stevegrant

I'm now back from my tour of Italy, San Marino, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Croatia I'll try to collate everything together later today, if those who are interested but haven't stated their positions and/or rough playing ability/fitness levels (those that I don't know, at least ) could do so, that would be very helpful.

Reading have made an official approach for Poyet. Not guaranteed he'd accept the job if offered, though, probably a better chance of being a Premier League manager next season by staying where he is

The standard is probably best described as "mixed" - think mediocre Sunday League standard, a few decent players carrying a few rubbish ones. Kick-off time would be either 10.30 or 11.00

Morning all, I've had an offer for a game against West Brom's fans team on the morning of the game against the Baggies next month. Likely venues are either Wide Lane or Fleming Park in Eastleigh. It'll probably be a fiver each to cover the pitch and a referee (any volunteers?), kit will be provided. If you're interested in playing, please reply below. If you're not interested, please ignore this message

They've got enough plastics to only give away teams 2500 or so. They've got season ticket holders in the other half of that stand this season.

London Bridge, not Liverpool Street

£42

Tickets still available on general sale in the home end

Man City (away), Tevez 40' Arsenal (away), Gervinho 35', Clyne og 37' Villa (home), Bent 36' Everton (away), Jelavic 38' Spurs (home), Dempsey 39' West Brom (away), Odemwingie 36' Norwich (home), Snodgrass 45' Liverpool (away), Agger 43' Sunderland (home), Fletcher 42' Arsenal (home), Guly og 41' Chelsea (away), Hazard 45' Man City (home), Dzeko 39' Newcastle (away), Cisse 42' Liverpool (home), Coutinho 45' 15 goals conceded from 35-45 minutes. In the completely mythical scenario where those goals aren't conceded and the rest of the game pans out the same way as it did in real life, we'd have 10 more points.

No idea, can't hurt to ask though.

Wide Lane? Think they've got floodlights on the main pitch and the 3G one.

Nor for barging Fernando Torres over on Sunday.

Yeah, I was annoyed with that

73, missed Mickey Evans, Micky Adams, Trond Egil Soltvedt, Leandre Griffit, Perry Groves, Kevin Moore, Frankie Bennett and David Howells.

There are some merits to that strategy, though. Gradually build a team that improves year-on-year, gets experience every other year at the highest level and eventually they'll make it work. Or at least that's what West Brom have done over the last decade or so to good effect.

Aren't those exactly the same artists impressions that were on that DVD sent out with season tickets last summer?

Yes, along with Man United, Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool. Big-time

SFC appear to be giving season ticket holders a £2 discount

It's possible, but I don't see why they needed a fixed and floating charge over ALL broadcasting revenue for the 2013/14 season if the BVI loan was for only £3.8m. It seems fairly clear that the loan was for cashflow, and it's coincided with both a massive transfer outlay and significant spending on the training ground redevelopment, but I don't see why those who were (rightly) asking questions about why we needed to take out such a loan given a) Cortese's comments in the past and b) the supposed continued support of the Liebherr estate were given such a hard time.

It's a difficult one, really. I can see where he's coming from, and West Brom were one of the other clubs of the same belief, that clubs should be able to manage their business however they want, and be left to suffer the consequences if they make a pig's ear of it. That's what eventually happened to Pompey (as well as the variety of crooks and idiots they jumped into bed with), and I'm sure it'll happen to a number of other clubs in the future. However, all of the leagues are right, IMO, to want to bring back a semblance of sanity to football club expenditure. How they've gone about it is different at pretty much every level of the game, but the key for them, mainly from a PR perspective, really, is that they are being seen to be doing something. I don't know whether the new rules on wage bills (which don't actually apply to us anyway because our wage bill is way below the £56m threshold set by the PL) will have the desired effect. I guess it's timely because it means that the players won't hoover all the extra TV money as soon as it starts rolling in in August with demands for new improved contracts, but in reality the leagues could impose any rules they like and it will still protect the bigger clubs from any smaller upstarts with a vision and financial backing. Cortese's thinking that he can run our club better than the chairman/CEO/whoever runs Villa, Stoke, West Ham, Everton, etc without regulation, which is fine, he's entitled to believe that, and his belief has some merit, and the concern is that imposing regulation on these clubs will force them to improve their ways which in turn could lead to them punching a bit higher in the future.

I've seen nothing that gives a definitive figure on the loan, that Companies House document is a mortgage/charge document so it is only there to show the security, which in theory (unless you use Pompeymatics to calculate the value of assets) means that the loan value can be anything up to the value of the security.

There is a mortgage charge lodged at Companies House with all of that information. It doesn't state the actual loan amount, but there is a fixed and floating charge on next season's broadcasting revenue.

Yeah, when you look at it from a business perspective it makes complete sense. Of course if you're trying to protect your arse, you can do a Peter Storrie valuation of your playing assets and pluck a wildly inaccurate and high figure out of thin air, but for real accounting purposes, a player's registration is worth exactly zero to the club once his contract expires so to depreciate his value evenly over the period of his contract is entirely logical.

Interesting that these figures have been released before the publication of the 2011/12 accounts. I assume it's a Premier League rule that six-monthly figures have to be released, we've certainly never revealed half-year profit/loss figures before under the current regime. All in all, looks fairly promising. It's worth bearing in mind the "profit" figure in no way relates to the cashflow of the business. Player transfer fees are accounted for evenly over the course of the player's contract rather than in one big hit when the player first signs for the club. If we assume that most new signings will be on an average of a 4-year contract, that means that only around an eighth of our transfer spending will have been accounted for in the June to December figures.

Different scenario, tbf. AFC Wimbledon was a brand new club. Pompey are a (somehow) existing club so the Conference or Ryman League might be a bit more accommodating.