The Kraken

I think the Skates have washed their hands of him after he upset the delusional few by asserting that they had cheated their way to the FA Cup. They don't like a healthy dose of reality down that way, apparently.

Adam Lallana seems to disagree with you. From his twitter feed last night: "Away win, Lambo on flames! Injury not bad at all! Away end sold out again #COYR"

According to that Manish guy, Claridge was "out of his seat" for the second goal. Definitely a closet Saints fan.

It really is.

We are.

I would say its almost impossible that the two haven't crossed paths before, being as Birch conducted the due diligence for the sale of the club to CSI. As such I'm sure he would have gained a working knowledge of everything that has been going on at PFC, and probably how AA has simply been acting as a puppet for Chainrai. Its an obvious act of desperation from AA; whether a complaint can actually ensure that Birch is removed from the post, i don't know, he's been appointed by a court of law and short of an appeal directly to that court surely a complaint can only be some form of mud-slinging exercise. But then I'm clearly no legal-eagle, so what do I know?

That is indeed unforgivable. And while Nick Illingsworth has indeed done that in past, in his guise on Solent he is simply representing himself as the editor of online fanzine The Ugly Inside. And he is very welcome to his voice in that guise IMO.

Exactly right. WBA may be paying wages but there will be additional coasts to Pompey involved; travel expenses, living expenses, even his training kit etc, its an additional cost, however large or small it may be. So the first thing they have done since enerting administration is to increase their costs. Brilliant. Insolvency laws in this country surrounding football clubs really are an utter joke.

I think it more likely that they simply haven't tried hard enough. Even if they loaned out and paid a large percentage of Tal Ben Haim et al's wages, they would save themselves thousands of pounds per week. The simple fact is they saw that as too hard a decision to make and opted not to do it. They had interest in their players from Ipswich, who of course baulked at the wages, but there was never any discussion to come to an arrangement over it. Thankfully the national media have now cottoned on to the sheer absurdity of it all and are more than happy to point out the cheating nature of it all.

Definitely!!!!!!! I would ROFL all over the floor if I saw that!!!!!!

I thought there was a payment plan for season tickets this season? Or have I imagined that?

Not for you, Limpdick, I imagine the P45 will be in the post very soon.

The -10 should be run of the mill; I'd suggest any further points will be dependent upon what the administrator finds, and how (if?) they come out of admin with a CVA or not. We know what Chanrai declared the debts to be, so we'll now likely see what they actually are. And then whether the likes of HMRC are willing to again accept less than full repayment of all debts.

Agreed; with a proper administrator in there, for once they will actually be genuinely looking to cut costs and live within their means. Thoroughly hard to do when you have so many inflated salaries on the books, of course. And no transfer window to bring in funding. I'm still very surprised they were allowed into administration, given that even the judge admitted they weren't breaking even. The incoming parachute payments have probably saved them for now, but I'd say they are nowhere near out of the woods yet. Trevor Birch will have some very tough decisions to make, and as euphoric as the Skates are now, they may not like what's destined to happen. And liquidation is still a very real possibility, though I'd say much less so than before today.

Still could; the administrator will look to cut costs where he can, which could/should mean he'll look to loan out the high earners. Even if they agreed to pay half their wages while out on loan that would save them £10K a week for the likes of Kitson and £18K a week for Ben Haim. Whether they'll find clubs stupid enough to pay even half of those super-inflated salaries is another matter altogether.

You're kidding? With an open and honest administrator there, the potential for exposing the previous regimes corruption and underhandedness is overwhelming. This could be just the start of the fun!

He wasn't going to fund it anyway, even if it had been UHY appointed, he was only going to loan the money (and probably as a secured loan so that he'd get it back in full plus interest). The Skates will of course be happy about this outcome; but then it does raise the possibility of any previous dirty dealing being identified and presented to the FL, which could have very serious consequences if Luton are anything to go by. Plenty of mileage left in this one yet, I feel.

Transparent Tony Pulis looks pretty happy with it.

Just get prepared for more of the same from last time. Chanrai and his puppet Baldy Andronikou will manipulate the system once more, as the spineless and effete HMRC will be left huffing and puffing yet again with no real justice served, and the cheating c*nts from down the road will again get away with wiping off millions of debt. In addition to the disgrace of a "football club" that PFC claims to be, the Football League and the FA should also massively hang their heads in shame; first off, for refusing to act when CSI went into admin (as if them and PFC weren't obviously linked FFS), secondly for giving them David Limpdick and expecting some measure of financial austerity, but most of all for supposedly exercising some financial control and letting Pompey go and repeat the exact same mistakes again and again with utterly no governance whatsoever. As much as the skates are guilty in this whole pathetically sorry charade, the FL/FA must tale some blame for being such a spineless bunch of nobodies.

My God yes, I'd forgotten how deep the media-driven anti-Saints agenda went. Is there no media outlet with a good word to say about our sorry little club? Its no wonder the club takes such an insular approach, with all of the hate thrown at us from so many in the media.

So just to confirm; that's the BBC and Meridian that hate us? We need to get to the Premier League and fast, maybe MLT will help to ensure some impartiality if/when we get there. At the moment I just feel sick thinking about the shocking treatment we receive from terrestrial television.

They only had a crowd of 2000? Wow, that is poor support.

F*cking hell, Pompey fans really don't get it, do they. This message just popped up on their message board from one poster: Just quite breathtaking ignorance to the predicament they are in; a fault seemingly symptomatic of a huge amount of their fanbase. F*ck everyone else, f*ck paying bills, can we sign some mroe players please?

Thankfully you've provided complete balance by being descriptive and erudite on everything he did today.

I just had a sh*t. That means we will play sh*t tomorrow. Or Burnley will. Or something. Fact.