Ken Tone

Please note .. Portco Ltd has no connection whatsoever with Portpin Ltd Just thought I ought to make that clear

Coventry is indeed a bigger club that portsmouth, still one deep in trouble, but not as deep as PFC ---hence my reversal of' frying pan' and 'fire'. Lots of stuff on the web to the effect that Robins is about to be named manager there, but no confirmation that I can see, which does make you wonder. It would be a delicious extra little titbit in the PFC feast if Appleton were finally to walk out on them after all the loyalty talk

That would be out of the fire into the frying pan for him, at least I suppose!

Maybe he did. It would have sunk.

There is a wonderful irony in the money for Oxlade-Chamberlain paying for years of running the academy ....with him having come from portsmouth , sent to us by his father, their own coach. Money they could have received if they'd invested in an academy instead of spending eg, £120k a week for an ageing England centre half.

It should also be noted, that SOS Pompey have stated that should this occur, then their most likely of steps would be to organise both protests and a season ticket and match to match boycott. This in turn would see a massive decline in season ticket sales. The likelihood is that Portsmouth FC would return to administration within 12-18 months. Please accept this is a fact. Let's be honest, that is the most likely outcome of any of the takeovers currently on the table.... without any boycott. The trust simply do not have enough money. Genuinely I do admire their efforts, but other fans have not supported them enough. Fewer than 2000 pledges and a few half-hearted promises from some local slightly dodgy businessmen wanting publicity, does not add up to enough to run a football club with even the massively reduced debts that PFC still has. In fact they are unlikely even to be able to run the club on a day-to-day break-even basis. Costs will outweigh income.

Lol. He's quick isn't he? I do wonder what sort of life the bloke has. He's so bitter and twisted. Can't have family obvously, but does he have a job? - Does he speak to real life women? Has he ever got off Portsea Island?

I'm no more worried than I ws just after the wigan game. That was the only one we ought to have got points from -- didn't expect anything from the other 3 It's wroth noting that if we beat Villa, we are probably going to be above Liverpool in the league -- well certainly at first, but also probably even after they play Man u on Sunday. Let's keep a sense of poportion for while yet eh?

Shudders....

What's going on? When I signed in this morning, this thread was only 6th or 7th in the lounge list. Slackers!

What always strikes me amongst the various OTT hyped up and politicised comments is the issue over re-sits. (Much of the 'evel' coursework that parents could do for their kids, has already gone from most (not all) GCSEs, though interestingly it remains in some IGCSEs, so now Gove is leading a witchhunt against the modern format of modular exams sat at various points during a course, which means that results can be improved by a re-sit later. This is apparently 'A Bad Thing'. Yet this is the format used throughout much of society outside schools and colleges. How would the public react if told that you could only have one go at say the driving test, no re-take allowed if you fail first time? How many of you passed the drving test first time? (I did btw!) How many accountants or similar professionals amongst you, passed all your professional qualifications first time? What are we actually trying to measure when we examine children? ... is the real big question

On my iPad I just keep getting links to all sorts of dodgy looking downloads and various even dodgier ads.

Really funny the idea that frattoniser is boasting about being on here, when it is an open forum, where he is welcome! That man really has some serious issues.

Isn't it time someone independent checked what birch is doing? If neither bid is acceptable STILL ! - when wil he give up ,liquidate and give what dregs that are left to the poor creditors?

Just looked it up btw.. Lots of differing figures on the net , but see for example [TABLE=class: MsoNormalTable] [TR] [TD] A report by the Policy Exchange in 2010 estimated the total cost to society of smoking to be £13.74 billion. This includes the £2.7bn cost to the NHS but also the loss in productivity from smoking breaks (£2.9bn) and increased absenteeism (£2.5bn). Other costs include: cleaning up cigarette butts (£342 million), the cost of fires (£507m), the loss of economic output from the death of smokers (£4.1bn) and passive smokers (£713m).8 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD=width: 720, bgcolor: transparent]The Treasury earned £9.5 billion in revenue from tobacco duties in the financial year 2011-2012 (excluding VAT).16 This amounts to 2% of total Government revenue. Including VAT at an estimated £2.6bn, total tobacco revenue was £12.1bn.17 The price of a pack of 20 premium brand cigarettes currently costs around £7.45, of which £5.80 (78%) is tax. [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

I thought it was pretty much accepted that smokers cost the NHS more than the extra tax they pay, because of all their extra health problems -- it's not just the headline stuff like cancer, and all the heart and other lung problems etc. There are always exceptions of course, but in general they suffer much worse health than non-smokers in all sorts of ways, all of which cost the NHS money to deal with. Smoking is even the greatest cause of impotence in young men! But anyway , if someone on £60 odd a week benefits can afford much in the way of drugs, they are a damn sight better at managing their money than I am!

I'm a bit more worried about China than you, to be honest.

Yep. Soon it will be cyber-war, not cyber-crime we need to worry about.

Love on the dole .. a good book btw

Should welfare recipients be randomly drug tested to continue to receive benefit payments Blimey. I didn't realise the dole was that competitive! That's taking the Olympic spirit a bit far don't you think?

Or indeed BOMDSA Younger children are mostly taught BIDMAS nowadays. I for 'index', ie powers, squares, cubes , etc. O stood for 'order', same thing, but im my view better because kids who did not yet understand powers, could be told O was for 'of' in the interim, as in "3/4 of" , but then, I'm an old fart.

THe9 goes wrong here -- leaving 6-0+1 then Addition 0+1 = 1 leaving 6-1 then subtraction = 5 .. because he is treating it incorrectly as if it were 6- (0+1). It isn't. It is 6-0+1, which is indeed 7. Even with BODMAS, additon and subtraction are ranked equallly , so you do read from left to right, and do the subtraction of 0 before the addition of 1. 6-1+0 = 5 6-0+1 = 7 6-(0+1) = 5

You think he is going to offer £2?

There's a leak near us in the kingsland too. Sounds like it is a bit of a problem in several places then.

Well I presume that tells us that Birch is not planning to announce liquidation tomorrow.