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"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.

Quite possibly, but I believe the question was asking about another hypothetical chain of events.

I took the question as asking whether you would take the hit on admin/relegation IF the only way to achieve this was if Lowe departed. I agree there are probably more likely chronologies but I believe it was the thinking behind the question nonetheless. Maybe

Yes ref: amputation of gammy leg analogy

Saga's last goal for Saints in the 2-1 defeat at home to Doncaster. Could even be the last SFC goal ever... Cheery enough?!

With the pieces of jigsaw at my disposal (although admittedly I have lost the lid to the box....literally), I suspect that 'he' is not a "PR plant" in the sense that they are 'under instructions' from anyone....but along similar lines I suspect.....but, that's only a guess and/or an opinion of course....what do I know....?

Depends if you put the question into context or not.... In principle, do I want my left leg amputated? No, of course not. Do I want to stop the gangrene spreading from my left leg to the rest of my body? Yes. Ok, amputate my left leg please.