TopGun

Lol. You have to laugh. Top of the league and, utterly out of left wing, a thread like this occurs!

Presumably funds already advanced by Antonov before he got collared as a general purpose cash fund that all businesses like to have to buy bits and pieces ad hoc to pay the milkman etc. Can't be more than that.

I think we need to work out the finances as much as we can and I am sure that other posters have good info on this. As far as I can tell, Pinport has placed a holding charge over CSI at Companies House (meaning they would be a preferred creditor or even still majority stakeholder in Pompey Ltd dependent on how much of the agreed post-admin sale cash they have received from CSI). What we don't know is how much that holding charge is for although a Freedom of Information request to Companies House should reveal that within 30 days or so if someone submits one. It does mean that Pinport would receive their fee from UHY if Pompey were sold as a CSI asset but maybe it's in Pinport's interest to buy out whatever else value possibly exists from CSI via UHY to gain sole control again. Not sure if that is right, perhaps others with better knowledge can help... I think we need to look at the original CVA report again plus the amended timescales that were negotiated by Pompey after administration to understand what is outstanding to previous creditors (who were shortchanged by UHY last time) and when it is due. On top of that, it would be good to understand if HMRC has a future possibility to retro claim the £37m it claims it is owed by Pompey should their ongoing football creditor High Court case be successful. Any possible buyer of Pompey (unless they were wanting to launder money etc) would be asking the same questions. And I suppose it also begs a question, if Pinport (Chainrai) bought or retrieved back a majority share, could Pinport do the same as last time and put it into administration either to reduce debts, liquidate for assets (having presumably a great amount of liabilities written off excluding the CVA from previous administration) or even wholly buy back cheap again? And I don't even pretend to know what land or share holdings Gaydamek still has over Pompey or Fratton Park! Plus I guess there is a possibility that the £6m plus that Pompey agreed to pay for new players over the summer wasn't paid upfront and some is still outstanding to other clubs (mugs if so). Anyone got any ideas?

Agreed, although anyone quoting non-scientific rhetoric rehashed like bad chinese whispers in the Mail, Telegraph or Express isn't worth listening to, for sure. At a tangent, Cameron was also a bit naughty today claiming that the govt is kick-starting two new energy infrastructure projects. Both power plant proposals are entirely financed by the private sector and were working their way through the torturously slow planning system in any case. The 1,000 construction jobs were always there, all the govt did was rubberstamp the two planning applications after months of stagnation in both cases. Not a bean of govt money involved at all. And it is also the case that the larger gas-fired 1,500MW proposal at Thorpe Marsh near Doncaster will never be built by the company that put the planning application in, as it specialises in gaining consent on sites it buys and then selling for good profit to a big player like Eon or Centrica to actually build and operate - which will mean it takes longer still!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-15524414

Just go with whatever the deal of the week is at the National Tyres website as long as they are rated 8 or 9. £60 per tyre with fitting should be achievable. Just had a look. You can get Tigars (load 82, rated 9) for £47 fitted or, if you want a name, identical Michelins for £63.

It's inevitable as the cost of solar panels has fallen by 70% in three years and will fall further. FITs were not designed for cash windfalls.

Spot on. Expect to see him in the first FA Cup game if we draw a tiddler. After that, I'm sure he will be released in the summer. Nige has offered him a chance and that's about it.

Exactly right. Any person with a reasonable knowledge will understand that promotion is the priority and Saints would have always been playing juniors or fringe squad players tonight. I'm sure Saints expect most fans to realise that so it's a case of take your choice and pay your money to go, or not!

Interesting piece at http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/24/britain-nuclear-restarts-idUSL5E7LO12V20111024 It states that three nuke reactors were restarted at the weekend after outages, one of which was unplanned. By getting the reactors back online, wholesale energy prices fell immediately. It demonstrates the need to have a diverse (and preferably low carbon) energy generation portfolio and why if we don't invest now, energy prices will continue to go up as we rely on foreign fossil fuel imports.

Agree with all of that. Pompey have too many mercenaries without a real cause when it matters.

The point about the road system might be fair. It's more difficult to walk there now than it used to be because it's a far busier road junction around there now.

All good advice. I think it also depends on the ability to excel and be recognised in the job though. For example, a mass employer like a call centre or IT operations centre etc may not recognise good individual ability even though it may exist, where as a salesman can demonstrate individual worth more visibly and possibly ask for more money if successful a few months down the line.

I think it depends where you live. I have 50 meg download speed capacity from Virgin via cable where I live so quite happy with that currently. It never does 50 but generally over 30. Horses for courses.

The government has admitted that errors have been made with solar development and is seeking to readdress it over the coming months. They set a level of subsidies called FITs (Feed In Tariffs) that would allow small scale solar generators such as householders and small businesses to pay up front to fit panels to roofs, generate electricity for their own use and sell surplus back into the Grid with the additional subsidy payment paid on generation. In theory a householder could pay for the panels by extending a mortgage and have that paid back within about 10 years after which their own electricity would be free effectively and they could make some money by selling the surplus from that point as profit. The current solar panels available should last for about 60 years although better generating ones are being developed all the time. The bit that wasn't thought through was that the high end supply capacity was set too high, so landowners such as farmers and Guy Ritchie spotted the opportunity to try to swathe their fields with solar panels and make more money than conventional agricultural use from the uniform FIT subsidy tariffs. So a new reform is being considered at the moment that is intended to strike a better balance.

Those were my thoughts.

Fleming Arms used to do well as an eaterie back in the 1980s and 90s. Think it was a Beefeater then.

I live in a suburb of Trafford and went down to Sainsburys to do a shop after the game. Lots of gloomy lads with United shirts on and far more than usual Citeh shirts on display in what is a very red district usually! Had to smile.

As some will know, I work in the energy infrastructure industry and I have frankly given up trying to persuade sceptics about climate change. However, what is important to most people is energy security and energy bills. The simple facts are that if we continue to rely on fossil fuels that we have to import increasingly then we are all in trouble. That is why it is important that we develop renewables such as onshore and offshore wind that is now commercially viable, as well as continuing to develop technology that will bring less intermittent resources such as wave and tidal to economic scale. We have the opportunity to be world leaders and create a huge export industry with job skills. I know the usual comments will be raised so I'll head them off: * New nuke is possible but has three drawbacks - 1) Huge cost of construction (£ billions), 2) Still no way of disposing of nuke waste effectively, 3) A new nuke will take 10 years to build after the planning arguments so first one would be 2025. That said, I am in favour of new nuke as part of a needed mixed portfolio of energy generation. * Wind power does not need like-for-like capacity back up from fossil fuels if organised correctly. The answer is to develop more wind and other renewables than is required and link it to a smarter and better grid distribution network. Then gas and coal become a smaller baseload and an effective back up ready to go when required. And export the renewable energy surplus to other less blessed countries when we have a surfeit of power. * We have about one third of our current generating capacity due to go offline between 2015 and 2020 made up of older coal-fired power stations and nukes. Those need to be replaced fast. Governments have failed to act responsibly in this area because all scared off by local objectors to new plants or wind farms. * Green subsidies as continually raised in the press. The subsidies (known as ROCs) are paid to generators when they produce electricity. There are no subsidies to build new power sources, that is all market risk. The subsidies are a product of the privatised electricity industry and a necessary incentive to get developers building new generating apparatus. Those new plants will ultimately make us less dependent on imported fossil fuels and allow us to remain masters of our own destiny meaning in the long term lower energy bills than otherwise. In previous times nuke and north sea gas received development subsidies and, like them, renewable subsidies will be reduced once the train gets motoring. You can argue climate change until the cows come home but what will really focus attention is power cuts, failing industry, cold homes and no TV/playstations. We need a mixed portfolio of energy generation that covers all the bases made up of renewables where possible supported by nuke in the longer term with gas and coal as the convenient fallbacks. Said my piece!

Allardyce is full of crap like Redknapp. Don't believe a thing he says.

Next four are so big. Not make or break, but possibly make...

Surprising. I hope Nicola has not got all media glam.

Or even match officials when debating an issue at half-time etc?

I like a manager in a suit and Nigel has smart ones on match day. Much better than grotty tracksuits preferred by some other managers IMO. Don't suppose it matters a great deal but it's how I like it! Just like Lawrie Mac did in similar halcyon days. Any views?

The problem is we have short memories so now we look down at those teams in 3rd or 7th place and start doing calculations. Five years ago we were looking up the table and doing desperate calculations.