benjii

I will say again: The stadium is an asset. The debt is a debt. The debt is secured against assets. It's quite simple - sorry if this sounds facetious.

We could do with Euell back as well IMO. The game on Saturday was crying out for more physical dynamism in the middle to drive us forward (as well as a second striker!).

Ps - Any significant debt held by any group company is bound to be guaranteed by the parent company.

The stadium is an asset. The debt is a debt. Divesting a company of assets for an undervalue, during a "relevant period" prior to the onset of insolvency of a company, can be overturned on application to the court by an administrator. Of course if someone is willing to pay a fair price for the asset it isn't a problem, although only some sort of benevolent saviour is going to pay an amount no less than the balance outstanding under the loan notes in any case. I'm not sure who the person who thinks the PLC is protected was talking to - Steward? Mate of the groundsman? Someone from the ticket office? In any case, with respect to the stadium, I think you'll find that's owned by the SPV set-up for the original securitisation and bond issue. Possibly "St Marys Stadium Limited", the business of which is to "operate sports arenas & stadiums".

That's completely untrue. It's not borderline.

Are you me in disguise? Almost word for word what I would have written if I could've been bothered!

Man U of the South. (Sorry, I cheated)

Away matches are much more of a laugh IMO.

Skacel, Euell and John's appearance fees could all be funded out of Wilde's £2million cash injection ( :^o) What a disappointment that man is.

Agree completely Nick. Either we are extremely unlucky at coin-tossing or someone is constantly making stupid decisions.

I actually think he could be a very good player for us. He has more ability than Blackstock or Best IMO, both of whom are showing themselves to be CCC standard strikers. McGoldrick would benefit with having a STRIKE PARTNER alongside him rather than having to play left wing/right wing/in the hole/up front alone. Start him alongside John IMO. Unfortunately we seem obsessed with "4-2-1-2-1" whether it suits the players available or not.

There's nothing alarmist or short-termist about criticising the manager's performance yesterday. The left winger (whether it was BWP or DMG) was anonymous nearly all match because they spent most of it making the wrong runs and being in the wrong positions. Thomson did ok when he came on. Peckhart was awful and we won absolutely nothing up front. We were struggling to break down a poor team who I don't think managed a single shot on-target all match. He should have put John on earlier and done something about the useless left side earlier. I don't want to see him sacked, everyone makes mistakes. It's part of chatting about football - you are entiteld to talk about the manager's mistakes without being labelled some sort of reactionary, trigger happy ogre. Yesterday, he contributed to our failure to our win. That is all.

I was disappointed with Jan yesterday. If John had come on 20 or 30 minutes earlier i think we would have won. We were solid at the back but absolutely toothless and lightweight up front. Whilst Holmes is out we also need to play a proper leftie out wide. Surman on the wing next game, i hope.

John gave Barnsley more problems in 10 minutes than Peckhart managed all game. He has to start, certainly at home, and we should play with two strikers, especially against dross like Barnsley.

We did.

Dyer: - can't shoot - can't cross - falls over when he dribbles - can't tackle - can't pass - is a burglar (not strictly relevant but....) I'm hoping he'll come good soon.

Oh - ok, cheers. Has he signed yet?

Skacel's injured though, isn't he? I agree it would be nice to have some full-backs though.

Poor diets and a lack of exercise are far more damaging to the children of this country than a few Jackos. They'd be better off campaigning for more disciplined exercise in schools and health food provisions for poor families. It's all a load of nonce-sense.

So it's official that Pompey are being bankrolled by dodgy money.... Who'd have thought it? What a nasty little club.

Paedos are so "in" this decade. Ps. Chris Morris = prescient genius.

How is what Prutton did worse? It is a hard line though. It's not always possible to be certain there was "intent" behind a dangerous tackle. I'm very surprised Guthrie has admitted publically he did it because he was frustrated (ie. he meant to do it) - could certainly face a criminal or civil case now IMO if Hull/Fagan wanted.

I think he might have been back in by now, or in the squad at least, if he hadn't got injured. By all accounts he seemed to be really warming to a "mentoring" role in the reserves.

I agree with the OP, in as much as Lowe certainly seems to have learned a few lessons on the PR front at least. You also have to admire his gumption, whether right or wrong, in sticking with his Dutch vision. I think a few points relating to what has been said that are worth remembering are: 1. Lowe (and Wilde) made a deliberate choice to come back. There was no power vacuum that needed to be filled in the way there was when Hone and Dulieu buggered off. Whether we were up the creek or not, the fact is that Lowe and Wilde said "we can do this better than Crouch and Hoos"... now obviously it's impossible to say what Crouch and Hoos would have done (although they were clearly happy to continue) but I don't think it's right to say that Lowe is impervious from criticism because of the financials. He stuck his head (if not his wallet) willingly above the parapet. 2. "NP was OK, but if he gets Leciester up, y'know... that's what they should achieve anyway." This is something that can be heard quite often from people who were quite partial to Burley. All I will say is that getting Leciester up this year will IMO be a much bigger achievement than Burley getting us up in the play-off year would've been. 3. Still don't trust Wilde or Lowe.

Tis true. There's a Large Hadron Collider in Tesco Millbrook car-park.