stevegrant

Er, read it again...

1978.

Because it's a load of ****?

How appropriate: http://venturebeat.com/2012/03/31/why-groupon-is-poised-for-collapse

Where do I sign?

The Golden Share is the be-all and end-all as far as Football League clubs are concerned - without it, you can't start the season, so it's possible that the FL could basically blackmail them into accepting a points deduction at the start of next season in exchange for the share (if they can get that far), after all that's essentially what they did with us and Leeds.

Except the Football League can apply and vary their own rules at their ultimate discretion where they feel appropriate. I would imagine they never envisaged that a club who had been so royally ****ed would carry on where they left off having (somehow) managed to get a CVA agreed and then make no attempt to pay any of that money back. Just like they never envisaged that a football club would put their parent company into administration rather than the football club in an attempt to avoid the statutory 10-point deduction. It's a logical assumption that the creditors of the old Portsmouth FC wouldn't have agreed to a CVA comprising a total payout of 0p in the pound, which is now what they're likely to receive. If they'd attempted to exit administration on those terms two years ago, they'd have been hit with at least another 15-point deduction, so why should that not apply retrospectively?

This, basically. It's the only ground in the top 2 divisions I've not been to.

I don't get the point of Burrows' existence, tbf.

Yes, they will get their match tickets when they are en route, the same as we did. I do wonder what the police would actually do if 150 Pompey fans with match "vouchers" (not tickets) pitched up at St Mary's on Saturday threatening to cause a scene if they're not let in...

Don't forget most of ours were ****ty double-decker buses which seat 70-80, it's possible that Lucketts will do the same to fit as many people on as few vehicles as possible. 40 x 70 = 2800, which is much nearer a realistic figure.

I wonder if Gabby will be following up this documentary with one about nepotism in sport and sports broadcasting?

Group Save tickets often don't show online, but you can buy them on the day anyway. You might also find it's cheaper to take the scenic route from Southampton and go via Barnham and Gatwick Airport, changing at East Croydon. Because of engineering works, the Waterloo route will be disrupted all weekend, so it won't take any longer going that way.

Engineering works around Surbiton, I think, adding an extra 30-40 minutes onto the journey. Don't bother buying in advance from SWT, get it on the day either with a network railcard (1/3 off) or as part of a Group Save 4 (half-price).

Their OS said "more than 150" yesterday. Add that to a similar amount of unsold match tickets and there'll be about 300 empty seats on Saturday.

The current ticket system is perfectly capable - and has been for a number of years - of doing the basic things it is required to do. It's not the fault of the software that the people running the ticket office don't seem to have the faintest idea what they're doing.

Well this shambles isn't at all predictable

I think they've given up caring about whether the online system actually restricts sales to eligible people now, earlier in the season tickets weren't even available online when it was one per ST holder. Now they just can't be arsed if non-ST holders get tickets. Fortunately for a game like this with such a big potential allocation, it shouldn't be an issue.

That'll be an initial allocation... also with it being a midweek game and likely to be less popular than Middlesbrough, making the allocation seem smaller might force fans to buy earlier out of urgency which will then get the extra tickets released sooner.

Those questions seem very Americanised...

I'm still on the waiting list

I see there are still more than 150 skates who have bought their match vouchers for Saturday but haven't got round to buying a coach ticket, and the deadline for doing so is today

To be fair, I imagine the idea of it being a "share" is just to make the concept easier to understand for their simpletons. It'll be an IPS co-operative, that's the only way the supporters trust model works at the moment, as far as I'm aware, which is then run by the "one member, one vote" system. There's not a cat in hell's chance they'll be floating as a PLC.

Finance options for supporters to raise the £1000 share price will be offered. So those in charge of the supporters trust are effectively attempting to engage in a leveraged buyout