stevegrant

Hmmm...

I'm moving this weekend and don't need the following items: 3-seat leather sofa Bought from DFS for £500 four years ago, in decent condition, although the middle cushion has a bit of a me-shaped dip in it Colour is "mocha brown". Indesit washing machine 1200 rpm, this model. Excellent condition, 3 years old. All offers considered, must be able to collect from Southampton before Sunday though.

Rather incredibly, 25 people went for 4-0 last night I should have some time to look at the intermittent saving problem this evening, by the way.

Ah... you've changed your username since the last renewal, haven't you? I was wondering who that one was...

Pretty sure the first payment of 4 pence in the pound was conditional on a) the club raising enough money in transfer revenue, and b) with the cost of administration deductible. So what, in theory, was more than £3m being paid out to creditors in March will be - at best - £1.5m.

It was me - their wages, at approximately £160k a month between them, account for almost exactly a third of the £495,000 monthly budget. Also worth bearing in mind that Hayden Mullins, Michael Brown, Richard Hughes, Dave Nugent and John Utaka are each earning more than Kitson or Lawrence...

Fixed

All well and good citing the likes of Diarra, Benjani, etc, who Pompey made a profit on when they were sold, but there were plenty of others who made the club nothing. Teddy Sheringham, signed on a free, one year's wages at £40k a week = £2m, left on a free. Total cost, £2m + PAYE/NI Sol Campbell, signed on a free, two years' wages at £50k a week (with Arsenal matching it) = £5m + PAYE/NI... plus another year of Pompey being his sole paymasters, at anywhere between £50k and £100k a week, potentially £5m a year, so a potential total of £10m + PAYE/NI. Left on a free. Even players like Defoe, signed for £7.5m, sold for £15m a year later, but on £80k a week during that time, so that's at least £4m, meaning they only made a maximum "real" profit of £3.5m (and that's obviously not taking into account PAYE/NI, bonuses, image rights, signing-on fees, etc). Peter Crouch, signed for £9m, sold for £9m, according to Soccerbase. Again, £80k a week after tax. At least a £4m loss. The net transfer spend argument just doesn't work in reality because the associated costs with transfers, player contracts, etc have such a massive impact.

What this really needed was another thread. See my various previous posts on the subject in the last week.

The main problem is that the person overseeing this forensic investigation is one of the men central to it having played out in the way it has in the first place.

Coventry to win at Sheffield United at 11/5 looks good value.

I was almost let down hideously in the FA Cup 1st round last season... my slip: Most of them were quite comfortable, but Wrexham won 1-0 in the 92nd minute and then in the final game, Burton Albion v Oxford City, it was 2-2 in the 96th minute, and then Burton somehow scrambled a winner Had a couple of accumulators in the Champions League this season that have been stitched up by one result, nothing costing anywhere near the amounts you're talking about though.

I've got a few cheques that haven't been cashed, but I was pretty sure I'd dealt with the subscriptions for them... I'll check when I get home tonight.

How do you score on that one, by the way? FWIW, to my knowledge I've never even met "hypochondriac", so I don't see how I'm "sticking up for my mates" there

The only stupid decision was his - that, despite numerous warnings, he couldn't leave his "humour" for the parts of the site where it would actually be relevant. I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that the infractions that were handed out to him which pushed him over the 10-point milestone recently weren't done by me, so you can direct your "over-inflated sense of importance" digs elsewhere.

And yet it had no effect on you. How odd.

Available from Companies House if you so choose.

He was never a prolific poster, and he has been online since the two week ban expired.

Except he hasn't...

Well it's certainly not ****ing Saints-related is it?

Except the "news" part of the site isn't part of the "sale". Everyone has access to that part of the site if they choose to use it. The subscription gets you full access to the forum. While it's a reasonable point, the user stats show that the vast majority of people visiting the site go straight to the forum. 88% of people "land" (i.e. the first page of a visit) on one of the forum index pages, compared to 4% at the overall home page (the rest are specific links, usually straight into a thread). As I said earlier, I'll be getting the news bit sorted shortly.

To be fair, I still haven't moved, thanks to solicitors, management companies, etc I am hoping to put the wheels in motion towards getting the news section sorted tonight. However, I would also say that the viewing figures on the articles that were being written were pretty low, so it would seem to me that a lot of people are complaining for the sake of complaining. Just to make a change.

VAT threshold is £70k, I think.

We're currently 26th in the country in terms of average attendance this season: http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/LGE/attend.html

Isn't that what Storrie-teller was saying for years?