CB Fry

Not sure being a fully paid football summariser qualifies as "raising his head above the parapet". He's paid to do a job which requires engaging insightful comment and he's not particularly good at it.

When is the Lambert era due to start? As far as I can see he hasn't kicked a ball outside of the third tier of English football thus far. Although if Jay Boothroyd can make it, Rickie is only a swine flu epidemic away from leading the line against the Swiss next year.

It doesn't work written down, but I always giggle at the closing scene where they start pouring a coffee and Nordberg says "say when". "Wh..."[closing theme and "freeze frame"]. As I say, it doens't make sense written down. But I, for one, am ****ing myself.

We've got two of the best strikers in this division by a country mile. We've got more than adequate cover for them on the bench, and we've got goals elsewhere on the pitch. Anyone who thinks we're hard done by on the striking/scoring front is something of a bellend, no?

You are by far the most hysterical poster on this forum, bar none. We have Ricky Lambert who despite not being in form at the moment is easily the best striker at this level over the last two years. And last season we signed Lee Barnard, who if you ignore the Premier League-bound Jermaine Beckford, was and is the second best striker at this level over the last couple of seasons. We also have the incredibly prolific and highly courted Adam Lallana and a great golden oldie in David Connolly. And, all of a sudden a sh it hot youngster in Chamberlain. How many other top class L1 strikers do you seriously expect this club to have? Get in the real world you freak. Funny how back in the day you were chief amongst the bleaters against our infamous former chairmen and his lack of investment in the squad and all that guff. This regime has done nothing but invest in the squad, blowing every other club out of the water and you're still flipping moaning. I think you should stick to your other favourite subject on how real football clubs for real supporters have their stadiums on out of town shopping parks with lots of room for car parking, because that's the only other thing you're even more completely wrong about.

Calm down. Mainly it was a point about Hammill not ever actually being a Saints player, and he was the first player I thought of that the original poster forgot. If I'd remembered Surman first I would have said him. To be honest I haven't tracked McGoldrick since he left and have no idea how well he is doing at Forest and I am certainly no fan of him, being that he was integral to the worst Saints team in my lifetime.

I know it's really exiting for our humble little lower league team to play host to the big shot mega stars from the Premier League. I imagine the whole town will be buzzing with the glamour of the big boys dropping down to our level. The local bakers will be planning their commemorative gingerbread men as we speak. I'm sure the town mayor will be on all the news reports on third round day talking about how fantastic is is to be able see superstar players we could only dream of pulling on a saints kit like Jason Euell and Stephen Crainey turning out on our little pitch. We just need to take inspiration from the likes of Ronnie Radford and Micky Thomas and hope we can pull off the impossible.

Jimmy Case was truly appalling as a summariser. Bleating about the ref being against us during every single game. Merrington is not much better with his "now what we want to do now is score" and "now what we don't want now is to concede" sparkling insight. Surely there is an ex-Saint somewhere who is a bit more erudite than either of them, especially as Merrington is hardly some Saints legend. Yeah, Alan Shearer. Well done. Next.

Surely McGoldrick would get in the team ahead of McDonald. Or Hammill who was never a Saints player anyway.

You've got to love them stewards.

Would be nice to experience the glamour of a premier league team at a premier league ground with premier league players we can only dream of playing for us.

The English language is not some direct adaptation of French though is it, so the assumption that the meaning of any French word is applicable in English is a pretty rum starting point for your theory. The way your burger flipper makes his burgers may have a cadence, ie the rythmn of how he handles his ingredients and puts them together, but not the fact that he can make 12 in ten minutes. Scoring 12 goals in 25 games on 25 seperate days in a four month period is not a cadence. If he scores precisely one every three games then retrospectively it is a pattern, but it isn't a cadence, especially as said striker did not set out to score one in three at the outset. Yes, but then an "irregular cadence" of goal scoring is then so random it is no pattern at all and therefore definitely not a cadence either.

I agree, Marquee Moon is a cracking album. We'll agree to disagree on cadence - just don't see that anyone scores goals "at a cadence". Even if a player happened to score precisely a goal every other game for an entire season, it's still not really a rhythm or cadence in your terms. The way a striker runs could have a cadence, fine, and the way a manager finishes every phrase with "it's a simple as that" is kind of cadence, I suppose.

I don't think anyone has ever scored goals at any "cadence". I'd recommend choosing another word. As we're clearly not signing anyone, and it is FA Cup R2 weekend, there's plenty of time for some etymological debate.

Zola was taken them down the sh i t ter. Probably no worse than Avram but definitely no better.

Well Adkins and Cortese are the best friends in the whole wide world and our Nige has Cortese's blessing to spend what he likes on who he likes whenever he likes so I expect to see at least fifteen players in by this time tomorrow, at least half coming from Premier League clubs.

You're mixing things up. The Woodward thing was only after Redknapp had so skilfully relegated us by telling the press at every opportunity how rubbish the players were. Redknapp and Saints (read: Lowe) was never ever going to work - even if he had kept us up I doubt he would have been around for much longer anyway.

If six wins out of eight isn't consistency then christ you've got a long and miserable life as a football fan ahead of you.

What a load of garbage. We all remember your hilarous "Pompey transfer rumours" threads when you gloated, daily, about all these fantastic players that were coming to the club with the biggest and best fanbase in world football. Oh, how you laughed. Pompey in the Champions League wasn't a hope, it was inevitable for your gigantic megaclub. Spare us the wounded swan routine.

You've got some serious issues. I said none of those things. What I did say is we have spent more than enough to get out of this division, and whinging like a sl ag for Cortese to "loosen the purse strings" when we've already financially blown every other club in the division out of the water is a little bit childish and shows no grasp of the real world whatsoever. And I didn't say we didn't struggle against Carlisle, just wondered why Carlisle don't need a world class manager and a multi million pound squad to beat us, but we need an even more expensive manager and even more million pound players to beat them? And yes, Nigel Adkins, a well thought of manager from the league above probably is as good as we're going to get. If not him, who else. I'll tell you who else, someone at about the same level/experience as Pardew or Adkins. That's our level you div. And, I said nothing of the sort. Keep taking the medicine. Especially as we haven't "not spent a penny", we've spent a bloody fortune. We've already spent more than Blackpool ever did, in this division or above. Just let me know how many millions of pounds we have to spend before we can possibly dream of beating Mega Spending Mega Club Carlisle? Oh yes, you've totally sold me your vision. We must spend at least £300m players on £150,000 a week wages before we can even think about finishing sixth in league one. Welcome to the land of the complete fu ck wi t.

I think we should sign Michael Owen.

Those living in the real world already know that we've spent more than Blackpool did and they've got to the Premier League. Those living in the real world already know we have spent more than enough money to get out of this division, as all the clubs that have got promoted before us have shown - Leeds didn't spend anything like the money we have to get out of this division. Who on earth is this "top class manager" desperate to come to third tier Southampton that you think we'll get. Pardew was the biggest name we could have possibly got, and Adkins is pretty much around that level too, albeit less proven further up. Yeah, it's me not in the real world.....sheesh. Oh, and "the likes of Rochdale and Carlisle" have top class managers and expensive squads do they, as you seem to think they're so much better than us?

Organising a return to last season's form for our star striker is what is needed. What is not needed is spending £2m on a new striker.

Don't be dopey. I expect us to be promoted this season. That's not the same as thinking we need to spend millions and millions to beat "the likes of Rochdales and Carlisle". "The likes of Rochdale and Carlisle" haven't got a pot to p**s in, but you seem to think we need some team of multi-million pound galaticos to beat "the likes of Rochdale and Carlisle"? How much did "the likes of Rochdale and Carlisle" spend to be so much "better" than us? Ah, right, they spent jack sh it. We just need to get organised and winning with the million pound squad we've already got, not whining at Cortese to spend even more, like Harry Redknapp on Jan 1st.

Quite. And this idea that we somehow need to spend huge amounts of money to get out of the third tier is just lunacy. We've already spent more than enough as it is. It's not money that gets you out of this division, it's being organised.