OldNick

I watched the documentary last night on the Beeb. It was a programme that you couldnt help but find really funny but also very sad. I really couldnt help but laugh when the man took his dog for a walk and couldnt help but tell his dog to cross even though the traffic was coming.Fortunately the dog just seemed to know it was not the proper command and waited. A programme of laughter and tears

Does he really?

There was an agreement that if the loan went well we would take Robertson for 500k and they would pay us 1.2m

If his spelling is like mine it could have been Hoovering and so Dyson, Henry

Not a Leeds fan getting revenge eh Ron

How relieving it will be to actually get to my seat at the Northam to watch football again. Lets hope we can not only do that but have the weight of boardroom politics be left as a thing in the past. Bring on L1, we wont walk it but perhaps we will hqave the joy of watching our 11 mercenaries kicking a bag of air better than the opposition mercenaries can.

I do hope they do relaunch.Stewart Dennis seemed a good bloke and Gemma charming so good luck to them.

if you had kept to a fair debate like that everybody wins. Some fans were content to see us go into administration only to have the perverted joy of thinking that RL would be hurt. It was a mad concept and many tried vainly to argue against that.Those fans may now see that what seemed like a cakewalk, and we would be snapped up that are now hurt more than RL and co. You do not understand the frustration fans like myself feel. It is like seeing a loved one running into the road and you cant shout to them to stop them going to their death. Barclays pulled the plug they didnt put us in administration but I get your drift. The boards had let the overdraft get out of control , I agree, but RL came back and cut it down to the initial ask of £5m.A drop of 1.3m in a small period, the bank then asked for it to be cut again to 4m. That again was achieved. To me I would have thought the bank should have looked at us and thought,to cut that much in a year showed a real determination to get things back in order. Ok we needed to go over by 100k again but they did sanction the loan of a player just a few weeks before.Fry (barclays man) had sat in the board meetings and had a say and so must not have given any inclination to believe they would not carry on supporting us especially if we were trying to cut costs.For them to pull the plug 2 days after the deadline to stop getting the -10 was appalling.Fry at Barclays would have known this, that was a deadly decision as it not only meant we were going to be relegated it cut our saleable value and so Barclays hopes of returning the £4m was written off.Not that clever Imo. Without a doubt relegation was a catastrophe, but whoever was in charge at any time you adjust to those conditions at that time, you do not spend as if you are still in the PL. As for some fans who only turn up if the product is good, that is sadly true but it is catch 22 fans fail to turn up the revenue is reduced and so the quality has to be cut and so on. The club spent too much to perhaps to try and appease those people but who only then turned their back on it. Turning up to watch Saintsaid was very depressing, seeing just a handful of people there showed that there is apathy towards the fotball club.Perhaps it is decades of expecting to be disappointed has now made us give up.

Ohhhhhhh it sounded good though. I still feel if I was to support a NFL teamit would be them due to the saints thing

I dont think RL had any thought that Barclays would pull the plug when they did.To save his money I doubt he would have any second thoughts to sell to keep them. He was used to fans backlash and so I dont think that would faze him. I still believe that something made them pull the plug when they did, but it was madness to me as they surely wounded us so severely by doing it at that precise time.

That is interesting. Is he maga rich do you know Billy?

build it and if you have a team of star players they will come.I accept that the timing of our fall and your rise has been a massive bonus for Pompey.If we had stayed in the PL you would not be where you are in respect of the future projections of crowds . If the arab invests as it looks as he will you will draw many fans from the outlying areas that we have called ours, as many do not have the deep seated dislike of Pompey and so will go without a second thought. Your luck has for some reason been outrageous for the last 6-7 years. It seems as that it will hold out for quite a bit longer.

I see.

just think if they are paying |Guthrie 40k a week what AS would be on

Very sobering thoughts

Um you and Duncan have been off the site for a while , is there a reason?

you are the fool if you cant read my earlier post.For gods sake please put me on ignore.Ps I think you were telling us whne we go intoi administration there will be loads wanting to buy us, and RL stopped us being sold before Lol. You wouldnt accept that it was a case that a rich man would buy whatever, well see what has happened at Pompey and you will see,. A v ery rich man doesnt look at the price tag

obviously I hit the spot on that post Lol

Is Saintstv the same as Radio Hampshire?????

I accept there is very little we can do. Although even on here he has his fans who wont have anything said against him.

I didnt know TB returned, when was that as I never heard it advertised? GW was £50 too much

It was something i mentioned many times when fans were excited about going into adminsitration.Oh how good it was going to be to see RL lose money and there were loads of people who wanted to take us over. When RL was gone there would be no stopping them

it was not the same since Tom Braham left. He had built up a good afternoon show

Thats the stuff

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