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Given that in just a couple of years outside the top flight your gates fell by 60% or more I don't know what you're gloating about. If you were in the same financial position we were for years back then how long do you think it would have been before your gates fell to that level? Interestingly, we were getting gates as big as you when we were in the old Div 4 in our promotion season and you were in the top flight :cool:

If you stay up in the next 3 years and the economy picks up a bit a buyer may come along and then MAY build a stadium, but dont keep thinking it is really there because it patently is not at present. http://saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=10470

But I thought no-one would buy Pompey Nick. You told me so repeatedly and so did the Romsey Retard. You kept saying you were a much more attractive proposition. Don't worry, I've read he's only 10 times as wealthy as Abramovich http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/people,1334,who-is-the-man-benind-man-city-deal,43031

Have just been told that an announcement about the future of PFC will be made within 48 hours. Don't think you lot will like it much

Sorry, but how do the initials "MJ" fit into Paul Allen buying your club?

That's almost word for word what you've posted about Pompey before. Isn't it about time you got a new stock response regarding any Prem team you're having a pop at.

As I know you're all so interested I've heard it's not middle eastern but far eastern - a Thai consortium allegedly now doing due diligence. Have heard nothing about a US group. Have heard a Thai takeaway may put a bid in for your lot

Talked about in the States in a mini article. Good old Chuck wrote a whole book about Pompey http://www.amazon.co.uk/Up-Pompey-Clueless-American-Sportswriter/dp/0297852833/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241628064&sr=1-1

Or maybe West Ham's parent company has more than the football club under it's umbrella. Unlike you.

LOL. For a minute there Mavis I thought you were saying you were a decent sized club.

Debt levels in the Prem are ridiculous. Last season, according to Deloitte & Touche, the following clubs had the these debts: Man U - £605m Chelsea - £620m (and made losses of £76M!) Arsenal - £268m Liverpool - £350m (and could be shut down in the summer if the Yanks can't refinance their loans) West Ham - £142m Boro - £85m (Steve Gibson is such a good chairman) Fulham - £182m (!!!). In addition Blackburn, Bolton, Newcastle, Sunderland and Wigan (along with Pompey) were all well over the level of wages to income ratio recommended by the Premier League.

Well, gate receipts for most Prem clubs (other than Man U/ Arse/ Liverpool and maybe Newcastle) are far less important than the SKY money - which netted us £49m last year. Even so, our income from gate receipts was up £3m on the previous year to £12m. How much in gate receipts did you generate last year from your financial millstone? Sorry, I mean modern, large capacity stadium. As for the FA Cup money, going all the way only earned us £600K more than the previous year. As for not selling out our final allocation - LOL. Must try harder than that Weston.

Yeah, it's way too high although our turnover for last year was £70m (!) and with the players that are out of contract in the summer such as Campbell, Lauren and Kanu who are big earners we'll shave around £15m off the wage bill. Even allowing for some replacements to come in that will take us down to around 60% of our income which is the Prem's guideline. Interestingly of the £70m turnover very little was from our FA Cup run so no reason to believe it will dip much below that figure again this year.

I see Mavis has "disappeared" when "the going got tough". What a plum

And Pompey are responsible for Blackburns pricing policy how exactly? :confused: Still even £6.66 is more than I could have paid to watch Saints on Saturday. Thousands of tickets available at £5.00 and, might I point out, still not a capacity attendance. Well, as the SKY camera panned across the thousands of empty seats and John Salako said "the ground's half empty" your statement doesn't appear to ring true. Still, you know best, eh?

What do I find funniest at the moment: 1. Nick Nack's refusal to post a reply to this thread after his claims that I "only post on here when Pompey are doing well" were made to look like the ravings of a alzheimer's suffering baboon when in the period he cited as the most I've ever posted Pompey played three games and lost two of them 4 - 0 and 6 - 0. 2. Nick Nack being accused of suffering memory loss by his own fans on the main board. 3. Your fans mistaking a Charlton player for Linvoy Primus on Saturday. 4. 50% of your crowd leaving after Charlton's third goal went in on Saturday showing potential investors the true "Spirit of Southampton". ROTFPMSL

Mavis often accuses me of only coming on here when things are going well for Pompey. In the period he quotes in the latter half of September when we were "on a roll" we played three games. The last one was against Spurs when we won 2 - 0. The other two were against Man City and Chelsea which we lost 6 - 0 and 4 - 0. That's some roll we were on there Nick Nack, I can certainly see your point that i only post when things are good for PFC. Mavis, once again you're the one who ignores anything that challenges your cosy little rose tinted world. I've posted a link several times to a quote where I said that I had no idea if the stadium would be built or not but you somehow choose to ignore that. You were extremely vocal in your condemnation of Pompey's choice to go into administration and repeatedly told me on here that it was a disgrace that we cheated our creditors. I've not seen one post from you saying the same about your club. You're the biggest ****ing hypocrite on here and NEVER answer any points I raise such as these. You're full of wind, an overblown, pompous buffoon who lives in some halcyon days of jumpers for goalposts and fairplay for all who consistently tries to make some point but ends up yards wide of the target. I feel for Saints fans because I know what you're going through. My point was that most of you on here have gloated to me at Pompey's potential to fold at some point over the last couple of years (you included Nick Nack) and my question to you all was, how does it feel now the boots on the other foot. Most Pompey fans seem to be a hell of a lot more supportive of your plight than you ever were (or, I suspect, would be) if it happens to us again. Answer the points I raised Nick Nack and I might have just a smidgeon of respect for you. But I suspect you won't.

Administration - PMSL. What's really making me laugh about your situation is how high and mighty you've all been about when Pompey went into administration, about how dispicable it was to deprive creditors of their money etc etc. Now you're all hoping like **** that your holding company smokescreen can save you taking a 10 point hit. I've had so many comments on here revelling in their hope that Mandaric/ Gaydamak would walk away meaning we'd go bust - how's it feel now the boots on the other foot lads? Not quite as smug now? Remember the days when I first came on the old website, when I was told so many times you were the best run club in the land? That Rupert was a shining example of how a chairman should operate? LOL. For the record I don't believe you'll go out of business. I'm sure someone will come in and buy you before your deadline passes. Might not be Paul Allen but at least some joker (probably Roops) will bail you out. I'm also aware before anyone points it out that Pompey could very easily find themselves in the same boat again. Still, for all the times you've taken the **** about Pompey going bust, Gaydamak walking away leaving us penniless, the state of PFC going into administration and all the other digs you've made - I'm cracking up laughing here

LOL. Where have you got the idea that this store would be the size of the one at North Harbour? I've not seen that mentioned anywhere. Tesco do have different sized stores to the North Harbour one you feckin' idiot. Not saying it will happen, lots of planning obtacles to overcome before it goes anywhere but as Tesco have already part funded similar schemes with other clubs I fail to see how it doesn't add up, when it's already been done elsewhere. What's the flaw in the plan little scumlettes?

So, you don't actually know but maybe 100 tickets. Incredible. You've really made a point there. Actually, what point have you made there? :smt017

Wouldn't be at all surprised if we gave a few tickets to the navy. How many thousand per game do we give away, do you know? Or is it actually about 20 tickets or so? Unlike your scheme where anyone taking 10 kids for a quid each gets in free and you still only get 11,000. That's a real LOL

It's Tesco, not Asda. And the B & Q you're using to compare sizes happens to be the biggest DIY store in Europe. I kid you not. Not exactly a decent comparison then, would you say? We're averaging 96% sell outs all season and generally the reason it's not 100% is because away teams don't take their full allocation. Because of that, we can't offer concessions to families or kids on any regular basis and don't have the space for a proper family section or any of the other markeing initiatives which could help drive people through the turnstiles. A bigger capacity allows you to do more to bring new people in. It's now public knowledge. Tesco have verbally agreed to provide around £15m of funding towards the work on the stadium to allow them to build a new store on the adjacent land, similar to what they've done with other clubs (I think Weymouth benefitted from a similar plan). Which shows you where a big chunk of the development money for our planned stadium at Horsea could come from if it ever gets the go ahead. What doesn't add up?

You seem to be either too thick to read or blatantly ignoring the fact that I posted a quote on the previous page where I said I had no idea if the stadium at Horsea would go ahead (please go back and read it again to confirm). Which one of these two options is it you pompous old buffoon? The amount of players out of contract, once you see which players it includes, is actually pretty good news for Pompey as opposed to screwing us up. Most of the players on the list (which includes players currently on loan to us) are ones that were signed by Redknapp and have played a handful of games. Of the first teamers on the list, probably only Davis and maybe Hreidarsson are worth a new contract. Getting so much dead wood off the payroll will free up some money to make some decent squad additions. Unless you think the players below are essential to our squad next season: Richard Duffy (loaned out until the end of his contract anyway) Lauren Noe Pamarot Sol Campbell Linvoy Primus Herman Hreidarrsson Nadir Belhadj (loan deal since made permanent!) Armand Traore (loan expires) Djimi Traore (on loan to Birmingham) Jermaine Pennant (loan) Glen Little (loaned out until the end of his contract anyway) Richard Hughes (has now signed a new contract) Jerome Thomas Sean Davis Kanu The original report included Ben Sahar who went back to Chelsea in January (!) plus Armand Traore, Jermaine Pennant and the Greek guy Gekas who are currently on loan. Explain to me how losing most of those players would be a bad thing for Pompey

Nick Nack, are your wife's frilly panties that you're wearing so tight that they're cutting off the blood supply to what little functioning brain area you have left? I came back on here after a defeat to Chelsea which left us one point above the drop zone - how is that "disappearing when we're on rocky ground"? You're nonsensical you shrill, buffoonish old drama queen. As for your claim that I said construction on the stadium had started, I quoted a previous post of mine where I said I had no idea if the stadium at Port Solent would go ahead. Is that the same as saying it's already started in your bizarre little care home world? If you don't believe me look back at my post - it's on the first page of this thread. As for my claims about Storrie, no idea if anything will come of it or not but he certainly was in the middle east a couple of weeks ago talking to potential investors. Not sure how any of this is me getting "girlish" - just me asking you to back up the weird statements you're making which ignore any points I make but claim I say and do stuff which everyone on here (but you, Mr Alzheimer) can see is a load of cobblers.

Where's Mavis gone? Has he "disappeared" when "the going got tough"? PMSL