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PompeyScot said: ↑ Course I dont mind mate, it is info for all fans. Its also now on display on saintsweb as well Ooops naughty me !!

PompeyScot, Today at 3:50 PM. . Watch Thread Go To First Unread PompeyScotAdministrator Message Count:20,216 New Hi all, The minutes are still to be officially circulated by the chairman, but am having many people ask about them, so am posting them up here (I took the minutes, so have access to the approved version). Those present: Steve Tovey (Chair), Bill Gillon (Minutes), Carl Paddon, Sue Maskell, Vern Rickman, Mike Fulcher, Nigel Tressider, Andy Gaffney, Pam Wilkins, Mick Williams, Johnny Moore It was stated that the Fans Conference would now bear the name of Tony Goodall, in honour of his memory and of the fact he was central to the Conference, being its Chairman at the time of his passing. Johnny Moore explained Trevor Birch's absence. When the Conference was first arranged, two or three weeks ago, there was only one bidder (the Trust) involved with the club, so the picture and information to be discussed was clearer. However, of course, this isn't the case any more, so Trevor did not want to put himself into a position where something he said could be misconstrued or quoted at such a sensitive time. Tickets There is a new ticket manager, Fawaz 'Fred' Almumen, and the Conference wishes to put on record formal congratulations to Fred, the club and Trevor Birch for listening to fans and acting on tickets and pricing. Just short of 8,000 season tickets have been sold as of the current time. It was stated that the club has tried everything it can to get tickets out to fans, the club and Trevor Birch doing all they could to ensure tickets are available to supporters who wish to purchase. Fans are also encouraged to buy tickets, if possible, in the days before the game to ensure that queues for tickets at the booths on match days are kept to an absolute minimum. Carl Paddon stated that he knows people who are holding back on buying tickets because of Portpin's presence around the club. Will the club be able to make season tickets available to fans on a pro-rata basis once the ownership situation at the club is sorted? Johnny and Mick Williams answered that this hadn't been considered, but could be an idea. An opinion from others was that, if the Trust took over, woudl people really care about reduced prices for season tickets? Community Mascots As things stand, we cannot do what we did last season with community mascots because of the lack of kit availability, and the fact the players helped with sponsorship last season whilst no players in the current squad, for obvious reasons, have been approached as yet. The Conference still aims to have a sponsorship scheme for this season. Johnny Moore suggested that somebody go to the training ground to speak to Michael Appleton, and Pam Wilkins has volunteered to take this forward as a result. Catering The pricing of food and drinks from the kiosk had been up for discussion, with the Conference suggestion of a pound for hot drinks taken to Lindleys, the Caterers, by Steve Jones, the Sales Manager. Lindleys had rejected the idea, but the club will keep pushing the proposal. A meeting had been held with the club about the overall catering, with the corporate membership catering for the first game of the season against Bournemouth discussed. For the fans, Alan Taylor, Steve Tovey and two representatives from the Chimes bar had attended. Corporate catering for the first game was thought of as under par, with no chilled wine, poor air conditioning and poor quality of food. Overall, it was thought to be very poor value for money, and the quality of catering from Lindleys is an ongoing one. It was pointed out by Mike Fulcher that Lindleys held the justice licence to sell alcohol at Fratton Park, which explains the ongoing contract for catering at the club, but that licence ends in October. It was noted that, if the Trust took over the club, that existing contracts, many of which are thought to be detrimental to the club, will be looked at. Betting Licence A report on Twitter had mentioned that the club had not renewed their betting licence for the stadium. Nobody at the meeting was aware if the licence had not been renewed, Johnny will make further checks as regards the situation. Stewarding Steve Tovey had made Derek Stone aware of an incident at the previous home game as regards a fan and a drinks bottle. It was thought to be an idea that representatives from Conference should meet with Derek to gauge comments from matches, and to raise any comments and concerns with him directly. Pam Wilkins and Sue Maskell to take this forward. A discussion about standards of stewarding at Pompey and other clubs took place. It was noted that, at Colchester, a certain section of Portsmouth fans had purposely antagonised home stewards who, it was felt, had done nothing but made Pompey fans more than welcome at the ground. Any other business Steve Tovey and Johnny Moore will look at the Conference email listing in order to tidy it up, update email contacts and remove anybody who no longer comes to Conference. It is recognised that Conference meetings are not open public meetings, so journalistic attendance, for example, is not encouraged. Any requests for attendance should go through the chairman of the Conference at the time. Update from Mick Williams, Pompey Supporters Trust Mick gave an update to Conference on the position of the PST bid for the club. It is recognised that only so many details, for reason of confidentiality and sensitivity of the situation, can be made public at this time. The Trust have revised their bid for the club, and have matched Portpin's figure of £8.4 million for player compromises. The Trust are working with Stuart Robinson as regards his potential purchase of Fratton Park and the surrounding land, although he isn't the only option and the Trust are also talking to others. The option is still there for the Trust to buy the ground outright themselves, but more pledges are required and the Trust urges fans to pledge as much as they can, with pledges coming into the Trust all the time. Date of next meeting To be arranged

or somebody who registered that very important H before you ! PS thanks for being my only true friend !

So you are a registered user too !! come out f the closet like I did !! Im guessing BristolBlue !!

Seeing as we are all outing ourselves on POL i'm BlueinPL20 I dont show up on their radar as Im from Devon !!

Great article thanks for the link

http://www.thefirstrow.eu/watch/137158/1/watch-southampton-fc-vs-wigan-athletic.html

Bologna&Ramirez Today's newspapers of Bologna ridicule the proposal of the Saints. I had told you: never make business with Bologna, they are sneaky and unreliable. But trust me, it is better. Ramirez is not a player for english football. Now celebrate togheter. from an italian poster on saints mad http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tno=479&fid=224&sty=2&act=1&mid=2114219077 "

managed to register that all important h before that pretender !

I'm fed up with all the negativity on here (probs !)

Looks like poopey official site is down !!

only just got in !!

a vote needs all nutjobs to vote on http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/drivetime/120724/poll-are-portsmouth-worth-saving-177276

just voted @ 51% now, need to put this on the nutjob thread

On what thread I've seen your name mentioned on there along the lines of skinny bloke wouldn't say boo to a goose after playing in inter forum footie match (I think ! )

A good read here fom an informed Skate (they do exist !) http://portus-eg.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/portsmouth-fc-road-to-ruin.html#!/2012/07/portsmouth-fc-road-to-ruin.html

sickening video here , be warned you may never feel ok ever again !

The original telegraph article here from FF http://boards.footymad.net/forum.php?tno=424&fid=203&sty=2&act=1&mid=2114554121

Looks like they've been trying to rob their own fans as well ! copied and paste from pol Hi all, OK, this is the addition to this thread. As I have told the Trust when we were asked to post that up, whilst I am happy to do so, I am also putting up my own POV about things as I don't believe on hiding things from you, as I attend the Conference meetings and discussions on behalf of you all. As you are probably aware, Pompey fans won the £30k for the Fanspowerstadium initiative and, as part of that winning prize, the criteria was for a fan of the winning club to choose one of the deemed ways to have the money spent, see the details here. Now, as you again probably know, the club decided that the 30k would go towards keeping the season ticket prices down, and announced that. Now, two problems here. 1) As I've mentioned, that was against the competition criteria and spirit and 2) the ticket prices were published before Pompey won the prize. Something wasn't right, and Scott Mclachlan emailed the club as a result and asked for answers, copying in the Conference email list. Scott talked to a rep from the club on the phone and was assured it was an honest mistake, miscommunication between the Football League and Trevor Birch, and were keen to rectify, hence the request in the other thread. Myself and Vern (PompeyV) said quite openly that we weren't happy with that explanation, it didn't make sense and, really, we didn't believe that it was a 'mistake'. For me, how the blue hell can you commit money which you haven't won yet, it doesn't make any logical sense. Scott said that was honestly how it had been explained to him. So, just to summarise, whilst it's good that fans are now being asked how to use the money, personally I don't believe it was a genuine mistake at all, I find a mistake honestly impossible to happen in the way we are being asked to believe it did, and, whilst we have bigger fights to fight, and staff in general at the club do a great job, I think it's important that the facts are out there for everyone.

I agree .

HTC one s

Just seen this on saintsplayer , and I now find myself wondering what SKD said when asked about his thoughts on Joe Hart , Petr Cech et al , anybody who was there care to shed some light on this , it seemed to make everybody there laugh !

from the snooze http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/pompey-announce-dons-friendly-1-3810568?commentssort=1&commentspage=0 19 blueforever85 Friday, May 4, 2012 at 02:57 PM I heard a rumour earlier today that the bloke that ownes dreams beds is intrested in buying us?! Has anyone else heard this? This would come inside with the fact that he has just bought the 3 forts in the solent! 20 quidnunc Friday, May 4, 2012 at 03:10 PM The News certainly knows how to annoy. Never mind clunky sites and peculiar mail deletion decisions, lets pick random words in all on-line articles and highlight them to adverise a U.S. mail corporation. Lets get some money in, never mind about employing 'journalists' who can write an interesting story and SPELL the words they use. PUP 21 Harry Stotle Friday, May 4, 2012 at 03:20 PM Post 19 - Sounds like a dream candidate...hope we can bed him in before the new season...or maybe he'll just be a sleeping partner.........that's it I'm out of puns. 22 blueforever85 Friday, May 4, 2012 at 03:22 PM @21 haha it was a good effort! This was just something i heard this morning, fingers crossed something will come out of it!!! PTID 23 grahampfc Friday, May 4, 2012 at 03:28 PM @19 Mike Clare doesn't own Dreams anymore, he is just the CEO of it. Dunno how much he sold it for, but it is now owned by 'Exponent Private Equity'. Exponent bought the company where I work for £140m. So hopefully he's got a bit of cash, or Exponent could buy us 24 Cozy12 Friday, May 4, 2012 at 03:44 PM @21....duvet realise, and does it spring to mind that we might become the slumberland stadium or is that just pillow the belt ?... Four posters have already remarked on this 'takeover' or is TB banning any blanket coverage....... 25 george butler Friday, May 4, 2012 at 03:50 PM dreams was sold for well over £150 million in 2008 and as CEO he will still earn a large salary 26 Albert McCanns Knock Knees Friday, May 4, 2012 at 03:53 PM 8 & 9 so you are a skate and a scummer! 27 blueforever85 Friday, May 4, 2012 at 03:54 PM @24 the puns are still coming then haha! Does anyone know if there is any truth in these rumours? 28 thependragon81 Friday, May 4, 2012 at 04:00 PM There has been a rumour for a while that Mike Clare, founder & president of Dreams is one of the two interested parties, but I doubt either he or TB would confirm this. 29 thependragon81 Friday, May 4, 2012 at 04:01 PM Just to add that he is worth in excess of £200 million

So it has , maybe there were copyright issues on it , can't remember the uploaders name for it

for what its worth, it's not my video ,spotted this on twitter and thought I'd share with y'all