Gorgiesaint

Only taken them 2 pens in this game!

Just talking about them (again) on Talksport, reckon QPR's wagebill is 150% of turnover. Not surprising when you think who they've signed, who's on the bench (Georgie Bingham went Rob Green's sat on the bench on £50k a week, and Ray Parlour said no it's much more than that), and who's out on loan.

Does the defence look better because Gazza was in goal, or because he happened to be in goal for the 2 games that Cork has been back playing in front of the back 4? I've not been to the games and you have, so you will have a better idea of the answer than me, but I suspect the latter to be the answer.

We've taken 4 points from 6 with Gazza in goal - but is that because of or despite him being in goal? Cork has been the reason we've looked better at the back. I would, providing he's fit, like to see Boruc given a few games with fonte & Yoshida at CB with Cork playing the defensive midfield role. On paper, Boruc has the most experience, played Champions League football with Celtic and spent the last 2 years in Serie A, and been Polands number one. I know he looked ropey against WHU and Spurs but then all 3 keepers have looked ropey this season. If it was me, as long as the attitude was right in training, I would go with one change at Newcastle and play Boruc.

One thing I expected (well from a normal prospectus anyway) was some indication of what division their projected figures were based on. I'm assuming that they are basing their income on staying in L1, so what happens when the 10 points are deducted and they get relegated? Or have they been savvy enough to base this on L2 income and just not tell the fans that (yeah right)?

Lolz... Love the banner at the top of page 5 FAIR PLAY the new pompey way So are they finally admitting that the last few years haven't been a level playing field then?

I don't know the full situation but I believe the council own the stadium and lease it to the club, which is pretty common with Dutch clubs. One of NAC's biggest complaints is that the rent charged is much higher than the rents charged to other clubs - up to twice as much. The last figures I have seen was that NAC were being charged around 1.2m euros per season - ADO Den Haag pay around 560k euros a season for a brand new 15k capacity stadium (NAC's capacity is 19k). Hmm not owning your stadium causing problems - and that's when your council owns it, not a property developer! If I get time over the weekend, I'll see if I can research what the fans did.

"Maybe we need to get a little bit more nasty. Other teams are doing it to us and we accept things too easily." ... which is why pompey ending up with 5 bookings and Bury had none... must have the been the ref being over-awed by... Gigg Lane.

Just heard a snippet of Colin Farmery being interviewed on Keys & Gray on Talksport this morning... we see ourselves as pathfinders, if pompey can become a community owned club then any one can - won't quote it as I'm doing it from memory so may have the odd word wrong. #deluded

I believe he has started for the them today. Hope the pedestrian makes a full recovery

Nah, waiting for Mourinho & Ronaldo to move to PSG, then he'll take over at Real Madrid and taking La Liga by storm with his combination of ignoring the youth team and bringing in month to month contracts with some added West Brom loanee's....

And in the intro's to the H & J show on Talksport.... "and we'll find out there's still a long way to go in the Portsmouth talkover". You don't say.... (not sure when in the show they're covering it)

Says the Trust will be the majority shareholder - will get in a professional CEO. In partnership with property developer who will buy the ground & lease to the club... medium/long term will be for the ground to be sold back to the club Portpin have secured debenture on Fratton Park, like to think that we can work with Portpin to negotiate a sensible solution. Haha thinks if it goes to court will be sorted within weeks, worse case they'll be in charge by December!! (Andy Gray said afterwards - I was thinking a year to 18 months whilst he was talking) They are in cloud-cuckoo land.

Colin Farmery on Talksport now

The point maybe that whilst FL may make that decision, how legally binding is it? PKF will be legally bound by insolvency law, not by a gentlemen's club agreement - it's a catch 22.

I think you're pretty close with this one. IMO whats happening is: - PKF are legally bound to choose the best deal for the creditors - Chinny is put forward to the FL for the FAPPT and the FL say no (or we need xxx changed in Chinny's bid to agree him) - PKF go back to Chinny who tells them he ain't changing anything - PKF cannot recommend the trust as an alternative as they have to still have a legal obligation to nominate the best deal for the creditors They're all stuck in this legal loop until someone blinks and changes their position, or the money runs out.

And remember it was the new board & management of Luton who went to the league having uncovered what happened, rather than trying to to sweep it under the carpet.

This is true... how are they supposed to beat a team 22nd in League Two with only one player having experience from last season's PL? It's just not fair!

And I can't see the article so has it been pulled?

http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/LatestNews/news/Free-Tickets-For-Schools-3765.aspx? So let me get this right, they're going to give away MORE tickets for the games that have any potential to sell out (HAHAHAHA) Massive club... massive.

These are the three key paragraphs for me. They leveraged the development opportunity? Sounds suspiciously like they are borrowing against something to get funds now... anyone any idea's on what they mean? Have the trust really got £7m in cash. We know the answer is no as they've not tried collecting the additional £900 from each of the £1k pledges yet but will they get £7m? Sounds optimistic to me. Oh and £11m in parachute payments, I'm assuming that they're including the £3m received in August which TB seems to be going through at a healthy rate, so probably on £8m left to come on that regard.

...especially as they won't be able to play competitive fixtures until next season.

I think you'll find it was Walsall's fault... they probably only brought a carload with them. Mind you can't understand why, it would be their cup final, as Krap Nottarf is almost the same as playing at Wembley... apparently...

Why was he expecting the ownership to be resolved by now... the trust only managed to get their bid in late this afternoon (assuming they got it in at all). Did NA really expect TB to make a decision in couple of hours? Admittedly doesn't take that long to throw the PST bid in the bin but at £9k a day and still having a few million in the bank, why rush such a tough decision?

Sorry to be a pedant rallyboy, but The Rangers are actually in the fourth tier of Scottish football, so its even worse for the phew.