stevegrant

Why the hell is Benham batting at 3? Where is Dominic Cork? McKenzie's turned out to be an inspired signing so far...

Well this season's going swimmingly...

Someone on Pompey Online C&P'd it, no idea where from.

The latest charity-based Pompey disgrace:

I was thinking more along the lines of why they hadn't used it as security in the past rather than now - usually it's the first thing a club would use as security.

Presumably with the dual benefit that it then increases the percentage of unsecured debt owed to HMRC?

One reply on PompeyOnline made me laugh:

One thing that has surprised me is that they (to my knowledge) haven't borrowed any money secured against season ticket sales - usually that's the first security for football clubs when they need cash.

The parachute payments are paid in August, I believe.

This. Although, to be fair, it could have been so much worse...

Anyone else rather unsurprised at the timing of that announcement, the day after the financial position of the club is published?

Never ceases to amaze me that people are surprised that the sort of people who text or call into TalkSport don't know their arsehole from their elbow

According to Football League rules, a club cannot start two consecutive seasons in administration. For example, if Stockport don't get taken over by the start of next season, they'll be kicked out of the Football League.

Peco AG and Pego AG are presumably different companies...

They're part of the player's contract, so they would be footballing debts.

Jesus H Christ

Wow, that PDF contains some absolute gold. For example, the NON-PLAYING staff have agreed to defer a percentage of their wages. Absolutely no mention of the players. Fratton Park is valued at £7.7m on the balance sheet, but "for the purposes of this exercise, we believe the value to be nearer to £15m"... sorry, what??

But would have rendered their period of administration invalid... can the courts invalidate it retrospectively?

The red card itself at MK Dons wasn't rescinded. They merely changed the period of suspension to one game, which he had already served by the time the appeal was heard anyway. As a result, the 4-game ban is because it's his second red card of the season.

Right, I've just set up a league on the Telegraph site: http://fantasycricket.telegraph.co.uk/league/view/8000493

Looking at the graphic above, I don't think that's how it works. If a candidate polls enough first-choice votes to win the seat outright, they do so and that's it. If no candidate has reached the winning threshold, the candidate with the least votes is eliminated from the process and all first-choice votes for that candidate are put back in the system - the second-choice votes from those votes only are then allocated, to see if that then gives any candidate enough votes to win. If not, the candidate with the next lowest number of votes is eliminated, etc etc. I think...

I spoke to Fordy on Saturday, but I'd already had an email on Friday from someone looking to replace "forever a red and white" for his 45 minutes. He's next in line if anyone else pulls out. Having sorted out the issue with replacing sotonjoe by allowing two players who had originally wanted to play 90 minutes to do so, I wasn't going to go back on that as I didn't think that was fair on those people. If they didn't believe they could last the 90 minutes, I'm sure they wouldn't have asked to play for that amount of time in the first place.