CB Fry

Can I be the first to write off XYZ before he's even kicked a ball for us?

Almost every quote on the News comments section is an absolute pearl.

Sounds like our new signing is working well with Rambert, Rarrana and Connery.

She's thinking "lets make sure these inbred dins vote for me next time. Ring the Portsmouth News....now where did I put my soccer scarf".

Who owns this land again? I struggle to keep up with all the details, but what land does the current incarnation of your cesspit of a club own? Because I think I have gleaned enough to know it doesn't own Fratton Park. So what land does it own that Tesco are going to lob £20m at you for?

Stone me. What a life.

I believe every single contributor to Norwich supporters web-forums is unreservedly positive about the manager and every single player that has ever pulled on a Norwich City shirt. It is this positive attitude from their internet forums which is recognised as the single most important contributor to their success.

Just seen that myself. The report used the word harrassment. It's not bloody harrassment, just a bit of ill-judged cyber abuse.

Is that you on the left?

I like the one with lots of hads in in it, ten in row: John, while Jim had had had, had had had had. Had had had been the correct answer. Or the pub one about the landlord complaining about the spacing between the words on his pub sign for his pub the Hand And Racquet. Five ands in a row: I need more room between Hand and And and And and Racquet.

The Cult of Cortese. Worshiping, in the words of one member on here a while back, "the man who will go down as the single most important figure in the history of Southampton football club". Nobody mention Ted Bates.

Just to confirm, six months after I first responded to this post, promotion is the be all and end all this season. It was in August when you were wrong about this and it is so very true now. If you don't believe me ask Adkins, who keeps talking about winning the title, and Cortese who doesn't just want to be promoted (ie minimum) but he wants us to be champions. At no point whatsoever was this season about fannying around, consolidating, planning for the season after or any of that guff.

The CoC. Love it.

That statement is utterly cringeworthy and seems worded to humiliate the boy as much as anything. Puncheon is a petulant c u*t no doubt, but Cortese is no better with press releases like that. All that said, my only advice to Jason Puncheon is "be any good" come Saturday and especially Tuesday. We need him.

I was happy to pay the membership fee to join, but decided against it when there was a three quid booking fee and I had to pay to park outside the restaurant.

Can't help thinking we'd have been a stronger outfit if we'd managed to sign Gorkks and/or Jamal in the summer. Those two deals both collapsed for unclear reasons, not that the cult-of-Cortese types on here would ever admit that the man did anything wrong or could do anything wrong whatsoever, ever.

Even if this is true, Hooper aint going nowhere unless he hands in a transfer request. Celtic have gone too far to lose that much face.

That team can beat Leicester City. There's two strikers there desperate to prove we don't need to spend £10m on a new one. A kid from Spurs about to become a six month all time Southampton legend. And basically the squad that have got us to the top of the league. 3-1 win.

I think we need West Ham to win for the motivation. We've been blessed in the last few weeks with Boro and West Ham fluffing their lines. We can't expect that to be the case for the rest of the season. Something to aim at, to catch up with, could be just the kick up the bum we need.

Jeez. The only thing that will see Hooper sign at Saints is if Gary Hooper hands in a transfer request. It's jolly exciting this little delusion that we are just going to bid and bid and bid and bid and bid but it is not happening. We've had a go, we are not going to break the bank, and Celtic are not negotiating over a price, they don't need to sell and they are not going to sell to us, as our manager has said. It's over. What if this was the other way round - say QPR had come in with three bids for Lallana and then Mark Hughes was quoted as saying he'd given up would you be saying "they're just waiting for deadline day and then we'll sell". Bet you wouldn't. You'd be praising Cortese to the rooftops for seeing them off.

Okay precious. You haven't screamed. You have a knack of asking pretty dopey questions though. Part of the calculations in that risk would be any evidence that every single other club that have got promoted haven't found the need to jizz £10m on a single striker. I am bewildered why you've stopped at £10million. Why not £40m? After all, there's £100m pot of gold at the end of it so must be worth it.

Yes. Next question. About three weeks ago no one on this forum was even considering Gary Hooper.

Even when he signs for us, I am pretty sure Saints won't hold the "copyright" on Lee, and although they can ask him not to speak to the press they can't make him, and I seriously doubt "you must never speak to the Echo" will be in his "contract". Not sure where you get off calling people naive when what you've put there makes very little sense whatsoever.

Hang on, we're top of the frigging league. And every single other club that has got promoted over the last decade has just about managed to do it without spending ten million pounds on one striker. Like others have said on this forum we have already improved the squad, and the squad we have now is more than capable of getting us promoted. Screaming about spending £10m on one player like it is a straight choice between promotion and failure is absolute hysterical nonsense.