OldNick

Lol. Im certain he'll still get a ticket, he has been going for years. his friend he stands wiith really hates Lambert and calls him 'a f'in lazy ....' It is amusing as that is player who has scored and set uop more goals than anybody. Most fans around shake their heads at the stupidity. I recall him doing so and within a minute Lambert scored and to be fair he accepted he had been shown up and took the pi##take well.

[quote=Corporate Ho;747989 Our fans are universally recognised as better than yours, we reached two cup finals and won a trophy and you hate it. get over it and you'll feel better They have been lauded in the past few seasons. I think as you have an ancient stadium that is so compact and unusual in the modern age, it does give the impression that you make a lot of noise. The Dell used to be like that, but we have now moved to a modern stadium where the facilities are up to modern standards. Sometimes that is to the detriment of the atmosphere. Some games the stadium is electric, but due to our position in the leagues the ground is not full it loses that....oh yours it not full either. We will see how you are perceived in the next decade or so when you are not lording it. I myself think that Alan Ball was the catalyst to your fans reputation. He encouraged the drums and bells etc when you were battling relegation and that got the tribal atmosphere going. Whilst there have been times that Pompey have tried to rid yourselves of like W******d, the club has realised that when things are going poorly you need him and his crew. As for universally recognised, i think if you watched the tv highlights of the JPT you would see what the main commentator thinks of our support.

[quote=dubai_phil;748253 Oh and Nickh - Champers next time I'm back matey :cool: one more day to go but it can be put in the fridgeFantastic news. Your hard work and nous has come to fruition. Good one. You can buy the Crystal and I will do the 6x

thanks Stu, perhaps the club could charge an administration fee for people wishing to pay in installments. It still doesnt get over the faact that people may lapse their payments and would not want to have the hassle of pursueing their own fans. Not good PR either. It is a difficult situation

isnt the landlord a skate. I went there the other day and there he was wandering around in a brand new Pompey vest.

I cant wait for all the fans boycotting if we get to Wembley again, there wont be many who avoid paying the booking fee then Lol

very good post Donkey

Ho will point to the trophy cabinet, and the fans who have fed off the feeding frenzy or debt and corruption have lifetime memries that the rst of football would love. One day it would be great if the honours were stripped form them, added to their fall from grace down and down

But the club may not wish to be tied to a finance provider as ML seems to be against that type of thing in his own life. I find it hard to beleive fans can't go and get credit , and there must be many lenders who will be delighted to lend, sadly at high pecentages. Sadly this board is like it was the last 3 years or so, fans threatening boycotts and harming the club financially. Stu should be commended for trying to get alternative options,but Zebra finance will not be doing it for nothing, and so the club would be out of pocket Are fans up in the air about interest free installments by the club? Isuggest if NC was trying to rip the fans off, he would leave the installment plan and add a 50 administration fee. You never know the plan all along was to offer that, after the hackles had been raised.

Some of what you say may be true, if it was Wigan we wouldnt care and would like most others would not be interested in looking in depth into why you were allowed to trade on, even though for the 2nd time your club has robbed the butcher baker candlestick maker and charities.Being our local rivals we look into it more and it is with rightful incredulation our distaste that it has been allowed to keep going. Slowly the cesspit is being unblocked and little turds are are being flushed out. As the blockage is pushed through more is flushed out until the pipe is cleared. Your point reguarding our new owner is fair, the difference being that ML is making sure the club is to stand on its own feet. MM (where IMO the problems started) just spent and spent and it seems much of the debt was hidden. I recall just before MM sold the papers were mentioning 100m+ debt, but that was quickly brushed under the carpet and was rubbished.

Stu Im trying to get my head around what you are expecting. Zebra collect the money and get commission/administration fee. Who pays these fees ? The s/t holder or SFC ? Would you be happy if the club ran the installment plan but charged a £50-100 admin fee? Or is the principle no interest/finance but at face value only?

Can we replace his Ego, difficult

i do agree the club could have warned fans earlier the installment plan was going , but I think ST holders have until august to buy, so time to make arrangements

Stu but if they charge the club an administration fee there is a cost. You are happy to pay interest or an administration fee, but the majority wont. Remember when the free perk of buses to the ground were taken away. it become a god given right to free travel all of a sudden. That is the problem with giving out perks, every time it is taken away it causes much upset. Paying a finance companies interest is probably more that if the said people use a credit card.

All due respect Stu but are these the same fans who wanted to boycott ?

Lol and it will cost the club nothing,.Stu finance companies do nothing for 'nothing' the club will be charged for this service so it is not free. Quite frankly we have so many fans who need molly coddling that to keep them happy probably costs more than they get through the turnstiles.

the thing is though, if you earn 500k you live up to that with the lifestyle they live. Therefore a lot of these people do not feel rich, they look at people in their social circles who are doing better and want to be at their level and so on. in my business dealings over the years, the people i call very wealthy are still not happy as they feel they could be earning more. it is not greed by the way, although to many it would seem that way. I may also add they do their best to screw every penny out of any transaction made.

by being non doms I suspect. Taxes should not stop when you become a bilionaire. Im happy for them to get some tax breaks but some of it is a joke

He sits/stands in the Northam a couple of rows behind Master bates

This is the next problem, the expectations of the fans is going to make it harder for us next season. The season past was comfortable with the fans fully behind the team/club as we were only half expectant, next season and if we get off to a average start !!!!!!! it is not worth thining about

Iam all for people making fortunes but at the same time I find it distatsteful that people like Sir Phillip Green makes billions but them pays nothing in taxes. His arguement is he is providing jobs etc etc but if he didnt supply the goods someone else would who pays taxes. There is no defence against billionaires not paying taxes into the system and alll loopholes should be closed immediately

that will add fuel to the fire.

If they had the balls, but it will take men of steel to actually say 'no you are goners' These are football people who will do their utmost not to see clubs go to the wall. I think at best they may well give a large points penalty, but i doubt they will be brave enough to be the people to cause the clubs liquidation. In this Im torn, sometimes id love to see them gone forever but then I see decent fans who cant help where they were born who don't deserve to lose their club. A long spell in the backwaters again would be justice for all the good days they have had after the cheating and overindulgences of the last few years.

i assume that AA will use the 'If you penalise us , you will be responsible for the club folding' card

Jason, surely then as this is so easy, why not find a drawer and put each installment in it and forget it is there until you pay in august. The club are not fans savings scheme. I think we are doing a lot of fans a disservice as Im sure most will have shrugged their shoulders and made alternative arrangements.