positivepete

http://www.pafc.pandareports.com/ See section 6, page 16 of the Plymouth administration report, the FA and the FL have to agree to the transfer of the club's shares to a purchaser......

Top of that league as well http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/D2/loseht.html losing half time, ten times, won four, lost six

All fourteen games we have been ahead at half time we have won, scoring 44 goals conceding 3 and gaining 42 points. I would say that shows we can kill teams off in the first half! http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/D2/winht.html

Yet, despite not scoring as many goals in the first half, we have won all fourteen games we have been ahead in at half time http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/D2/winht.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/apr/21/gino-coutinho-cannabis-farm-haag Perhaps he can be part of @arry's team, and then join *pey afterwards!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/apr/22/blackpool-ian-holloway I wonder who Holloway was referring to?: (Holloway) says: "I don't get that 'breath of fresh air' thing and I don't see us as standard-bearers, I just see us as Blackpool. I see us with a ground that is three-quarters finished and smaller than anyone else's. I see us with a group of players who are paid less than a team that is two-thirds of the way up the Championship.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhWhqhBthNg&feature=related try this flag for size

I will happily pay some money towards this, now all we need is someone to take the job on!

More perspective to the issues at other clubs to add to the earlier note about the situation at Coventry. From the Grauniad again http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/apr/08/tottenham-gareth-bale-departure However the financial realities at Tottenham – as displayed by the balance sheet accompanying Levy's remarks – point to straitened circumstances ahead. With eight games remaining in their Premier League season, Spurs are five points adrift of Champions League qualification and risk missing out on Europe's senior club competition next season. That would come at a significant cost for a club who appear to have become rapidly reliant on Champions League revenues. Starting with the positives, turnover for the six-month period has increased by very nearly 50% to £79.8m. The Champions League group stage brought in £18.4m in extra gate receipts and participation bonuses, with another £3.3m in sponsorship and corporate hospitality. Merchandising went up £1.2m. This all adds up to Champions League-related income growth of £22.9m of the total £26.2m rise in overall revenue. But much of that new money was quickly spent. During the corresponding six months in 2009, Spurs' operating expenses were £48.6m; last year's interim period showed expenses had reached £61.5m, a net growth in costs of £12.9m. The summary to the accounts states: "[increases in] operating expenses [were] due in the main to the costs associated with a large squad size." With other charges such as interest, depreciation and amortisation of player contracts, the club are on a trajectory for a substantial loss next year. And in addition, Spurs have spent £40.7m in transfer and agents' fees.

By way of a comparison http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/apr/07/fifa-investigation-burma-sanctions-eu Sky Blue blues Coventry City lost £12m in the first 19 months following their takeover by Sisu Capital in December 2007. Only an £8m cash injection prevented their going into administration last week. Group accounts are more than a month overdue and they are likely to paint a depressing picture when, two years ago – with average attendances 9% higher than today – the wages-to-turnover ratio was running in excess of 90%. Sisu is considered a pariah by some fans but if the Sky Blues did slip into administration the picture would be bleaker still: what white-knight investor would seek to pick up a club whose only assets are the expensive player contracts? Critically, Coventry do not own their stadium and relegation this season or next would be as catastrophic as it has been for Plymouth Argyle. But there may be some encouragement here. As they are the anchor tenants to the cash-cow £113m Ricoh Arena, the stadium's shareholders – Alan Higgs, Peter Davis, Marilyn Knatchbull-Hugessen and the local council – rely on the club's survival. This should give Coventry's board some leverage in negotiating the purchase of the stadium. With £38m of cuts to its budget from central government, the council may even be a distressed seller, although its deputy leader, George Duggins, told Digger: "Not so distressed a seller that we won't get proper value for the shares." All Sisu has to do is come up with the cash.

We are the Luanda lot over here

Agree, and when we have an attacking corner how about someone making a run beyond the far post, because that is where the ball goes 50% of the time and no-one from either side is there!

I cannot agree he has a good first touch, I think he has a good footballing brain, and is able to find space in between the defenders and the midfield, but he rarely shows a good first touch. This will be even more evident at the next level.

Savage, for his outrageous kick at Dean Richards and subsequent play acting that got Deano (RIP) sent off. Never forgave him after that.

Indeed, he is more likely to succeed at a higher level than a number of our players, including a couple that are starting up front at the moment

+1 stuck in Luanda, couldn't get to the game, agree some of the characters on here want shooting>

If they pay 1p in the pound it will be infinitely better than Pompey will (not) pay

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/mar/24/plymouth-argyle-loan-hope-blow Not guaranteed to finish the season........

Hi Phil, I managed to catch the Wednesday game before I disappeared off to sunny Angola for a few weeks. You are right about the style of play, but the problem is that we do not move the ball fast enough. RL has not had a good touch until that moment in the Sheffield Wednesday match where he took it down and turned the defender in one movement. I nearly fell off my seat at seeing him do that. Fair play if he is working on it, because he will need those sort of touches to move up a level. That is the problem with a number of our players, Hammond is another, and he will also struggle at the next level if he continues to play so square on. You cannot play the ball to him when he has someone on his back in the way you can to Schneiderlin. Again you can see they have been working on Hammond, his shooting has improved a lot lately, and his body shape for the volley that was saved in the same Sheffield Wednesday game was superb, but his touch is still poor for someone playing in centre midfield in a team that wants to pass the ball. It is tempting to say that the jury is out on Barnard, (sorry) but I think he has the potential to be a Championship player, but I think we will not really know until he gets there. I think that Adkins is trying to build a team with more pace, and LB does not have the pace of Guly, but his energy does have a place in the squad, and when he hits a goal streak you can see his confidence rise, and he becomes more dangerous. With LB and RL we struggle to get behind teams in the way we do with Guly, or indeed Forte.

A reminder of those results will ensure no complacency in the squad, and will more than likely act as a spur for revenge. I would be worried if I was those teams, we are not likely to repeat those performances.

He made some great runs yesterday and got into some really good positions, but hardly received a pass in the first half. I thought Chaplow took more control of the game when their number 4 went off, presumably injured. That was one of the turning points in the game.

I did a couple of weeks work at the refinery in Chiba in 2003, I hear this morning it is ablaze. The power of natures force is truly humbling.

86 mins GOAL Blackpool 1-3 Chelsea That is the goal of the night from Puncheon. Lovely little move as Crainie wins the ball on the left and plays in a nice pass to Beattie, who lays it off to Puncheon. He finishes brilliantly, low and hard into the far corner. Three ex Saints, who would have thought it!

Wiseman I suspect, he was chairman of the FA at some time I think

You should never go to games, never buy anything from the club site, contribute nothing to the club, rant at every loss and hide behind the keyboard with an anonymous user name. It is the only way to be taken seriously. You know it makes sense.