Clapham Saint

And how would they fund things to January? The Banks, players and suppliers will still want paying. The PL can't stop QFCs appointing administrators if that is what they chose to do.

Unless the clubs who managed their finances better (and didn't win an F.A. cup in doing so) are prepared to gift cash to a club that didn't then where is the money for this going to come from? Another organisation taking over a club's finances doesn't all of a sudden make them profitable. Can't see it happening.

Unless the Premier league are going to pump in cash to meet the clubs financial commitments, or use their time machine to go back and prevent the club from incurring the liabilities in the first place I don't see how that is possible. If there was a different way that the club's current finances could be run in order to prevent administration I'm sure they would already be doing it. Sounds like a rule "for show".

Not for long... A very very very long shot.

Lol "We have lots of photos of the chap (who is fine and sitting up having his photo taken) but the only one we have decided to publish is this one of a name tag on an unidentifiable arm. This financial difficulty is just short term and if you just hold off appointing administrators for a couple more days Dr Al will deal with it as soon as he is out of hospital. Honestly there is nothing to worry about. We'll pay you soon. Honest.:smt059" Yeah right.

Exactly. I'd be willing to bet that the wages don't get paid today.

(If I actually had an money to speak of) I wouln't lend any business with which that clown was involved a penny!

The only way it is even slightly comprehendable (although it still doesn't "make sense") is if Dr. Al is either Dr. Saints or a complete d**k who is trying to wing it day to day.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Peter-Storrie-The-cash-has.5695394.jp All of the money from January too! (I presume next given that it is hardly necessary to point out if it were last January) They really are fooked.

You do have to wonder what happeded to him to make him that desperate for attention... I'm willing to bet he wasn't the most popular kid in school.

Although obviously limited by the subject matter.... its not even a good painting.

Been on the cards for ages. Even if they somehow manage to scrape the money together to pay the players today, what is going to happen next month? On a cash flow basis I expect most clubs will operate with a net cash outflow month to month with the large injections of Premier league cash in August and January to give them adequate headroom to see them through the other months. If they can't pay players the first month after they receive the premier league money how on earth are they going to make it to January? Also if you were the company/individual who had agreed "in principle" to give the good Doctor £50m in 3-4 weeks, would you still be comfortable doing so knowing just how precarious the financial situation is? Or is the £50m only due in 3-4 weeks so that the Doctor can claim, after everything falls over, that he had worked his little socks off to find funding and it is somebody else's fault for not giving him just 1 more week to get the cash in.

A potential Tory voter lost then...

Without having bothered to read the links does the proposal actually say "teachers can not go into a pub"? Thought not. Stop being stupid. As an accountant I am covered by a similar "code of conduct". If you want your professional body to stand for high standards and the level of respectability that I think teaching should, then you acknowledge that to maintain the reputation of that organisation there are certain standards that should be met. Sadly comments along the lines of "my responsibility as a teacher only applies between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Monday to Friday" suggests that there may be a reason that teaching has lost the standing it once had. This doesn't mean that you can't go to the pub. It does mean that if you go to the pub get bed wettingly w**kered and then on spotting a pupil at the bar march up and puke all over them then you should face a disciplinary procedure, and rightly so.

:cool: Me too. The Good Doctor does seem to have a knack for winging it. Lets hope he can hold things together until the end of the season.

Given that the plc claimed to be "only a holding company" I doubt it. Does seem like a long contract though.

Even after he's taken a heat gun to it?

Surely that would only make a difference if either gates were being limited by capaicity. At the moment it would appear that this sin't the case at either ground.

Exactly why I underlined the word sure.

Has he really though or has he raised finance "in principle"? He has bought the club and may have found finance to do so but if Storrie is to be believed he hasn't raised any money to put into the club. **deep breath** You might be right there. If you are down anyway and can be sure of a wealthy buyer on the other side it wouldn't be the end of the world for you.

Seconded by my brother (who has texted me from the game)

I'm getting married on the 8th May... Only date we could get at the venue we wanted. It was either then or leave it a year. Tough call!

Even if you were able to come up with a system which would only result in 1 in 1000000 murder convictions being wrong, for me killing the 1 in 1000000 is 1 too many. For all the (quite reasonable) arguments for the death penatly I do not consider the risk (however small) of killing an innocent person to be justified. Leave murderers to rot in a stinking cell, fine, but you can't reverse an execution.

This sums up my thoughts pretty well. If there was an infallible method of proving guilt then fine, however until then I don't believe that we can, with clear conscience, employ the death penalty. I have no issue with making their lives extremely unpleasant in prison however.

FWIW I still think there is a decent chance of them being on negative points by Christmas. Nothing specific that I can use to "prove" it but with Storie's comments about no new investment, PL money going straight to Standard Chartered etc I don't see how they are going to fund overheads to January. Am sure Corp will disagree but it just doesn't stack up for me. Maybe the trip to the US will have secured new investment and they will be fine but its a big big MAYBE.