CB Fry

Who talks postively about us all the time, especially on Five Live but also on the FLS. So what? We had loads of coverage in the last two weeks. Yawn. Derby got much the same coverage, but of course we currently running away with the league being an entire goal better than they are and we now automatically deserve an hours full match coverage every week for the rest of the season. Yeah. Course there is. Newsflash - Saints home to Millwall is a nothing game, when two ex England managers are squaring up for the first time in the NPC in a big local derby and another game ended seven freaking one. Why oh why oh why didn't they show every single kick of Saints v Millwall I ask myself. Except at the beginning of the round up and at the end when the tables were talked about. Yeah, not a single mention. ****ing retarded. Sure they do. Except Barnsley. There is a clear pro Barnsley agenda on the Football League show. Always has been. Or is it Ipswich? Or Peterborough. Yeah. That's it. Speak to any Peterborough fan and they'll tell you that the BBC definitely have a bias towards them. No. Hang on. I think I mean Derby. Derby fans love the BBC because of their blatant pro Derby agenda. Or is Burnley? I'm sure the parade of utter spackers on this thread grizzling about how the BBC spends all their time thinking of ways to be biased against Southampton fu ck ing Football Club can tell you which clubs feel the benefit of the bias of the evil BBC. See you all next week for the exact same drivel. The BBC hates Saints. Boo-fu cking - hoo.

Not having a pop at nigel, but it is hardly revolutionary thinking to use three subs by the seventy minute mark. It's not like every other manager refuses to use a third sub on the off chance the keeper might get injured. We're doing very well and the substitutions worked but lets not start making stuff up. He hasn't invented the idea of using three subs.

We did win our next game 4-0, though. And in the previous season we'd won seven of our last ten, losing only one, and throwing in a cup final win at Wembley on top. But no, winning streaks were a complete alien concept way back in the dark, dark days of this time a year ago. Christ almighty.

Yes dear. The bbc are sooooo anti-saints aren't they? It's quite sickening how pro-coventry they are. Always been the way, though. BBC world famous for their pro Coventry bias and their utter hatred of southampton.

I can imagine what could happen. Solid top ten, flirting with top six, proper go at the cups. Not ever champions league, bar a everton-style oneoff. We will not ever become the champions league regulars you have in your bedroom bound computer game obsessed geeky little mind.

That's just lovely. Never going to happen. Even if we finish sixth two reasons in a row, our best players will still want to join chelsea or man united. We couldn't stop them. And being 'well managed financially' and champions league qualification are mutually exclusive concepts for unfashionable clubs. We'd have to spend millions and millions more than our turnover. So. Never, ever going to happen. And seriously, who cares?

Yes, these are exciting times. I have always been pretty confident that this regime will see us into the Premier League, although Adkins has to deliver far beyond anything he has achieved in his career thus far if he is the man to take us up. Once we are in the Prem we will see, but one this is for sure - we will not ever become a Champion's League club, and no one should waste any energy even thinking about. Look at that spack of a manager that Blackburn rovers are currently employing still labouring under the believe that he is creating a Champions League standard club. And laugh. The put red and white stripes in the background, and imagine us saying it. It's not going to happen, which is absolutely fine and dandy for me. Mid table Prem ten years in a row would be astonishing for SFC and that's what we should be aiming for. But let's get promoted first, and let's have a go as of now.

Oh my aching sides, wikipeople: Nicholas David "Nicky" Maynard (born 11 December 1986 in Winsford, Cheshire) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Portsmouth FC and currently lives in Portishead, Somerset. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Maynard

Not quite. My recollection is we went all out to get promoted under Pardew, and when he didn't do it, he got fired. That Pardew season was patently not about planning for the season after, it was to get promoted there and then. Thankfully, Cortese is not listening to the wallies that suggest we have to have a season in the division to acclimatise to the league so we're all nice and ready the season after or maybe the season after that. If getting ready and bedded into the division was really that important, Coventry City would be the runaway favourites for the title. We've got a good bunch of players and a bloody good team and a good manager. Go for it. This season. What he said.

Stoneham would have been an utter pile of sh it. By the way, how are your heros SISU getting on - you spent several months swooning about how utterly wonderful they are, and a further few months *****ing about the great opportunity we had passed up on. How is that working out for our friends in Coventry - all as fabulous as you said they would be?

Pretty sure that when she left GMTV she was given some Chelsea related gifts and there was some best wishes videos from some of the Chelsea squad. Fiona Phillips defection has been covered on this forum several times, not just some wikipedia thing.

Players interviewed on TV are hardly likely to say "I sat it out until I was happy with the dough they were offering me, Brian".

Leeds are on their third choice strikers and had a pretty poor day at the office. And not sure they are "one of the best teams in the league". Seventh place last season, and on paper at least, weakened with Schmeichel gone and an early season injury crisis. Leeds, along with us and about 12 others are just one of those teams in the play offs shake up, and could finish anywhere between second and fifteenth. So lets not get carried away. I can see why we seem to be chasing at least two potential experienced CBs.

sounds like they "just need to sort out the work permit" and he's a Saints player then, just like all the geniuses on here have been saying for the last week.

It's definitely not work permit, because work permit paperwork is the last thing you'd do. No club would agree fee and terms with a player and then announce nothing while waiting for the work permit. You are deluding yourselves. Not saying he won't ever sign but i don't think for a minute that it is all done and dusted except the work permit.

Hardly. Personallly I had no interest in the game, in fact I still don't know the final result. Interested to read how De Ridder did on that thread but haven't even opened the WBA match thread. Don't care. I doubt I am alone.

Agree with this. Adkins walked into an excellent squad high on confidence and belief, well assembled and drilled by Pardew. Adkins had to pull us over the line but he had an excellent hand dealt to him, far better than any previous Saints manager in recent history. Maybe Sturrock was as fortunate in his inheritence. As it stands I put Pardew in front on Adkins because the rebuilding and the relative success was greater. Adkins needs to deliver in the Championship, far closer to our natural level, to exceed Pardew in the saints pecking order. There are plenty of managers successful in the third tier that never really break beyond that - Phil Parkinson, anyone? - so to talk about Adkins like he is god's gift is all a little bit premature in my opinion.

Nigel will never be as bad as Ian Brantford.

I read everything you've written. It's wall to wall bol locks. Barcelona can keep their players, we can't. And yes, we get to the premier. Fine. Doesn't mean we'll end up on some non stop spiral upwards. This idea that we'll just finish tenth, then eighth then fifth then third. It's laughable bull cr ap. It doesn't work like that for clubs our size. Finishing tenth ten years running would be a breathtaking achievement for a club our size. Do you seriously think stoke are aiming for fourth next season? Or wba? Or even villa or everton. At least two thirds of the premier league aren't 'pushing for the top' as you claim. Plan A is stay up for club after club after club. Grow up you impatient child.

Eve of what game? A couple of 45 minute kickabouts. Give me strength.

we rarely agree but you're right here. If millwall can be solid top ten it's ridiculous to suggest we couldn't do at least as well. We'll be more than fine next season.

Nice try, but it wasn't me who said if we weren't aiming for the champion's league 'we might as well give up then'. That's a childish, greedy, pathetic attitude. And Comparing us to barcelona is utterly laughable and i will mock that view forever.

Awwww, bless. Hark at the superest dooperest fans. If you think that not being bothered about being in the Champion's League means "we might as well give up then" you're supporting the wrong club sunshine. Go and support Chelsea if you're that desperate for Champion's League football. My realistic aspiration of solid mid table Prem is stretching, ambitous, but actually achievable and would give me a decade of joy if we achieved that for ten years straight. I definitely wouldn't be whinging, *****ing and moaning about "getting to the next level" like you couple of divs. And the comment about comparing us to Barcelona is so embarrassingly pathetic I won't even bother addressing it. Suffice to say I sincerely hope you weren't born in 1977 as your username might suggest as that makes you the same age as me and screw me sideways you're an embarrassment to my generation. I sincerely hope you're 14 because your logic suggests it. Barcelona have claim to be the biggest club in the world. Southampton, funnily enough, don't and never will. And our Aussie friend, same goes. We're never going to be in the champion's league, my point was it isn't completley impossible for us to finish fourth one season - Everton did it once and never really looked like doing it ever again - but it is so unlikely it is untrue, and we definitely should not be aiming or targeting to get there. We're never going to be in the Champion's League. Put your willy away, it's not the nasty man with his limited ambitions stopping that happening. It just isn't ever going to happen, ever.

Don't flatter yourself - there is nothing "imaginative" about saying lets aim for the champions league. That kind of thinking a seven year old could come up with. And there is a hell of a lot wrong with "having a plan to be amongst the best". You talk about "big clubs" going "bankrupt" but don't think for a second that "planning to be amongst the best" could bankrupt us. As Um Pahars rightly says, there is a possibility that in one isolated season we might might might finish fourth, as Everton/Newcastle/Spurs did. But that is absolutely as high as we could ever get. And frankly, I couldn't give a stuff if we never kicked a ball in the champions league.

Everton, Spurs, Aston Villa and Newcastle are finding it pretty much impossible to be like Villareal for instance. We have absolutely no chance of being like Villareal for instance. Seriously you people give it up. We've been promoted to the second tier and we might end up back in the Premier League in the next two or three years. Might. If we end up like Blackburn for instance, or Sunderland for instance, or Stoke for instance or Fulham for instance we'd be doing bloody well and as as well as we will ever, ever, ever do. That is aiming high. That is high ambition, that is the stretch this club could possibly acheive. Can you f uckw its give it up, we're not ever going to be in the champions league.