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Why did we change from US to UK (or visa versa) server/supplier a few months ago? It was working 'ok' before then....We seem to be trying to dig ourselves out of a hole that we dug ourselves in the first place? (sorry for asking this ad infinitum. There's a fair chance that an answer will shut me up though.... )

But things were "ok" on here (Saintsweb forum) until about Christmas/new year time at which point (I believe) the server/provider was moved to the USA from the UK. Can't we just go back to where we were when saintsweb first started?

I suspect the truth has been.....

This forum was working fine until switching servers/service at the turn of the year. If it ain't broke don't fix it? Just a thought.

Does this mean we've given up on getting the forum working as good as it used to on match days or is this just an interim measure?

Which begs the follow up question...."Who introduce van der Waals to Lowe?" Pullis?

Or this one?

What, this one...?

It's only a planet, FFS

I'm just Googling for an accompanying picture as we speak. One sec....

Fair dos

Wotte was an intrinsic part of the "seamless team" that got us to where we were after 28 games, so to invite him to leave at the time of the initial march wasn't illogical. It's only since the protests and marches began that Wotte has made decent progress by instigating different tactics. So, no "confusion". Quite the opposite. HTH

Wotton. I always had an inkling we should swap an attacking midfielder for a defensive one against Brum. Fate could be dealing us an opportunistic hand here....or not as the case may be...

Surely there's no obligation to take up these extra cost benefits, is there?

Club statement: Saints boss Mark Wotte has issued the following statement in response to recent stories in press regarding Bradley Wright-Phillips and David McGoldrick. Wotte said: "I am aware of the allegations that have been made against my players. I have spoken to them both at length where they have explained to me what happened that night and I will support them 100%. "We are unable to comment any further at this time as the matter is under police investigation, however, I can assure our fans that everyone at the Club remains focused on the remainder of the season." http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/articles/article.php?page_id=11461

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Congrats to Saga - well deserved http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/articles/article.php?page_id=11459 Saganowski said: "I would like to thank all the Southampton fans who voted for me since January. It means a lot to me and I hope I can score even more goals before the end of the season. "Against Preston and Ipswich we fought harder than perhaps ever before. We played for each other more and we posed more of a threat in the last 16 yards of the pitch - Something you must do to score more goals. Most of all, though, we played with a better, more positive spirit. "If we were to repeat that kind of performance for the rest of the season, we'd win virtually all our remaining games because there are some very good players here."

Ffs

From the man who predicted Ipswich 0 - Saints 3..... Birmingham 1 Southampton 2

Fair play GreenTreeFrog. I'll step down from my provocative podium for now Agree we should all get behind the team and manager from here on in. I'm actually warming to Wotte and believe he could become a bit of a legend in due course....funnier things have happened.... COYR!!!

Count me in. Charge spectators a quid to spread the cost per player though....

Just for the record, it's not my "argument" it was a semi-hypothetical question. I actually agree with the supplementary "why Poortvliet?" question and indeed have asked it many times without any ITK replies...

You're forgetting that we're all owed a partial refund for the un-usability of the forum on match days.

Dodgy analogy alert... You contact a building firm to build you an extension. The building firm assigns you a project manager and a builder to complete the work. The project manager and builder both sit down with you to talk through the plans and convince you to try out a new revolutionary mortar that they are both very enthusiastic about. You agree, but with reservations as this type of mortar has only ever been proven to work on windmills before. The project manager leaves the builder to complete the work and you are happy with the finished extension, as it looks really good from the outside. However, over several weeks you start to see cracks appearing in the mortar. You repeatedly contact the builder who reassures you that the problems are superficial. After many weeks the extension shows signs of collapse. So, you give the building firm an ultimatum and, thus, they sack the builder and get the original project manager to come in and fix the problem for you. He looks at the mortar and says "hmmm, not sure that was the right thing to do in the first place, guvnor". We'll need to change that for you. So, he drills out 50% of the new revolutionary mortar and back-fills it with some good old fashioned mortar. You wait a few more weeks to see if this has done the trick and yes, it looks like the problem was resolved in the nick of time. Do you.... (a) congratulate the building firm and the project manager for his excellent patch up work and thank him for saving your extension from collapse or (b) acknowledge that they got it right in the end but insist on an explanation as to why the project manager went with the hair brained revolutionary mortar in the first place. :confused:

Cheers for that. So it sounds like the OS are being a smidgen over optimistic with their reporting, which isn't a bad thing I guess.