a bit different to how it is now. And I think it was six years ago this month just after I got made redundant and had far too much time on hands. I don't expect anyone to care. But I am having it on my tombstone.

In what way is it a wind up and in what way is it stupid to make the almost embarrassingly obvious point that Adkins would leave us for Liverpool. You do realise Nigel left another club to join us don't you? We didn't pluck him out of the Northam and give him a contract.

You've heard what I have. Don't let them get to you.

You've never got the better of me, especially when you're wan king over fantasy catchment areas. Anyway. Bored.

Sounds about right to me. To be honest "serious debating" with you and your div mates is not something I plan to do any time soon. Forest was obviously a gag. Villa wasn't. MLG is, of course, a joke.

MLG mainly.

You are a moron.

Liverpool, Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea Everton, Man City and United, Villa, Newcastle and Nottingham Forest.

Massive catchment area.

Only a £20m difference between Wolves and Man United. I know lots on here think that Financial Fair Play is going to even things up but I am not so sure. If big clubs can only spend what they earn, then they will look to find ways to earn more. Big clubs pushing back on the current relative "fairness" in the TV deal will be the one way they will be able to realise their worth ahead of the smaller clubs.

I bring plenty of sensible thought to most debates I partake in. But I am a pi s staker and will continue to do so. Cyber bullying it aint and you can see my chums Frank and Wes, MLG and aintforever are happy to dish it back. I was called a mong tonight on this very thread. Who cares. And My pi sstaking will not stop FC writing another epic tomorrow. And don't worry I am a very happy Saints fan. Certainly don't need to ruin it by mooning over the Champions League. Anyway, is this thread over yet?

Why on earth do you post on here if you don't enjoy it? You're on here more than I am. If its a sense of duty then I think you're wasting your time.

I couldn't give two sh i ts if fans from other clubs are laughing at you. You're a tedious boring pr ick. If you think the purpose of the web forum is to pound out the teethachingly dull essays every freaking day that you put us all through then god help us all. I have never stopped you holding an opinion, even if you do want to bore us all with it. But I do reserve the right to point and laugh.

Nice summary which sums up perfectly the position of the self appointed "intelligent posters". Maybe you people should stop making up bullshi t rationale about catchment areas and how much bigger we are than Everton and such like. But now the truth is here. This is entirely founded on the greed of some fans, desperate to see a dead man's money spent spent spent regardless of whether we actually need it or not. The rest of us are happy to enjoy the ride, see what life is like in the Premier League 2012, and not spend our time sneering at our fantastic stadium that will deliver us higher attendances than half the division next year and the vast majority of clubs in the country would kill for. One of the greatest seasons in our fine history and its hardly over before the self appointed "intelligent posters" have to talk about is champion's frigging league. Total embarrassment. The kind of things you hear Div West Ham fans saying on phone ins. Total embarrassment. Well done chaps.

Must be several thousand users based in Weymouth alone. It's a right hotbed of Saints fanatacism I hear.

No they don't. Your point being?

Correct. I am horrified my daughter has a Derbyshire accent. It's north up here. North. These people are Northerners.