CB Fry

I've got it now. Tommy. Widdrington's. red. and. white. army.

Yes it is but it is unlikely he has, or is going to, set up lots of mini entities for the sake of accounting. Whatever he does on that front doesn't alter the fact that we are debt free meaning gate reciepts and other income is now money thatnow could (not will or must) be invested into the playing staff, because the biggest drain on our revenue is now gone.

So what are you doing apart from "surmising" that there is some convoluted stadium repayment plan? The club is debt free, as ML and Cortese have said, and the stadium was by far the biggest debt. I don't think ML and co are lying. I get the feeling everyone else's "surmising" of the situation is a lot more accurate than yours.

Yes, it does. It massively reduces them.

Some people don't agree with the assessment. Well done Pompey - clear out that useless dead wood. You don't need Peter Crouch holding you back...... :rolleyes:

Err - this is what the non badge holding non look-at-me non I-know-more-than-you brigade (ie everyone except you and Tic-tacs) have been saying all along. By the way, I know more about the use of English language and punctuation than you do, ref-boy. This. form. is. fine. for. talking. down. to. trumped. up. ref. types.

We all know that Peter Crouch was utter rubbish and won't be missed at all whatsoever Peter who? we don't need him doesn't fit in etc etc etc etc.....but just a point of order that his transfer to Tottenham Hotspur has tonight been completed. Paul Hart's doing a great job of shifting out all that dead wood that we didn't need anyway and thank god he's gone he didn't fit in and not that good really bit overrated if you ask me and oh my god we're going to get relegated.

LOL indeed. Presumably Gayboy is going to wander off to his next project writing off all these debts is he? This isn't a pound coin he dropped down a drain grate. This is millions of pounds. The fact that the debt is owed to Gaydamak is more of a problem than if it was secured against the club. You boys is gonna pay.

It's not some people that do it. It's just me. I use it to explain simple things to dopey people, which is why I used it in your case. If refs like your good self are so fantastically insightful on football matters, how come none of them have ever gravitated into front line team management, and how come Poll comes across as a complete arse whenever he is wheeled out to deliver his "punditry" on the radio? It couldn't be because refs are trumped up football geekazoids focused on black and white laws and regulations but with no scope for dealing with the ambiguities of the game as a whole? Ambiguities like why one cannot (and should not) make a team full of new signings in five. working. days. at a new club. It couldn't be. Could it?

Then why are you grizzling about Pardew not making a flood of signings in his first five working days in the job? I don't kno nuffink about der transver polizy cauz I aint got no bagde or nuffin but i kno it take's mor van five days to sing lotz off players. PS - the word you are looking for is "of" not "off".

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Err - the only idiocy on this thread is coming from you sunshine. Five working days in the job and you're *****ing about us not signing a flood of players in five. working. days. Five. days. And how do you know what Pardew's priorities are? Does your UEFA B badge give you mind reading capabilities as well now? You haven't the faintest idea what Pardew is or isn't doing. So lay off calling others idiots and arrogant as your pompous half formed garbage opinions are the stupiest things posted on this forum since the takeover was announced. Let the man get on with his job without being slated by you and your Uefa B badge. And by the way what does this mean "I was in a enept enviroment with those off an insight". Maybe you need to make GCSE english a priority.

So you don't believe the moon landing happened but completely believe the most apocryphal story in the history of urban myths. Brilliant.

Like people saying Pardew is not going to get it right this season after five working days in the job, you mean?

So the whole season is a write off, and that's your judgement having giving Pardew five working days in the job. Five days. Five working days. Five days in and you say he now won't get it right until at least August 2010. Ladies and gentlemen, the UEFA B qualification :rolleyes: :rolleyes: It must be the UEFA A course that talks about managers that turn clubs around without, gosh, even a pre season. Some managers take over in late September and still get their teams promoted. I'm sure they'll do a module on it some time. Five days. Five. working. days. Five. days.

What part of the Uefa B course talked about a new manager buying as many players as humanly possible in his first week in the job, otherwise the subsequent season is a write off? "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" and you are dangerous.

Has the season started already? PS - well done for starting the first "REALITY CHECK WE'RE RUBBISH" thread of the new regime. Plenty more where that came from I'm sure.

Yeah, because Pardew agrees with the divs on here that think we should be dancing in the streets if we scrape fifth from bottom. Pardew wants us promoted next season, don't worry about that.

Not quite sure who these talented kids are and I don't want them to get in the side on talent alone. If they want to squinney off because their manager gives them a rollocking then **** them. Why should the manager lay out the red carpet to the first team? Ever heard of fighting for your place? They can all seek employment elsewhere if they like. If Pardew gets us into play offs this season with not one academy lad playing a single minute of football I'd be as happy as larry. Every club's fanbase is guilty of over hyping their own kids but at SFC it has reached religous cult levels. I was hoping the JP MW experient might have killed it off but I see the feeling still lingers. Earn your place.

What a load of ********. Oh dear me, we're doomed, how can we ever expect to compete with Carlisle and their mega spending spree The footballing giants of Oldham and Exeter are going to grind us into League 2 where we will finish bottom in our first season. Absolutely any acheivement above this would constitute a bonus that must not be expected in any way just in case it creates pressure for the poor old players. Are my expectations "realistic" enough for you? There's some divs on here.

Err - this is a Southampton Football Club forum. We are allowed to have a laugh about the European Mega Club on our doorstep with the biggest and most passionate fanbase in the world. When you're a tiny lower league nothing club living in the shadow of a global giant you're allowed to poke a bit of fun. It helps us forget how tiny and insignificant we are. You've registered and post constantly on a Southampton Football Club forum. You're obsessed with us, you nutjob.

Oh do shut up you dopey old slag.

At the end of the day Wilde/Crouch/Hone combined to give Burley the funds and support to achieve automatic promotion easily - a hell of a lot more resource than Burnley, Hull, Stoke and even Wolves and West Brom had in their promotion seasons. Go back over the yards of newsprint on this campaign - Hone and co wanted promotion and budgeted for it. Seven million quid in CCC should give you the "outstanding players" you mention. So its not about fans having unrealistic expectations. Its about Burley taking an automatic promotion set-up and turning into a last-day scrape into the play offs - he blew it. Sick to death at people whining about fans. It isn't the fans fault if the manager fails.

Nice one Pards. Bit sick of reading on here how we should be thankful if we "just stay up" this season in a league with Oldham, Gillingham, Exeter and Yeovil. Pardew will expect bare minimum Play off form (which would see us probably ninth or tenth) and hope for championship form (which would see us in the play offs). Top two (record-breaking form) is a hell of a stretch but fair play if that is his benchmark. Our new manager and our new owners have bigger ambitions than many of the fans.

LOL at Pomey fan on a Southampton FC message board arguing with Saints fans "line by line". Thanks for taking the trouble Absolutely besotted with us, and you're two divisions higher. I know there aren't that many of you, but why not talk to some of your own fans on your own forum?