Jimmy_D

I'm glad someone got it!

I bet they were doing something like jumping over rods or running around cones...

Hm, I'm beginning to wonder... With Standard Bank calling in their loan ages ago, with the lawyer saying they have no bank facility and that the money was in HIS account ready to be paid... Plus they only accepted cash for the FA Cup game... I wonder if they even have a bank account at all at the moment?

Walking away doesn't mean they lose the wages they're already due.

I think the players could have walked on 1st January after the wages were late for December to start with. They managed to at least delay this happening by saying they'd be paid today. I'd say it was a delaying tactic while they scrabbled around the world looking for a loan to keep the club going for just a little bit longer, in the hope they'd find a real billionaire to take over. They probably paid the other staff out of the matchday income where they were only took cash. Now they're trying another delaying tactic of saying it'll be tomorrow now, and when that doesn't come through, which it won't unless they find some fool to lend them a bit more money, I'd imagine then the players will hand in their 14 day notice. (Unless they already have and we just haven't heard about it yet.)

Norwich City?

I thought that coming out of administration was down to a buyer and the creditors coming to agreement? In which case Gaydamak could just let the club go under unless someone pays the full amount he's owed?

Not if there aren't already the rules in place to punish them for this in the league, no, not outside of the consequences of what's written in the contract. Remember how much we were kicking up because the Football League decided to punish us when it didn't appear they had any rules in place to punish us, and ended up getting around it by deciding we were essentially the same company, thereby tenuously staying inside their own rules? If there are sanctions they could take but aren't because it'd look bad though, that's a completely different matter.

Wow. I was reading that assuming it was a joke... Then I saw it was the OS for Fulham...

One other aspect where Saints were better off in the summer was that, while our previous owners might not have had the ability or the money to go about it the right way, they certainly wanted the best for the club. I'm sure I'm not the only one that thinks Pompey's current owners don't necessarily have the club's best interests at heart.

I can't help but hope that we've got some signings lined up for Friday to be announced and completely surprise us all.

I see Steve Wigley is in charge at Bolton... There's hope for Pompey yet!

Sms will look quite unique enough when it has an extra tier on 3 of the stands.

http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=10033471 http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=10038269 (give it time... and a bit more time) http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=10038315

They haven't gone bust yet because no creditor has called in the debts that they haven't been able to pay yet. Lens suing will probably be the trigger that starts the beginning of the end unfortunately.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George_(commercial) Appears it wasn't pulled after all! Just that they'd spent all their budget on making the thing and could only afford to show it 10 times... I'd always assumed it was banned because I saw it and then it was gone. Bloody brave thing to do, especially as Youtube and viral marketing didn't exist back then.

give it a few days. Lens are suing them for not keeping up repayments and are now entitled to the whole sum they're owed up front.

Oh good, they finally got around to adding the 2009 skin... didn't get on with the new one they had at all...

Oh I realise how unlikely it is, and I wouldn't bother putting any bets on any Pompey games after February just yet. (not that I normally bet at all normally anyway...) The deciding factor on whether they survive will be how much debt adminstration lets them walk away from.

Probably, yeah. But who here thought WE would get an owner reportedly the third richest in English football?

There is one way out for them, but it involves a very rich person coming in and taking over, paying everything off, like happened with us. It doesn't look likely I'll admit, but as long as they're still alive there's hope. I remember getting ready to just watch the Prem as an interested outsider with no team to support last summer but it turned out ok for us in the end A weekend is never nicer than when Saints have won and Pompey have lost... I don't want to lose that.

'Gearing up nicely for an unlikely playoff push' according to the highlights

Just back. We were by far the better team in the first half, went 2-0 up, they had a man sent off, got to half time. We were completely off the pace the second half, 2 up and cruising against 10 men I guess, but that let them score. That stung us awake and although we still struggled a bit, there was always the chance we'd score on the counter, and bringing Papa on was a good move, defender looked like he wasn't moving at all compared to Papa bursting past him to score the winner. Good three points all in all and top half and only 7 off of the playoffs now, although having played more games.

winning 6-3 against Man U... (you didn't say WHICH decade )

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!