Ken Tone

Yes Colin Farmery seems basically ok, but he is not really part of the POL lot is he? He runs another PFC message board. (Though god knows how he finds time to run his site as well as being a college vice principal.)

Not sure we get T-mobile reception out here in the sticks... The coverage websites show it as touch and go. How is battery life on the I-phone?

Hadnt heard of the battery extension ..sounds a good idea if not too bulky.

I use a blackberry and an iPad myself, but since both are provided by my work I haven't really taken much notice of contract deals, functions etc. I now need to buy a phone for my wife that is at least vaguely up to date. She doesn't want lots of bells and whistles - phone, text ,emails and a bit of internet use, and I suppose some pics, mostly still not video. She is unlikely to play games or much music. Where we live doesn't have particularly good reception. Is ok on O2, so-so on '3', and dodgy on most other networks. Want good battery life as a priority, and not too big a phone to fit in pocket etc. What would you advise? I'd like to keep contract below £30 a month if possible.

I signed up to POL ages ago, on the naive basis that I might find out more about their ownership situation. I was wrong. They are so paranoid on there that they jump on any poster that dos not follow the party line that the Trust will be their saviour, and all other discussion is strangled. Presumably as a result, there are remarkably few regular posters, all from an inner clique and often they are reduced to quoting the News stories.

Somebody please explain to me why we have 'Team GB', rather than 'Team UK', when uk includes northern ireland and GB doesn't?

Someone has just gone on Pompey on line as 'Russell Hobbs' to announce that ticket sales have been suspended!

And notice that the rates of virtually all other crimes have dropped too ...but somehow I'm pretty sure that will not a headline in the Daily Mail. "Life Getting Better Shock"

I'd check carefully to see what else has dropped off overnight if I were you!

Dont forget AA mysteriousy found some extra creditors thereby making the HMRc share too small to outvote the others in CVA1. It may be quite difficult to find them again!

Shocking

Can we choose which fan?

I often think in the euphoria of any club's promotion, especially at play-off finals, as the players celebrate wildly on the pitch, but actually, how many of you will be playing in the higher league? There are some players who seem to get promotion with club after club but are just not considered good to enough to play a division up. Mind you, my sympathy for them is tempered a bit by realising that they'll get a huge promotion bonus anyway!

But after the 28 days is up, what then? Must chainrai go ahead with his offer (if his conditions have been met) , or can he withdraw, or can he just wait for as long as he likes before doing anything definite?

Yes but he's under 24 ,so if PFC offer him a contract extension and he goes elswhere they are entitled to compensation - either agreed between the clubs or at tribunal

In any normal circumstance I'd agree with you Minty. However, contracts of such gargantuan scale as this are virtually impossible to monitor, especially if the contractor spins a line. IMO we should not be letting issues such as this go to the private sector in the first place, and I'm extremely worried that political dogma seems to be leading us to do similarly daft things to the NHS.

Anyway, to return to Buttner (how do I type an umlaut?) In the radio interview last (?) week, his agent said, yes, that the' third party issue' was now resolved, but then said something dodgy about now only wanting saints to pay in fewer installments than was originally agreed. That did not sound like an "only" issue to me, so it does not surprise me that he has not yet since signed...and may not sign at all.

Are you certain of this VFTT? I had a 'discussion' with one of their Trust blokes recently where he claimed that the 28 days was only about a period of exclusivity for Chainrai , and that when that was waived to allow the trust to bid as well, the 28 day deadline disappeared. The BBC report at the time did say the trust had to bid within the 28 days or Chainrai's bid would go ahead, but this bloke was adamant that the BBC were wrong. But when I asked , so is there any time limit by which Chainrai has to make good on his bid and actually buy the club, he ... err ... 'declined to answer' ! The trust's own bid has been "about to go in as a firm bid" for as long as I can remember. I think the reality is either a) they just don't have enough money and their rich partners are fiction, or b) they will not make their bid firm until after the big wage players leave -- if they do. Anyone here know the rules on CVAs? Is Clapham Saint around?

Funny, isn't it, how those that moan about the public sector, forget that whenever the private sector ****s up like this, it has to be the public sector that bails us out. The profit motive isn't always the best way to run a society.

Blimey! Someone in "taking a Turkish comment seriously" shock!

Surely there must be some other multi-millionaire Old Etonian he could bring into the cabinet instead?

Might be taken more seriously if 'inconsistent' were not inconsistently spelt incorrectly.

Ah newsthump .. always worth a look

Quite. This reads very much like the player was stupid enough to sign away some rights to an agent or similar, then was even more stupid and forgot this in the negotiations. Can't see how Cortese can be blamed ,even by Turkish's weird standards. Vitesse's statement makes it pretty clear they see Saints as blameless.

Fourth signing? Are they counting Buttner as a done deal?