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Dull game. The "who can get their paper aeroplane closest to the centre circle" competition is quite exciting though...

Cheats

Laughter is a healthy human emotion so you should be thankful for people that make you laugh. FFS

Greetings from a sunny Wembley Stadium. Pompey's Oxlade-Chamberlain in the starting line-up Come on England!

Offer to pay 4% of 20% of the £60, referencing Pompey as a precident in your covering letter. Seriously....

@pn_neil_allen: The public outcry by #Pompey fans over David Lampitt appointment at @SuppDirect has promoted a response. http://t.co/tGo0AN38

Only 5 pages longer than the Charlie Austin thread.... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?27307-Austin-Transfer-Rumours/page19&highlight=austin 4-01-2011, 09:33 AM # Kaiser Soze Austin Transfer Rumours I've got a contact with someone fairly high up on the Swindon board and I have been reliably informed we have had a bid accepted for Charlie Austin. Don't have any further details or how much the fee is etc.

@pn_jordan_cross: Think I'll write my column next week on your additions to the #Pompey fans' manifesto - so keep 'em coming! http://t.co/IiMGPuXR

I'll be mainly chuckling at withering anti-royalist rants. Keep 'em coming. You wouldn't want me to be unhappy.

Yes, I know....but this is the Pompey Takeover Saga thread..... where us nutjobs ...©SWF 2012... are obsessed with more important matters....

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/kanu-wants-full-pay-off-to-leave-pompey-1-3907765 Published on Friday 1 June 2012 13:06 KANU has refused to leave Pompey unless he is paid the full amount owed to him for the remainder of his 12-month contract. That is the claim from Blues administrator Trevor Birch, who insists the veteran striker’s agent is demanding the total worth of Kanu’s deal for him to leave Fratton Park early, despite the club still fighting to stay alive. The sum is believed to be in the region of £300,000 for a player whose current deal has already been lowered by a relegation clause. That has dealt another blow to Birch’s efforts to drive down the club’s current £9.5m wage bill, which is crucial in finding a new owner. Kanu, the scorer of Pompey’s FA Cup-winning goal in 2008, is among several players who the Blues are seeking to reach compromise agreements with. Now aged 35, a back problem contributed to restricting his availability to just 12 matches this season. Tal Ben Haim is another refusing to lower his sights following talks with Birch last week. That will cost Pompey close to £2m for him to leave this summer. Both players accepted wage deferrals towards the end of the campaign along with their team-mates to alleviate the club’s financial problems. Now more money needs to be saved as the administrators strive to slash the club wage bill in half ahead of life in League One. And Birch is growing ever-frustrated with their stance. He said: ‘The club is in the players’ hands . ‘On one hand, them agreeing to defer wages gave the club a lifeline – but at the same time they need to take big cuts in the long term to enable it to survive. ‘Draconian wage cuts and deferrals among the players is the only way the club can go forward. That is why it is in everybody’s interests we get compromises or they sign reductions on what they are playing for. ‘The ones we are having problems with are Kanu and Ben Haim. You cannot strike a deal with them. ‘Kanu’s agent wants the full amount and at the moment he is going nowhere. ‘His agent is digging his heels in as well, making demands, and it is very difficult to solve. ‘As for our friend Ben Haim, he just won’t budge. The deal he wants is not achievable. We have not got the means to do it. ‘There are players at this club who are sat there. They are not coming to me and writing it all off saying they will leave straight away. ‘We have to get them off the wage bill and I cannot say any of them are making it easy for me to get them to leave.’ Deferrals agreed by players have meant that, since May, there has been a weekly wage cap of less than £10,000. This agreement is open-ended and any player leaving will receive the money owed as part of any compromise. And Birch stressed the players will not lose out. He added: ‘The deferrals will be paid back. ‘Asfootball creditors, the players have to be paid in full, albeit spread over a period of time. That could be four years but they will get the money back. ‘They are keeping the club afloat at the minute with those deferrals. ‘But when I come to talk to them about their future contract or future entitlements they will have to compromise to help the club going forwards.’

Good to see they're making decisions on the important stuff at the Football League AGM today then.... http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/football-league-to-return-to-seven-subs-1-3910761 Football League clubs have voted to return to using seven substitutes next season.

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Good news at last for Pompey..... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18298740

Why would the lead singer of Herman's Hermits want to buy a footballer?

So, are we all agreed that this is our new home shirt then? (or as near as damn it)

"Supporters renewing their seat can avoid long queues by filling in their form in the Chimes Lounge on Wednesday, June 6, Thursday, June 7 or Friday, June 8 (9am-5pm) and then hand it in with a cheque or credit/debit card details" Long queues....?

So, in the very same week that Birch has to give the Football League a cast iron guarantee that they are in a position to complete their fixtures next season, he makes a statement that puts 'reasonable doubt' on that happening.... Wake up Football League.....FFS

Rangers?! Aren't they more ****ed than Pompey?!

By Jordan Cross Published on Friday 1 June 2012 09:50 We all know following Portsmouth is a unique and far-reaching experience. Now the time has come to outline the rules for a healthy future of following the team we all love. I hereby announce the Pompey Supporters’ Manifesto – the one-stop guide to following the star and crescent. Feel free to tweet your additions to the fans’ manifesto at pn_jordan_cross... 1) Don’t expect a thing. Be prepared for anything. 2) Make some noise – and plenty of it. Sing, clap, shout and chant. Pompey supporters support their team. 3) Love Fratton Park and the way it is. Like our parents, it won’t be around forever. On second thoughts... 4) Appreciate the sentiment behind trying to raise money for Pompey through #fanpowerstadium on Twitter. But secretly be sick to death of it filling up your feeds. 5) Love the Pompey sailor, support any efforts to bring back the Pompey sailor wholeheartedly. 6) Don’t boo your own players. Ever. No matter how bad they are. 7) Love Alan Ball. 8 ) Back the Pompey Supporters’ Trust and their community share scheme. It may work, it may not – but they are operating in their club’s best interests and fighting for its well-being. That’s no bad thing. 9) Rue Matt Ritchie leaving the club. 10) Get angry at talkSPORT’s Adrian Durham and his misinformed rants at Pompey. 11) Get angry at talkSPORT’s Stan Collymore and his misinformed rants at Pompey. 12) Understand Balram Chainrai is not a saviour. He’s just a businessman trying to make money. 13) Bemoan Matt Le Tissier as a TV pundit. It’s not because he played for Southampton. He’s just rubbish. 14) Know that Ian Ormondroyd was offside in the play-offs against Leicester City in 1993. He is about 8ft 7in and he was offside. Thanks, Roger Milford! 15) Fight your corner when it comes to people attacking your club. You’re not at fault for its troubles. You are its best asset. 16) Support Michael Appleton – your club’s second best asset. 17) Insist you were there when Pompey beat Stockport in 1998 at the ‘wall of noise’ game. For the record, the attendance was 8,662. 18 ) Worship Barry Harris. 19) Question the Premier League and the Football League’s role in Pompey’s downfall. 20) Under no circumstances, bicker and fight with other fans about the best way forward for the club. Talk about it, yes. Debate it, certainly. But don’t bicker and fight. 21) Start every sentence with: ‘I for 4-1’ in the company of any Southampton supporter. 22) Appreciate old Pompey kits. Especially the Asics one in the early 90s – and the Umbro kit when Alan Ball’s side won promotion in 1987. 23) It’s 1992 at Highbury. Darren Anderton scores after 108 minutes. Ronnie Whelan scores after 116 minutes. Realise you’ve just witnessed the lot of a Pompey fan in eight minutes. 24) Wish you’d seen Jimmy Dickinson play. If you are lucky enough to have watched him, wish you’d seen Jimmy Guthrie lift the Cup in 1939. If you are of a certain vintage, wish you’d seen Arthur Conan Doyle play in goal for Portsmouth AFC. 25) Be proud of a history few clubs can match.

This latest photo from the Football League AGM in Portugal tells you all you need to know...

So, Birch is now playing the emotional blackmail card...."look at the high wage earners folks....they are gonna bring your club down if they don't fore-go what is legally owed to them" FFS Birch....you're supposed to be an asute business man....if the sums don't add up ****ing get on with the job your company is supposed to do (whilst racking up a tidy profit in the process) and wind this sorry excuse for a business up. Jesus....Carlsberg don't do rocket science, but if they did.... p.s. if the Football League deem it appropriate to re-issue the Golden Share to Pompey for next season whilst they are obviously still trading insolvently then the whole thing is a complete and utter farce. IMHO of course

@pn_neil_allen: Another story today to sadden #Pompey fans. TBH, Lampitt & now Kanu. They seem to have forgotten club has no cash & struggling staying alive Yeah, but look on the bright side, they won you a cup mate....

So, here we are in June. Pompey limp into another month of existence...long may the struggle continue... :-)

Almost half as many pages as the Charlie Austen thread then....