CB Fry

If West Ham or Cardiff had signed this kid then plenty on here would be spitting blood. So that's good enough for me. Hopefully he's got a bit of pace. Plus, as well as giving us another option, he might help improve De Ridder's game - he's got some real competition for his role now.

Yes, dear. The championship this year is the hardest league of all time. Burnley went up the season Sheff United lobbed £4m at James Beattie which plenty on this thread have mentioned. Blackpool went up with Newcastle and West Brom (obviously scrimped together teams with players on five hundred quid a week) and very strong and expensive Forest and Cardiff squads. Derby went up the season we spent £7m in the summer, and everyone at the time complained about how much our competition were spending in January when we didn't spend any more. Norwich went up with QPR who spent a fortune, and Cardiff with Craig flipping Bellamy in the squad. But no, nothing compares to this season. Of course not.

Nice to see this spasticated garbage getting a run out yet again. If we want to finish second we will most likely need to achieve the points total that the second placed tends to get. If you are in a race, and you overtake the runner in third, that makes you.....wait for it....third. Not second.

You brought up Real buying Ronaldo. I wonder how it is at all relevant. You're the one picking out things that are uncommon. I am saying we don't need to buy a single player for £6m to get promoted, and my examples for that are the many, many championship level clubs who have not spent six million pounds on a single player and got promoted. I'd also use Southampton football club getting to top of the division without spending six million pounds on a player as an additional example. If you think Real buying Ronaldo, as not being common, as being a more relevent example to the job in hand then fill your boots son. I'll call it a pretty wrong headed jumping off point for the debate though. If that's where you're head is at, then really it's pointless trying to debate with you, especially you're deciding to pretend I've got upset, your the one squinneying about not giving two ****s about things. Bless.

Christ. The point about it not being common is that it is not a need in the way some are making out. Instead of trawling the internet for players who have cost CCC clubs £4m or more (funnily enough, no one has found a six million player which was my bloody point) have a look at teams who have got promoted without spending £6 (or indeed £4m) on single players - from Norwich to Blackpool to Burley to Derby to whoever. If you seriously think we are going to start acting like Real frigging Madrid then you need to grow up a bit.

There you go - six years ago. Not that common, and definitely not a need. We need a striker, but we don't need to spend six million. Spending six million on a single player could create as many problems as it solves. Can you imagine the venom on here if the poor bugger goes five without scoring....?!

We don't need to spend £6m on one player to secure promotion from the NPC - I can't think of a club in the last few years who have spent that kind of cash in that way to get out - QPR and Newcastle didn't on single players. You'd probably have to go back to Tigana's Fulham for comparable behaviour, and that must be a decade back. Although I have just remembered Leicester lobbing £5m at Matt Mills but that is mental mental mental beyond all human comprehension. To get somewhere to "guaranteeing" promotion, then yes some investment definitely needed, but lets not go loopy if this deal doesn't happen because from where I am standing it still looks highly unlikely, from both ends - I can't see Celtic standing for the humilation of having to sell their best player to a second tier English club, and I can't see Cortese sanctioning that spend. And, finally, I am not sure Adkins, regardless of how much he rates the boy, would be alltogether comfortable with parachuting a £6m signing on the squad he's been building. We'll see though.

Care to enlighten us on what you did, personally, to mark the anniversary last year? Or the year before that? Or the 80th anniversary? Or the 75th? If it's up there in your consciousness alongside your memories of Lawrie Mac then I'd expect a pretty comprehensive response.

Let's be honest, it really doesn't make that much difference. We'll have 2,500 odd fans there, which is phenomenal and will motivate the players in itself, and support will be shown. Improving the quality or variety of the songs is not really going to add much to the performance on the pitch. It's a local game for me so I'll be there, I'll sing some of the time, but not all of the time. It doesn't really matter that much - Rickie Lambert doing in his cruciates, or the Leibherrs putting the club up for sale, will have far more of a genuine impact on our prospects than, say, 25% more singing at away games. Don't get me wrong - we have brilliant away support and we are taking superb numbers on the road, and that is a postive thing and it is motivating the players. But I don't agree that those fans "upping their game" a bit more is going to make any further effect.

Posted these on the other thread. I like this one - simple, memorable and might actually get sung: He knows Kung Fu He knows Kung Fuuuuuuuuu Tadanari Leeee He's coming for you To the Rickie Lambert tune, obviously we'd only sing it if our Lambo is injured (lets be honest, no one is ever going to sing it): He stands at only four foot three Tad-an-ari He's a big a fan of Bruce Lee Tad-an-ari He gets the ball he takes the pis s He likes Sushi - it tastes of fish Tad-an-ari Southampton goal machine Also, a variation on the Cortese choon, again, might get sung: Tadanari - oh-hoh Tadanari - oh-hoh He eats lots of Sushi He farking hates Pompey etc. That is all.

Despite this, Notts county's ground is actually in Nottingham City, where the Forest ground is over the river in West Bridgford, part of Rushcliffe Borough council's juristiction, and therefore more like the county of Nottinghamshire. A bit like St Mary's being in Stoneham. A bit, but not a lot because the City ground is still pretty central. Jeez. I've bored myself. Looking forward to going, nice local one for me.

Hooper Loopy Nuts are we Them and us and them and me He'll show you what he can do with a football ball and the s'fampton crew Score a goal and screw back Gary Hooper on the attack Hooper Loopy nuts are we We're all Hooper loopy If we actually do sign him I'll sing it on my own. Actually, no I won't.

Yes, but the QPR "next level" is top twelve Premier League, and Mark Hughes is perfectly capable of that. You're thinking of the next next level - top six - and I agree, I am not sure Hughes has shown anything to suggest he can do that. He is competent but not spectacular.

That thread is scary. That nipper is clearly thick as shi t but there's a hell of a lot of manufactured outrage there and the response completely disproportionate. If that was an overheard conversation in a pub I seriously doubt any of those internet warriors would confront him, let alone track him down to his home address.

No he didn't. Clearly didn't get on with Bally and felt completely frozen out by that regime. On the whole very disappointed he never got the opportunity to actually do anything for us, mainly through injury. Says some nice things about Le Tiss if I remember. I can't remember anything negative about the club or fans.

Why on earth should Dave Merrington be expected to preface every single comment with some compliments about Adkins? There's a bloody match going on. And Merrington has been very positive about the team and the manager all season. If you want constant non stop unfettered praise on every broadcast then you seriously need to grow up a bit.

The BBC conspiracy against Southampton Football Club strikes again. God help us from the media coverage some of the utter divs on this forum seem to want. "And in sport, Super dooper super Saints played brilliantly and did nothing wrong in a triumphant two nil defeat at Selhurst Park. Everyone did everything right so well done to the lads and the manager and the chairman, who were all super dooper and brilliant and everything and we must have been cheated out of it or something."

I don't think anyone has beaten my two efforts from earlier on in the thread. Especially the Kung Fu one, which is, if I do say so myself, brilliant.

Is the tribute thread, then? I liked him a lot. Far funnier than 95% of the humourless tw ats on the main board. He dished out some proper comedy pastings to the usual tedious suspects, thouroughly enjoyable contributor. I look forward to the main board being completely taken over by teeth grindingly ball aching arse-fests like "let's all just support Saints together everyone". Kill me now.

So just to confirm, you haven't got a f u cking clu e what Mitchell's specific role or remit might be, either here or at MK. Cut the snide comments you pedantic arseflap.

It's possible. Everton did it. Once. Didn't and doesn't make them a Champion's League club. Southampton won't be and we shouldn't be even thinking about it. An utterly pointless and potentially corrosive ambition, and I seriously doubt the club are in any way even considering it. I personally have no interest in Saints being a CL level club. None. But everyone on here is free have their own dreams and aspirations, but don't turn them into expectations.

Perry always says something like that when the subject of Saints comes up (the waste of money thing, not the fickle fans bit). His book is a decent read too. He didn't think much of Alan Ball as a manager. Fickle fans is something you can say about any fans of any club. Except Portsmouth who have the greatest most loyal fans in all the world.

He stands at only four foot three Tad-an-ari He's a big a fan of Bruce Lee Tad-an-ari He gets the ball he takes the pis s He likes Sushi - it tastes of fish Tad-an-ari Southampton goal machine I think I like the Kung Fu one better, though.

He knows Kung Fu He knows Kung Fuuuuuuuuu Tadanari Leeee He's coming for you

Whatever. Do keep doing your CAPITAL LETTERS thing, won't you. Utterly clueless on everything you post. Every single time.