CB Fry

Always worth pointing this out as being really not true. Without Markus we might not be in the Prem now and spending gazillions on Uruguayans that Alpine doesn't like...but there was never any danger of us going out of existence. We would still be going no problem. We'd probably be somewhere in NPC or League One but we'd be there.

If we do sign him, poor old (young) J-Rod will be looking up to the sky and thinking...what the frig have I done to my career.....?

Don't worry Alpine. We'll remember this advice next time you go batsh it crazy about nothing much.

Lowe/Jones first season.

Remind me, what is Le Tiss asking for here exactly?

...so in your example who is calling who a moronic idiot over and over? And what is this horse sh it example based on?

Say for example I saved you and all your family from drowning (hypothetically of course) and then you announced you were having a party and refused me entry who would be in the wrong?

I think this is what happened to Kevin Davies when sold him to Blackburn, funnily enough for a similar sum. Couldn't dislodge the incumbent centre forward and marooned off to the wing. Doesn't score, what a waste of money, good riddance. Lets hope manager and player find a way, although now we have 57 forwards to choose from I am not sure this will end well for our Jay. Who remembers being excited when we signed him?

So we should be. It's Matthew Le Tissier. He's worth fifty chief execs, Swiss or otherwise.

Those seats were for the Olympic family.

Good move. Could be the final piece of the puzzle in our six-up-front formation. Although we'd better sign Owen as well as back up. Sort it out Nicola.

10 wins. 21 defeats. Relegated. Superb football. Absolutely superb football.

No we didn't.

Yep. Although four of our back five probably not good enough.

Maybe. Blackpool didn't sign £12m wonderkids though.

Care to name even one contributor on this forum who has "fallen for it". If you can get to "so many" then you've done very well. Anyway, first name please....

Pardew would have final say and Pardew is responible for putting the team out and Pardew is responsible for that team winning or losing. If Newcastle were appalling, no one would be blaming the scouting team. The underlying resentment on this forum that Pardew has done bloody well at Newcastle is rather tiresome. He's a proven Premier League manager, as he was before he even turned up at SMS.

Pardew was sacked for lots and lots of terrible performances was he? If you say so. We'll see if they are clueless about Cortese being trigger happy come October/November.

Pretty much no teams stay up with that few if I remember rightly....we'll need more than that. We won't get fifty but mid forties hopefully.

Presumably that guy who does our comedy T Shirts is working on a Fray Bentos Pie Tin themed item as we speak? We must be told.

I am a big defender of journos on here. But not The Star. This is a made up story. The writing policy is "make stuff up so it looks like we have an exclusive story when we don't" You don't need Simon Peach here.

They're not "doing the rounds". A made up story has been in the Daily Star.

It wouldn't surprise me if he never got another job. I guess he has given a degree of commitment to the BBC...and he won't need the money and I doubt he wants the arseache of managing QPR, or Reading (they've got new owners too) or going back to WHU. And he won't go above the M4 so his choice is pretty limited. I think the only thing that would see HR back in work is Hodgson losing three in a row for Rio.

I have decided to go for two all. This is new Southampton and we are going to be banging them in. And letting them in.

Absolutley right. Guardiola, or a slightly cheaper, slightly more realistic Guardiola. I hear Roberto Donadoni is in the frame.