stevegrant

It'll be interesting to see whether the Pompey fans who travel to Southampton in April will be subjected to the same restraints. If not, I for one will be kicking up a fuss. Going by coach from SMS is a massive inconvenience for me and will also cost me more money, my original plan was to get a train direct from Croydon into Fratton. As I don't wear colours to games anyway, it would have been relatively straightforward to keep my head down and get from the station to the ground.

I assume everyone will be issued with a SFC "match" ticket which will let you board the coach, with match tickets handed out by the steward once the coaches have left SMS.

While I've seen this sort of thing happen on an ever-increasing scale for derby games in the last few years, has anyone actually challenged its legality? Not only on the theory of freedom of movement, but also on an anti-competition/price-fixing angle as well. What's to stop the club charging everyone £50 for the coach, safe in the knowledge that if people want to go to the game, they'll have to pay it?

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Definitely won't be Hughes, he left Fulham in the summer thinking he could get a better job. Fair to say the Fratton Park hotseat doesn't qualify there

To be fair, the only reason the home end wasn't sold out was that there was a ticket office ****-up (shock horror) where a number of duplicate tickets were posted, so in order to make sure there weren't more people in the ground than there are seats available, they had to sell fewer tickets, which left a small section of seats in the Itchen/Chapel corner vacant.

Billy Davies and Dave Jones would require hefty transfer budgets. I can't see them getting that at Pompey. O'Driscoll would be a good one for them, used to working within financial constraints, will get the team playing good football over a period of time (although will need to move on all the cloggers first). Gray is in situ at the moment, although it's possible he might follow Cotterill to Forest...

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Yeah, I wonder how much Pompey have had to pay Forest to take him off their hands... Stuart Gray's on the coaching staff at PFC these days, isn't he? Seems an ideal replacement

Someone posted it on another forum, looks like it's come from a Millwall site. Assume they just trawl through the OS match reports to find away figures where given. There are a few that are in italics that I assume are estimated numbers.

For those of you who take an interest in this sort of thing... Assume that image will be updated as the season progresses.

I look forward to that. Should be fun, especially when the "directors salary" section is revealed. I knew there must have been a reason I hadn't been invited to any of the entirely-random-and-in-no-way-filtered "secret" dinners. Dickson's fee was only about £100k I think (splitting hairs, I know) with loads of add-ons based on appearances, the thresholds of which I doubt he's made yet. There's absolutely no way we paid £200k for Forte, being generous it would have been barely half that amount, as he was in the last year of his (presumably low-value) contract at Scunny. Chaplow was £80k, PNE were desperate to get him off their wage bill. Lambert's probably not far off that when all the various bonuses are taken into account, but Barnard won't even come close. He was given a new contract in the summer, but that was also in the backdrop of his court case, so his bargaining hand won't have been particularly strong at that stage. Sounds feasible. I think the per-match figures are £75k for home games and £50k for aways. We missed out on the Birmingham cash as the game had to be switched to the Sunday due to their Europa League commitments, but have already played Leeds on TV and have another home game against Blackpool scheduled, with away games at Reading and yourselves. The individual games don't really make much, though - if anything, they probably just cover the lost cash from those who might have gone to the game had it not been on TV.

There won't be any additional money being distributed this season as QPR, Norwich and Swansea weren't among those who were receiving parachute payments, and last season was the first year of the new 4-year parachute deal, so previous years will be irrelevant.

You appear to have looked in the wrong place for the figure Liebherr invested. The total amount on the group balance sheet for creditors is £24.3m, but the figure for "Loan from shareholder" is £20.4m. It's my belief that, in the 2010/11 season, we will have once again made a loss, but a significantly smaller loss than the previous period. The squad was trimmed significantly, with 12 players with first-team experience leaving the club (Wayne Thomas, for example, was on £9k a week - quite a saving getting him off the wage bill), and only three new players joining last summer (combined outlay of £400k, solely for Fraser Richardson). We then added Forte, Chaplow and Stephens for a combined £300k later in the season and released Paul Wotton Football Genius. Attendances and ticket prices were raised - 20,982 up to 22,161, and we had another half-decent cup run with a TV game against Man United. On the downside, the outlay on win and promotion bonuses will be pretty big, not to mention somebody's personal expenses account. My estimate for last season is a loss of £3.5m. That loss will almost entirely be covered by the increase in TV money given to clubs as standard in the Championship. This season, wages will be higher for many players, but attendances and ticket prices have again increased to match.

What dates would they be available? I believe they've already got some games arranged already, so we'd obviously have to fit in around that, but it would be great if we could get something done there.

Yep, basically, although the events almost certainly didn't occur in that order, as they wouldn't have agreed the deal to buy the club without having negotiated terms with Aviva and Barclays first. Well as far as I'm aware, those developments haven't actually begun yet, so I guess there's no need to worry too much about where the funds are coming from right now as nothing's being spent on it.

It always used to work fine. Seems as though those in charge of actually running the system at St Mary's these days don't have the faintest idea what they're doing. Quelle surprise.

You'll find it conveniently listed under "amounts falling due within one year" and "amounts falling due within more than one year". It won't. Similarly, it won't say that the money WILL be turned into equity either. Taking the prudent approach, which you would think that we would be looking to take more often than not given the way we continue to gallop around these pages on that moral high horse, it's a loan that will have to be repaid at some point until such time as it is converted to equity. If you're going to try and play Accounting Top Trumps, at least make it look like you have some sort of non-blinkered view of the situation.

Also, seems as though Cotterill's been offered the job at Nottingham Forest. I'm not sure whether I'd want him to go or not. With the players at his disposal, they seem to have underachieved (although injuries and suspensions have played a key role, but I'd argue that's his own fault for the "quality over quantity" approach he took a year ago), and I guess it's a bit of a lottery whether the next mug to fill the hotseat will get more out of them or not. I do wonder who would take on the role right now though... Perhaps an emotional homecoming for this genius:

Not strictly true. That £20m also covered the settlement of the mortgage and overdraft with Aviva and Barclays respectively. The "purchase" at the time was dressed up as a £13m deal, but every single penny of that went into the debt settlement.

Anyone with half a brain knew that Birmingham are a financial basket case. Hughton can't seriously claim that he was unaware of how bad the situation was when he was interviewed/appointed

Cardiff, Middlesbrough and Hull each picked up 8 points in September while we only got 7. Can't say I'm overly bothered by Mowbray getting the award, Poyet got it in August and Brighton only picked up 4 points last month.

Pleat's really good in the papers, mainly as you don't have to hear his voice and mispronunciations, his tactical knowledge is spot on.

But then we run the risk of having the likes of Brian Woolnough as a prime-time regular. That, frankly, is an even more horrifying prospect. Also, let's not forget that a lot of national newspaper journalists have as many conflicted interests as the ex-pro pundits, desperate to appease players and managers for that lucrative ghost-writing contract, etc.