CB Fry

People lucky enough to get on the ladder at the right time often call renting "dead money" but I'm not sure. For my place I've bought not one but two boilers in six years for four odd grand. How much value has that put on my house? Eff all. Same for all the other outlays. I like my place but it aint no money spinner. If in doubt, rent.

You seriously think I have been trawling the forum to read your posts about flexible pricing? F uck me you are odd. And, as expected nothing from you about these Saints fans who think "we will never play in Europe". Because there are none. Just a fiction made up by you to get the rest of the arse-aching bores on here excited. Not one person on this forum thinks we can never play in Europe. Not one person.

Start naming those who think we "can never play in Europe" and I pwomise I sway sowwy for saying you mention flexy-wexy pricing. Thanks for the usual pompous weasel words, sniding to the gallery based on made up stuff in your own pathetic mind.

The usual snivelling weasel words from the most pathetically clueless contributor to the forum. Who, exactly are these people you speak of who think we can never play in Europe? Start naming names and quoting them. Or maybe just sh ut the **** up. Because there is no such person. No such people. No such fan. Not on this forum and I doubt anywhere. So come on weasel. You've had your little grandstand. Name them. Name them. Fuc king name them.

Yes. The club are happy to churn out inane tweets about "the media team have arrived in x" or pointless ball by ball tweets from friendly games but can't bring themselves to tweet "delighted to announce x has signed on an x year deal. More soon". Would be nice is all. But I am not going to spend the day arguing with the Cult of Cortese about it. You win. Everything we ever do is brilliant.

Three hours and forty five minutes.

Just to clarify you have freaking idea how long a photoshoot and and interview take to process. And I get accused of putting up straw man arguments.

...just when I was nearly losing faith in this forum. Better gag than mine. Goodnight.

It's alright. I'm awake. Just waiting for the latest transfer announcements to come out of the club. Usually around now....

I've had three emails too, with three different prices on. I would just like to say I think all three emails were brilliant and the club have clearly done nothing wrong here.

Eh? I think you had an even strawier-man on me when challenging me to go back and dig quotes up to "prove" the existence of one of the biggest themes running through this debate for months. And, as it turns out (I didn't actually remember) an idea you bang on about yourself. So quite frankly what the f u ck are you talking about?

Buctootim. Here: That was way too easy. And when did I say clamouring. I was making a point about people drivelling on about flexible pricing. Like, well, you.

Frank for a start. Plenty of posts from him. Plenty of easyjet comparisons from him. Wes tender posts plenty of drivel about flexible pricing. Some plank suggested the sell tickets at price A then put them up or down on the strength of whether the game is selling well or not. Nice try at being a smart cu nt but flexible pricing is a common theme on here and you know it.

We didn't make a strategic choice to have a 32k seater stadium last season. And we had on many occasions seven/eight/nine thousand seats to try out flexible pricing initiatives with and we didn't. But the intelligent posters think we will start doing it if we spend millions on thousands of new seats. Go figure.

What is this, Bearsy Invetigates? Yes it is petty to delay annoucements, as we have clearly done before and we did with Davis and we have done here. Might not be to pi ss the Echo off (on Clyne the world knew hours and hours earlier) but still pointless control freakery. The clubs twitter feed seems to think we need countless up to the minute updates of free kicks at meaningless preseason friendlies but can't be arsed to tweet/release something like this "Saints delighted to announce signing of x on x.year contract. More soon". Not the biggest deal in the world but there you go.

Because we waited for the photoshoot and interview. That's how.

No.

Quite simple. Announce it when the signing is made. Sent from my GT-I9100P using Tapatalk 2

Do you have any idea what the word vendetta means? I don't feel victimised by a football club media strategy. Yes. A two line press release. Yes, I know. It's odd. Annoucing a signing doesn't stop you doing a photoshoot later. Just fu cking announce it.

Well done the club on finally admitting something already definitively reported by every media outlet in Britain hours previously. Clearly our comms strategy is perfect and without fault.

So you admit it is rare but at the same time berate DellDays for, err, saying it is rare. And you slate TDD for not basing his opinion on fact even though the fact is having groups of stars coming through is rare as you admit. But you decide to ignore this fact and base your opinion on simple optimism. Which is fine but not based on any more facts than TDD. Well done there.

You'll be set upon by the paramilitary wing of the Cult of Cortese for even suggesting that. The way we decide to announce things is absolutely perfect and without fault. And normal. And perfect. And is actually the reason we got promoted twice. Or something.

I find it highly unlikely that "slashing prices to desperately fill ground" was in the Arsenal business plan for the Emirates. And they haven't needed to up to now. However, "Spend millions on seating and infrastruture with the express intention to give them away cheap as chips" is a central plank of the "intelligent posters" watertight plan for the 50,000 NewSolentSaintsCorteseDome.

We'll need Olympic style Saints-Lanes to ferry in the 50,000 coming through the turnstiles next season. Southampton City Council pull your finger out.

Well, targets 1 to 3 are just made up theoretical players, so there is no choice to be made, you're just inviting speculation on speculation on speculation. What about target 4 - guarantees 35 goals a season but very likely to nail at least four current players' wives by December. Or target 5 - is free transfer, great prospect, but asks to ring his mum halfway through the final contract negotiation. Or target 6 - great player, highly recommended by his previous four managers, young and hungry, but by accident of birth is Welsh. Which one do you sign?