CB Fry

You any good on boilers? http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?27109-Boiler-problem

So just to confirm, anyone on benefit is a "socialist" now? Funny that, because at its core "socialism" as understood in the UK (lets call it the Labour movement) has its foundations in the striving for full employment, whereas Thatcherite "capitalism" understands that a reasonable percentage of unemployment is a neccessary evil in a market economy. Ask Keith Joseph. It was Thatcherism that created the modern welfare state. New Labour may have funded it and exacerbated it, but Thatcher started it. So on your logic benefit claimants are dyed in the wool Thatcherites as much as they are socialists. And most benefit claimants are thick as pi gsh it so imagine would agree with you on a lot of things. You'll all have a lot in common.

It's as simple as that.

You win the £10 book token for the 3,000th airing of the "Mourinho wouldn't do any better" line. Well done. And the answer, of course, is yes they would do much better. There is a reason why Nigel Adkins didn't get the Inter Milan or Real Madrid jobs in recent years.

Refusing to let two of the teams better players play because the club can't afford their new deals doesn't sound like much of a "gamble" to me. It sounds like a club with no money and an owner desperate to stop spending.

Yawn. No it isn't. Change the record. Adkins took the job on the understanding that the club is promoted to the Championship this season. That's his brief. He's got the resources to achieve just that and no one forced him to take the job. And he'll be well paid to boot. That's the real world of professional football in 2010. That's right, 2010. You want to try living here some time. Spare us the 215th reading of your Ted Bates/Lawrie Mac lecture.

Amen to this.

Whatever you say, sweetheart. At least I don't come out with horseplop like this garbage: ...as you were saying on Wembley Way last season. If you think we were suffering "malignancy" last season then your expectations as a football supporter are shot to f u ck and you have the perspective of an autistic eight year old. Rocketing up the table and winning a trophy is not "malignancy", darling. Remember, it's not just me disagreeing with your nonsense on this thread. Because you are pitifully wrong.

Not really. You tend to be pitifully wrong time and time again, and I'm delighted to put you right. "Pardew inherited a decent core of players for league 1" you say and it is total piffle, especially when the inference is that Adkins inherited a "malignancy" in contrast. Your contributions are utter, utter garbage so spare me the judgement on my insight.

Attendence and wealth.

Any news on the "Morgan Schneiderlin is actually an Arsenal player on loan to Saints" story?

Your universe. Because finishing sixth in that league was the miracle of St George according to you. But winning it is a trifling nothing now when you're sneering at another manager. But double standards are pretty common in your world as we've all seen. The Championship is the fifth biggest league in Europe by the way.

Making out we "underperformed" last season is pretty myopic in my opinion. The only person partaking in hyperbole is you - describing last years team as part of some long term "malignancy" is fairyland stuff. And if, according to you Pardew inherited a "decent core" of players, then Adkins had definitely inherited an even better core of players. You can witter on about Lambert, but I'd say Adkins is pretty lucky that the club went out and bought another of the top five goalscorers in L1 last season to help. And has a golden oldie and a young star to support too. Oh, and a box to box goalscoring midfielder from the league above too. And a well regarded striker/forward from a Serie A team too. Doesn't look too "malignant" to me. Making out Adkins has some gigantic rebuilding job to do it just ill-informed hype on your part.

Didn't we do rather bloody well last season? The idea that Nigel Adkins walked into some train wreck of malignancy is stretching the bounds of credulity. He inherited the best squad in the division who just needed a bit of direction and inspiration. Not easy, but not that hard for a manager from the level above. As managerial inheritences go - from players, to facilities to exec support - I'd say Adkins had a far stronger hand than almost any other managerial appointment at any other club in the country this year. He has far less to "sort out" than most new managers.

That's funny. Chris Hughton winning a league is sneered at by you in your usual condesending way, but you lecture us for years about Burley hamfistedly scraping into sixth in the same league like it was the greatest achievement in football history. What an utter plank you are.

He'll get that, but if he buys six new players people like you will be bleating on about "Jesus H Christ can we give the players six months to gel before we think about judging etc etc" Yes he can. Judgement started on day one. Adkins got the job to deliver promotion, without fail, this season. Not to settle in. Not to get his feet under the table. And no, not to "have his own team" either. Nigel Adkins got the job to deliver promotion this season - that remit means he has to do it with the players he has inherited. He'll get to "build his team" in the Championship. So judgement started months ago. And it's so far, pretty good but we need to be contenders, not pretenders, in the second half of the season.

No they didn't. They just thought Hodd le was and is and always will be a total c * nt. And how right we are.

Did you have a little trouser moment when you read those tweets? Stick to the computer games, because media analysis is well beyond you.

Yep. I like Pardew, he did a good job with us under any reasonable measure, but things didn't work out for whatever reason. But him and Newcastle seem like a terrible fit. He'll have a go, and they probably will stay up, but bobbling about in 16th next season will see him hounded out by fans who didn't want him anyway. If he's still there this time next year he'd have done very well.

What a load of absolute cobblers. But then, I'd expect nothing less from the most clueless contributor to this forum. Keep the drivel coming.

Blackpool may need it, well they clearly do need it. Saints don't need it and have never had a game called off for a frozen pitch.

In a way the FA can't whine about "we didn't have a chance because FIFA clearly wanted to go to new places". That was exactly the same thinking that took them to Stadium MK for their bid. Milton Keynes is the Qatar of England. "Won't it be jolly different if we went there rather than proper football cities like Derby or Leicester with their decades of historical football support and teams with heritage and history". In the midlands section of the selection process, Derby (League winners, huge fanbase, real football city) and Leicester (multiple trophy winners, Banks, Shilton and Lineker, England's only real three-sport city) were rejected in favour of Milton Keynes (Stadium handily near IKEA). You started it FA and you fuc ked up.

Correct. Although it probably has to start with the players. The Premier League has got the money and get together all the key world players. Sign them all up for an exclusive contract for a world championship tournament held in the USA in 2013, England in 2017 and Austrailia in 2021. Said players appear in no other global tournaments. Line up the companies not currently sponsoring the WC - ie if Adidas is the FIFA Offical, go with Nike. Etc. You'll probably need the Murdoch shilling though, so it is a bit of be careful what you wish for. But, for now, let's Kerry Packer it up and f ck you Blatter.

I never said them fings.

I noticed the Norwich fans chanting "Scum scum scum" at the Ipswich fans on the TV game on Sunday. Made me wonder the origins of that unique word, so I looked it up. Apparently some farmers from Ipswich drove up to Norwich to break a farming strike in the city. This was definitely in 1921. The travelling group were part of a group called the Suffolk County Unionised Menfolk and the name stuck from there. No one from Norwich has ever broken a strike ever and everyone from Norwich calls people from Ipswich SCUM purely because of this world famous strike breaking incident, because people from Norwich are morally superior to people from Ipswich who break strikes all the time. This is all true because it is on this fanzine website here and all fanzine websites are completely true. www.norwich-fans.co.uk/selfaggrandising garbageoveragenerictermofabuse