Ken Tone

Well I think he has been the bargain buy of the season, albeit far better as a CB than as a RB, but even playing out of position today , he made 2 goal-saving interceptions.

I with Birtles. Obvious time for puncheon rather than Guly

it'll make our winning goal in the 89th minute all the more pleasing

Except he's just saved a goal

Fair point. So good news for the country's biggest community owned club then ....... promotion for Ebbsfleet at last?

And of course Pompey fans would see no problem, or even irony, in the fans of another club suffering by their club being demoted out of their league at short notice to make room for the mighty PFC to join instead.

Far lower, in fact nowhere, because surely it is now too late to apply to join ANY semi pro league for next season? They'd have to go a season with no football at all, then join. IF there is still any club after that year, and IF they somehow have a ground (Fratton or reasonable alternative) then I suppose there is some chance that a fairly senior non-league might admit them. But those are pretty big 'IFs'.

Pay? .... Rent? .... .?

So, to try to return the thread tote topic of portsmouth, are we clear that they are going to receive an additional £4 million in parachute payments ,above the original amounts , because the PL has more TV money? Or is this just another myth? If it is true ,then they will be able to afford to repay the PCC and Robinson loans. And will in effect mean they are using the pp's to buy the club.

Stil no date for the court hearing? Or have I missed it? I noticed that BBC south today said that the council loan was agreed only hours before it had to be , implying the court had said put up or shut up in effect

i think you might be. Isn't it that the original amount of pp's would be used to cover the football creditors ,but the extra £4 million will be us to repay the loans from the council and Robinson, that they are using to buy the club (and of course no one is paying the debts of the club as such .... Only a tiny fraction of them)

The trust often push this line that more pledges will be add and honoured once (if) they are safe, but surely human nature is such that once they are safe, no one will feel the need to give any more? Why should Mr Average PFC fan, give £1000 if his club is secure anyway?

Lol. Reads just like a transcript of a fly on the wall documentary Rallyboy. Almost too realistic.

Yes but that would require someone, who is not a fan, to buy Gaydamak's land then underwrite the PCC loan and also lend them some money himself so that the trust go ahead with more debt than they can service, so that when the club default on the repayments they can't afford, the ground will also belong to him, so he can eventually develop the lot for a big profit. Thank goodness no one has thought of that ....Oh!

Fratton is a less attractive area than the area around The Dell. (in every sense!) Won't be worth as much. and I'm not clear how much land the club (sort of ) owns beyond the actual stadium before it reach Gaydamak's land. There was a small car park with the Dell, so the area may be bigger?

So the trust's "all funded and ready to sign at the drop of a hat" bid is not yet actually ready? Gosh! Who'd have thought it!

In all fairness , you have to be fairly skint to get legal aid. Pretty much the worse situation to be is an average or more wage earning home owner. And I think Steve is right , no legal aid for a libel case anyway.

That can't be right. Micah Hall is absoutely correct about everything, and has never even been threatened with legal action -- according to his own blog, and that's always right, so it must be right... I think

Headline says 'set to land for £10m' then article says "Sportsmail can reveal the Blues had a £10million offer for the England Under 21 defender rejected by Southampton in January" Why on earth would we sell for in the summer for the same money we rejected in January ...after he has spent the second half of ths season proving he is one of the most promising young English players in the league? Do these journalists ever bother to read their own stories to check they make sense?

I think their difficulty has been that they do consider it 'not there' money

Lol

Yes. Soon we will all wake up and HR will be back in Dallas, alive and well.

We called Portsmouth 'scummers' right up until the late 90's, at least, I'd say... maybe well into the 2000's.

the possible​ restraint of trade would be restraining Harris, not PFC

There may ​be a case for "restraint of trade", which could overrule the private members club argument.