stevegrant

Spencer Day, ****ing hell. Many people will be more familiar with that particular character under his previous name, Spencer Trethewy, the man largely responsible for Aldershot going bust in 1992.

I can only assume they've relied on the services of this man for their legal business: Rather ironic in this particular situation

Not sure why this happened, but HMRC ceased being a preferential creditor in 2003.

The whole point of HMRC's case is surely that the rule itself is illegal. If they win the case (and, given their record with football cases, that's unlikely anyway), the rule would have to disappear.

It would appear not, although our game against Reading on Friday 13th April is the last one they've scheduled for the Championship so far. With a full Championship programme on Tuesday 17th, Saturday 21st and Saturday 28th, they've still got a few to sort out. I'd expect them to only make a decision on the game they show on the 28th after all the games on the penultimate weekend have been played. All of the games will be kicking off at 12.30 anyway, so they don't have to move the kickoff time or date.

West Ham's game is midweek as well, to be fair. Re-arranged from a couple of weeks ago when it was frozen off.

To be fair, we expected a) the terrace to be gone this season and b) Peterborough to get dicked by Huddersfield in the playoff final. West Ham have sold around 5000 for their trip up there at the end of March

In theory, around the end of the season and the start of the summer is when the bulk of a club's income is received, through season ticket sales. However, with no (as yet) clear business plan to go on beyond the end of this season, the administrator isn't going to let the club take season ticket money for a "service" that may not ever be provided. With only two players out of contract at the end of the season (Ashdown and Rocha), the only way I can see them being remotely sustainable next season is if they offload the likes of Kitson, Lawrence, Norris, etc for knockdown fees. They might even have to subsidise the wages for the remainder of their existing contract by £2-3k a week - not ideal, but if it gets them somewhere near break-even, it's certainly an option. Unfortunately, I think a lot rests with the outcome of the Football Creditors Rule case with HMRC. If HMRC wins, that gets rid of the FCR, which in turn makes players much more wary about which club they sign for - as a result, someone like Lawrence will be much more prepared to take a significant wage cut if it means he joins a club where he knows he will get paid. 100% of £10k a week is better than 20% of £20k a week, after all. Even then, they've got to get a new CVA agreed, and the chances of that happening appear slim to say the least. Baker Tilly, having been appointed by HMRC, will surely oppose it, and that would probably be enough on its own to prevent a 75% acceptance. HMRC would simply add to that opposition with the £1.6m owed before admin and the money they would be due upon payment of the deferred wages. While we know what happens if they don't get a CVA agreed in terms of the Football League, what happens from a company perspective? If a CVA isn't agreed with creditors, does the administrator have to go back with another proposal and hope that gets agreed or does he then say "sorry lads, I've tried, but the creditors want you gone"?

On the subject of Peterborough, I got confirmation from their chairman on Twitter earlier this afternoon that the terrace will still be there when we go there

Other than bubble trips, Millwall is the safest away game in the country these days.

I emailed the Millwall ticket office about the possibility of getting the lower tier as well if the upper tier sells out and their (speedy) response was So I guess it's a "cross that bridge when we come to it" scenario. Get that first block of tickets sold and then go from there.

Mills has been a good Championship centre-back for a few years now, having made a rather unwise career move in going to Man City when Burley seemed to want to give him a run in the first team here. That said, there's absolutely no ****ing way he was ever worth £5m, but that was at a time when Leicester were chucking money at anyone and everyone. I actually suspect one of the biggest problems he's faced at Leicester is that Sven gave him the captaincy as soon as he arrived, which has perhaps fuelled a sense of entitlement, and he possibly felt he was undroppable. As we all know, Pearson doesn't stand for that sort of behaviour, so it's no surprise he's on his way out. It would be nice if they'd wait until after this weekend, mind you...

I'd definitely take the words of a site called Football Friends Online seriously

What a game

Pompey's £5 discount offer isn't much in the grand scheme of things, most clubs who take advantage of those 4 "local" offers tend to go mental on the discounting. Bradford City are also doing a local promotion for tomorrow's game against Hereford United. Home fans can get in for £1, while travelling Hereford fans are still being charged £20 Any odds on the away end being empty?

But was at Pompey earlier this season (played against us)

6 options for right-back

I wonder what Danny Graham, the second-highest English scorer in the Premier League this season, thinks about Campbell playing two games this season and getting a call-up ahead of him. Also baffled how Stewart Downing consistently gets picked despite being consistently ****.

I particularly liked the bit of the article where the writer was clearly distracted and thought their fingers were in the right place on the keyboard but ****ed it up

£16m CVA to Baker Tilly, £1.6m to HMRC for unpaid PAYE/NI from December/January, about the same in unpaid wages for January.

Have you replied to any of the messages? If so, that's why you're getting loads. Scammers send messages out to completely random numbers, hoping to get a reply, which gives them the knowledge that it's an active number. They then sell that number on to other scammers.

HMRC won't necessarily be the problem, although they'll have a significant input. Baker Tilly, as supervisors to the old CVA, are owed £16m, and as they were installed as supervisors by HMRC, it stands to reason that they would probably vote against any new CVA which dilutes the old creditors' return even further.

He's quite touchy, isn't he?

It still puts the loss in the 18 months since they came out of admin at around £17m. In fact, that means that the loss is much more than £100k a week...