Ken Tone

Has he got a bell by any chance?

I think that it is even stricter than that. They need to have been out of contract before the window closed. Otherwise there would a pompey-style loophole , whereby a club could release a player so he became a free agent honest guv, just before they signed elsewhere.

Unless I've misunderstood the rules, we surely couldn't sign him , even on loan, until January? There is a faint possibility of an emeregency loan for a keeper, but that is normally only if all a club's senior keepers are injured, not just 'not quite good enough' .

Nowadays, I doubt there will be a negative. It'll be a digital photo!

And especially given that the PFC pledges haven't actually been paid yet. I can see a good half of the plucky 1800 having second thoughts.

I wish you'd put an apostrophe in the thread title. I came on here expecting to learn that we'd bought him! As in "Saints now own Ibrahimovic"!

I think there is some indication that the FL are trying their damnedest to avoid Portsmouth being liquidated, and I think most non-saints fans woud think they should do so. However if the trust do eventually takeover and the risk of liquidation has gone, I can't see that the FL will have any motivation whatosever to be lenient with them. As long as they actually exist , no one at the League will care if they exist successfully , in L1 or in L2, or even relegated out of the league. I'll be absoutely amazed if the ten points don't come off, and not totally surprised if even more points are taken off later for financial irregularities.

It was on the same day as several by-elections and it made no difference. Haven't seen all the figures, but the turnout in manchester at the same time as their by-election was still a pathetic 18%. It is a damn silly idea that no one outside of a few Tory politicians wanted. Must have cost a few million quid too --all those poll staff sitting there twiddling their thumbs all day.

Get down there! I'll blame you if Mates gets his nice easy retirement job to boost his pension!

Presumably this has been dicussed on the POL message board? Have they said anything about details? Is the plan to sell of land to Tesco's or get them to knock down and redevelop a stand with a supermarket in it, like the monstrosity at Bolton's old ground? Because surely if they intend to sell off a bit of land that they do notyet own, why can't Tesco's just buy it now, directly from the current owners?

Ah - thanks. Seems even more than usually pie-in-the-sky, if they seriously think they can a) pay off chainrai, b) buy the rest of the land, c) get planning permission, d) sell off bits of land to Tesco, yet without having to move away from Fratton to play elsewhere ... and make enough profit to give the Trust £2.5 million, on top of Robinson's own cut. I didn't realise Tesco's were that generous!

Can anyone decipher the logic in this one please? How can the trust benefit from a property dealer buying Fratton Park by paying Chainrai for this 'charge'? In response to is Robinson a fan and what's in it for him? Neil: No he's not, although has recently been to a few games, including Yeovil away. He is in it for a property deal, that is what everyone other than the Trust is primarily in it for. If you can tie all the land together it is worth a lot of money. Incidentally, the Trust stand to receive around £2.5m from the deal so both they and Robinson benefit.

Gosh ..there's a thought! I wonder if it has occurred to him.

Cracking article on the BBC site, about the inventor of the modern cigarette, and full of 'blimey!' statistics http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20042217 eg "A factory such as Hongta's in Yuxi [China] is responsible for generating 25,000 or 30,000 deaths per year from lung cancer. And about twice that number from other diseases. " "Cigarette makers make about a penny in profit for every cigarette sold, which means that the value of a life to a cigarette maker is about US$10,000."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-20297678 Admitted he assaulted a paramedic who was trying to do his job, attending an incident in Liverpool. Another 'nice lad' playing football!

I ws disappointed that Guly didnt play on Saturday. With no Fox for most of the game and then, of all things, Puncheon actually playing well, I had no one to whinge at all.

Perhaps if they paid him more .... ? That's usually the answer there.

Not sure I can manage the accent!

Was there any truth in the post that someone put on the News comments pages, to the effect that Appleton had said (on Sky?) that he didn't rate the Trust's chances? Or was that just one of us having a laugh?

And apparently Swansea fans think he was a steal.

Can someone please clarify for me the administration time limits? When did the plucky few actually begin (this!) administration officially ? Is it true that companies can only trade in administration for one year without a special extension granted by the courts? (You'll see the link to the previous question!) If it is true, what is to stop chainrai just prevaricating for a few months until the year is up? -- or even merely threatening to do so unless he gets his price?

Good. I'd rather go down with him in charge, and give him another year. If he doesn't look as if he will bring us back up, that is the time to sack him. We're trying to build a long term successful club here ...not just a vehicle for some temporary mercenary. That means trusting and supporting someone, even if they have a poor spell. Some of you lot need to have a word with yourselves. Well done to the fans singing his name last night btw.

I think that bascially the plan is now that they don't even attempt to buy the ground, just the club as such, with their tame property developer buying the ground and renting it to them. Not quite community ownership is it? I wonder how many of the pledgers will not want to cough up their £900 for that.

Think he must be confusing the board room with Fratton Park.

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