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yes Mack, what with all of our mounting debts and ownership problems we might have to play in skins this season. After all we could only afford one stripe last year.

certainly did, he straightened his leg and followed through. The sort of occasion when dim commentators say 'he got the ball' or 'it was an accidental clash'. Maybe he was trying to improve Varney's looks - or his ability to take penalties? Either way it must have been nice to see far less empty seats in the old stadium, pity the new owners and the visit of Chelsea wasn't sufficient to sell out. Champagne moment? Must have been when £36K a week outcast and traitor Tal Ben Haim popped up to score the winner.

having done due diligence the Russians knew this was outstanding, so they either bought the problem from Chanrai with the rest of the debt or agreed that it was his. If it wasn't part of the sale surely they would have said asap? As Lampitt is still spending club legal and accountancy fees on avoiding a £115K debt it is clearly a club problem and not a former owner problem. As the Russians are so rich why don't they just pay this debt and stop wasting professional fees in an effort to wriggle out of obligations? Had they paid this small amount on day one they would have bought incredible PR and local support. To say the situation is unclear after this length of time is ridiculous. AA spent a fortune on researching this and he had it all down very clearly in black and white ages ago. There is nothing to dispute. On a similar note, lucky the child-maimer was dim enough to personally commit to Gosport that he would return the £300K rather than doing it through the club. They dodged a bullet there.

I think the club made it fairly clear about renewing - 'priority' is the key word, and who would hope their seat remained unsold through a general sale? Putting smugness aside for a mo, if people choose not to as a result of a price increase or a quid to park, that is their choice and I have no problem with that. But if their decision is a knee jerk protest, it might just be a decision that annoys them approx 23 times in the next nine months. As I renewed I recalled that I certainly had my moneysworth last season, and with Wembley the year before, I've had value for money of late. Gone are the days of coming away from the theatre of gloom wondering where your £28 just went - hopefully... So I'm on the bus.

funny that, I did compare Chanrai to Tony a few hundred pages back! A company owed him money so he took control of it to clear the debt, chucking the previous guys out on the street - that was how Chanrai the loan shark just called himself the new 'owner'. Though he could never decide whether he was a creditor or the owner, depending on the situation, and now as a gold card creditor he is top of the list to be repaid, while the Russians as owners can't take anything yet. Legally. And these new guys wouldn't look out of place on a New Jersey wharf at 3am emptying a lorry into their Spykers.

I still don't understand why Man Utd weren't docked points, their debt is much bigger.

My mum had one recently. I would observe that it can be painful, you have to work hard to get up and about, and depending on which hospital, the after care can be a little chaotic so take control if you feel you are being poorly nursed. After four months she is walking better than she has for years and the alternative is that your current knee slowly falls apart and the operation is forced upon you rather than you taking the decision when you want to. The surgeon plays up the negative aspects and tells you that it is a major op, which it is. They don't like to sell you the idea that it will improve your life in case it doesn't, but given the choice of a failing knee that is ****ing you off or a chance of inmproved mobility its a no brainer. Good luck, be prepared for hard work, but the benefits are there if you want them.

like most football fans, the few who have done a U-turn and welcomed him back are saying he's a good player. Then again anyone being paid enough to finance three proven championship players should be pretty good. Approx £280 of every current season ticket holder's money will go directly out of the club and into the pocket of one player. His presence continues to damage the business. Any small creditors been paid by these overly-generous Russians yet? I thought not.

I know that sales climbed by at least two today and the car park barrier is so full of our money that it broke at lunchtime. Personally I was so offended by it not being in full working order that I rang up the News of the World and demanded that they put me on the front page looking miserable and pointing at something. Though on reflection, I actually rang the Echo, but it was the News of the World that rang me back....

Dune, are you on sensible pills today? I agree.... Spot on, we all knew what the NoTW was like but I didn't realise that so many policemen and women are corrupt. As for royal protection officers selling their soul for £1000 - astonishing. He could've asked £20K for that info, it was an odd transaction - £1k to kill your career and prove yourself morally bankrupt. MPs, bankers, police and media - the UK doesn't look very clever from the outside at the mo - and the streets of Southampton are paved with rubbish bags. Maybe its time for us to stop wagging fingers and lecturing the world on corruption, a free press, and how to govern.

Ho is now trying to bore the thread to death. yeah sorry Ho, I forget, you are the only one that's intelligent enough to have made full sense of the roles of Chanrai, child-maimer, AA and various Sheiks in the ongoing criminality at pompey. As you are dismissing all the theories that have been proposed on here do please explain the real story to us simpletons, using all your great insider knowledge that has earned you so much respect on here....and please keep it brief, without repeating the stuff about gossip that no one believes. yawn.

Mmmmm. Looks like no one is buying the 'I was just posting far-fetched gossip and not bragging' defence. By now I think even the thickest people here have fully grasped that theory, it's just that no one believes it. So, guilty - sentenced to a few months of polite modesty, humble pie, and extensive anti-delusion counselling - next case...

The line from The News that tells me that the lunatic experiment 'quality over quantity' is set to continue - For Cotterill, a squad of 20 remains the target. Why don't they just get some lower league players in as squad players and then we can avoid all the moaning when it all goes pear-shaped and they pretend they have no subs? You might fool the few and the league, but you ain't fooling us Mr C. You've taken the decision to pile all your budget into a handful of players, we all know what will happen. Last season you got away without too many injuries, your luck will run out - don't go bleating when it does.

60%? - tis true, I've taken this thread under my wing as a comedy rant outlet. I also waste enough of my life on here without investing a fiver. I tend to find I get more sense on this thread than the main forum so I get less involved in the mundane 'is car parking too pricey?' and 'what beer is Cortese ordering?' sort of issues.

looks like the starter at a big fat Portsea wedding reception. I see Graham Rix has got some of his pinups on the wall.

Halford was on £15K a week last season, no doubt he's taken a big cut to fit into their wagecap agreed under the financial plan approved by the FL - all in return for the golden share..... Like the previous financial report, not worth the paper it was printed on. But then again even Storrie looks prudent compared with Leicester City. Did I miss them win the Euromillions three consecutive times? They have lost money every season for five years so their debt is escalating, last season their wages were 89% of turnover, yet they are now going on a mental shopping spree. We cannot compete with their transfer policy, and I wouldn't want us to. Call me old fashioned but I'd rather we kept the club stable and didn't go up than gamble the lot again. In fact the only good thing is that if they wanted to buy anyone off us their bonkers buying spree is upping the value of our squad. Mills for £5M?? From their trading the likes of Fonte and Lambert are now worth £10M each - Lallana would be about £45M! Without promotion, Leicester are 18 months from a return into administration. That's a bit of pressure on someone in a Wembley playoff game in May.

personally I don't go for chucking hefty abuse about - unless it's dished out with humour or aimed at people who have started it. To come on here with arrogant claims that cannot be supported or new versions of history invites criticism, and that's when some people let rip. Mero and Mack take it - and dish it out. Sadly Ho's credibility is zero, his history on here is quite worrying - he really has no future on this forum other than as a figure of fun. For me the jury is still out on another one or two. Some of the points made recently have asked to be questioned, and the skate posters don't like it when valid points are made. It's difficult to disappear when things get tough then roll up under new owners and expect to be accepted again. And I also recall some skates coming on here with distasteful Markus comments - any personal abuse aimed at them is fully justified. So imo sometimes abuse is acceptable, sometimes it isn't, each to their own. I would rather not bother dishing out personal abuse to skates, then perhaps they will spend their time more constructively. After all those sisters don't fiddle with themselves.

no one is disputing that the CVA is technically okay - as it stands it has neither been defaulted on, nor paid. The issue is that there wasn't enough cash to start addressing debt, but there was plenty to use on players. So it's not a legal issue, it's a moral one - offering new contracts at £20K a week while shafting the creditors (even though they were thick enough to vote for a shafting.) And many of the few honestly believe that their debts are history - they think the CVA has been cleared by the new 'owners' or the debts are being dealt with, when in fact they have just been delayed. Doing that legally doesn't make it right - not many post-admin football clubs go a year without paying off some creditors. The small print isn't a great defence for a club accused of crippling small portsmouth businesses and charities. I can see some effort being made next April but when you get into years two and three when £5M needs to be found - that is a timebomb! Luckily the Lampitt and Cotterill masterplan to gamble and go straight back up last season to cover the shortfall with Prem money worked a treat. Actually, it didn't, it was an unmitigated disaster that has weakened the business even further - but it's great to see they have both been retained to continue with their ideas! The only answer to their problems is still the same as it was 814 pages ago - new cash on the table. No loans, no promises, just hard cash - so let's see what the Russians are made of.

In the forum world where deluded claims are common and fiction is often peddled as fact, one man retains his crown and stands head and shoulders above the crowd. The punters pop more copper coins into Ho's little thong and he dances for us once again. Just when I thought zero was the worst street cred score you could get, he helps himself to a points penalty. Please stop, it was funny at first but now we are concerned about you. Your silence since your outing was dignified, to return with all this James Bond stuff is just wrong.

not being harsh on pfc123 who seems genuinely interested, but I suspect that most pompey fans do not realise they have yet to exit administration correctly because the CVA hasn't even started. I bet most of the few think that their debts are all behind them, but in reality they haven't even looked at them yet. And that is why many football fans feel they are still cheating by paying out for players and massive wages when they can't even pay their current wagebill let alone the costs of the last few years. pfc123 - do you get why we are ****ed off now? At least paying the CVA would be a start but AA delayed it because the club was already trading insolvently due to the likes of Lawrence and Kitson's £20K a week. They did the crime but don't want to do the time.

the main problem with trying to sign any former pompey player is that they have been massively overpaid so now have unrealistic salary expectations. Unless he and his agent get real, we can't afford him. And the idea of 'no fee means we can pay big wages' is the road to ruin. More likely to go to Leicester, West Ham, or even someone like Swansea perhaps?

it still makes me chuckle that some cannot tell the difference between servicable debt and imminent bankruptcy. 'Man Utd's debts are bigger than ours, why aren't they docked points?' mutter the dim few between their two teeth. Try to keep up, even Ho knows what insolvent trading is and how long his club was doing that - and probably still is.

looks like the pompey deal to swap Lambert with Ben Haim seems to have hit a snag the size of a three year contract. Very quiet on the transfer front, I would have liked us to confirm something, even though we already have a decent squad. Time is getting on for those last minute bargains, though Cotterill now looks like the bloke running around the filling station shop on Christmas Eve. Charcoal and lads mags for everyone again this year.

Saints Forum 5-0 Ho's Street Cred. What a hilarious return! Mainly because he just doesn't get it. Still in denial, still resorting to insults to disguise an ignorance of the facts - top stuff! Methinks Ho should talk to ladies more often to calm him down, maybe get down Horton Heath with Avram, let off some.......steam.

The Prem breathes a huge sigh of relief, if convicted Yeung will only have become an unfit and improper person while in charge of a Championship club! - the Prem brand is still squeaky clean. Not sure where they go if he is proven to be a criminal, that would make a mockery of the FaPPT.....like we didn't know. Presumably the club would have a problem as they would have to be immediately sold, unless the authorities just let him carry on regardless. I see the authorities sitting on their hands, maybe sending a stern letter - and denying they are incompetent. Another nail in the coffin of the FaPPT, though I doubt if you can still see any wood on the lid of that particular item.