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Yeah, fair point....as you can probably tell, I've gone into straw clutching mode again!

Is it feasible that the players and Chainrai could somehow be in 'collusion' here? I.e. Chainrai would prefer liquidation but doesn't want to be seen to be the plug pulling villain. He therefore tells the players that he'll set them an 'ultimatum by media' which they should then ignore. The players play along, the 28 day deadline passes and Chainrai 'reluctantly' throws in the towel picking up the ground in the process. The players meanwhile fall into the Football League contract safety net and, after the liquidation dust has settled, move onto other clubs on free xfers. Over time, Chainrai gets permission to develop the land. Meanwhile, the trust have set up a Phoenix club free of Chainrai's influence. Win, win, win? Or far-fetched clap trap?

When it says the playing contracts revert to the League, does that mean that they revert 'intact' or that they revert to some other default / lower contract value?

Nope. You and me both baby x :-)

@TonyHusbandBBC: #pompey All the news and analysis of today's creditor's meeting. http://t.co/8l98gvk0

@jordansibley: Successfully negotiated my first day back in the office after 2 weeks off. Busy few weeks coming up, can't wait for the start of pre-season!

Even IF the Trust manage to satisfy Birch that they have a viable CVA proposal, which Birch then convenes another meeting to vote on, doesn't Chainrai simply vote against it given he holds enough cards to sway the vote? All seems a bit pointless to me. Literally.

Now I'm confused. The players got to vote on the CVA? (albeit via the PFA). I wonder which way they voted....?

Did they get a vote?

Agree, but I would venture the players wages are the largest most significant portion of running costs that the PPs were intended to cushion?

Why did the PFA have a representative at the CVA meeting today?

Isn't the whole point of the parachute payment system to help clubs deal with the very situation Pompey now find themselves in? i.e. to cushion the blow between lower league income versus higher league wages. (ok, I know Pompey are an extreme example of this scenario but you get my drift...) Ergo, how come the parachute payments aren't ring-fenced to pay off the players (as per the intention of said payments) rather than the club and administrator bleating on about how the players need to forego what they are due from this very same safety net? I'm probably missing something simple here but for Pompey to effectively be saying: "We're not going to use the remaining parachute payments for the purposes for which they were designed" is surely breaking the Premier League's own terms and conditions of use? Shirley?

A policy that keeps the extended family unit closer together. Excellent :-)

We're showing our age again...

Unlucky for some

This. One minute students are moaning they haven't got enough money to pay for their own education the next minute they're buying luxury goods. FFS. ;-)

Of course, this is what happens when you don't get the players to work in the ticket office from time to time. They've never had this kind of trouble down the road. A lesson to be learned there I feel.

A splendid analogy :-) reminds me of an episode of The Young Ones :-)

I know I'm biased but that did give rise to an out loud chuckle here on coach 2 of 12

There. Fixed it for you :-)

Of course we're obsessed. That's the general idea. Obsessed to the point of being utter nutjobs in fact. Corp Ho in 'observing the blindingly obvious and posting it as if it's a startling revelation' shocker... ;-) God bless things that Carlsberg don't do...

The ticket office was much better under a Labour government.

It's a shame Rallyboy is 'off' this week....this would have made his day :-)

As someone said earlier....probably no need to boost the statue votes as that'll win without any influence. Probably.

I think that was for the nominations. This vote for the top 3 nominations now seems to be Facebook only