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http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politics/council-rules-out-taking-sides-in-pompey-bid-war-1-4240525

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politics/council-rules-out-taking-sides-in-pompey-bid-war-1-4240525 If it transpires that liquidation is the best solution for the creditors (now that there is £3m burning a hole in Trev's pocket this might well be the case) then surely the head of the local council should be backing what is best for the creditors rather than artificially keeping a football club afloat? Aren't councillors supposed to have a moral compass?

But we want it to die because we think it'll be good for you in the long run. Carlsberg don't do rocket science, but if they did...

@Bizzle_8: @pn_neil_allen Joseph Cala has bought Italian major league side Calcio Lecco 1912 to 'get them to the Champions League' #Pompey #luckyescape Yep...very lucky...you've landed on your feet after dodging Cala....

@pn_neil_allen: RT @neilperrettecho: BREAKING NEWS: Harry Redknapp returns to #afcb in an advisory capacity.

Not forgetting they've had two administrations in two years which has given them plenty of practice.

@pn_neil_allen: RT @officialpompey: #Pompey sign Hungarian defender Gabor Gyepes on a one-month deal: http://t.co/dMbGc9Wf

The administrator of Miland Development 2004 Limited is David Rubin & Partners LLP. The initial creditors meeting was held this week (4th Sept)....

@pn_neil_allen: Skipper Howard dismisses Southampton link. http://t.co/8jyRKqxT #Pompey

@pn_neil_allen: Fascinating insight into Portpin's #Pompey strategy by @SjMaskell and well worth a read. http://t.co/vnNHvqI1

Indeed. And watch when, yet again, our observations today get labelled as hindsight the next time they go into Administration...

I put it to you Sir that you haven't been following this thread very closely... There have been plenty of 'nutjobs' on here who have declared their pending respect for a fan run club, but there are two routes that lead to that eventuality. There's the "cling onto the current rotting carcass to preserve our league status at all costs" route and there's the "start afresh with a clean slate in a lower league" route. If you really want people to applaud the noble ambition of fan ownership them do it the honourable way rather than clinging onto damaged goods. Like every football fan the world over, Portsmouth fans' ultimate priority over the last few years has been to preserve an artificial position in the league structure rather than striving to rid the club of the stranglehold that dubious owners have placed on the club. All the Trust are doing at the moment is putting off the inevitable. If you'd listened to those on here a couple of years ago advocating that you should do exactly what you're now asking us to admire then you'd be looking up by now rather than staring down into the abyss. I know this view gets labelled as hindsight by many a Pompey fan but the hindsight card is typically played by people too lazy or stupid to have worked out what was foreseeable and/or inevitable in the first place. Start again from scratch and you'll get all the respect you crave...

In Portsmouth it's called a 'thousand'

8th (how many more times FFS?) :-)

My levels of ambivalence about whether a football kit is good or bad are unchanged.

Just a minor glitch then?!

@pn_neil_allen: Hermann returns to #Pompey training today in a bid to win a deal. His agent insists he is fit and will play for nothing 'to begin with'.

I had the same thought last night. Whilst online seat selection is a step forward they don't seem to have a safeguard in place to prevent single seats being left unsold. Most theatre ticket booking systems won't let you chose seats online that then leave a single seat for sale. Quite a simple enhancement or config update to the software I'd have thought.

It all sounds a bit hit and miss as it was borderline unusable last night. Maybe they were doing some maintenance on the site or such like. Will see if I fare any better next time.

Arsenal 2 Saints 3

I used the online ticket system for the first time last night (to buy a couple of Villa tickets). One word: abysmal Extremely slow to load up each page; jumps off the page you're on at random; click to select a seat and it takes over 30 seconds to register than you've selected it (if you're lucky); eventually select two seats...get bombed off the site before checkout...go back in...the seats you just chose are now marked as 'blocked by ticketing' (the seats turn orange rather than grey)...start the whole process all over again and have to select a different pair of seats because the previous ones stay marked as 'blocked'. Eventually got tickets after half a dozen tries. Remind me...this is the 21st century, isn't it?