OldNick

As Gemmel has stated if there are no resignations then they have something to fight for. I dont know how many games they have between now and the court appearance but if they happened to win 2 and close the gap ,somebody may be a tad more interested. Also they seem to know every move to avoid justice and so their demise is not yet here.I think if the court appearance had not been put back to the 1st of march they would be goners, that extra 10 or so days is going to save them.

It is not against fans like you but the officers of the club who have through whatever means put you in a place where you should not have been. How many teams fans has your club broiken the hearts of by staying up due to fielding a team you could not afford, and also beat on the way to win the FA cup. The financial implications that Cardiff winning the cup final and all the add ons they would have got may have staved off their winding up order. It has rankled a long time how you have put out teams with players like Crough (reportedly at the time on 80k a week while other clubs have had to field also rans against you. IMO you as a fan have got lifetime memories on the back of unfair advantage (perhaps even unlawful) I still think you will wriggle out of it, but a demotion down a few leagues would be a fair sentence, BSL is the least these things deserve IMO. We took our punishment, it was our first offence this is your second round and the first time you got away with no penalties.

as I said yesterday a replay should be organised with elegible players.....OH

4 months....you aint Pompeys accountant by any chance.

Iam 100% certain the SoA will be delivered on time. It is the information in it that is open to dispute.

Merovingian is not downbeat and seems quietly confident about things.I suggewst he has some good contacts near the club and so I expect nothing to happen today. If it was Ho then things would be different as his sources cant even get the S/T sales correct. Pompey will add the revenue expected for the Brum game (lets hope it is not on TV) to their income. It is eerily quiet on real news and all along i have been sceptical that Vantis (who had in the weeks before the court case been working at the club) have the job to show the state of PFC's finances. Surely they should have pointed out the position then and also Grant Thornton may be a bit twitchy.

How about a replay against players who are elegible, so Alan Knight in goal etc etc . Seems a fair way to me.

A liquidator will expect ot get the best price for them. They will be sent to auction and will make a decent price, I doubt there is any chance of them being kept togeher.Of course there may be a bit of looting before the people get the keys to the premises. Knowing a lot of the lads down in the Southsea trade, those items will be sold at Kempton Park, Newark antiques fair or melted down before your set of dreamers get a chance of getting a hold of them.

I dont know Vantis's reputation, but I am a tad less confident of their work than if it was a Price Waterhouse type operation. As Vantis had already been there working and hads not flagged any wrongdoing i am a little cynical

You can dress it up as much as you like. A thrashing was like the 5-1 you had at home against Arsenal in the cup on tv. The result saturday was a case of a PL side under the cosh and playing for a break away. The goals were well taken. We fell for some sucker counter attack goals when we went for it, your lot came for a draw and hoped to nick it. well done, perhaps freedom of the City can be given to the players as well as calling the cathedrals bells after them alonside Harry of course.

No i dont want it to be like that but assessing the situation that is what will happen.Without a doubt when we went down quite a few fans would have gone and watched Pompey in the PL. Not all fans are as committed as we are to 1 team. If SFC had ended up in the BSL we also would have had the same effect on our fanbase and so 10k would have been the most we could have expected, it is human nature. The first few games the novelty will be there after that realism kicks in and you then have to feed off the non league newspaper and wait for Radio Solent non league show after 6 on a saturday. Bournemouth will fill their boots taking your air time. It will hurt, but you will still have your team, and no doubt much sympathy from the wider media as they tell us what wonderful supporters you are as they slip away and do other things. It is what so easily happened to us

Portsmouths trophies in the late 30's and 50's were won by a different club. Portsmouth Football club. Portsmouth City Football club have won 1 FA cup and so it is 1 trophy each. If you do get wound up it will be AFCP no trophies. You surely would not say MKdons have won the FAcup or the Manchester version of your new club to have won the European cup and CL.

If you are in the BSL you will at first attract a lot of smpathetic attendees. That will soon wear thin and the crowds will drop dramatically. You are not sure to get the stadium and if so I cant see how you could fund it.It is a hungry animal and the rates and rent will cripple you.Dont forget they will not be part of the skelton you end up with but belong to third parties. To get to play higher league opposition you will have to beat thel ikes of Luton etc and they will have just as good a squad as yours. You may well be playing your games at havant or one of the other small non league grounds. You will NOT get crowds of 16k on boxing day or against higher league opposition in the cup as you cant NOW in the PL.(if you take away the away following) Many fans will not feel the same about AFCP and so a lot of fans will shrug their shoulders and give football a miss. A proportion will go to SMS ,Brighton ,Chelsea Millwall Reading etc etc to watch a better standard of football. The hardcore who live in that island you live in will of course be stuck with Pompey but after 6 months or so less than 6k will turn up

Has he been made to look a chump by Storrie and those wounds are deep enough to try and get to him this way.I have trouble following all this but Chanrai has been led up the garden path IMO and so he may well be looking to try and come out of it with something.Its all very confusing and until I read that PFC have indeed been wound up I will stay sceptical it will happen.They have had too much go for them for it to go bad.

Yep that is fair, the fact that the result was made null and void would be enough compensation to most, although I wonder if Claims Direct may be able to draw me a bit of dosh for the psycological damage seeing the Pompey fans celebrating, wherras if they had not had their illigally fielded players I would have been able to express my excitement......I can feel a depression coming on and those scars are going to have trouble to heal unless the correct medication is applied eg £10k

would it not be fair to say the timeline when they were brought to task was when it went to court and it was pointed out about their insolvency?

She hasn't lost her eyesight has she?

I thought Id edit it a little as of course it is our turn to be the HOME team.

Mero, the having the stadium is a nonsense, when we were in admin it was reported out council tax was £1m pa, even if yours if half that it is already an unsustainable cost. i do hope you do not let your heart rule your head and make sure if you are part of setting up this new club that you are assured that none of its debts get close to taking you personally down. IMo I would factor in crowds of 8-10k in the first quarter of the season but soon diminish to to 5k or below as the novelty of BSL sinks in , especially if the results donnot go your way.As for being too big for that league I suggest Luton would have a say about that. They have a good following and also were a sizable club not long ago. Be careful how you set the new club up. I would be sad to see you damaged.

You will do the programme again I hope. It was quality last year.

Yes Um bongo next time just kick him as you run back to defend. we were far too soft on them.

I have been told Pompey will be getting a new shirt sponsor in the next 48 hours....Vanish

But we would not have been beaten, we had been beaten by a team playing inelegible players and breaking the rules of the competition. We would be the team who were beaten after the wrongdoing had been brought to light. Frankly i dont care if we went back in or not. Justice would be served and that is what i care about more....also the result would be expunged from history Lol

We are above those types of jibes. My team have the utmost morals, and would only be interested in ramming in 4 fingers....of kit Kat in one go. I have spoken to a friend at the club already and he has said i can have a room to myself so i can write out the team sheet and find a way to counter you next underhanded trick. I assume you will be courting the ref again, one swallow makes a summer and it seems that is all it needed on the night to make him sway his decisions your way

You will get a good pre match team talk, much like mine last season when it went something like' Im not talking to you lot as you wouldnt give me a bit of your Mars bar'