CB Fry

LOLtastic. How could one post be so wrong.

There's only one thing funnier than none of the players being paid, and that's "a majority" of the players not being paid. That's going to be fantastic for team spirit come Saturday.

I'm starting to worry their signing of Eugen Bopp may be in the balance.

Go on, get all upset about "the list" again. It's quite funny.

Yeah, I know. No-one explaining to the divs about how the Torquay game was a draw with the result decided on penalties gives a toss about the list you're squinneying about.

From my experience negativity is often confused for realism on this forum, in the manner of a sulky teenager who equates walking around in a long coat with a face like a smacked arse with intellectualism. Remember the "realists" on this forum were confidently predicting how we would scrape into fifth from bottom this season and sneering at anyone expecting better. Well, we'll see how real the "realists" were being come May, won't we.

I'm struggling to find these people saying we didn't win on penalties that you seem to be talking to.

What list?

No sh*t. We drew the match though.

Of course not. But the final score on the T-Shirts will be 0-0, 2-1, 2-0. Even if we win the world cup within six months no-one in England will remember the penalty score (5-3, or 4-2 or whatever) but everyone will remember the full time score, and the fact that the match was a draw. Actually, yes it is. Match is drawn and then the tie is decided by whatever method has been decided by the competition organisers. It's also why there are no penalty shootouts in the league. LOL at you.

Of course you would say in the pub "we won on penalties". But then saying "we won on penalties" is itself saying "we drew the match" because one thing leads to another. And quite often in the pub people might say "we got through on penalties" but no-one ever says "we got through 2-1", they'd say "we won two-one". Like it or not the word "won" is used less when penalties are involved. And, goals scored in Penalty shootouts don't count to season or career goals tallies. Because they don't take place in the match officially, just in the device used to settle a tie. It's also why the final score wasn't 7-3 or whatever. It was 2-2, then the penalty tally. With Torquay, we drew the match, we won the tie. Pretty simple and people picking Pancake up on that are a tiny bit dim I'm afraid.

If we maintain this form for the rest of the season we will make the play offs. And if we make the play-offs, I think we will be promoted because god lord we'd be the number one form team in Britain. It is possible, but of course not easy.

Me neither, but they contribute to this forum. Just before we played them there were fans going apoplectic about the very idea anyone dared say Saints were a bigger club than Yeovil - it was terribly "arrogant" to think so, apparently. And as someone has already linked to on this thread, there are still people who think fifth from bottom would be some kind of triumph. And yes, of course I overstate for effect on this forum - that's the point, to generate a bit of debate, but the kernal of truth is there. In the main, the forum contributors who overstate how awful we are and how we can only dream of finishing eighteenth as seen as oh-so-wise sages when anyone saying we can and should finish top ten bare-minimum are cast as "unrealistic" lunatics. It is madness and we will see who the real "realists" are come May. I'll wage it won't be the "positive" relegation flirters.

Quite right TDD. Fan that thinks we should be aiming to finish in the play-offs because we have the squad capable of doing so = characterised as a "negative moaner". Fan that drones on about how we should only aim to finish just above the relegation places, we shouldn't expect any better than that and we are not a bigger club than Yeovil = positive, realistic fan. You couldn't make it up. I think this must be the only football forum where making out your team are much more rubbish than they are and aiming pathetically low is seen as the "positive/realistic" viewpoint. Now we are clear of the relegation zone, do all those super positive/realistic fans now think we are going to hover around 19th for the rest of the season? Do you all think Pardew is that useless?

Try six months ago, when Lallana did want to leave.

Not online. They haven't for a few seasons now. If you want Radio commentary you have to pay for saints player. Which currently doesn't seem to be working.

Whatever happened to the "Morgan is actually an Arsenal player who is only really on loan to us and will be off to the Emirates when Wenger clicks his fingers" story? That was one of my favourite solid gold rumours.

No sh it sherlock. Thanks for that oh everso wise one. I and every contributor to this forum breathing air is aware of that. That's why i responded to your patronising as hell comment about man city earlier. Christ.

Last time i looked all the richest clubs are battling for the CL places and all the poorest are battling to stay in the prem. So obviously nothing to do with money at all then. No sir.

Ohh, get her. It's like Bernstein and Woodward on the case. Bitter pedantic internet dweeb versus experienced, knowledgable paid Journalist writing a nice opinion piece about why our city should host world cup matches. And completely factually correct as far as I can see as our pet truth-warrior has yet to find anything that is actually wrong with it. One lives a simulated life pretending he knows about footballers for a living for some computer game. One talks to footballers, managers, chairman for real, every day, living it. I know whose side I'm on. Great article Danny. Spot on and thanks for banging the drum. But too late I fear....?

Get over yourself. The article you've linked to is an opinion/comment piece about why (in that reporters opinion) we should get involved in the World Cup. It's not "news". We all know SMS can be expanded, which is the point he makes. He could have done it without the link to Wikipedia but no harm in it being there. I don't see anyone claiming that article is an in-depth history of St Mary's Stadium. Are you challenging the central fact that SMS can be expanded? The up-arse pompousity on this forum beggars belief sometimes.

So what? We're running at three points per game if you just count the last game we played, or 1.44 if you count the last three. Unless you know better than me, the points for all clubs are counted for the entire season starting in August, not from when our manager says "the team is ready now" sometime in early October. I think we can make the playoffs , but the fact is we are running at 1.44 for the season so far (including our recent run) so to get to 1.9 is a big ask. Our awful start is a massive burden, and is the reason we are still further away from the play offs now than we were before a single ball was kicked in the summer. So in terms of making the play offs we still haven't made any incremental progress. Until we get the gap down to nine points between us and sixth, then we are really on our way. Three wins out of three coming up might do it.

Tommy Forecast this is your moment.

And we're currently running at 1.44 per game so far, which is an indication of the size of the job and how our poor start has really hamstrung us. Nailed on top-two form for the rest of the season. It's possible but it is not easy!

Nine points in the run up to the Norwich and Leeds games would be handy.