Dino M

If you are going to post something, then at least get your facts straight, please. Hydra Properties are not going to have anything to do with the funding for the takeover, as it is a totally different company that is at the front of the takeover. The other thing, is that you could not fill the Dell a lot of the time when you were in the top flight, but you managed to get a lot higher attendances at St Marys. The reason is that at Fratton Park, you have to book tickets weeks in advance, so we are not able to get the impulse fan that thinks they would like to go to the football today, as you cannot pay on the day. If a new 35 or 40,000 stadium was built in Portsmouth then the same situation would happen as it did with you and St Marys. The other thing is, the ticket prices will come down to help fill the stadium, as the only reason the prices at Fratton Park are so expensive is it is so bloody small. The other thing, which is where you had the upper hand a few years ago, is that football fans in the surrounding areas, Fareham, Titchfield, Locks Heath, Hedge End etc... if they want to go and watch a football match, they will now choose the Premier League team, as they did with you when you were there, but they will now come and watch us, which is exactly how your fan base grew, but it will now happen to us, should we build a lot bigger stadium. The other thing is, and I am not turning this in to a slanging match, as I am old enough now to go beyond that, but as a tourist Portsmouth offers a lot more than Southampton does as a city. Portsmouth has the Historic Dockyard with HMS Victory, The Warrior and the Mary Rose, The Tower and Gunwharf, the beach might not be the best, but it is still there, as that is to name just a few things. The thing is and please correct me, but I cannot think of many things or places that Southampton has that would attract people to visit the city, as I am sure there must be places, but they are not that widely known.

The stadium plans have been shelved, as our owner (at the moment) does not have the finances to build it. The club is up for sale and we do not know who is going to take over, but should it be someone with money, then the plans are already in place to build the new ground at Horsea Island. The thing is, the World Cup we are on about is 9 years away, possibly 13 years if we were to get the 2022 World Cup, so it is not as if they are thinking about Fratton Park as it is now. The FA have already said that should we build a new stadium, they would like us, and finance part of it, to be a 40,000 stadium so there could be a World Cup stadium on the South coast.

I would just like to ask, why is it whenever the press print anything about your predicament, then it is all ******** and crap and why do they write so much crap, yet when the same press print something about us, you all take it as gospel, believe every word and start taking this urine. The thing is, we have a chairman that has admitted that he cannot fund the club in the way that he has since he took over, which is fair enough, but he has also said, which you lot have seemed to overlook, is that he will stay in charge and keep the club going until a buyer is found. I will admit that finding a buyer is now going to be easier now we have stayed up, but we still have a chairman that is willing to pay the bill, but the club has to become self sufficient. It might mean we had to sell a couple of players, but we could even have a new owner in by June, as that was written in the press so I am sure you will all believe it . If we have to sell a couple of players to survive as a club, then so be it, we have done it before and probably may have to do it again. The thing is, we do still have players left to sell that could easily keep us afloat as a Premier League club, we could bring in a couple of Bosman's to replace them and we could well even survive again next season. So at the moment we are not nervous or worried about finding a buyer, as Sacha is still the chairman and will still run the club as a business now. I would certainly not be taking the **** out of our closest rivals when my own club are probably deeper in a financial mess than any other club in the Football League, I might be wrong about that, but I have not seen many other clubs in as much debt or trouble as you are. The thing is, the phrase "people that live in glass houses" springs to mind. I honestly hope you find a buyer and get out of the situation that you are in, as I would hate not being able to play you again, having no real local rivals, not having the banter that goes on between clubs. I know some people can get out of hand, and I will probably be slated on here by a lot of you for saying what I have, that is the way it goes. The thing is, I have not come on here to gloat, or drag your club through the mud, just state a point that not everything you read in the papers is true.