Whitey Grandad

They changed the cut-off date for 5 cautions this season from the end of February to the 31st December. The sanctions for 10 and 15 bookings 'remain in place as do their respective amnesty periods' but I can't find what the dates were. http://thefa.com/TheFA/RulesandRegulations/NewsAndFeatures/2009/RedCardUpdate.aspx

The ban for 5 bookings doesn't apply after December 31st but the bad news is there are 5 games before then.

If it is lifted it will be because they have paid their debts to the other clubs involved and if they did that they would not have any money left for new players. Unless someone gives/lends them gazillions.

Bit here under 'outsourcing' https://lcfonline.secureclient.co.uk/lcf/index.cfm?event=base:article&node=A76018BD33554

Bugger! I paid ove £30 for the set a couple of years ago. I don't begrudge it though, fantastic series.

You can only make a post redundant, not a person, so if they employ a contractor then the post is not redundant.

It's all costs plus so where's the incentive to keep the costs down? The manufacturers all claim that the MOD keep changing the specification, but they would, wouldn't they?

I didn't notice that she was blonde.

There's a bit on the bbc website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/8405591.stm I love the quote from Grant: "Of the players we are thinking about, not one of them has said they wouldn't come to Portsmouth." Not yet they haven't.

Then it might be a fella.

The more we discuss this the worse it looks. Emergency right-back purchase in January it is then.

Hmm, it's not quite as simple as that. We didn't actually lose £3m of assets 'we' sold them and received money in exchange. If that reduced the debts then the net value of the enterprise on the balance sheet is approximately the same. It depends on what the book value of the assets was before we sold them. But all this does of course affect the negotiations for the sale of the business and is tied up with what the admistrator, and ultimately the creditors, would accept and what the purchaser was willing to pay.

Yes, I keep forgetting what league we're in.

You have a point to an extent. A lot of the payments amount to reconstructing the club and its playing staff back to an acceptable level. We've lost a lot of players and we've partially replaced them and i would expect more changes to come next month.

And the Neue Pinakothek: http://www.pinakothek.de/neue-pinakothek/ We went there on a Sunday in our camping gear (no, not that sort of 'camping') but all the locals were dressed up to the nines and treated it like some big fashion show. none of them were looking at the paintings, just each other.

Plus he has no positional sense in that position. Besides, we'd miss his presence in midfield.

That's true.

The Deutsches Museum is worth a visit if you like that sort of thing. All models of V2s and a cutaway submarine, U1.

If it reduced the debt, then it certainly should have.

Bugger. There are 5 games to go before January and we certainly can't put James back in there. I used to play right back

Nice try, but I don't think that Sky could get involved on account of the conflict of interests.

Which made the club cheaper to buy....

My son-in-law went a few years ago. I shall be seeing him Sunday so I'll ask him about it. Anything particular that you want me to ask?

The chairman controls the finances, but that's another story :mad: (or should that be Storrie?)

Not a bad idea. I'll chip in £10 if it helps. (well, £9.90)