stevegrant

We also sponsor Graeme Murty. Altogether, it came to £1400 (£700 each)

Morning all Just had an e-mail from the club stating that the Sponsors Training Session will take place on Thursday 22nd October. This will include watching first-team training, refreshments and meeting your player (either Simon Gillett or Graeme Murty) at Staplewood. A full itinerary will be sent nearer the event. This has come a bit earlier than I was expecting, so we will be conducting the draw at some point in the next week. The prize list currently stands at: 2 pairs of tickets to the end-of-season dinner 2 pairs of tickets to the sponsors training session 2 signed player shirts 1 Saints shirt signed by the Soccer Saturday panel 1 copy of Taking Le Tiss Winners will be drawn in order of the prizes - the first two winners will get the end-of-season dinner tickets, the next two the training session tickets, etc, but we will draw four further names in case the original winners are unable to attend the training session. e.g. Winners 1 and 2 get the end-of-season dinner tickets - sorted. Winners 3 and 4 get the training session, but winner 4 cannot make it. Winner 5 would have had one of the shirts, but instead moves up to winner 4. etc When the draw has been completed, the results will obviously be posted on here, and you will be contacted with full details of how to claim your prize if you have won one. RESULTS

Came on after about half an hour as Le Tiss got injured, replaced some time in the second half. Presumably it's in ITN, Duncan?

That's effectively what it is now that we've already qualified.

The bit in bold is untrue. The rights could have been picked up by any of the major broadcasters, but none of them were willing to pay the asking price because it was expected that this game would be a dead rubber for England by the time the game came around - an expectation that proved to be right. The company who have bought the rights, Perform, already have plenty of business in the UK as they (badly) run the vast majority (if not all) of the Football League official club websites. Apparently they're going to need 300,000 subscribers to break even on this - I'll be surprised if they get 300. Bet365 are streaming it for free for any customer who has money in their account, and there are countless other sites that will be showing it for free (most will probably be doing so illegally, so I'm not going to name any of them).

Yes, based on us winning promotion (from the Championship), him playing a certain number of games and getting full international caps. There's not a cat in hell's chance we'll pay £1m in total.

His words: "I can remember playing..."

Has anyone else spotted the slight flaw in Kelvin Davis' comments: Strangely, I remember Richard Wright playing in front of a full house at that game...

Apart from the fact that we didn't pay anywhere near £1m for Schneiderlin, spot on...

For legal reasons, I couldn't possibly comment...

These aren't rumours about him returning to Pompey...

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=681919&sec=england&cc=5739

I'm not convinced he actually owns anything yet. From what I understood, while he's put down guarantees that he'll service the debt, Gaydamak still owns the majority of the assets, which won't be handed over until the fake doctor pays off the rest of whatever Gaydamak is owed. As such, I don't think it's actually possible for Storrie and his consortium to buy the club from the fake doctor.

From what I remember, Miland Development Ltd is the company Milan Mandaric set up to buy the club when they were in administration a decade or so ago, and because Portsmouth Football Club Limited officially went bust, a new company was set up - Portsmouth City Football Club Limited - to run the football club, in much the same way as SLH was a holding company for SFC until recently. When Mandaric sold the club to Gaydamak, he initially sold 50% of the shares in Miland Ltd for about £20m, with the remaining 50% sold a year or so later. According to their June 2007 accounts (not the most recent, but the one before), Fratton Park was valued at £10m on the PCFC Ltd balance sheet, so it's fair to assume that at that point, the ground was owned by the club, not the holding company. Whether that's changed in all the various shenanigans in the last 18 months or so as security for the various loans that were taken out to fund Redknapp's spending spree, I don't know, and I suspect we may never know if they do end up in administration - the annual accounts for SLH/SFC for last season may never be made public, so it's possible Pompey's accounts may go the same way. Miland Development Ltd is still owned by Gaydamak, and that company won't be transferred to the fake doctor until a final payment is made in January to Gaydamak for whatever it is he's still owed money. I suspect the doc will never actually "own" the club and that they'll be in administration before he gets the chance. Being appointed chairman essentially means bugger all in the grand scheme of things, he owns nothing at the moment. Or at least that's my interpretation of it.

You'll have more choice if you go to Southend Victoria, but it's a bit of a trek from there to the ground. Re the Underground part of the journey, I don't know - the website didn't mention anything about having to buy a separate tube ticket.

A fair point - I was just going by what the National Rail Enquiries website suggested

Group Saver for £20 each, if there's 4 of you, or £25.95 each with a network railcard. Southampton Central to Waterloo, Waterloo to Stratford (underground, Jubilee Line), Stratford to Prittlewell (nearest station to Roots Hall).

Let the train take the strain

I believe the "normal" staff have been paid, it's just the players and executive team who haven't. A statement they released: That last sentence would be the bit that would scare the **** out of me if that was Saints putting that sort of statement out. Essentially they are now totally reliant upon matchday revenue to pay the wages for the rest of the season - if we assume they've got somewhere in the region of 12,000 season ticket holders (complete guess), that's about 8,500 matchday tickets available. On average there are two home games per month, so 8500 x £35 per ticket x 2 = £595,000. Considering that was the size of OUR monthly wage bill less than 18 months ago, there's no way that revenue will cover it, so they're going to need to make a call to "the lawyers" (Ocean Finance) every month just to get the wages paid.

No matter how rubbish Pompey have been in the league (and by all accounts they actually played alright against Villa), they won't lose to Carlisle tonight. 4/5 on them to win is decent value, IMO.

Yep. The first time the whole "minimum of X minutes" argument came up as the ref had signalled 2 minutes, the ball never went out of play from that point on and van Persie scored towards the end of the 3rd minute of injury time.

Good of the Football League to allow their takeover to go through without first having checked the legitimacy of it all, whereas for anyone else they wouldn't transfer the golden share to a new owner until they'd checked it all out...

Yep, it's covered in the fit and proper persons test.

England will be playing on the Saturday, so to maximise the possible attendance, they move the game to the Friday night.