rallyboy

what a shame, I'm sure that was the quarter of a million that was earmarked for the charities and local businesses. Oh well, looks like they will just have to wait.

if you have a small squad and poor cashflow, anything that delays income and crams the season into a shorter timeframe must be a real bonus! Bearing in mind we just looked like a team that hadn't trained for a fortnight, I do hope Nige is looking to get depth to the squad and turn this weather to our advantage. We will all be looking at three games some weeks - any club with no depth is going to get found out.

I think thats about £300K the bank will have held back this month, not a big deal to most clubs but a lifeline if you are trading insolvently. They desperately need the matchday ticket income, especially as they have given the shop away to Kappa. Questions potential buyers might want answers to - what is the debt? No really, what is the total debt figure? what future income hasn't already been spoken for? are there any revenue streams left? how can we get the wagebill down? why can't we use the car park and offices? so other than the debt, what do you actually get for the money?....

you could be right about the extent, there's a guy I've known for years, you suddenly discover that he spent years constantly obsessed with all kinds, washing his hands a hundred times, he did the car thing as well I think - that type of behaviour. I guess we all have some odd ways, it depends on where you draw the line. My missus can't stand objects near the edge of surfaces, scissors have to be closed - is that classed as common sense or something more serious? The toilet roll, are we getting into things that annoy rather than obsessions - this could turn into grumpy rant time,which is never a bad thing. I think the only thing I seem to repeat is going to disappointing football matches, though even that condition has improved quite a bit over the last year or two. I had an attack a couple of weeks back but generally it's controlled.

As JimBob once said, don't grow old, don't get sick, if you do Mrs Thatch will rip your face off for a pound. We have demonstrated over the last two generations that neither far side of the political spectrum works. Let's not rewrite history and make out that Thatcher's conservative party was anything more than a remand centre. I haven't seen a PM in the last thirty years who did anything other than look after themselves first - the only one who hasn't lined his own pockets appears to be Brown who was presumably too overhwlemed by the job to wage war for personal PR, or indulge in 'unusual' business activity. Margaret who? Just another sad figure from ancient history.

sorry holepuncture but you can't go accusing people of theft, deceit, poor education standards, inbreeding, ignorance, gullibility, bare-faced cheek, fish molestation, blind naivety, having a shed of a ground, money-laundering, trophy theft and dodgy property development without some facts. So I suggest you withdraw the idea that Harry will get £6M from his nightclub 'project', it must be £4M tops.

I recall that in the accounts there were some hefty transfer payments due in January as well - presumably some in, but more out. The total still due back in April was £17M - the Prem must have paid some in August, I presume there must be a whack due next month -anyone remember what page the link was to the precise detail of when each instalment is due? That'll give a better idea of the cashflow situation. If it's anything over £200K it'll need a firesale, another crippling loan, or more of the parachute payment to be used.

that must be on the strength of his fine performance last weekend... I thought that he and Puncheon have been great examples of players who while useful, clearly demonstrate in other games why no one wants them. There are not many bargains that other clubs have missed, and in the third tier you get all kinds of players coming through the door with great youtube reels or tips from Weah. For me the jury is still out on Guly, not being harsh, just hope he can find some quality and consistency - along with about ten others.

funny how they never respected embargoes etc and you got the impression that they were never really in administration, yet now they are out, you get the impression that they have never left it...is this the only business to spend more during financial restrictions than when under 'new' ownership? Results on the pitch with some of the highest paid players in the division will distract most fans for a while. I still think the club is walking down the beach to look at the debt tsunami, whether they are in admin or not hasn't bothered them in the past so it's likely to be business as usual for months - but without major funding, one day that wave will come in.

buy Pompey. Get a receipt. And ask for change.

yeah, keeper saves a penalty one week and is a hero, next week he drops a clanger and he should be shipped out to a glue factory. Nowt as fickle as football folk, and that's probably why most players and managers don't give a t0ss what we think! Anyway, you lot still trading insolvently?

he hadn't dropped a clanger for a long time - but boy was it worth the wait when he did! Keepers are judged on how few errors they make, despite Saturday he has a good ratio for us. He's doing alright. Luckily it didn't cost us the game, the other ten playing poorly ensured that. Look at Gomes, cost his team a vital win yesterday, Green saw us out of his one and only World Cup, sh-t happens.

we have found on street parking close to the arena in the last couple of years - if you came out of the tube station onto Wembley Way facing the stadium its off to your right behind the arena, you are straight into residential and not all of it was permits on a Sunday - we got quite close, but even a few roads away is better than £8!

whoops! You're on dodgy ground there Mack - Cotterill? Grant? Rix? Adams? Hart? The French one that I forget and you would like to? All the other nobodies that Mandaric employed?? You have only had one competent manager since Frank Burrows - and he bankrupted the club! Quite happy with our manager ta. You'll be advising us about working with charities next....

One officer said it was “potentially one of the most serious incidents of public order” he had witnessed in the city on a weekend and had officers not responded quickly it would have become “unmanageable” Are these the same guys who released a few thousand Pompey fans into a car park and had to use the Thames Valley horses to break up trouble involving approx 4,000 people? Was that perhaps more dangerous than a pub scrap? If any officer is overawed by a couple of dozen drunks he or she will be petrified if any students ever decide to make a point about tuition fees in the city, they break windows and all kinds. BarnardGate sounded dangerous, but let's not big it up into 'the worst ever'...

he did well for us so good luck to him BUT what a mad appointment, sack a perfectly good manager at great expense and replace with a similar level of manager at huge expense with a five year deal, alienating an already annoyed fanbase. Ashley just needs to wipe his ar$e on the shirt and wee on Milburn's grave and his PR campaign is complete. Has Storrie joined Newcastle?

there are plenty thicker than him - remember how.... we are still in debt and don't own our ground, there was a dock strike but no one can quite pinpoint the date, a story strikingly similar to the Ipswich/Norwich myth, there will be no firesale, the World Cup will finance the new harbourdome, the charities and the creditors will be paid soon. oh yes, there are loads of people who still believe all this and make pompeypaul look like Mastermind.

Impressed. He has been a bit bonkers at times but he is our nutter and he wants success for Saints. There was even a hint in there that he accepts he was wrong re the media, that isn't the cartoon dictator character that some have tried to create. The bottom line for me is that he made a promise to his friend before he died, I would be astonished if he didn't carry that through. He may break a few eggs getting us there but I look forward to seeing Nicola realise the dream that Markus had. Which is the polite but less interesting version of what Mr Saints so clearly stated!

I forgot, they also had the charity box off the counter. They haven't stolen it, they're just helping the charity by 'looking after it'....

you are right Mack, and we got rid of both players as a result of that disgraceful offence. (sometime afterwards!...) Dyer did save his soul though, you may have been there when he did it in front of the Fratton End, he was the thieving scummer who ripped the illegal FA Cup from your club's six-fingered grasp, as I recall.

I'm not sure that they have actually stolen the money off Primus yet, I suspect they are still 'borrowing' it, but he's a decent bloke and the charity is naive to allow PFC to retain any cash for any length of time as history suggests that they cannot be trusted. Then again I thought stealing the money from dying kids should have been enough for most people to be horrified but they got off lightly with that one. Shafted creditors wait, charities hold their breath, Kitson gets his wages - it's business as usual at Fratton Park.

it's more like they've parked a Ferrari outside the Little Chef, eaten without paying, then robbed the staff of their minimum wage.

I think Gemmel refers to the mass scramble to claim property, alter ownerships and claim debts AFTER the winding up order was lodged, we all suggested that it was illegal at the time but the court seemed to let it go. just had a flick through those accounts, what a boring document, presumably they hope creditors doze off before stumbling across any little gems. I think we may be able to bury the myth that the US tour was financed by sponsorship - £200K in 1st team travel and hotels from end of Feb to end of Aug?...perhaps the US trip was a holiday paid for by season ticket money/ And either I'm way out of my depth (!) or there is a serious typing error/mistake on dates re the income - a period of time that equates to minus one day?...has AA now tried to actually turn back the clock to adjust things or is that an odd way of recording some figures?

so basically they are failing to meet payments when they fall due - isn't that known as trading insolvently? A clear breach of league rules. And if they can't afford the rent for their offices, what hope has the taxman got of collecting current monies let alone the pittance due on the cva - the agreed cva being the only reason they have been allowed to enter the league this season. Are you watching football league? You have been conned, just like the Prem was, just like the courts were, just like the charities were - they are still doing just what they likey. It can't be true about the Primus charity money can it? Even with my history of bitter comedic assaults on all things blue and to the east I would still put that down to paper gossip, unless someone has facts - then it would be open season once again....

a talented player who tries when he fancies - that attitude's no good to us, good luck to him. We'll hear about his great moments, less so of the games where he hides. Next.