stevegrant

Probably two reasons. Firstly, the Oceania group is always really uncompetitive, they might as well have just not bothered doing a draw and just put Australia through. As a result, while they were playing "competitive" games, they were against teams like American Samoa, who they beat 33-0 in the not-too-distant past and it's only in the last 5 years or so when New Zealand have been slightly better than woeful to give them a game every now and again. At least in the Asia qualifying group, they get regular games against teams on a similar level to them, such as Japan, the two Koreas, China, Bahrain, Iran, etc, so they're a bit better prepared when it comes to the actual tournament. Secondly, they were always being pitched in a playoff against Uruguay, who are a pretty decent side on their day. It took what is probably Australia's best ever team (with help from an excellent manager in Guus Hiddink) a penalty shoot-out to get through that playoff. Rather ironic that they've since changed the playoffs so the Oceania winner plays against someone from the Asian region rather than South America.

Yep, that's what smaller teams need, when they do get the delivery into the box right, the finish has to be good. On that occasion, great cross, great header.

Bit harsh to pick on New Zealand who nobody will have expected anything from. As both Martin Keown and the usually miserable Alan Hansen have said, even though the game's been relatively poor, they've probably been playing above their realistic level of performance. Defensively they've looked pretty solid, but the problem with the smaller nations is always the lack of creativity at the other end of the pitch. Some of the games involving better teams have been awful, though, and they can have no excuse. France v Uruguay, for example

The old ones aren't compatible with the new version, so the simple answer is "no", but we won't rule out bringing in other skins. Bear in mind we either have to find an off-the-shelf skin from somewhere or design our own (which would obviously take a significant amount of time).

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?23257-First-signing-of-the-summer-NOW-on-OS-!!

Probably teaching you to suck eggs, but have you cleared all the usual crap out, i.e. cookies, temporary internet files, cache, etc? CCleaner's good for that, particularly if you're using IE.

There are a few things I'll try tonight if I get time - the main page content is compressed with gzip, so on subsequent page loads it should be quite quick, but the various JavaScript files (one of which is quite large - uses the Yahoo UI library) aren't compressed, so that'll probably be the first port of call.

IE is supported, the site works fine with both IE7 and 8. However, there is absolutely no justification for spending hours hacking the site around to make it work on IE6 - even Microsoft doesn't support that browser anymore.

It seems as though Tapatalk's compatibility with version 4 of vBulletin isn't as good as they claim... I think Baj is still working on trying to get it going.

I expect it may be something to do with the images - do you have quite an old Blackberry? The newer versions of the Blackberry browser are much better with large page downloads, and cache quite a lot of the images and stylesheet files. You could try changing your user settings to not display user avatars? That should cut down a fair bit of the download time - turning off JavaScript will reduce the amount of data by a third as well

In what way?

No, the arcade software is incompatible with the new version of the forum. There is a new version of the arcade which we'll install fairly soon.

A few of the new smileys:

In the "General Settings" bit of your user control panel, right at the bottom you can set which type of editor you see when you reply - select one of the ones with the WYSIWYG options and that should display the smiley gallery. Alternatively, hit "Go Advanced" to go to the full reply page.

Yeah, we need to rebuild the search indexes... when I did this on our development site, it took about 7 hours! I'll probably set it up to rebuild overnight tonight.

A hell of a lot more than they were 10 years ago.

Just tried it on my Blackberry, managed to log in and it seems to work fine - are you getting any error message when you try to log in?

Despite being given an "elite" rating (the highest possible) by UEFA? Aside from the fact that the top division hasn't been called the Premiership for at least two years, you're kidding yourself if you think we've got a fanbase that could consistently fill more than we have at present, investment or no investment. Any money invested into the football club will be with a view to earning a return on it, there won't be any money chucked at things without a clear idea of how it's going to earn more money for Liebherr further down the line. That may be the case, but it seems to me like it's "ambitious" posturing for the sake of it. Jackson's Farm is in an inaccessible location miles away from anywhere with one road in and out. Given how much of an absolute nightmare the Rose Bowl is, with crowds of about 3-4,000, relocating to Jackson's Farm would be an unbearable situation. What is more likely is that Jackson's Farm has been earmarked for a development sale, which will enable Liebherr to get a sizeable return on his investment quite early. I certainly wouldn't begrudge him that, after all he rescued us from oblivion a year ago and it's not as if we've been using that land since we've owned it...

Of course, St Mary's has never fallen into that category...

85 (I think?) low-paid staff laid off, one (presumably) expensive CEO recruited - despite the CEO duties being what AA is supposed to do as administrator!

Dunno if you've noticed, but Saints play in red and white as well

No, you'd have seen all kinds of mess if you were on IE6. All flavours of IE have a slightly different way of interpreting the layout stylesheets, IE8 should (in theory) display the user menu at the top of the header bar, but IE7 probably won't.

It depends on what you've got set in your user settings... scroll right to the bottom of the General Settings page (http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/profile.php?do=editoptions) and you can select which type of edit box you see by default.

I'm guessing MB is using Internet Explorer. IE6 is all kinds of ****ed with the header layout - fortunately it's a very small minority of people still using that browser, so I'm not overly concerned about that

Not just you, Baj did the Tapatalk integration, he'll get that working again today. Seems the smileys are working again now, which is strange as I've not actually changed anything!