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5p piece generally works wonders for scratching it off. HTH yer Honour

Well the penalty would be set by a judge, right? So from all I have ever heard about them they're, ahem, broad minded. That said Avram probably has to pay extra for that sort of thing so it mightn't be too much of a punishment. Either way the idea of the lettuce isn't a nice one, so there will be no side salad with the Fox family meal this evening

Slapped three times sharply across the buttocks with a wet lettuce.

Well, we all enjoy a laugh

Since the operation do you find yourself sprouting a moustache, ****gy mullet and having an unaccountable tendency to fall over whenever an opposition player breathes on you*? *perhaps not so unaccountable if the oppo comes from East Hampshire, perhaps

No, just resting. They're pining for the fjords

I quite like the idea of being thought of as a serious dude. Thanks to our fishy friends for that. You know, I'm quite touched.

One of quite a large number of days, if memory serves me correct

Got to be that somehow Chainrai and Gaydamak are better off getting rid of the club. If they go into admin the company still exists and just has to negotiate a rate of pence in the pound. I can only assume that that total would be less than they would get from their pickings from the corpse - which with limited information looks like being a development deal. Knock down Fratton & add Sacha's pockets of ground and you might have the basis for a profitable enterprise. Pompey survive and there's an inconvenient football stadium (of sorts) in the way and some idiot turning up every other Saturday making a bloody racket with a bell. Alternatively they are taking a gambler's approach and hoping that they can somehow keep all the plates spinning until some billionaire sheikh, oligarch or yank comes calling or a footballing boom makes the club an attractive candidate for a rights issue or similar

That can't be right. It says in there: 'Often the company has breached any trust the creditor had, payment deals have failed, cheques bounced and generally the directors have not kept their word.' and that nice Mr Storrie wouldn't do any of that stuff, would he?

Surely they can't go into voluntary admin with a WUP pending? Can anyone who's knowledgable on these things confirm?

Well, as you like a bit of innuendo I'm sure Granty will give you one

You're not another one who's sh@gged him, are you Phil?

Hmm, day and a bit to go, probably day and a half for the SoA by the time someone has to run round the printers, get a few copies bashed out and then boked it up to the court. Imagine the scene right now. Found sitting, Dulieu at a desk, almost buried in old envelopes with scribbles on the back of them. Enter Storrie, unshaven, tie crooked as a former manager's tax return (generic, certainly not implying any current or former employee of PCFC would be anything but scrupulous, ok mods?). He's carrying an Iceland carrier stuffed with more envelopes and bits of newspaper with numbers biroed into the margins: Storrie: Well, that's the ones I had stuffed down the back of the sofa, Ken Dulieu: Did you phone 'Arry and see if he had any more round his place? Storrie: Couldn't get hold of him. Other than that how's the SoA doing? Dulieu: Looking good. I can safely say everything you have done looks to me like a perfect example of corporate governance. I used to follow the policy of spunking a fortune on players we couldn't afford, back when I was at Saints. Did a bloody good job there and we were set fair for a return to the prem when I left. Shame the next lot in didn't have my insight. Blew a glittering legacy in a few weeks, they did. We'd have been playing Milan this week if I'd still been in charge. Storrie: Yeah, that's pretty much how I see it here. I worry about what might have happened to Pompey without me. So is that what you'll put in the SoA? Dulieu: yeppers, unless you really have got a buyer lined up before tomorrow teatime Storrie: Naah, I just said that for a laugh

Perhaps having Rickie take nearly all the set pieces and then winding up unmarked to score from the one exception was the result of a bit of Machiavellian cunning from our coaching staff? Or b)

If C Ho actually is Storrie he's got around 600 posts. Assume similar on previous forums. Now, allowing 3 mins to generate each post and perhaps double that for reading of threads between posts and let's say a minute for logging in and out. That would give him around 200 hours of time spent on this forum. Or 5 weeks & two days of working time assuming a normal working week. Then consider the £1.3M salary - or about £25k per week. But of course you might want to discount 5 weeks annual leave when he probably wouldn't be online, so let's call it £27.5k per productive week. All of which would mean that Pompey had paid Storrie-Ho £147,517 for time spent on here, or £123 for each post. Good work if you can get it. I wonder: 1) if they could have used the cash for something else? 2) if they realise they could have paid me at the same rate per post and saved £100k or so given my lower post count? 3) if some of the posters with 7-8k contributions realise that they could have missed out on a pretty lucrative opportunity?

Quality post. Who says there's no place for a knob joke in a serious thread

Certainly could before he became a founding member of the All South Wales Long John Silver Impersonators a while back. Not so sure now.

It'll go into meltdown on Weds 4pm. When nothing will be announced beyond that a courier motorcycle was seen entering the High Court who may or may not have had the SoA. Sterling detective work will follow as enthusiastic cyber sleuth's check out everything from the location of the courier company's offices to the no doubt significant markings on the delivery guy's helmet. Gives us something to think about in quiet moments at work though, so can't grumble

Not sure I follow the reasoning (particularly the bit where if we get the same results that brought 28 points in 1sty half of the season we'll get 66 points rather than 56) but, I'm sure it all makes sense at some level above my head and anyhow I would be happy if it happened. COYR

Looking forward to it already. But as Phil posted a while back let's get some planning done in advance on the post-match bit.

Can't see that being an issue by then

+1 there. It was a good evening out but that was a shocking venue Mail sent

Skates return to court on 1st March - just in from Sky

If we are well run we will pay them within the allotted time, not early (we would manage out cashflow to our advantage), not late (incurring costs)