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"By mutual consent..."? "To spend more time with the family..."?

Too many people in the Portsmouth network on there for my liking....

Some would say that's a price 'we' should be willing to pay for democracy rather than something bordering on totalitarianism. I personally wouldn't suggest that of course, but some might...

Echo: "That means, in order to be safe, any club entering administration after March 26 must effectively finish ten points above the bottom three. Despite some reports, there is no suggestion Saints will have to make such a decision, though." "No suggestion" from where? Of course there would be "no suggestion" of administration direct from the horse's mouth until it happened. The only "suggestions" would be through "reports" that it was about to happen. Conclusion: the above sentence in the Echo is logically meaningless.

I was thinking the same yesterday.... Of course, in line with the current spate of espionage on here ( ) he/she has switched off their 'last visited' status flag on their profile...or is this something only the mods/admin can switch off....? nah, will leave that one to the conspiracy pirates....

I think the more pertinent question is who his source's source is.....given this has all the hallmarks of excuse number 178 from the Summer 2007 edition of 'The SFC ITKers Book of Excuses, Volume 12'......i.e. "my source was genuinely convinced but the people who told him let him down"

"Southampton boss Jan Poortvliet has been told his job is safe after crisis talks with chairman Rupert Lowe and the entire playing staff. Saints are 23rd in the Championship". Mel Henderson, Daily Mail, today

The future's bright...the future's ska ?

Even archive.org 'mysteriously' only goes up to Feb 08.... http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.thesaintsforum.co.uk

Where's BarcelonaSaint....he should be able to clear this up....perhaps....unless he's been kidnapped of course.....

Hmmmm.....Please tell me I'm not playing the lead in The Trueman Show sequel....

Alas....I was storing it all on TSF for safe keeping....little did I know that this would be the first forum in the history of all forums to lose ALL it's data due to a server crash....but what do I know....? I've only been in I.T. for 25 years....

Right area of the ground but alas....the picture with Lowe and this chap was taken an hour or so before the game....

and the fact that the threads with the pictures were 'lost' shortly after will only get the conspiracy theorists going again....

...but, of course, all posts pre-Aug 08 are 'lost'...hmmmm..... so we need whoever took the photo of Lowe and this chap at Farnborough to re-post....it was the one with Lowe wearing his light green crumpled jacket talking on the touchline before the game with this "Russian looking" chap standing next to him....

correct. I recall BarcelonaSaint confirming it was th chap he saw at teh airport with Poortvliet 3 months before Lowe re-joined the board last year

The 'missing' posts from 2007/2008 might have made interesting reading too...

Good question. Alas, no answer....surprise, surprise...

John? :confused:

"The former Feyenoord technical director praised the commitment of his players with a mention for those currently on the periphery of the first team." Hmmm.....Sounds like Wotte's being bigged up in preparation for his impending promotion....?

Wouldn't any "real" fan also want Lowe not to be at the club either? The question was posing a hypothetical scenario: Administration or Lowe being the only mutually exclusive choices. We can debate the validity of said hypothesis until the cows come home but that's not the point of the question (IMHO).

If the answer to that is "they wouldn't" then why did they come back in the first place 9 months ago?

Exactly...so that just leaves administration then.....

$64,000 question: How else?

Another crap analogy alert.... I want the current regime out of 10 Downing Street. I thus direct my criticism at Bottler Brown rather than Tony B-liar because the Bottler happens to be in the hot seat at the moment.