Weston Super Saint

We won't win because we aren't good enough. We aren't good enough because a succession of England managers have always picked the 'names' or 'brands' that are supposedly national footballing treasures. Sadly, these people know that they will always be picked, so really can't be arsed. Playing for England for them is a chore and not a privilege. Until we get a manager who can instill pride in the team - just take a look at the England cricket team and see what it means to represent their country to those guys - then we will always reproduce the same mediocre pile of shyte! No commitment, no flair, no pride, no-one really caring as they get paid their £100k or whatever a week whether they win or lose. England football sucks. Personally I haven't been interested in it for over 10 years. I really wish we hadn't squeezed out a draw yesterday, and didn't qualify, so I can be spared the mindless nationalistic jingoism from our journalists when the summer comes next year

Are you sure? Whilst in administration and having not confirmed terms of the CVA this was most definitely the case - as it is with all clubs in that situation. However, after exiting admin and agreeing CVA terms, I'm not sure that's the case - I could however be completely wrong, so I'd be happy to be proved otherwise with some sort of clicky linky thingy....

Now, I'm not an accountant or specialist in this area, nor would I ever want to defend the skates, but I don't believe it works that way! The CVA doesn't restrict what they can and can't spend now, it only states how much has to be paid back to the creditors and when that money should be repaid - obviously in the case of the skates this timescale is as moveable as a woobly jelly, but that's fine because the [some might say made up] creditors named in the CVA all voted for this clause to be included in it, which is their own fault I guess! I'm pretty sure the CVA doesn't really care how the money is paid back, whenever that may be, it is only concerned with the fact that it WILL be repaid. How the skates do that is up to them I guess. A prudent financial advisor would of course put expenditure limits in place to ensure there was enough cash left over after the running costs are taken out to pay the bill - I guess this is where the £10k average wage comes from. However, if a billionaire bought them [he he], then they would be free to spunk as much cash as they wanted on whatever they wanted, providing the CVA terms and payments were adhered to. At the moment the skates ARE adhering to the terms of the CVA by paying nothing at all to anyone. The muppets voted that they could legally do that, and lo and behold they're taking the utmost advantage of it! Whether they have any intention of ever paying the money back remains to be seen! I wonder how they're getting on deciphering the AA code and which sub £2k creditor is owed what, and who is going to cough up the reddies. It's all gone quiet on that front at the moment, but I'd bet my last pound that they haven't been paid yet!

Indeed. It was posted on here about two months before the new owners announced the wonderful refurbishment of the toilets, that the health and safety inspection before the season started had stated what work needed to be done in order to get the ground OK'd and certificated. It came as no surprise to most of us here, when the new owners announced the refurbishment, it was even posted how much was needed to do the work, so the figure they put out into the open wasn't a surprise either. Except of course to the Corpse who trumpeted the announcement as the new dawn at Fratton, and that everything was rosy in the garden!

Wow, the hospitality in the Leeds boardroom must be truly amazing, if the owner of the skates would rather be spending time accepting the mongs to their facbook page! What must it be like to have SUCH a professional owner!

Ah bless. A 1-0 defeat again today. My prediction for the press conference : "We were the better team, we dominated the game, we should have won by two or three goals. The ref was incompetent. Leeds didn't deserve to win etc etc "

Fpmsfl! If those words fill you with confidence, you must be more barmy than stinky clown boy! In case you haven't noticed, you don't actually have a training ground! How on earth it is possible to put money in and improve something that doesn't exist is beyond me! By the way, some news to upset the apple cart. I received my 'stop' and warning list at work today. Guess who makes a brand new appearance, straight in at number one, for companies to supply to only with a proforma invoice? Yep, that's right, good old Pompey are back on the top of the league for non payers This new dawn didn't last long

So is paying the creditors with actual real money, but we all know that hasn't started yet because they don't have any. If the paying creditors money bit is wrong - which is the whole point of a CVA - then we can safely assume that the amount of people needed to show up in order to pay said money is also wrong

Not sure how they can say that with such certainty! As the Corpse keeps pointing out, no-one actually knows how much TBH and the other clowns are earning. How much they paid in bungs, er sorry, transfer fees, nor even how much the PL gave them up front from the parachute payments just to stop them trading illegally! How they have managed to work out how many people need to attend a match for the club to break even, when the financials are surrounded in such fogginess is beyond me.... They may need 14k to turn up to break even, they may need 20k! Who knows really, but I'm sure time will tell

Completely off topic, but fish that smells of amonia is rotting fish! Nothing to do with the fryer being cleaned with chemicals, as they should only be using hot soapy water anyway! If I were you I'd avoid the chippy in question....

Maybe, just maybe, this will explain where all the missing socks have gone!

And yet the corpse is still bleating on about why the money laundering russian mafia would want to buy Pompey when they are being 'watched' so closely! He still can't put one and one together and get two - perhaps it's the webbing? To spell it out for the corpse once more - I tried a few pages ago, but he could put the holocaust deniers to shame! Pompey are being 'controlled' by the ex head of FA integrity. He will doubtless still have 'buddies' in the FA offering him protection for the right size of brown bag - if the corpse still believes the brown bag culture doesn't exist he's more deluded than clotterill! The question shouldn't be 'why buy Pompey' to launder money, but 'why buy any other club than Pompey'!

So, do you think that makes sense? Lampitt was retained because he was already the CEO of Pompey. Chainrai owned Pompey, he sold it to CSI. CSI kept Lampitt in the job he was doing. Meanwhile, Victor Muller owned Spyker, and he sold Spyker cars [sports car division] to CPP which is one of Antonov's companies. Why did Antonov then make Victor Muller a CEO of CSI? That doesn't make any sense at all! That would be the same as buying Pompey from Chainrai, and then making Chainrai a CEO of CSI! Nothing is simple with the Skates is it!

Not every club has got the former head of FA integrity as their managing director

Corpse, instead of trolling, why not tell us what you're [personal] reaction to the press conference / interview that said a whole lot without saying anything, is? In his own unique way, Mack has let us know his thoughts, so what are yours?

Not sure what he's promising to be fair, is he promising that they will still not have proper toilets? Glad to see they've downsized to a stadium from an arena now!

Those damn, cheating referees! Always got it in for poor old plucky Pompey. Never give them the chance to play properly and show what they can do. I guess the press conference will go something like that.

Knowing the way the skates operate, I'd put that figure at £240k!

Well, I hate to say it, but if they are, then so are we http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2452219,00.html

Or gaydamak

Spudgun. Impressive collection you have. However, I would also state that you have a rather severe case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder! I mean, just look at all those boxes, all neatly arranged, all with the labels facing out! That's the sort of organisation undertaken by people with boobs, or men with OCD! Then there's the collections of trainers, all the trainers on their sides, are the same foot, all pointing the same way! I imagine it's the same all round your house!

On the Dubai Phil fred?

Correction! The article states 'around' 400 seats have been sold for that match. We all know that in Skate maths terms, 200 is as close to being 'around' 400 as 130 million is!

To clarify : I believe Lumpitt was talking about the sub £2500 creditors that still haven't been paid - as promised in the CVA! - because he has [allegedly] no idea who is owed what, despite AA claiming that all claims were clearly documented in the CVA and the CVA update...

Great news, the charities have apparently been paid! Although, personally I take that with a pinch of salt as the article also says : And yet, some 15 months down the line Lumpitt is on record as stating the claims of £2500 and under can't possibly be paid yet, as the club have no idea who is owed what, and are still working through the paperwork to work it out! So either : AA is lying and the details were never passed on, just an educated 'guess' of who is owed what - in which case the rest of his document can be called into doubt. Or : Lumpitt is lying and he knows exactly who is owed what, because AA has given the new company all the details, and the club can't be bothered to pay them for whatever reason. Either way it still stinks more than a rotten flounder on the quayside.