OldNick

Im up for that. Although i did 1 with a Skate last season and he then pulled out. lol

Sadly fans like myself who would stand by the principle and be happy to see the big 4 cut away are few and far between. I believe that there are many attractive teams /clubs with large enough support to stand away from them. Yes it is good to have the so called glamour clubs play against us but the 2nd strand of clubs still are a draw. Ok globally they are not that strong but the PL did well before the Asian markets were looked at and so a good strong English league could do well.

so if we sign him we'll lose him for Jan? during the African nations cup or is it not due again this season

Thanks Clapham, so I wonder i the info i had was closer than the NITK Ho?

surprised Zaki is linked to them.I would have thought he would have been signed by somebody who would buy him!

we must have the record for the amount of work permits turned down

Ummmn, so there you have it Ho's mate telling us that they were at 12k s/t's expecting an increase on last seasons 13.5k up to as many as 16k and my source saying that they had just touched 9k....I wonder who is right? what is 35% of 13.5k ? I dont think it is 1500

I agree if he feels any resentment that he's not on enough money he will not give his all. Get another IMO

why? .

so does the hard copy that is paid for

yeah but the froth that the Sun dleivers or the more high brow the Times etc do the BBC cant compete with. It is not the same reading a newspaper on the internet.

I think that the majors will fall in line and whilst there will be many other sites, they will make it a closed shop. Then they will squeeze and margianalise the lesser news sites.There will be a clamp donw on blatent plaguerism. It has always surprised me that the news papers have free to read sites as their hard copies sell less.

No it was in the 80's well before RL. They may have voted again and Im sure RL would have voted for it, but he is history and he was using self interest. We will get to a stage when the big 4 will try and use their muscle. It is time for the smaller clubs to stand up and cut them adrift otherwise in 20years football will be a vastly different animal than it is now, not for the better. IMO the English football league is part of my heritage. I like many others supported it through its darkest hours and if it wasnt for people like us, when the crowds were dropping and football was seen as a leper many clubs would have folded. The modern game will eat itself, already the big clubs have got their way by being parchuted into the more lucrative stage of the league cup, if they get knocked out early in the CL they get into the Uefa and of course they get the best of the tv revenue. It is all lopsided and surely cant be sustained

I can see the PL trying to bend the rules to save Pompey.I cant remember his name but the main man from the PL introduced the Dr to pompey.It is all dirty stuff and the way they brushed the bung stuff under the carpet shows them to be what they are.

It was all heresay and in this day of cameraphones and getting them on youtube etc it is beyond belief if nobody ever took film and did not put it up. Yes he liked a drink but it was chinese whispers.

as a kid David James wanted to be a footballer to join the circus....he has both his wishes now

Daren he doesnt insult me he makes me laugh.I love to see him come back rattled as ive got under his skin. He is a little man with a massive chip on his shoulder. Instead of using a bit of humour like some of his fellow Skates, who poke fun at their situation as well he comes back in his spittle fuelled rage. lol

I liked reading both threads. 1 on each site. Of course now they will be deluted and 1 will fade.Sad as it was entertaining and a fair % of the Skates were happy to banter and joke.

Ho is rattled Lol, shows himself up as the little man he is. As for the misunderstanding,why word it as you did,never before have you mentioned the Dr as having people with him (as in family) My source is not in the commercial dept, but perhaps that is best for him. So you are still sticking by the 12k sold then? or did you make it up

the stories were unfounded, just a stick used to try and undermine him. He has been in the Scots job for over a year, do you not think they would not have had the press trying to dig stories up about that? It was a disgusting slur on his character. He has left but the methods used to try and get him to leave were distasteful. ps I do know he does like a drink, just like the majority of fans on here do. He has gone and chose to abandon us, he s no better than any other manager who has done the same to us in the past.

When Fahaven had a minutes silence at our place it was respectfully adhered too. I do believe that there may always be some who are moronic enough to shout, a few.On the Ted bates evening there was a large amount, perhaps as much as 10%. Many Pompey fans were appalled and sent in letters of apology.I myself understand that both clubs have idiots and will not beat the Skates on here for that.Just a bigger % on that day were out to offend, and they did. An embarrassment to your club that night.

Why put that he travelled over with people? It is obvious he'd travel with family. I suspect you were trying to make out it was with influential people or backers. As for not speaking out of turn to superiors, In my life I only have to answer to my wife and HMRC. I know 1 thing for certain you wouldnt speak out at your employers or you'd lose your job, rightly so. The broadly in line quotes you mention re s/t's, well put them up on here so we can guage who is saying it. No doubt as most of Pompeyonline view this site they saw your ITK quote and lapped it up. 9k was the last update i got from a mate. In the current financial state of the economy , the price of tickets, the upheaval, and player crisis i suspect that it is closer than the rose coloured spec view. I doubt you will only be down 1500 s/ts at this stage than last season when people were still on the high. 12k will be the projected final total. If it had happened to us the same in the PL I would expect a similar %fall.

Have they voted to name that bell at Pompey cathedral yet ? Lol

But I thought he was going to be buying it himself, why bring people across? If he has got some new funds with him, they have still to go through the FPT again. It does seem like another Pinnacle disaster to me. If I was the DR I would have sacked PS for his outburst, perhaps that is what he was after to get a payoff??? Have you had an update on the s/t thing from your mate, I have been told they are at around 9k does he still stand by the 12k going up to 16k?

being an early kick off, Millwall ,and live on Tv will be a negative to the gate.