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Why are some people so surprised that a successful businessman and his financial advisor are trying to make as much money out of their commodity as they can? I guess some people thought Liebherr was a philanthropist rather than a businessman? I kept telling people we should have gone for Paul Allen...

From today's Charles Sale column: "The legion of unsecured creditors at Portsmouth might have a long wait - administrator Andrew Andronikou has only just wrapped up his work at Swindon after eight years. Those owed money since 2002 finally received a fraction over 20p in a pound."

End of an era. Tear in my eye. RIP

No need, the 'ticket office' are checking threads on here regularly.... ;-)

I was rather hoping we'd see the new kit unveiled at the same time we sign Skacel.

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And what happened when Southampton Football Club Limited reported this crime to the Hampshire Constabulary?

I assume they'll do 'special offer' games on a case by case basis? So, if they think they'll get a low turn out on a cold Tuesday in February they might do a 'kids for a quid' and/or reduce the adult price. Supply and demand and all that malarkey

I'm assuming we shouldn't judge the accuracy of the information in the Independant article based on their last paragraph....? ;-)

Do they check one's nipper's date-of-birth....? Not that I'm suggesting for one moment that I would buy an 'Adult and Under 8 pair' for me and my "looks younger than he is" 10 year old....

Saints fans in chip-on-shoulder anti-Redknapp rant shocker..... ;-)

Ok, here goes....Devil's Advocate alert.... Can someone post a link that PROVES that Markus is who we believe him to be (i.e. a Swiss billionaire) ? Obviously all the signs are there based on circumstantial evidence but we don't have CONCLUSIVE evidence that he has hundreds of millions of pounds at his disposable, do we? For example, how do we know that Cortese didn't finance the purchase of the club through his City contacts and signed up a Rich Billionaire Look-i-likey a la Markus Liebherr to make it all look like we've got a single rich owner....? Supply 100% proof and I'll put such a daft conspiracy theory to bed.... ;-)

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=22845

Fair points but below is what I posted on the 'Season Tickets' thread to explain my thinking - i.e. why would we want our Football Club to apply a less rigorous credit check to a bank or credit card company?

I'm not sure why people think that the Football Club should have retained a payment system that (seemingly) required a less rigourous credit rating check than someone taking out a bank loan or credit card. It seems obvious to me that the Football Club (which is now being run by a successful businessman and banker) have deemed that the 'in-house' payment scheme was too risky (in that they were effectively dishing out unsecured loans to anyone who could sign a piece of paper) so have now given people the chance to arrange their own finances thus making sure the Football Club aren't exposed to a fiscal risk (remember what happened two years ago when the Club became exposed financially....?) Given the world's economies collapsed two years ago due to companies giving out un-credit checked finance I'm surprised that some people are actively encouraging the Football Club to do the same. One caviat to my views here in that I'm not sure what credit checks season ticket applications were subjected to in the past but I'm assuming it wasn't as rigorous as a credit card check (?)

Not had time to read the entire thread but there seems to be a lot of angst about the lack of a payment plan..... Surely people can easily use their initiative and take out their own 'payment plan' by paying with a "0% for 9 or 12 months" credit card? Plenty of options available: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/credit-cards People would need to pass a similar credit rating for either an SFC scheme or a credit card application - just a different form to fill in. Simple, or am I missing something obvious here?

Not had time to read the entire thread but there seems to be a lot of angst about the lack of payment plan..... Surely people can easily use their initiative and take out their own 'payment plan' by paying with a "0% for 9 or 12 months" credit card? Plenty of options available: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/credit-cards People would need to pass a similar credit rating for either an SFC scheme or a credit card application - just a different form to fill in. Simple, or am I missing something obvious here?

Simple answer: hold a referendum to see what countries the tax payer is happy to send aid to? Just a thought.

How much per text?

Hoorah....bring on the posh beer....

Bugger. One minute Pancake has convinced me that I'm an arse and now you're suggesting I may have a point. I'm off to put some underpants on my head and two pencils up my nostrils.

Ah, ok... I think I get it now.....so PFC only 'cheated' as much as we did then.... ;-) Thread closed?

But I still don't understand why the Football League would be obliged to accept the registration of a new club in the 2nd tier of English football..... Does that mean I can set up a new team and enter them in the CCC too....?

Who?