Torres

The more I find out about this PST bid the more I want it to go ahead. So much so, I think I might go and pledge right now.

Then you're all even more mental than I thought. You think that in 3 years time, your Level 3 academy, which is currently all but shut down will be thriving, worthly of commercial sponsorship and will have generated players of the calibre that can be sold at a profit enough to fund the academy itself. In 3 years. With a Level 1 academy 20 miles down the road sucking up all the half decent youngsters? You're mental. Totally mental.

And people would read that book and think it less believable than the bible. Turning water into wine and feeding 5000 people from a couple of fish is one thing but turning £150m of debt into £500k and still feeling hard done by is a whole different level.

What are you talking about? Magri and Thompson are twice the players that Jaidhi and Fonte could ever dream of being and Izale Mcleod makes Lambert look the paceless journeyman that everyone knows he really is. Brian Howard is Lionel Messi compared to Lallana and Schneiderlin knows he'd get totally schooled in the middle of the park by Gibraltar international Liam Walker.

:lol: Call the undertaker. This bid is dead.

And it never will either - it would critically undermine their very own FCR. Plus, Birch cannot allow the PCC to deal direct with the PL while he is the Administrator because it would critically undermine his own position. Whoops. Reading on: Double whoops.

I suspect the bulk of the council meeting will be discussing their approach to media management and ensuring that their refusal to give the loan is communicated in the best possible way to ensure they don't lose any votes over it come election time.

If they're liquidated King Kanu simply joins the list of unsecured creditors as far as PFC are concered - just like all the other players. If Plan A is liquidation, this case has no bearing on it whatsoever. It's only relevant if they wish to retain their golden share.

Anyway, have we nailed down yet why TBH has sidelined his agent during these negotiations in favour of AA - Chinny's favourite financial wizard? If we assume that AA is still dancing to Chinny's tune, why is he working with TBH to get as much cash out of Pompey as possible? More likely he is trying to get TBH to hold firm and leave Birch with no choice but to liquidate. It still strikes me as perfectly possible, if not likely, that Chinny still wants them dead so he gets FP and the land but doesn't want to be seen with the blood on his hands. Birch wants someone to blame so his reputation remains intact. A stupid, overpaid, unpopular footballer seems the ideal fall guy. Edit - or even better, days before the deadline, TBH comes out with a statement that lays the blame squarely at the door of Birch - an administrator who was appointed against the will of Chinny and someone who is clearly not loved by AA. Hmmmm. Oooorrrrrrrrrrrrr, Chinny is using AA to get TBH to reduce his claim AND force Birch to reduce PFKs fees so that Chinny pockets more cash once the purchase is complete.

Absolutely. He's happier than TB and all the skate fans that all the other big earners have left. The man has balls and he's going to be richly rewarded for it.

Poor bloke sounds utterly clueless and totally confused.

Well, if Appleton agrees then I am 100% convinced. Although having read Neil Allen's latest drivel, I'm now not so sure. That wouldn't be my definition of confident, Neil.

That's my thinking too. I don't think this deadline, unlike all the others, is totally arbitrary and plucked out the air by Birch. The FL will surely have set them a deadline by which they must provide guarantees that they can complete the season and Birchy knows that without Chinny's purchase being completed he won't be able to satisfy them.

Marching from the middle of town (where they probably were anyway) to a game they were going to anyway and picking up fans (who were going to the same game) on the way. That really proves something. I wonder how much coverage the Echo will give to a march organised by Saints fans to the opening home game this season? I've heard that an estimated 30,000 fans will travel from locations all over the city, including the city centre, the train station, the ferry and bus terminals and numerous car parks, to St Marys to show their support for the club. Surely that march will make front page news, right?

http://badum-tish.com/

What would you do if you were him? Sign for a guranteed £5k for the next 3 years, or £2k/weeks for the next year, with the rest deferred and then repaid over the following 4 years after Recent Admin 3

I've just logged back into my account and I'm still active too. Haven't posted for a wee bit though, might have to change that soon Come on Bill, use one of your "many ways" to find me...

What if they are at home in their small stadium?

Was due to be paid from last/next tranche of PPs. Can't recall for sure which, but I think it was the last. If it was, don't know that it was paid.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/howard-blues-supporters-are-major-weapon-1-4124313 Looks like you'll get your wish, Brian. The same 1000 who went to Aldershot will probably be the crowd against Bolton...

So all the players that have left and agreed "compromise" agreements with TB (seemingly that they will receive everything that they had deferred to date over the next 4 years) are now expected to return to the negotiating table and make further concessions if the PST bid is to succeed over Chinny's? Given that they're all now safely at other clubs and far away from the local media and fan pressure, how likely is that? And I love TBs line about being appointed by the court - it's a nice reminder to the PST and the local mongs that he's supposed to be working for the creditors rather than the "community" and prepares the ground nicely for their offer to be directed towards his waste paper bin, sharpish.

Quite.

Well, that's that pretty dead then. Not only are the council only prepared to loan them a fraction of what they need to buy the ground from Chinny but they also want the PL to guarantee them first dibs on the PPs. The PL will never go for that because a) they'll rank football creditors first and b) making any guarantee to the council will ensure a legal challenge from a host of other creditors, with Chinny leadng the charge.

I'd go further - instant relegation and a ban on promotion the following season. Yes, it might make the league a bit of a mess for the remainder of the season but it'd be one hell of a deterrent and I don't think it would happen very often.