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looks fairly clear on the deductions as well when you read the small print - minus 10 for any insolvency event. PLUS a further penalty for failing to exit correctly under the current CVA. It'll be interesting to see who AA introduces tomorrow as the new saviour of the club, because if he doesn't name names it's quite clearly just a desperate PR attempt at convincing the league and the easily-led that all is well, when most people suspect it isn't. I'm curious to see what he's cooked up this time.... And when he does produce yet another new owner to pay the January wages, I'd love to hear the league explanation of how the parent company and the club bought with money stolen by the parent company are not linked.....

that'll be the same week they fail to pay the wages due to an error by the bank. At least the parachute payments have been ringfenced to pay the CVA. These rare nights when I get texts from skate mates who have been silent for months are great, it just fires up the old disdain and reminds me that I shouldn't have sympathy with the undisputed number one sister-bothering, heather-selling, cross-eyed, extra-fingered, home-tattooed, creditor-raping, horse brass collecting, taxpayer-shafting, prossie-financing, paper-shredding, cancer charity-abusing, perjuring club in Hampshire. The only football club with a tow hitch and it's own council funded area of hard standing with water supply. Is that a cold spell blowing in I see on the horizon?..... Minus 15? Minus 20?....Brrrrrrrr.

Let's play spot the positives... Boro and West Ham should be about 6/9 points clear of us - they must be kicking themselves. Instead we have Cardiff coming up, but they have the Carling Cup to mess up their season, and we now have a short break to brush ourselves down and rebuild, plus we have the whole of the transfer window..... Keep the faith, tis easy to be a fan when things are all rosy, time for us to stand up now. Could be better but could be MUCH worse.

what a year! Even the Bristol defeat has been overshadowed by West Ham and Boro's inability to punish us for it. We are living a golden era, let's hope 2012 can match 2011. Markus would be so chuffed to see his project now. We play the game the right way, we've seen off some big clubs, life isn't perfect but the future looks very red and white. Happy new year everyone, especially my fellow skate-botherers on the longest thread in history. x

it always amazes me how so many people see a different game to the person sat next to them and I guess we are all guilty on occasions. I think some have been harsh on Davis for the goal - I haven't seen it on tv but at the time it looked a nasty shot to deal with on a slippery pitch, there isn't a keeper in the world who would have held it, it was a desperate effort just to keep it out let alone know where it was going next. Calling that a spill is a bit harsh, we've seen a keeping error, and that wasn't. But my favourite comedy gem from this whole thread is the bloke who said Guly had a good game. Yeah.

main point - we've had a fantastic year. but A few players struggled tonight, and anyone defending Guly's touch and decison-making should be quite lonely - don't give me the old 'he makes space, his running off the ball etc' drivel. He's meant to be playing with Lambert but we are just about playing one up front, Guly's out of sorts and got away with it for his two great finishes the other day. But 90mins without those finishes = a very poor game. Ref awful, but didn't cost us the game, Kelv unlucky with the goal, two great saves, third was too much to hope for. A couple of decent signings, a partner for Rickie, and the bus can get moving again - it just needs a set of plugs. Onwards and upwards.

recognition at last! The biggest dossier on wrong doing at a club ever produced. Don't worry girl, it's still in development, we haven't finished yet. And talking of that, the delusion continues with this little gem from The News comments - The club is still working and has a sensible wage structure in place. There are no huge wage earners as there were two years ago - the cap put in place by CSI has made the wage bill more workable. What's more annoying, the delusion and ignorance, or the fact that some of them just blatantly make things up and others believe it? And as Gemmel points out, AA is going to have a fit when he sees what the previous administrator for pompey has left the CSI administrator to deal with. Maybe Chanrai can offer him some neutral advice to help things along in the best way possible for all creditors.

No progress on the sale of WRC rights - rumours that the usual broadcasting suspects are sniffing around but no deals announced. Without AA being able to sell off assets and chuck funds into the Fratton black hole pompey must be down to their last pennies. Payday about three weeks away? WRC rights need to be agreed within the next seven days for AA to redirect CSI cash away from where it is legally meant to go. As for 2012 predictions - I can't see how they will avoid the points penalty, and it should be more than 10 points. They do have the squad to overcome a basic penalty, but only if they can gather investment to pay the wages. Without that they are heading for firesale and relegation. IMO that could be a 60:40 possibility...next week may tell us a lot. Most likely 2012 scenario based on recent history? Forensic investigation finds 'serious wrongdoing' but is unable to pin it on anyone due to missing documents and confusing paper trails, AA mentioned, but no charges. Tax cases collapse when the HMRC legal team drops the ball again. Vlad imprisoned, big questions unanswered but no link between stolen money and 'project pompey' proven. Chanrai finds another 'loan', the 4th or 5th against the same security, they strengthen in January and head up the table, creditors are ignored and mutter among themselves. While this would satisfy the inbreds who only care about what occurs in front of them on a saturday, the club would become so loaded with debt it would be terminally insolvent - but it would plod on regardless. Dream scenario 2012.... Wages missed, points penalty, firesale, weakened side obliterated at St Marys giving us the three points we need for automatic promotion while confirming their relegation. Investigations throw up more penalties, League Two beckons, criminals abandon carcass, fratton Tesco opens, the pompey name just survives and get to build a fresh new clean business from the bottom of the league structure - the inbred few also abandon and a new little fanbase of normal human beings follow them, politely, and with no delusions, nor caravans, lucky heather etc. And we beat Man Utd at SMS in August before heading off to seek vengeance on all the other clubs who saw us off in 2005. It's good to have a dream.

little moments - that injury time defending against MK Dons, Kelv punched the ball into Millbrook, Lallana ran himself into the ground blocking crosses and then Barnard headed off over the hills and we nailed the game by showing great fighting spirit under pressure. At Orient, watching the cross find its way to Barnard who said 'thank you very much, we'll have three points!' I knew it was going to happen then. Listening to Solent when we scored the first at Plymouth. Great bit of simple commentary, he just screamed 'Lambert', and we all knew what had happened. The demolition of the big names in the Championship. But overall, what a year! Wow. Let's hope 2012 can match it - but first, let's finish it in style.

15, any advance on 15, going for 15.... 20! - gone to the man in the back with the red and white shirt on...

a 10pt deduction won't hurt, but combined with a little firesale it could break them. Doncaster are capable of getting some points in short bursts, ditto Bristol City, Forest can't play that badly forever - it could still be a long season for pompey. How long before Cotterill gets sacked? He's been unlucky so far, I believe they've dominated the last nine hours of football. Even though they haven't scored a solitary goal.

Guly's finishing and his increased commitment to defending was good to see today, though he still goes missing. De Ridder looked vastly improved, especially defensively. If that was 52% possession my name is Jan and I'm ready to play the kids and emulate Ajax from the 70s! Palace were never in the game and the first half was one of the most assured and dominant displays I've seen this season. The job was to take three points with the minimum of effort and to be ready to go again on Friday. 10 out of 10. I've enjoyed 2011.

To my fellow thread contributors I wish a merry christmas and another year of red and white dominance. regards RB flying the flag, highlighting criminality, and fighting for justice on the eastern front. A bit like Batman but without the nice motor.x

West Ham were on the brink when they were relegated, they have definitely done the pompey thing and gambled the whole club on an immediate return. If I was Sam I'd be more comfortable if I was 15 points clear and unbeaten at Christmas. Not that we look nailed on for promotion, but for a club that HAS to go up, West Ham look a bit fragile. As for his stuff about playing wonderful football, he would fit in at Fratton a treat - if you say stuff enough it might be true. Also like pompey, their owners sat down and made the decision to gamble everything, and shouldn't start moaning if it backfires. You don't hear pompey fans blaming anyone else.

no sign of any progress in the CSI asset sale, they are now damaging another sport and our best young driver. Kris Meeke looks like his career has hit the buffers as BMW have no confidence that the WRC will have a new image rights deal by the Monte Carlo...and this was Andronikou's little gem that would provide finance for CSI creditors, like Chanrai. If he doesn't sell that asap then both CSI and rallying are in big trouble, and there is little hope for other CSI companies. When BMW and Prodrive are concerned enough not to commit fully to the series then there is a problem, whatever AA tells everyone. “We haven’t put in an entry yet because we are liaising with the FIA about the situation regarding the contract with the promoter for next year. “It is very difficult with a big organisation like BMW to commit to a series where you are not sure where you stand.” The problems surrounding the World championship centre on North One Sport, who are the promoters and holders of the television rights. They are part of Convers Sports Initiatives (CSI), a holding company owned by Russian Vladimir Antonov who was arrested in London last month on fraud and money laundering charges totalling 1.6 billion dollars.

not sure that Lampitt has done anything wrong by charging the family of the last member of the championship winning team from a company vaguely related to one of the previous companies with a similar name. Having survived the war the greedy ba$tard player must have been on 30 shillings a week, if he didn't put anything by for these occasions that's his lookout. He presumably blew his fortune on coal, and bread. There must be a hundred better ways the club could have dealt with that - No.100 - Current player contribution - Not sure that Ben Haim should give up an hour's wages to support them, he's earned that. No.99 - Kill two birds with one stone - The disgraced club captain - why should his internal fine go to cover it? That money is needed to pay off charities.... No.98 - Spend £3 on Tesco bread and make the sandwiches, the bar makes the profit - not possible, Lampitt isn't allowed near sharp knives. No.97 - ask the PFA for support - no, that will alert the authorities to the fact that the club is insolvent again. etc etc

Is it just me that's starting to find Ho a little bit boring? Same old feeble arguments, walls of repetitive tiresome text, a dash of homophobia to desperately change the subject from the blatant criminality in his club, and no real substance. All that on the back of the horrific clangers he's consistently dropped in the past and you start to wonder if there is any hope for the future. I can forgive views I disagree with, I can even accept odd ways of debating, but to be boring is the worst forum offence of them all. Though in his defence, Ho must have lost every argument he's ever attempted, and yet he still returns. 1 out of 10 for content, 9 out of 10 for persistence. I guess we should remember that a Ho isn't just for Christmas, but if he was a puppy I could see him ending up on the doorstep at Stubbington Ark before the end of January - or in a canal with a bag of bricks.

we keep hearing that they are clearly a bigger club than us with their glorious cup wins and league triumphs. How ironic it was last weekend that they sang about Sol going up to collect the FA Cup..... He didn't get paid, and now the last member of the league team gets shafted by this 'great club'. Has a club ever abused it's own history so much? Time to stop defending the indefensible. The attendance debate is over, and now the trophy debate is on shaky ground - every administration takes the company one step further away from that ancient history, and Lampitt by this decision has now declared that he feels no connection to it. It's like a lesson in appalling PR. Again.

he posts on the left, he posts on the right....Corporate Ho makes Westwood look bright. But really, don't even go there with the comedy value thang, you just know we're going to see your 'best of' reel produced again and then we'll be talking for days about Saab, Maradona, billions of imminent investment, and your social meetings with the worst ITK mole ever. Forget it, your street cred is like the golden summer of 2008, but a distant memory.

I guess all good things come to an end - the golden team that took a glorious home point is finally being broken up, George is needed by the people who pay his wages.... Or did Roy see it on the telly and immediately rescue the poor kid from the footballing wastelands? The club that time forgot. It means they can creep one player closer to splashing out in January to get to the magic 20 players again. Stop paying Ben Haim, ignore Hermann, knock off a few for injuries and I guess they'll be able to go on a spending spree with the full support of the authorities. Though, if a transfer embargo does pop up I reckon it could be different this time. Lampitt signalled the end of mad spending only a month ago by failing to land new coaching staff and the appointment of pay your own way Appyboy. It looks a bit like the coffers are absolutely sh$gged, so an embargo would be welcomed to take the pressure off whoever claims to be the owner. Love to spend, not allowed, sorry. Roll on April.

do I hear murmourings about another transfer embargo looming?....yes I do, it's just a matter of whether the rumour proves to be accurate... Not that it should matter to someone who has no money to buy players - especially as they totally ignored the last embargo.

its an indication that normal service has finally been resumed. The disappointment at outplaying them but not winning, combined with their celebration of a home point at the final whistle like it was a glorious victory - that smacks of a small club that knows its place. Being squeezed from both sides, a generation of occasional plucky giant-killing cup tie attempts now awaits...legal action aside. That was indded a short burst as the top south coast club. Six years in a lifetime? We have a forum thread that could outlast that. They have settled back into their traditional position as underdogs, even against a side fresh out of League One.

the police negotiated a news blackout on the Lawrence attack to avoid further hassle, all it did was saved him being heralded as a hero yesterday. From the way he played he might be better off staying sober and getting fit. Being there yesterday gave a better insight into the Skate fanbase, you can see where our own pet ones fit into the family. We have the cross-eyed, frothing at the mouth, 'grown man who should really take a long hard look at himself' sort, in the South Stand at the end. I saw a pound coin thrown! - I don't think I hate anyone that much - 10p perhaps. And behind the gang of simpletons who step on the pitch when they score, with no steward intervention, or throw the ball away when they are losing and constantly abuse players, risking a banning order, there are the more sensible ones who must be ashamed of what is done in their club name on national tv. The image isn't of a passionate fanbase, it's of inbred yokels who are out of control and only show up when a big club comes to town. So I think we need to give up this hatred thing, we can't compete, nor would I want to. Confession time - I don't really hate their players, it's the retards that follow them that I want to suffer. Look at them, really, they are subhuman. And before a pompey fan comes on attacking me for this - go on, admit it, there are some there who you are ashamed of. Your club looks unattractive on tv - which is 'cool' if you want to look hard to 14 year olds, but terminally damaging if you want investment from grown ups. As for 'Fortress Fratton' - all that abuse didn't bother players nor supporters one jot - the 12th man? - more like the 12th poodle, and it was cross-eyed. And had distemper. Their cup final is over, the next big challenge is to pay the January wagebill - that might be tougher. I think they could overcome a ten point deduction, but add in a minor firesale and things would look a little bit relegationy.

I thought the idea of selling off an asset was to pay CSI creditors, not to chuck it into a black hole? And on a personal note I do hope that rallying doesn't save them from a firesale! Anyway, talking of black holes, I'm off to Fratton, catch you later.

Mero, yes, anyone who thinks they can sit in an opposition part of the ground for this game is a bit bonkers. The only consolation to us if the result goes wrong tomorrow is the thought of your youth team coming to St Marys in April. You won't go bust, AA won't allow it, even if every sensible legal view in the land is that you are totally insolvent. Feel free to be ashamed should Lampitt sanction another spell of overspending in January - it's time for pfc2012 to be born - a club with a clean slate and a wish to compete on a level playing field at whatever level that means. Give the club back to the few and earn some street cred from the rest of football. In the meantime, let's hope the club that has cheated it's way through the last decade finds Karma knocking on the front door at 1pm tomorrow.