stevegrant

Sorry, what?

Apparently there are now another 1000 terrace tickets on sale. No ****ing idea why they don't just put them all on sale from the beginning really

I bought mine online the first morning they went on sale and they only arrived on Saturday.

This was updated to 150 earlier this week (Tuesday, I think) on the morning of the deadline for buying the coach tickets.

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