CB Fry

It has also created some unbelievable pomposity. It's a web forum and all a bit of a laugh. If a footballer is dopey enough to start talking up his own transfer on facebook more fool him and fair play to whoever found it and spread it about a bit. I thought forums like this were poke and prod the ridiculous edifice that is professional football, not be an anodyne outpost of the PR wing of the Football League. It's not about impatience around Stock's signing, I couldn't give a stuff if it takes an hour a month or we don't sign him. Until he signs he hasn't signed, fine. But this was a lovely little mini-story created by this forum and it has been stamped down so we don't upset the club or the player (diddums!). Where's the fun in that?

Quite. Brian Stock talks about being excited about moving to Saints on Facebook and it somehow makes the deal fall through (not sure why it would, because Doncaster are hardly going to want to keep him) then that's Stock's problem and the clubs decision to bin the deal. How is it the fault of this forum, and who is going to blame this forum? When that dopey Palace player did the same thing (he was going to Fulham I think) it was the player that got it in the neck. The player. No one else. I saw the Stock story develop last night and it was the closest I've seen any forum get to a genuine story. It was this forum at its best. Not least because it was one lad brave enough to ask a player and then report the answer. Not some pompous "ITK" giving it large. A genuine, delicous exclusive. Fantastic. And then the mods delete it because they don't want to upset Cortese. Good god. I think the people who run this forum are letting their egos run away with themselves. You're just not that important chaps.

What is so contentious about that first paragraph that proves "the press have always had it in for us". Looks like a report suggesting two pretty poor teams in a poor match. It probably was. Being that Saints were playing a club from the division below how was beating Crystal Palace "an incredible achievement"? And if you are talking about winning the final, I am not sure how you expect a journalist writing a contemporary report about the semi to know that we had won the freaking final. He's a journalist, not Doctor Who. Possibly the most pathetic thread ever.

Well, most people at the time were saying he was rubbish regardless of who he was managing. And he has proven, yet again, that he is an excellent manager. So it's not a case of we'll never know, we do know. He's second in the league. He is an excellent manager at CCC level, which funnily enough is what we were after.

Just the small fact that he's taken his clubs to the play offs in every single full season he has managed in the CCC. Including twice with potless Preston. But no, he would have been rubbish for us, just like the experts on here said

Squinny is a Southampton/Hants word definitely. My brother used it to his daughter in earshot of my missus over Christmas (who is from Lincolnshire) and she'd never heard the word before. So I think that one is a southern thing. Also a Southampton thing is the use of "nipper" to mean any male under about 25, in other areas (I've lived in the west and in the midlands) it seems you can only use it to describe small children. People I know in Southampton call each other nipper all the way up to our twenties and beyond. And Gert is definitely a Southern thing. Great word.

I think Jan said the Robben thing about Holmes, I don't remember the "world class Ryan Smith" line at all. And no-one ever said BWP can finish like Torres. Wotte quotes were all about him and BWP talking about Torres and learning from how he plays, with the general point being about being ice-cool composed in front of goal. The Echo worked it up into "BWP could be like Torres" story and a load of snidey pri cks on this forum got all wet in the trouser area about it. But if you look at what Wotte said at the time it made perfect sense. You want to get better, watch and learn from the best. But according to message board tw ats that was some terribly scandalous thing to say. PS - I'm not defending Wotte, he was bloody awful for us.

You'll see in the my original post I mention wage bill. I would be very surprised if any other L1 club could afford the combined wages of Kelvin, Jaidi, Connolly, Thomas, Perry and Waigo alongside the other three names you mention there. Some clubs could afford some, but we've got the highest number of big earners in one team. And even the three you concede we have "spent money" on, they cost somewhere not far off £3m, which is a bloody fortune in this division and, again, a bit of a stretch for at least a third of clubs in the Championship. We really have spent that much.

Thank god we've still got Sir Clive's eye-gym over at Staplewood. It'll be up and running in no time. PS - Have we still got the eye-gym?

You say you are in Sweden but I question whether you are an inhabitant of planet earth with comments like that. Our transfer outgoings and wage-bill is astronomical by League one standards and I am happy to bet it is higher than at least eight Championship clubs. He has spent a fortune and I think we are going to keep going.

Richmond seems obsessed with not having the club there. I love the fact our stadium is in the heart of the city it serves, seconds away from where it was formed and right on top of the streets and houses of one of the oldest areas of the city in its working class heartland. Some people still mourn the fact we're not in a souless out of town trading estate outside the city in the middle of nowhere. In a stadium much smaller than the one we have. I think almost every rational fan breathing air would say that the stadium we have and the location it is in is fantastic. But some folks just aint rational.....

Bless him, but having seen Colin Farmery's name elsewhere recently as part of the new Pompey Trust, I am pretty sure he is just like our very own Anorakocracy. Name in the papers, doing his bit, getting involved, rounding up bucketeers, blathering on about "we could be like Barcelona" no doubt. Good luck to him, and well done on the "interview", old son. But does Sacha Gaydamak speak to him as an equal, and as a man he is going to give real answers to? Is this a man who really cares? Or just someone to unload a bit of flannel to smokescreen his desire to get his flamin' money back? You decide!

1) Errr - St Mary's Stadium is really rather near the spot the original club was formed, but no, you're right, an industrial estate just outside Eastleigh is where the soul of the club really is. And I don't think anyone was advising knocking down St Mary's Church to build a ground, so the Gasworks site was a sensible option was it not? you have no clue and never have. 2) Yes it was 25k. What is the point of building a 25k stadium that "could be expanded" in the middle of nowhere when you can have a 32k stadium actually in the bloody city the club is from. We are Southampton Football Club. For the city of Southampton. For the people of Southampton. You have no clue and never have. 3) Cinema, Bowling Alley, Supermarket, whatever, the point stands. Why you are obsessed with business ventures I don't know. Stop worrying about profits and maybe concentrate on the football and the city our club represents and being in the heart of that city. That's what really matters. Not a frigging hotel or a bowling alley.Have you been to the Madjeski? Have you? And that's what you really wanted for our club and our city? Is it? You have no clue and never have. 4) Do you travel by Helicopter? You can't walk from Millbrook to Stoneham, but you can walk from Millbrook to town. Or hop on a bus. Or drive. It's a piece of ****. Getting to town is pretty easy and you certainly don't need a car from most parts of the city. But you would need a car to get to some godforsaken trading estate you get all dewy eyed about. If your priority as a football fan is transport links then support a club with better transport links. I support a club based in the heart of the city of my birth just a stones throw away from its birthplace. What a fantastic place to be. You want it next to a branch of Lidl and a Frankie and Benny's in the middle of nowhere. Brilliant. I'm right and you have no clue and never have. 5) All you do is drone on about Lowe over and over and over again. You haven't got a clue and you never have. How about telling us how absolutely brilliant SISU are again, your other heroes, because Coventry are streaking up the table at the moment aren't they. Look at them go. SISU and Stoneham, the SaintRichmond "fan's first" dream ticket. You have no clue and nver have.

There is no such thing as the FA Premier League. The FA do not run the Premier League and even the name FA Premier League was phased out after about three years. And being that the League is essentially the twenty clubs in it, why would the other 19 bail out a club that has basically cheated their way through its competition over the last four or five years. Why would Bolton, West Ham, Blackburn, Wolves and the rest support that? The League can get plenty of positive PR by letting Pompey suffer because they can grandstand and preach and say "never again". But what the League want is that lot to struggle on for long enough to be the Football League's problem next season.

Any news about Dennis Rommedahl on there?

As others have already said - they've been saying this for months. And it is interesting they never say "we'll be paying back what we owe" just "the embargo will be lifted". Much like accusing the taxman of behaving "illegally", everything that comes out of that toilet of a football club is empty grandstanding and pointless posture. A football club built entirely on blagging it.

Well if it was down to you Saints would now be playing in their spiritual heartland of errr, an industrial estate in the middle of nowhere on the way to Eastleigh. In front of 25,000 maximum. And surrounded by a cinema and a bowling alley. Brilliant. But you think that is what genuine football fans really wanted, because, and I quote YOU "it's nearer the airport". You haven't got a clue and never have.

This is an utterly dispicable post. Granted, to be expected from this particular forum member, but utterly dispicable all the same. Comparing not getting your usual seat at a football match (which you have been boring us all with for a fortnight) with what people went through at Hillsborough in 1989 is absolutely shameful. Go and have a chat to one of the Hillsborough Mums, Dads, Brothers and Sisters who lost children, husbands wives and parents that day because they went to a football match. I'm sure they'll share your pain of having to queue slightly longer than normal for a beer at half time.

Go the way of Excelsior Mouscron. Skint, booted out, all the players free agents. I think the red and white Mouscron badge is a nice little symbol for the kick em out Saints fans to sport, no? http://news.google.co.uk/news?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4DKUK_enGB318GB318&q=Excelsior%20Mouscron&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn PS - I think the bottom two options are essentially the same thing - if Pompey in current form is destroyed their will be something else cropping up pretty quickly - the comparison is Aldershot more than AFC Wimbledon. That 4,000 hardcore fanbase will still want a club to support.

Excelsior Mouscron is an interesting case, surprised I hadn't heard of it before now. Basically - skint, kicked out of league. The Mouscron badge should be the symbol for all Saints fans that would find it quite funny to see that tawdry, crooked little club down the road chucked down a league or two. And handily, the badge is red and white.

That's a bit rich coming from someone who claimed the initial BBC report on the winding up order was from a "hoax website". Not sure you are in any position to claim anyone else "hasn't got a clue". It's not the first time you've been stone-cold wrong recently.

Must be a different Southampton Football Club that spent decades looking for a new ground, or submitting plan after plan for extending the Dell, including expanding over Archer's Road and tunnelling underneath it etc. We'd been trying for decades. Stoneham was an utter crock of shi te and the best thing that ever happened to Saints was not getting that glorified portacabin nowhere near the sodding city. It's only the swivel-eyed every-single-thing-Lowe-ever-did-was-wrong bellends like Richmond who bleat on about Stoneham being our true spiritual home and what a tragedy we're not playing to packed houses of 25,000 there.

Don't fall over yourself to watch it. I didn't see the whole prog but I think Matty was only on for one spot, saying something about cracker jokes. So you get about a minute of Le Tiss in an hour.

Le Tissier had genuine opportunities to go to Liverpool, Man United, Spurs and Chelsea during his career and didn't go. And this is while he was playing for us in perpetual relegation battles in front of 15,000 fans in a toilet stadium. We're bigger than the league we are in now, in fact we're bigger than most now, but in the terms Xavi is talking about we were/are a small club. Fair play to him though, high praise indeed. PS - anyone else see Le Tiss on the Grumpy Old Men Christmas Show last night? LOL.

Neither is rain, and neither is sweltering sun. I wonder if you could forward a list of the five weekends you have earmarked that we have your permission to play football in?