CB Fry

Bless him, but having seen Colin Farmery's name elsewhere recently as part of the new Pompey Trust, I am pretty sure he is just like our very own Anorakocracy. Name in the papers, doing his bit, getting involved, rounding up bucketeers, blathering on about "we could be like Barcelona" no doubt. Good luck to him, and well done on the "interview", old son. But does Sacha Gaydamak speak to him as an equal, and as a man he is going to give real answers to? Is this a man who really cares? Or just someone to unload a bit of flannel to smokescreen his desire to get his flamin' money back? You decide!

1) Errr - St Mary's Stadium is really rather near the spot the original club was formed, but no, you're right, an industrial estate just outside Eastleigh is where the soul of the club really is. And I don't think anyone was advising knocking down St Mary's Church to build a ground, so the Gasworks site was a sensible option was it not? you have no clue and never have. 2) Yes it was 25k. What is the point of building a 25k stadium that "could be expanded" in the middle of nowhere when you can have a 32k stadium actually in the bloody city the club is from. We are Southampton Football Club. For the city of Southampton. For the people of Southampton. You have no clue and never have. 3) Cinema, Bowling Alley, Supermarket, whatever, the point stands. Why you are obsessed with business ventures I don't know. Stop worrying about profits and maybe concentrate on the football and the city our club represents and being in the heart of that city. That's what really matters. Not a frigging hotel or a bowling alley.Have you been to the Madjeski? Have you? And that's what you really wanted for our club and our city? Is it? You have no clue and never have. 4) Do you travel by Helicopter? You can't walk from Millbrook to Stoneham, but you can walk from Millbrook to town. Or hop on a bus. Or drive. It's a piece of ****. Getting to town is pretty easy and you certainly don't need a car from most parts of the city. But you would need a car to get to some godforsaken trading estate you get all dewy eyed about. If your priority as a football fan is transport links then support a club with better transport links. I support a club based in the heart of the city of my birth just a stones throw away from its birthplace. What a fantastic place to be. You want it next to a branch of Lidl and a Frankie and Benny's in the middle of nowhere. Brilliant. I'm right and you have no clue and never have. 5) All you do is drone on about Lowe over and over and over again. You haven't got a clue and you never have. How about telling us how absolutely brilliant SISU are again, your other heroes, because Coventry are streaking up the table at the moment aren't they. Look at them go. SISU and Stoneham, the SaintRichmond "fan's first" dream ticket. You have no clue and nver have.

There is no such thing as the FA Premier League. The FA do not run the Premier League and even the name FA Premier League was phased out after about three years. And being that the League is essentially the twenty clubs in it, why would the other 19 bail out a club that has basically cheated their way through its competition over the last four or five years. Why would Bolton, West Ham, Blackburn, Wolves and the rest support that? The League can get plenty of positive PR by letting Pompey suffer because they can grandstand and preach and say "never again". But what the League want is that lot to struggle on for long enough to be the Football League's problem next season.

Any news about Dennis Rommedahl on there?

As others have already said - they've been saying this for months. And it is interesting they never say "we'll be paying back what we owe" just "the embargo will be lifted". Much like accusing the taxman of behaving "illegally", everything that comes out of that toilet of a football club is empty grandstanding and pointless posture. A football club built entirely on blagging it.

Well if it was down to you Saints would now be playing in their spiritual heartland of errr, an industrial estate in the middle of nowhere on the way to Eastleigh. In front of 25,000 maximum. And surrounded by a cinema and a bowling alley. Brilliant. But you think that is what genuine football fans really wanted, because, and I quote YOU "it's nearer the airport". You haven't got a clue and never have.

This is an utterly dispicable post. Granted, to be expected from this particular forum member, but utterly dispicable all the same. Comparing not getting your usual seat at a football match (which you have been boring us all with for a fortnight) with what people went through at Hillsborough in 1989 is absolutely shameful. Go and have a chat to one of the Hillsborough Mums, Dads, Brothers and Sisters who lost children, husbands wives and parents that day because they went to a football match. I'm sure they'll share your pain of having to queue slightly longer than normal for a beer at half time.

Go the way of Excelsior Mouscron. Skint, booted out, all the players free agents. I think the red and white Mouscron badge is a nice little symbol for the kick em out Saints fans to sport, no? http://news.google.co.uk/news?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4DKUK_enGB318GB318&q=Excelsior%20Mouscron&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wn PS - I think the bottom two options are essentially the same thing - if Pompey in current form is destroyed their will be something else cropping up pretty quickly - the comparison is Aldershot more than AFC Wimbledon. That 4,000 hardcore fanbase will still want a club to support.

Excelsior Mouscron is an interesting case, surprised I hadn't heard of it before now. Basically - skint, kicked out of league. The Mouscron badge should be the symbol for all Saints fans that would find it quite funny to see that tawdry, crooked little club down the road chucked down a league or two. And handily, the badge is red and white.

That's a bit rich coming from someone who claimed the initial BBC report on the winding up order was from a "hoax website". Not sure you are in any position to claim anyone else "hasn't got a clue". It's not the first time you've been stone-cold wrong recently.

Must be a different Southampton Football Club that spent decades looking for a new ground, or submitting plan after plan for extending the Dell, including expanding over Archer's Road and tunnelling underneath it etc. We'd been trying for decades. Stoneham was an utter crock of shi te and the best thing that ever happened to Saints was not getting that glorified portacabin nowhere near the sodding city. It's only the swivel-eyed every-single-thing-Lowe-ever-did-was-wrong bellends like Richmond who bleat on about Stoneham being our true spiritual home and what a tragedy we're not playing to packed houses of 25,000 there.

Don't fall over yourself to watch it. I didn't see the whole prog but I think Matty was only on for one spot, saying something about cracker jokes. So you get about a minute of Le Tiss in an hour.

Le Tissier had genuine opportunities to go to Liverpool, Man United, Spurs and Chelsea during his career and didn't go. And this is while he was playing for us in perpetual relegation battles in front of 15,000 fans in a toilet stadium. We're bigger than the league we are in now, in fact we're bigger than most now, but in the terms Xavi is talking about we were/are a small club. Fair play to him though, high praise indeed. PS - anyone else see Le Tiss on the Grumpy Old Men Christmas Show last night? LOL.

Neither is rain, and neither is sweltering sun. I wonder if you could forward a list of the five weekends you have earmarked that we have your permission to play football in?

Nice message NC. The usual one eyed self justifying drivel from the king of guff, sadoldgit? Still making up opinions never displayed here (ever) and knocking them down to make a pi s s weak point? Oh yes he is. Happy t w a tt y christmas.

Eh? Simon Cowell is not Brian Epstein, he's Hughie Green mixed with Jack Cohen. And Joe v Rage is nothing like Blur vs Oasis, which was actually about which band/song you liked. Joe v Rage is one lot of sheep buying some dross dirge single becuase they've been engrossed in a TV show for four months and another lot of sheep buying some dreadful production line yank-jock-rock dross for the sake of an internet campaign against "the man" or something. Nothing like the Beatles and the Stones, or Blur v Oasis or even East17 v Take That or Duran Duran v Spandau, all of which were people passionate about music and performers. Just one lot of tw ats not bothered about music versus another lot of tw ats not bothered about music.

As someone who lived in Shirley for twenty odd years and used to work in the greengrocers on the high street at 5:30am every morning as a nipper I can can say it got cold, but not that cold. Don't be silly. We live in a temperate climate and it is rarely this cold before Christmas. And god knows when there was 12 inches of snow in Shirley, but certainly not in the last thirty years, suggesting it isn't a regular occurance. And how many games have ever been called off at SMS due to the cold? I think it might be two, but it's probably one, and that was for actual real snow.

How does a Winter Break benefit "the fans"? Four weeks without any football in the middle of the season. That is rubbish for the fans. The fans WANT TO WATCH FOOTBALL ON BOXING DAY. That's why the grounds are packed. Stopping that is not "thinking of the fans", it's sticking two fingers up at the fans. Christ. I'm a fan and I think the idea of a winter break in a temperate climate like ours is total nonsense. Note this is being supported by fans that live in errrrrr Sweden, and Dubai. So presumably not bothered to go to the football on Boxing day for several years. So leave off the preaching and keep your noses out of British working class culture.

And neither do you, despite peppering this thread with assumptions left right and centre. The facts are the club have banned the Echo for the first time in 120 years for publishing a good news story about developing the training ground. There are no more "ins and outs" to look at. I would love to hear what you think the "ins and outs" could possibly be, and why those "ins and outs" could justify the action of banning the local paper for the first time in 120 for something completely innoculous. Maybe the Editor has run over Cortese's wife on purpose? Or on of the reporters has ****ged Cortese's mum? Come on, give us an idea.

Even more LOLtastic stuff. I understood perfectly your previous post, and it was hilarious. Why would there be "a legal obligation" for a football club to give information to a local paper. Why on earth would there be? It's just hilarious you are turning to the law. Hilarious. Not sure why it is the people saying "this is a very odd decision by the club to ban the local paper after 120 years over something that seems completely and utterly innoculous" are the people "going off at the deep end" while those screaming "fc uk the Echo, there's no law against it" (again LOL LOL LOL) are pretending to be the level headed ones. Of all the things that have happened to the club in the last one hundred and twenty years do you really think that an argument about a press release is the most appropriate event to facilitate the club banning the local paper? Don't you think the club, maybe, are the ones in your words "making too much of it". Maybe? Yeah, I'm really off at the deep end, me. Bonkers. Loopy.

LOL. Talk about take the bait*. No-one apart from the windup merchants on this forum think it was a draw and no-one apart from the windup merchants are making out they are sat in the pub saying we didn't win. So lawd knows why you and others feel the need to spout this obviousness. But the technical answer is the match last night finished in a draw and the tie was decided on penalties. That's why the final score wasn't 9-7 and the goals Lambert and all the other penalty scorers won't count in their tally for the season. Because the match finished 2-2. It's on the official site, and the BBC and, well, everysoddingwhere. 2-2. But for the obvious brigade, we won last night. Thanks for telling us. Over and over again, in different shades of the blinkin obvious. Please, can people get over it.

Why, what have the Echo done, exactly? I thought we only had "one side of the story"? Surely the perspective is needed at club level. It was a press release about developing the training ground. It's not Watergate. And, again, as we've only had "one side of the story" what exactly have the Echo done, because you don't know either. The only histrionics are coming from you, love ranting on about "there's no law against it". Absolutely LOLtastic.

Penalties are brilliant entertainment too. I could watch a penalty shoot out between any two teams anytime anywhere. Just lovely.

Twas a good interview. This is not a man who is going to settle for "just staying up" as some were trying to make out earlier on in the season. Promotion is on for this season, and I get the feeling we will add one or two significant names to the squad in Jan. Still needs to make up with the Echo though (but use the other thread for that one).

Yes, we won, but on Penalties. The match finished 2-2, which is a draw. If in doubt just ask yourself - will Lambert's penalty count on his end of season tally? No. Because Penalty shoot-outs are a mechanism to decide cup ties. They aren't part of a football match. If they were we'd have them in every single game. But did we win tonight - HELL YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!