Ken Tone

This. Transfer fees are only half of the story nowadays -- in fact probably less than half.

Even you must get tired of your own trolling comments sometimes, surely? Adkins has a contract. He is entitled to see its conditions honoured, regardless of your opinion of him as a manager. If Saints are not paying him what the contract says he should get, then he is perfectly right to take us to a tribunal. If, on the other hand, we are paying him what the contract says, but simply not being more generous than that, then tough, he'll deservedly lose his case. It's a shame that a manager who served the club so well ends up in dispute like this, but none of us know what went on out of the public eye, any more than we did with Pardew, or for that matter than we will when Pochettino eventually leaves.

The one spoilt ballot was a surprise though!

Maybe they sent us a false Forren imposter and kept the real one? After all, if we can be sold horse as beef , presumably we can be sold a donkey as a CB ?

On the 'Argentina upping the ante on Falklands' thread I predicted 3 ''no" votes. Can I have John Snow's job now please?

Hadn't heard there was any postal voting in this? And the few mobile polling stations have to cover an area of land equal in size to Wales, with few roads in the remote areas, plus a fair bit of the area is made up of lots of small separate islands some of which have only a single farm settlement on them. In some parts ,it can take an hour to travel a few miles even in a good 4x4 Make no mistake, some islanders will have had to make real effort to vote. They really care about this issue.

There are also one or two Argentinians and other South Americans eligible to vote. It is a genuine democracy, unlike Argentina's own history. I expect about 3 votes against and the rest for remaining British. The main interest will be the turn out. Even with mobile polling stations , some parts of west falkland or some of the outlying islands in particular are so remote that it will be a real effort to vote

I can't anything in that article to suggest that the FA are even considering action. Is there any information to the effect that the referee has reported anything ? Or is this just a reporter making a story up?

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.