CB Fry

He'll turn out to be Millwall's Marek Saganowski in the end. Contract-hungry world beater, contract-in-the-bag waste of space.

Calm down dear. I didn't say you didn't apologise, and I certainly never say "I am a better Saints fan" than anyone, so you can stop frothing at the mouth now. I think it's you that needs to "get over it". I just said your rumour was a classic of the genre, and good lord it was. Happy new year.

This was the archetypal Saints forum rumour - the original poster chock-full of self righteous indignation "how dare you call me/my friend a liar/no wonder this forum is going to the dogs etc" completely oblivious to the simple facts of the story - if the chairman of Wolverhampton Wanderers had come out and said he was planning on buying a second football club it would not be tucked away on the inside page 57 of some black country local paper with no other media outlet in Britain bothering to follow it up. Bonkers. This was another solid gold classic from Pilchards, hero worshipped as some font of insider knowledge but more often pitifully wrong than right. And full to the brim of the aforementioned self righteous indignation whenever challenged, of course. It's fair to say the golden age of rumours on here is over, but they'll always be some, and Jan transfer window is as good a time as any.

He never went from Everton to Spurs. A little jaunt in Barcelona in between. The only Line-acre rumours I remember were about him coming back from Japan to us.

You any good on boilers? http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?27109-Boiler-problem

So just to confirm, anyone on benefit is a "socialist" now? Funny that, because at its core "socialism" as understood in the UK (lets call it the Labour movement) has its foundations in the striving for full employment, whereas Thatcherite "capitalism" understands that a reasonable percentage of unemployment is a neccessary evil in a market economy. Ask Keith Joseph. It was Thatcherism that created the modern welfare state. New Labour may have funded it and exacerbated it, but Thatcher started it. So on your logic benefit claimants are dyed in the wool Thatcherites as much as they are socialists. And most benefit claimants are thick as pi gsh it so imagine would agree with you on a lot of things. You'll all have a lot in common.

It's as simple as that.

You win the £10 book token for the 3,000th airing of the "Mourinho wouldn't do any better" line. Well done. And the answer, of course, is yes they would do much better. There is a reason why Nigel Adkins didn't get the Inter Milan or Real Madrid jobs in recent years.

Refusing to let two of the teams better players play because the club can't afford their new deals doesn't sound like much of a "gamble" to me. It sounds like a club with no money and an owner desperate to stop spending.

Yawn. No it isn't. Change the record. Adkins took the job on the understanding that the club is promoted to the Championship this season. That's his brief. He's got the resources to achieve just that and no one forced him to take the job. And he'll be well paid to boot. That's the real world of professional football in 2010. That's right, 2010. You want to try living here some time. Spare us the 215th reading of your Ted Bates/Lawrie Mac lecture.

Amen to this.

Whatever you say, sweetheart. At least I don't come out with horseplop like this garbage: ...as you were saying on Wembley Way last season. If you think we were suffering "malignancy" last season then your expectations as a football supporter are shot to f u ck and you have the perspective of an autistic eight year old. Rocketing up the table and winning a trophy is not "malignancy", darling. Remember, it's not just me disagreeing with your nonsense on this thread. Because you are pitifully wrong.

Not really. You tend to be pitifully wrong time and time again, and I'm delighted to put you right. "Pardew inherited a decent core of players for league 1" you say and it is total piffle, especially when the inference is that Adkins inherited a "malignancy" in contrast. Your contributions are utter, utter garbage so spare me the judgement on my insight.

Attendence and wealth.

Any news on the "Morgan Schneiderlin is actually an Arsenal player on loan to Saints" story?

Your universe. Because finishing sixth in that league was the miracle of St George according to you. But winning it is a trifling nothing now when you're sneering at another manager. But double standards are pretty common in your world as we've all seen. The Championship is the fifth biggest league in Europe by the way.

Making out we "underperformed" last season is pretty myopic in my opinion. The only person partaking in hyperbole is you - describing last years team as part of some long term "malignancy" is fairyland stuff. And if, according to you Pardew inherited a "decent core" of players, then Adkins had definitely inherited an even better core of players. You can witter on about Lambert, but I'd say Adkins is pretty lucky that the club went out and bought another of the top five goalscorers in L1 last season to help. And has a golden oldie and a young star to support too. Oh, and a box to box goalscoring midfielder from the league above too. And a well regarded striker/forward from a Serie A team too. Doesn't look too "malignant" to me. Making out Adkins has some gigantic rebuilding job to do it just ill-informed hype on your part.

Didn't we do rather bloody well last season? The idea that Nigel Adkins walked into some train wreck of malignancy is stretching the bounds of credulity. He inherited the best squad in the division who just needed a bit of direction and inspiration. Not easy, but not that hard for a manager from the level above. As managerial inheritences go - from players, to facilities to exec support - I'd say Adkins had a far stronger hand than almost any other managerial appointment at any other club in the country this year. He has far less to "sort out" than most new managers.

That's funny. Chris Hughton winning a league is sneered at by you in your usual condesending way, but you lecture us for years about Burley hamfistedly scraping into sixth in the same league like it was the greatest achievement in football history. What an utter plank you are.

He'll get that, but if he buys six new players people like you will be bleating on about "Jesus H Christ can we give the players six months to gel before we think about judging etc etc" Yes he can. Judgement started on day one. Adkins got the job to deliver promotion, without fail, this season. Not to settle in. Not to get his feet under the table. And no, not to "have his own team" either. Nigel Adkins got the job to deliver promotion this season - that remit means he has to do it with the players he has inherited. He'll get to "build his team" in the Championship. So judgement started months ago. And it's so far, pretty good but we need to be contenders, not pretenders, in the second half of the season.

No they didn't. They just thought Hodd le was and is and always will be a total c * nt. And how right we are.

Did you have a little trouser moment when you read those tweets? Stick to the computer games, because media analysis is well beyond you.

Yep. I like Pardew, he did a good job with us under any reasonable measure, but things didn't work out for whatever reason. But him and Newcastle seem like a terrible fit. He'll have a go, and they probably will stay up, but bobbling about in 16th next season will see him hounded out by fans who didn't want him anyway. If he's still there this time next year he'd have done very well.

What a load of absolute cobblers. But then, I'd expect nothing less from the most clueless contributor to this forum. Keep the drivel coming.

Blackpool may need it, well they clearly do need it. Saints don't need it and have never had a game called off for a frozen pitch.