trousers

How many days until it's announced? Same day we sign Skacel, or sooner than that?

Smokescreen

Owen?

Cat's bottom

CoL ! (chuckle out loud)

Shane

Visited the stadium today. I see the new car park barriers and pay machines are now in situ

Details of the away kit were going to be announced "within 2 weeks" (aka 'soon') according to the OS article that was subsequently deleted, and that was over three weeks ago. If you were a guessing man, what would your interpretation of 'soon' be in terms of number of days? Guesstimate? One? Two? Yours probingly, Trousers

Without revealing details, do these guys know when these major change are due to happen? Within days? Weeks? Months? Cheers

Is it the realisation of the monkey chicken zoo dream?

Moss

Was he with a local football club CEO?

Alas, not quite so conspiracy theory inducing...he was having a mooch around Borough Market, sharp suited, crisp white open necked shirt and a well tanned face. He then went into a bar/club/restaurant for what I assumed was an invite only screening of the England v Algeria game.

I saw Pardew in London last week

But, just to clarify....by "booked" do you know for sure that contracts would definately have been signed more than "a few weeks ago"? What if "99%" of the arrangements and agreements were in place but the actual master contract hadn't been signed? I must admit, it seems more unlikely than likely to me too but I'm endeavouring to rule it in or out as a possibility

Anyone....?

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Ok. I've worked it out. Cortese is a closet Pompey fan who, on seeing SFC was for sale this time last year, phoned up Markus to hatch a wheeze whereby they buy the club and gradually turn it into a laughing stock. To disguise their fiendish plan they bought the best players in the league in various positions as a smokescreen to their underlying aim to destroy the club.

Does anyone have the exact wording of the Echo piece? Did it say (words to this effect): "the contract was signed, sealed and delivered" a month ago or that "the preferred venue had been selected and contract talks were ongoing"?

How do we know when the contract was finally signed? They may well have been in discussions with the resort for ages but, knowing Cortese as well as we all do... , he may have either been playing hardball with the venue to get the cost down or indeed locked into a price war with a.n.other club(s) who were also in discussions with the venue. No-one would have secured exclusive rights to the venue until the contract was signed, and I have no idea when said contract process was completed.

Maybe it's that very popularity of the resort that has been the hold up? What if SFC were one of many clubs that expressed an interest in booking the resort several months ago and got engaged in a bidding war up until recently? So maybe, just maybe, things have only just been signed on the dotted line with the venue after a drawn out tender process? Two sides to every conspiracy theory....

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Woohoo.....Farnborough on the 21st July.....another chance for me to see the Pulis lad at close quarters. I also note that the Farnborough game comes 4 days after the Swiss training camp end date so perhaps some of the first team may be involved in that game too if any of them need a bit more match practice. Or perhaps if any new signings are made during the training camp period....

Hmmm....posted the above on 11th June and the news page in question seems to have disappeared.....I make the "within two weeks" date last Friday at the latest. That should keep us conspiracy theorists going for a few more posts.... :-)

I'm on a roll at the moment.... :-)