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There is no doubt that the current capacity would be restrictive if were to get to the Prem, and SMS was done on a budget so it wouldn't surprise me if Cortese went for a new stadium option. Much would depend on how well SMS could be upgraded. 55k would be daft, even with Chelsea style investment we couldn't fill that. 40-45k would be about right.

Wasn't planning permission for a few houses on Jackson's Farm refused? I think if we get back to the Prem increasing SMS' capacity is a good idea, even building a new ground (around the 45k size) could be a great idea. But the idea of a 55,000 stadium in Hedge End is up there with pompey's floating potty in terms of being a non goer.

Do you seriously think building a stadium, almost as big as Arsenal's, on farm land in Hedge End is a good idea?!

A 55,000 stadium in Hedge End! Are you guys serious? LOL

There is no reason why "viable position" shouldn't mean leaving them in League 2 though. They can easily pay back more than 20p in the pound and stlll be a viable business, it's not the administrators job to make sure they have a team good enough to challenge for promotion or even good enough to stay in the Championship.

I think putting Joe Hart in goal now would be a complete disaster, if James is not fit I would stick with Green. In my opinion people underestimate the importance of experience in these games. Green didn't mess up because of lack of talent, it was because he was under the sort of pressure he had never experienced before and lost his concentration. Sticking Hart into that environment would be suicide.

David James should play as experience counts alot in these pressure games.

You're right, acountancyage should be a more reliable source than some redtop. http://www.accountancyage.com/accountancyage/news/2264288/hmrc-set-veto-cva I suppose they will reject the CVA then contest the football creditors rule when the first parachute payment gets directed straight to the football creditors. Anything that drags it out is good news, makes the -17 more likely.

No, but if the value of the pension drops it just means you get less when you are old no? Anyway if BP goes bust then all the other oil companies will benefit from it, thus increasing pensions linked to those.

Instead of a number can you get one with a big backslash on the back, thus completing the Mrs World sash?

Not really, just a bunch of old people wont be able to spend as much.

Do we know that HRMC will not support the CVA? I've been on Hols and can't be arsed to trawl through half a million posts.

I thought they were not British - some on here seem to think so?

I agree, I hope Obama throws the book at them, and I think he will. This will cost BP 10s of billions.

We go skins - and it will still look less gay than that sash.

Get in! That shut those horn blowing ****s up.

Just because a company has foreign shareholders doesn't mean it's foreign. Every PLC in the country will have shareholders who don't live in Britain.

That's just branding/marketing ******, everyone knows why it's called BP.

The away kit will have a sponsor - FACT.

To be fair BP does stand for British Petrolium.

The top looks OK on its own but with white shorts and black socks the kit as a whole doesn't look great. The retro idea is sound but if we wore white shirts, white shorts and black socks 125 years ago it was probably because it's all they could get hold of, not because it looked good. I take it we're gonna have to sing "come on you whites" now?

That's because the news was already out in the public domain, Cortese threw a girly strop which is fair enough but banning them was pathetic. Even Rupert Lowe didn't stoop that low after all the **** the Echo threw at him (much much worse than anything Cortese has). Though he did sometimes release info after their print deadline. I would hate to have a local press under the control of the club, I think it's in everyone's interests if they are free to publish stories that Cortese might not like.

I'm pretty sure that's Cortese's attitude. He doesn't give a flying **** that many Saints fans like to read up to date info on the club in their local paper. In fact it doesn't appear that Cortese gives a **** about the fans at all.

I'm sure this happens at other clubs yet they seem capable of offering a payment plan. If the STs were released on time they would be more or less paid for by the time they were sent out anyway so a few chavs pulling a fast one wouldn't matter. There is no glossing over it, the way this ST thing has been handled has been a complete disaster. They would have had my cash in the bank long ago if t hey had done a March Madness, now with a recent change in my job security and the fact that they want £400 quid up front just as I get back from holiday they can go jump. Lowe managed to get me to part with my cash every year for a decade despite being a complete ****.

Mr Luker is not very good at explaining things is he.