S-Clarke

Maybe something cropped up personally and he had to return to Spain to sort, and on return he's now entered another quarantine period. Hence the no photos and training alone elements.

To be fair, people have offered their services in this thread for free. I'm assuming they've been taken up on their offers!

It's not capacity, it's some sort of configuration issue backend - either caused by the AWS element or an issue with the forum software it's self. If it's not supported or developed anymore, outside of Invisions own hosted platform, then it seems like this place is flogging a dead horse. New forum...? New brand? There are a few out there. When the season starts and there are match threads it's going to be pointless, due to the stop start nature of this setup. I'll have to find somewhere else to chat waffle. It's a shame, because this forum will die within a couple of months if it's like this during the actual season.

I do agree where you are coming from, it irritates me too. I don't know why everything has to be such cloak and daggers, we are very much the worst at that - in my opinion, we've always been silent and hidden in the background. I think once the media get back in front of Ralph, you'll start to hear what's going on. I don't believe there's anything odd going on, it's just that the club feel as if there is no real need to tell us anything. But even a one liner such as 'Salisu continues to train alone to build up his individual fitness ahead of the new campaign' would suffice, I'm sure.

Bit harsh, he's probably on holiday or something!

Clubs keep fans in the dark over bad news, it's always the way. Yet they will shout about the good news. Swansea have kept absolute silence on the game yesterday, yet we're shouting it from the rooftops. Clubs aren't going to want to share bad news.

Makes absolutely no difference. The problem is the platform it's hosted on/forum backend, going in via specific links isn't going to make any difference (as it hasn't for me, at any point). You probably just get lucky at that one second.

Looks like we had some fun this afternoon! I've not seen any official listings on the first 11 Swansea put out though? That would be interesting to see. I listened to the Ralph post-match and he wasn't particularly happy with the 2nd outing and the changed team.

I imagine it's because the poster wasn't getting any response from the site, so ended up clicking submit a few times, then the site woke up and posted it 3 times.

It might just be me, but spending around £30m on a 29 year old coming on 30 year old, who'd failed at this level before with Bolton, and only scored a couple of goals last year for Valencia, seems a little bit insane. They haven't learnt then.

They've just confirmed that people can opt out if they wish to do so.

Their summer window this year feels very reminiscent of their first one under Roman. (When they bought the likes of Glen Johnson, Robben, Mutu - remember him!, Crespo etc). I reckon Loftus Cheek should probably move on and maybe the other fella, Hodson-Odoi (why is he so highly rated by the way? He never seems to produce anything).

But I don't' think that should just be the accepted, because what's the point of this place if that is the standard? It doesn't work 80% of the time and people fork out £5. Tiny amount for sure, but it's still an outlay paying for something that is offline more often than it's online. I'm sure Steve is working his arse off trying to fix it, can imagine it's even more frustrating for him than it is for us. Hopefully some of the guys above who have offered their services are involved in trying to unpick it! As he's said before it doesn't seem to be due to load or traffic hitting the site (so I wouldn't have thought it was a DDoS) it looks to be something more involved with how this forum it's self is functioning. I'd still go back to my previous point though - it was mentioned that this new 'solution' was setup so it could scale up and down based on performance, maybe that 'configuration' is what's causing the issues here? I've used other Invision forums and I've never had issues such as this.

To be fair to Jeff, he's pretty knowledgeable and onboard with us too - I think his son's (or one of them) supports us and he lives in this area. But rumours today is that he's set to be next and they're ditching Jeff too.

I don't disagree with you at all. Your views aren't racist, sexist or homophobic or whatever else is out there, but this is what will be labelled at anyone with a differing view now days. Welcome to the world post 2020. This is now where we live. Enjoy.

Wonder where Zaha is off to? This is obviously a straight replacement for him.

Scott Minto now gone in addition to these three. Thought he was actually a very good presenter for their EFL coverage.

Decent, so potentially something around 10-12m from Fulham then in the next couple of days. Just Hoedt and Carrillo to go....we could get to £20m!

Yeah they've said he'll be loaned out for next season to gain 'experience'. They haven't said where, maybe back to Nice.

We're pretty secretive over everything to be honest, have been for years and years. It's just how we operate.

There is certainly one too many goalkeepers on our books. Forster, Gunn and McCarthy would be unfeasible to keep at a club like Saints, and also unfair to top level professionals. I think the main reason Fraser is staying is because he knows he's on a good deal here, 80k p/w apparently, no one in their right mind would ever match that. So, why not just knuckle down at the club paying you that and see where you go. I wouldn't want to see McCarthy dropped though or leave, the one I expect to go is Gunn. He's still got a decent contract, so throw him out on loan for the year as a number 1...then if he finds his potential we've either got a new No.1 or someone we can get our money back on.

To be fair they absolutley battered them, Ely had a good game. They just didn't have anyone clinical as Edouard was 'injured.' (He's the one I reckon Lennon is commenting on)

Yeah I think this fella wanted massive wages from the get go. I doubt our interest ever got over the initial 'feelers' stage to be honest.

It's honestly driving me insane now, just wanted to post reaction to the Sky Sports 'sackings' and it's taken me about an hour to even get close to this page. This is like the days of pre ADSL back in the early 2000's. Shouldn't be like this. I've used so many forums over the years, and I still do, and I've never seen one react or respond like this one. Is it the forum (i've used other Invision boards) or is it the AWS backend causing the issues? Has it been overcomplicated maybe? As you mentioned there are now multiple servers to scale up and scale down etc. Is it worth just dumping it and starting a fresh with a new brand? If we lose history, we lose history, but I'd take that over this frustrating stuff at the moment.

I think Tiss was always going to go after his Twitter antics, whether you agree with them or not, Sky are protecting a brand and he went 'off brand'. Thompson was an irritating scouse dimwit by the way, won't be missed. People like Alex Scott, she can be a little irritating at times, but she bloody well knows her shit. Very clued up and knowledgeable. Micah, I'm not sure what to make of him yet - one thing you can put on him is that he is incredibly enthusiastic, probably too much to be honest- he'd need to tone that down otherwise he'd get on my fucking tits. Both of those are decent shouts though, knowledgeable and confident. Clinton Morrison - no. He's annoying as hell, not exactly knowledgeable either. Comes across a bit simple, like Merson. But I think what will be missed most is the 'mates' element of it, you watched the show and they would play off each other really well - that sort of camaraderie will take time to develop with a new panel, so we'll see.