CB Fry

I don't think anyone has ever scored goals at any "cadence". I'd recommend choosing another word. As we're clearly not signing anyone, and it is FA Cup R2 weekend, there's plenty of time for some etymological debate.

Zola was taken them down the sh i t ter. Probably no worse than Avram but definitely no better.

Well Adkins and Cortese are the best friends in the whole wide world and our Nige has Cortese's blessing to spend what he likes on who he likes whenever he likes so I expect to see at least fifteen players in by this time tomorrow, at least half coming from Premier League clubs.

You're mixing things up. The Woodward thing was only after Redknapp had so skilfully relegated us by telling the press at every opportunity how rubbish the players were. Redknapp and Saints (read: Lowe) was never ever going to work - even if he had kept us up I doubt he would have been around for much longer anyway.

If six wins out of eight isn't consistency then christ you've got a long and miserable life as a football fan ahead of you.

What a load of garbage. We all remember your hilarous "Pompey transfer rumours" threads when you gloated, daily, about all these fantastic players that were coming to the club with the biggest and best fanbase in world football. Oh, how you laughed. Pompey in the Champions League wasn't a hope, it was inevitable for your gigantic megaclub. Spare us the wounded swan routine.

You've got some serious issues. I said none of those things. What I did say is we have spent more than enough to get out of this division, and whinging like a sl ag for Cortese to "loosen the purse strings" when we've already financially blown every other club in the division out of the water is a little bit childish and shows no grasp of the real world whatsoever. And I didn't say we didn't struggle against Carlisle, just wondered why Carlisle don't need a world class manager and a multi million pound squad to beat us, but we need an even more expensive manager and even more million pound players to beat them? And yes, Nigel Adkins, a well thought of manager from the league above probably is as good as we're going to get. If not him, who else. I'll tell you who else, someone at about the same level/experience as Pardew or Adkins. That's our level you div. And, I said nothing of the sort. Keep taking the medicine. Especially as we haven't "not spent a penny", we've spent a bloody fortune. We've already spent more than Blackpool ever did, in this division or above. Just let me know how many millions of pounds we have to spend before we can possibly dream of beating Mega Spending Mega Club Carlisle? Oh yes, you've totally sold me your vision. We must spend at least £300m players on £150,000 a week wages before we can even think about finishing sixth in league one. Welcome to the land of the complete fu ck wi t.

I think we should sign Michael Owen.

Those living in the real world already know that we've spent more than Blackpool did and they've got to the Premier League. Those living in the real world already know we have spent more than enough money to get out of this division, as all the clubs that have got promoted before us have shown - Leeds didn't spend anything like the money we have to get out of this division. Who on earth is this "top class manager" desperate to come to third tier Southampton that you think we'll get. Pardew was the biggest name we could have possibly got, and Adkins is pretty much around that level too, albeit less proven further up. Yeah, it's me not in the real world.....sheesh. Oh, and "the likes of Rochdale and Carlisle" have top class managers and expensive squads do they, as you seem to think they're so much better than us?

Organising a return to last season's form for our star striker is what is needed. What is not needed is spending £2m on a new striker.

Don't be dopey. I expect us to be promoted this season. That's not the same as thinking we need to spend millions and millions to beat "the likes of Rochdales and Carlisle". "The likes of Rochdale and Carlisle" haven't got a pot to p**s in, but you seem to think we need some team of multi-million pound galaticos to beat "the likes of Rochdale and Carlisle"? How much did "the likes of Rochdale and Carlisle" spend to be so much "better" than us? Ah, right, they spent jack sh it. We just need to get organised and winning with the million pound squad we've already got, not whining at Cortese to spend even more, like Harry Redknapp on Jan 1st.

Quite. And this idea that we somehow need to spend huge amounts of money to get out of the third tier is just lunacy. We've already spent more than enough as it is. It's not money that gets you out of this division, it's being organised.

Great post. Aaaamen to that.

Christ almighty. As a club we've already spent more than enough to get out of League One twice over. We don't need to spend money to get out of this division.

Pie in the sky. You're utterly clueless. And anyway, that 100m is still debt to someone.

The Liebherrs don't do pi ssing money up the wall either. Blowing at least 100m on a new stadium as you now seem to be advocating is "debt" whichever way you look at it. Some mug would have to pay for it. This isn't a computer game, it's real life. I know you struggle with that.

It looks to me that Charlton Athletic Football Club PLC is the football club in the same way that SLH PLC was Saints. Sounds a bit like CAFC have got away with a cheeky one there.

What exactly do I need to provide "proof" for - I've given my opinion and set a challenge. The day we hit 30,000 averages in the league below is when we're ready for this mystical 48,000 seats in the Prem. Where's your proof of us filling 48,000 seats every freaking week? PS - it's a an internet message board, not a Commons Inquiry. Making statements of opinion is just fine.

Pie in the sky. Even if we finished top ten in the Prem three years in a row we wouldn't hit those kind of average attendences.

If we average 30,000 in the second tier, then let's look at expanding the stadium. We won't.

Yes - it's an internet forum. I only ever give my opinion. It's the slightly odd ball ones like you that take it slightly too seriously. We'll see what Mr Cortese does and doesn't achieve, won't we.

The JPT wasn't a small final - it was a massive jolly up to the new wembley stadium that we might not go back to in a generation. The game wasn't important but the event was. It wasn't some "chore". It's not comparable to a league fixture against Man City in a middling Premier League season. You build stadiums from the hard core up. If we fill 30,000 week in, week out in the second tier then we'd have a foundation for 10,000 extra seats in the Prem. We won't. We don't.

Wrong, that would take us back to an average of 30,000 as in our previous stint in the Prem. Our Computer Game friend is talking about another 10,000 kicking the door down week in, week out. If we get to the CCC and average 30,000 for the season, let's talk about expanding the stadium.

"Only get". 29,000 fans is plenty and is a realistic figure ongoing. We're not going to get 38,000. Everton and Villa can't get those kind of numbers through the doors at present. Stop kidding yourself that we would suddenly pull 10,000 regulars out of thin air.

If if if if if if if if if if. If we were getting 30,000 gates in League one then we'd need a 50,000 stadium in the Prem. Our stadium is just right. Get over it.