CB Fry

The socialists did it.

I agree with this. I personally think that Pardew would have us around 2-4th place by this point in the season and would have been confident he could have delivered automatic promotion. A poor start to the season is not alien to great managers like Moyes so I wasn't too concerned with our start and I am sure we would have hit form under Pardew. But he's gone, and Adkins can and will deliver automatic promotion this season, so I couldn't be happier.

It will be well after 9pm before anyone starts moaning about media bias against Saints - they'll cover the Championship first.

We've got a squad big enough and strong enough to have a go at Blackpool, could get us a nice little (ie big) tie in the fourth round. Being in the draw for the next round of the cup is always a good feeling. Keep winning, don't bugger about with the team too much, give players a different type of test. Carry on as normal Nigel and get us back in the papers and talked about. We can beat a Premier League team currently employing B. Ormerod and J. Euell.

We clearly weren't "as good as anyone" as we scraped and stumbled and flopped into sixth place with the most expensively assembled squad in the division, and then blew it at semi final stage anyway. Wilde didn't blow all the money, Burley had a top two budget and decided to talk the whole club down "maybe the playoffs would be a good achievement" guff. Watch Adkins and how he talks like a winner. A top two budget was Burley's gift and he blew it spectacularly. Burley blew all the money and then screwed us by not even trying to get automatic promotion. And spare us the "no time to build a squad" routine - Burley had the luxury of an entire half season to get settled in, make plans and get ready for that key full season. All the time needed, all the money any club would need to go up, a gigantic feelgood factor post-Lowe - Burley had the dream hand. An absolute gift of circumstances in his favour. And he blew it. He blew it out of his backside. Of course all the money was gone in the second season - we'd spent a jacuzzi full of cash on players to get promoted the season before. We'd speculated to accumulate but Georgie boy couldn't deliver and screwed us long term. Good riddance to a disgrace to the managers parking space. And his performance at Palace yet again proves how appalling he is. Gutless waste of space.

27 years in the top flight. That's what, sunshine.

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the Jol/Santini/Ramos era when Saints divs stormed onto Spurs messageboards giving it a load of large to shrugging and bewildered Spurs fans. Certain Saints fans are not alien to the idea of working up desperate and one-sided rivalries.

To be fair there was a brief period where certain Saints fans went on and on about hating Tottenham even long after Hoddle had been sacked. Primarily message board nonsense of course, as I imagine this load of cobblers from Brighton is too.

Ain't that the truth! Two stonking home wins. Not bad for a team "in major need of an overhaul" and "desperate for Cortese to loosen the pursestrings" and other such guff we've had to trawl through recently. Oh, and we've got no goals in the team either.

This thread is looking even more mong tastic than it was previously. Well done Guly my son.

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?