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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.

If the club are worried about defaulters (I dont know why as they could have set it up so most money comes out before a ball is kicked) they could easily have just given renewals a chance to use the payment plan. Face it, now the club have a sugar daddy they don't need to give a **** about the fans. That's why they can chuck 15 grands worth of programmes in a skip on a whim and ban the local paper (some fans only source of news on the club) when the Chairman has a girly strop.

A credit card lending someone £400 is completely different to a football club sending a out a booklet and them paying for it in installments. One has risk the other has none.

I fail to see how buying on installments is being subsidised, if anything it gives the club the opportunity to make more money, it doesn't have to be interest free. Comparing installments to a credit card is ******, credit card companies take a risk in lending money. All the club are doing is sending out a booklet worth next to nothing, there is no risk. Whoever has organized these season tickets has made a complete mess of it, if they had done a March Madness they would already have the cash in the bank earning interest.

Take your heads out the sand, Dune has a point. If Cortese's PR is this bad when things are going well imagine what they will be like when things are going bad. Luckily PR is not that important, as long as things are right on the pitch nothing else matters at a football club, hopefully Cortese is better than Lowe in this dept.

If money is so tight why are they ditching the shirt sponsor? IMO it's nothing to do with costs, more about not needing to give a flying **** what the fans want now there's a sugar daddy.

You have to wonder what sort of ****-wits work at SFC. People liked the instalments thing because it's easy, they could easily have added the costs on. ****ing dickheads.

This is particularly well put... "The more you scrutinise football, the more you have a sense of the global finance “system” before it crashed, the more you see Portsmouth as Northern Rock — and the more you realise that, when the time for bailout is finally acknowledged, it will again be you and I who have to pay for the bailing. It was us — Revenue & Customs — upon whom Portsmouth welched. Football should be ashamed." Not only will they get away with it but the money they used to fund their grotesque overspending came out of the pay packets of you and I.

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It is weird, you would have thought the club would want the money in the bank as soon as possible. Also you would think the longer they are on sale the more they would sell, the feel good factor from the Wembley trip would have shifted a few, there is now a chance of some people losing interest and choosing to spend their cash on something else. The only thing that would make sense is if they have a big 125 years promotion planned and announce ST sales at the same time as a Keegan type signing. You always get some mongs who que up overnight etc - looks good in the media.