CB Fry

What a ridiculous post. Surely the fact that DM outlined how well Swindon were playing outlined the fact that we weren't doing that much wrong, it was more a case of being outplayed. I don't pay for Saintsplayer to listen to div ra-ra-ra-Super-Saints-can-do-nothing-wrong commentary. I want to hear what is actually happening in the match. I am sure there will be a suitable service for you on Mong FM.

Leicester built that squad on one season in L1, with Pearson one of a long line of managers in a very short space of time with a bloated squad to unpick and reshape.

That's funny because it's not me that won't stop going on about the same thing over and over and over again for six tedious years refusing to listen to any reason from anyone. The avalanche of responses to you on this thread alone is proof of that. But you'll be back with the same old shi te next week. Look around, it aint just me telling you to belt up about it.

Well, I think this is a very dangerous assumption and the kind of assumption that Skates were making about Sacha only a year or so ago. I wouldn't think Liebherr would give us a stadium effectively for free, in fact if he did I'd think he was a bit strange and far better to spend it on the team, or not at all. I don't want us to be that much in one person's debt when there is no need. It's a bit like asking your best mate for a £500 loan when you don't really need it. He'd probably give it to you, but you'd be in his debt for no particular reason. There is absolutely no compelling financial, sporting or logistical reason to build a new stadium. Not now and, honestly, not even in the next decade. Even thinking about it would create work and expense we frankly don't need.

Hull aren't good enough for the Premier League full stop. They are only there because Brown took them up and frankly he's suffered for that overachievement ever since. If he's spent the last couple of seasons finishing eighth/seventh/ninth in the CCC he'd still be in a job.

Still think we're in a relegation fight this season? I got your usual smart arse reply a couple of weeks back when I dared to say we had no chance of getting relegated this season. Well? I may not be always right but I am right 100% more often than you are.

One reason is we are currently debt free with a stadium which is more than adequate for the next five years minimum*. Building a new stadium would cost us somewhere in the region of £80m-100m. Which would mean a mortgage and a drain on resources for seasons to come. You seem to forget that the primary financial (as opposed to administrative**) reason we went to the wall last year was failure to keep up repayments on our stadium mortgage. My personal opinion it would be, to use your words, "absolutely crazy" to commit huge funds and energy on a stadium we frankly do not need. I usually agree with TDD but afraid not on this one - we need at least one season with a Season Ticket waiting list before we should even think about it, and then we should just be extending SMS.

It's not truth though, is it. Just your very tedious opinion.

No it isn't. And Tisdale played, what, less than ten games for us. It was a Boxing day game and we'd have got that attendance that day regardless of opponent.

Plenty of people on this forum that yearn, neigh ache, for our football club to play in a souless out of town location surrounded by branches of Frankie and Benny's and JJB Sports. They view a patch of land in the middle of nowhere in an industrial estate on the way to Eastleigh as our true "spiritual home" and curse the day we didn't get a stadium there. Because it could have had a cinema attached to it as well and everything. Which is, like, what football is really about. That, and car parking of course.

...because when the marketing dept of Johnstone's Paints decided to sponsor a cup competition contested between L1 and 2 clubs they were expecting Wembley sell outs every year. In fact, this year's will probably be the highest Final attendance they've had in the competition since they starting sponsoring it. It will be broadcast nationwide, but I doubt it will be "watched" by many people outside (geographically or mentally) of Hampshire and Cumbria.

Especially you.

Thatcher changed Britain completely in her time. No question. Atlee did similar in his time - he built the welfare state which is sneered at these days but was reward for a nation shattered by war and was a phenomenal achievement. He did the kind of things that Obama is doing in the US with healthcare now. It's not a perfect comparison but the same spirit. Anyone who knows anything about British political history would put Clement Atlee up there as one of the great Prime Ministers in the twentieth century alongside Lloyd George, Churchill and Thatcher.

Quite right. You can't move for dinlows making out all Nicola wanted was to "just survive" this season.

They'll come crashing down from £35k odd that WHU are paying to around £10-12k. ie more money than Richard Lambert has ever been paid in his career.

They can all afford to pay Lambert £8k a week, and they'd be in a division above us*, and would be amongst the favourites to push for the Prem the following season. If Lambert decides "actually, this could be my only chance to play in the CCC" and he wants to go, then we'd have to sell. It's perfectly possible. *assuming the worst of course.

"Where we have come from" is blowing every single team in the league (and almost every single team in the league above) out of the water in terms of transfer fees and wages. When are people going to stop making out we are still so terribly hard done by. We're the luckiest team in the league bar none.

Er, yes we are. If you think we have a sustainable squad for L1 football you're off your head. Oh. You are. Clueless. Utterly clueless.

Err, if you actually read that thread from way back, you'll note no one was calling for Pardew's head. It was a clever little thread title, but even the originator of said thread wasn't calling for Pardew's head. Didn't stop you wheeling out your usual arse-aching bore routine though. Why don't you read what is written instead of what is in your head.

No, and the fact is no-one was calling for his head. Check my posts if you are bored enough. All we had is drama queens wheeling out the longevity Lawrie Mac chestnut the minute anyone even suggested that performances weren't great in the first weeks of the season. And they weren't. Pardew is delivering instant success, the kind of which the likes of you were saying was "unrealistic" "impossible" and "we'd do well to just stay up this season" at the start of the season. And there are plenty of posts to that effect from August and Sept.

Little update on Leeds United and Ken Bates here. http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/mar/04/football-league-ownership-leeds-united Still bemused why on earth Leibherr bothered to take the club over, pump millions into it and appoint one of the best managers in the lower three divisions when some Saints fans swear blind that Leeds were better off in their first L1 season than we were. I think there's a lack of gratitude somewhere. Strange, ain't it.

For the "overwhelming majority" I'd say every single Saints fan. The only exclusions would be lunatics who are not statistically significant, none of which are on here. There isn't anyone on this forum who isn't going to give Pardew until the end of this season. There are barely any who wouldn't give him longer either. The problem is the arse-ache-ers are desperate to engineer some uprising of a "Pardew out" campaign so they can pat themselves on the back and drone on about Lawrie-Mac-took-three-years-etc-etc. But sorry, that campaign just doesn't exist. And more beautifully than that, Pardew is delivering success instantly, this season, just like people like me said he would. Pardew's success is not borne of "longevity", it's borne of the instant success that every single successful manager from the last twenty years, from Wenger to Moyes, from Boothroyd to Phil Brown, from Gordon Strachan to Martin Jol, from Paul Tisdale to Paul Ince, has delivered. Pardew's success is instantly delivered and yet another nail in the coffin of the fallacy than to achieve anything a club has to go through three seasons of mediocrity because that's how Lawrie did it. Well Pardew has done it in mere months. Instant success, instantly delivered. That's how modern football works and it has done for the last twenty years at least.

Well not quite. The string backing track was always a sample from an Orchestral version of a Stones song, don't remember which one. It wasn't a secret and there was nothing to "prove". I think the Stones lawyers got involved when the song became such a big hit and saw there was coin of the realm to be made. But you're right, the Verve boys get diddly.

99.9% sure that as of this season the Champion's League final is now at the weekend, I think Saturday night. Makes it more prestigious apparently.

I fear Pompey may be on the Road to Nowhere with this lot. They sound like Slippery People to me.