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More than £2M in fees just to give the club back to Chinny, which he could have done many, many months ago. You have to say; that's an absolutely awesome job by Tricky Trev. He'll be in line for a bumper bonus this Christmas from PKF. Agent Trev

Neil Allen ‏@pn_neil_allen#Pompey Trust report; 'At the time of the AGM, it appears Portpin is now the preferred bidder, although they still need to convince the FL'.

There was England Women on BBC a week or so ago, if that floats your boat. They qualified for something or other, I wasn't particularly paying attention.

:lol: Bravo, sir

75000th post party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There's something that I'm curious about (and surely any right-thinking Pompey fan, if there are any, would wonder the same): Trevor Birch is currently running the club on a budget that he has determined himself. His (exorbitant) fees plus all his cronies at PKF who are continuing to fill in their timesheets at a rapid old pace are of course an enormous drain on resources. However, I'm curious as to what the weekly playing budget is right now; and how does that fit in with either Portpin's or the Trust's business plan? I ask, because in the original propsals submitted, Portpin's and the Trust's budgetted wage bills were of two different amounts. Portpin pledged to run the club with an average player wage of £1,600 per week or so. The Trust had a more optimistic figure of £2,500 per week (that is until they realised that £2M in player defferral payments was a deal-breaker and upped it to the full £8.5M; the effect that had on the players wage budget is yet to be known). So my point is this; is the current player wage bill in line with the budgetted wage bills in either of bids submitted? If so, which one? If not, is it currently higher or lower than the budgets received? And (perhaps most importantly) are the two bidding parties actually aware what the wage budget is at the moment, and whether they can afford to retain the entire playing staff should their takeover be successful? It seems a fairly valid question to me, but one that's never been asked, its just assumed that Tricky Trev knows what he's doing. As far as i can see, the only thing that Trickster has got spot on is drawing this whole saga out for as long as possible, running up huge bills from PKF, which will surely be paid from the £3M parachute payment recently received which was previously set aside for an operating budget. The actual feasibility of, you know, running the club beyond a takeover is seemingly being lost in the background.

I think the point is; there's a movement afoot such that you don't have to do that. Make it easier for the "seller" to communicate with the consumer, and vice-versa. And also encourage clubs to engage with their customer-base. I'd have thought that could only be a good thing, but what do I know?

There we have it (again). It's not the money on offer that's the problem, its the month to month nature of it. Lowest wage bill in the division, my arse. Do the few still actually believe that?

Perhaps you should let the FSF know that SFC don't do Customer Charters, because we have the internet? How silly of them not to realise.

Top (L-R): Balram Chainrai, Neil Allen, Ali al Faraj, Tricky Trevor Birch, Peter Strorrie. Bottom (L-R): Sasha Gaydamak, Sulaiman al Fahim, David Lampitt, Lord Voldemort, Andrew Andronikou.

Can he also play at left back?

Its like waiting for Christmas, keeping an eye on the clock and waiting for it to tick over....

Why not just facebook message him, tell him you have screenshots of your transaction and all of his details, and that he's got 48 hours to return your money or you'll go to Stevenage Police with it and let them handle it. Either that or visit him at home and f*ck him up.

Can you stop applying logic to the situation please. This is not the time for rational thought; the locals are clearly clamouring for unsubstantiated and irrational nonsense.

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Dear me. The latest wheeze on POL is trying to get a picture of Levi Kushnir, and post it on their forum so they can add him to the Chainrai witch-hunt. Notwithstanding the irony of PompeyScot offering to host the picture on his own website (in spite of his hissy fit at the "invasion of privacy" he claimed he underwent); I just hope Scumfinder Frattoniser isn't put onto the case to find Kushnir; he'd probably turn up Lord Lucan before he found the chap he was actually looking for.

Exactly. At his level, seeing out his contract with Saints could well be the difference between never having to work again, and having to re-train for a career outside of football when he hangs up his boots. I'm sure he'd rather be playing for us than not; I'm also sure he think about his future life (even it does mean playing the mercenary card in the short term). I don't see the upside of us hanging on to him, even if we do pay a proportion of his wages. As you say though, I'm sure SFC know exactly what they're doing.

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A customer charter has little to do with actual performance on the pitch, TDD.

You can bet that if we did have a published customer charter, and had the FSF deemed it one of the best, it would have garnered a lot more interest and praise than the faux indignation this thread has attracted.

The Pompey Trust have responded to the media wars being engaged at he other end of the M27.

32,095 at that game, apparently. We had more than that for a few Premier League games. 31,904 at MLT's testimonial.

Derby, for the way their neanderthals reacted to beating us in the playoffs. I can fully understand a bit of goading, but they went much further with a significant number of them causing a massive disurbance and trying to break the police line to fight with Saints fans (after they'd won FFS). It was just small-time in the extreme. And it absolutely p*ssed it down after the game so I got soaked. Harumph.