InvictaSaint

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Au contraire, I feel honoured. :-)

Twitterlicious. I'm in. :-)

I think your arguments work to a point, and clearly the wishes of Barclays have had a major impact on who has been available to play / used. However, it would be naive to believe that the stamp of Rupert Lowe was not all over what we became at the beginning of the season. Other, more well-informed posters have made reference to Lowe's arrogance in pre-season; the idea, in his warped mind, that our kids would "take the league by storm". My belief is that that the financial constraints worked to a point, but were also a convenient rationale to allow Lowe to do something that we ALL know he had been planning for over two years; that is, show everybody else that he knows football better than the experts by making the mad Dutch experiment work. If the restrictions placed on us by the bank were that severe, players would be gone by now. Contracts would have been cancelled by mutual consent, higher earners allowed the freedom to sign on somewhere else. And even if this logic is slightly flawed - and I concede that it may be - why are we now using the very personnel we were so desperate - and under pressure, apparently - to get rid of? Has our financial position improved since last September?

Given what he has already allowed us to see his of personality, I can well imagine Wotte telling Rupert to feck off!

Given what Mark Wotte appears to be doing in rejuvenating, reuniting and reigniting the team - he wasn't my first choice, but credit now where credit is [thus far] due - am I the only one now looking at the seven months of Jan Poortvliet's reign with utter incredulity? Why was the club, and Lowe in particular, making such catastrophic decisions? The ultimate net effect of this lunacy could still be felt should MW not achieve his aim of keeping us up - like every other sane Saints fan I hope he does - and there is going to have to be some SERIOUS soul-searching by Messrs Lowe et al if it all goes belly up and we start next season in League 1. I just cannot believe, particularly given the evidence of the last two games, that we were ever steered down this route in the first place. Madness, sheer madness.

All part of the grand plan, my firend. All part of the grand plan.... :-)

I'll say what I said to you last week JFP - just after you rushed to your keyboard as you started a very similar "I told you so" thread 3 nano seconds after the end of the game: I am glad we are winning and that we have given ourselves a chance of salvation, whether Pearson, Wotte or Salman Rushdie is at the helm. However, to come on here and be so smug is arrogant and foolish in the extreme. You are setting yourself up for one hell of an eggy face if Wotte doesn't manage to do what "The best manager ever in the world" did and keep us up. Come back in May, be smug and we'll all sing along with you; until then, a few words to the wise: grow up and shut up.

Why on earth do we need an unknown (and probably expensive) Dutch consultant to tell us which players are lurking in the reserve teams of clubs in our own country and our own league? Do PSV and FC Twente employ English consultants to tell them who they should be looking at in the Dutch lower leagues? You couldn't make it up.

125 miles there.....124 miles back (that's the vagueries of our motorway network for you)

Why are you so hung up on this? If you are angry at the "anti-Wotte" brigade's way of treating a defeat, why are you following suit by behaving similarly when we have won? Tonight, I don't care who is in charge. We have WON for only the second time at home ALL SEASON. Isn't that reason to put petty differences aside and savour the moment? Why waste energy on being aggro? I just don't understand. We're all Saints fans, we have won a game (a rare enough event this season). Let's just be happy for once.

Sorry, how do you know what I think/thought/wanted? Do you know me? If it's of any interest to you, I want Saints to survive and do well. What irritates me is people crowing unnecessarily - you can call it ribbing if it makes you feel better - and counting their chickens before they have hatched. Come back on the last day of the season when Wotte has kept us up, when I shall be pleased as punch, and continue your ribbing then. I for one will be up for a laugh. Until then I would politely suggest that your deliberately provocative, "I'm right you're wrong" style musings - sorry, ribbings - remain in your head and don't hit the keyboard.

Oh do grow up. Honestly.

Yay! McGoldrought keeps his place! There clearly is no god...

McLaggon has ruptured his left achilles according to the OS. Shame, as he has looked very positive in recent weeks. Here's wishing him a speedy recovery from what is without doubt a nasty injury.

Pearson would have kept his mouth shut and got on with the job in hand. At worst he would have declined to comment on issues which didn't concern him or which might have led to distraction. Pearson also had a manner about him which endeared him to fans and which got us on his side. Had he failed to keep us up would we have turned on him? I think not, personally. Given Wotte's involvement with the failed Dutch "revolution", his new presence as head coach and his inability to keep his gob shut, I very much doubt he can expect the same courtesy when we eventually go down.

Wonder where Fagan's from? Since we picked up Marsh-Brown after he threw a strop and stormed out of mighty Dorchester Town, I'm anticipating that Fagan is a Tyro League reject.... :-(

Blimey...are we so desperate that we are having to employ highly trained German soldiers to play for us? Things are desperate.... :-)

Do you like Pina Colada? And getting caught in the rain?

No, it's third person singular. The 's' doesn't automatically make it plural. I'm sure you will call me a pedant for pointing this out, which is fine by me. I still happen to believe that correct grammar is important.

Am with Huffton on this; cannot see where the next win is going to come from. have resigned myself to the inevitable, sadly.

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