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Solent about to re-run the Pardew interview in the interweb stream, for anyone who missed it.

Not really. That's 3 points Burnley won't lose if they vote in favour of throwing the cheating bästards out of the league before the end of the season.

You tease.

Must say SaintsPlayer has been much better second half. Not perfect, but better.

Nice slow OWTS. Sounds like a good day out.

Lambert under the keeper's backside. Thanks, Dave.

Not to me, it wouldn't.

The HT chat on Player from the studio was fine for me. It's the link from the stadium that's causing the problem. Always the same.

Just need Hartlepool to crack a couple in at Millwall. That would really improve our play-off chances no end.

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Barnard's sounding like a bargain. And Patto scored again last night. Good business all round.

If I offered to pay even more, would Solent stop interrupting the commentary for Pompey goals?

Only 19 points off the play-offs at the moment. Get in there.

Can I be the first to say this week that Saints Player is shyte?

Why not buy Pompey instead? You'd get change. Then you could meet him socially in the pub every couple of weeks, and fill him in (so to speak).

That's going to be tough, Pete, when you're out on your ear, and can't go back to check the "files". You'll have to remember: a) What you told the tax man b) What you told the PL c) What you told Vantis d) What you told the Android Sleep tight!

That man Storrie really is an ársehole. It's reported on the SSN tickertape that he has told them he will stand down after a new owner is found. Er, no, Pete. What you said you'd do was give notice, in terms of your contract, after a new owner is found. In my experience, director's and senior executive's contracts have anything up to 12 months notice. So you can put yourself in front of all the local businesses that you conned into working for or supplying the Company to get paid, when you, more than anybody else, knew that the Company was bankrupt, and that there was no chance of them getting paid. Nice one, Pete. And you dare to call the fans vile. Any honourable man would have resigned at 10.31 yesterday morning, foregoing any compensation that might be due, and work with the Android to find a buyer pro-bono.

Chalet, you need to keep up. The Best Supporters in the Land, are now, apparently, vile.

There are a few gems in there. I particularly liked the one that the Android intends to interview the previous owners, including Mythical Ali. Good luck there. And the comment that the Pompey Trust already has a bank account and a website. In some ways, therefore, it's already ahead of PCFC (in administration) Ltd. in the rush for next season's playing licence.

My view on the administrator. He's an odious little man. He can guarantee to save the club, but only if everybody else agrees to be dragged down to their cheating scumbag level. All it needs is for: 1. The PL to agree not to deduct any points, which he knows beyond a shadow of doubt is against the accepted rules of the competition 2. The PL to agree to let him sell a few players outside the transfer window, which he knows beyond a shadow of doubt is against the accepted rules of the competition, and 3. The PL to give him money, which he knows beyond a shadow of doubt he is not entitled to receive, and which he will use to pay back a small part of the money which they have systematically stolen over the past months and years, and which they have used to cheat their way through the league and cup competitions. And if they don't agree, well it won't be his fault, will it? Lets face it, Pompey are fűcked already, and the PL brand is already severely damaged. If the PL now start to break their own rules right, left and centre, they will end up just as fűcked as Pompey. Let common sense prevail for once.

... and I've just seen that Avram Grant has stated that he'll stay on at the club at least until the end of the season. First bit of good old fashioned "integrity" I've seen come out of that shιthole for a long, long time. Maybe they're starting to turn a corner.

It's 6am here, and I just switched on Sky News with a coffee and a smoke. They're still showing re-runs of the "1.2 million a year. You're havin' a larf, Mush" fan. You just can't watch that too often. Great way to start the day.

I was starting to think that we need to drop the mindset that everything that we hear coming out of PFC is a load of old böllocks, and actually start to give some credence to what the new guy in charge was saying. Then he told us that we shouldn't take it for granted that Pompey would have any points deducted for going into administration. So, it's more of the same then.

I've just waded through 25 pages. That'll teach me for going away again for a couple of days. I only wish we'd beat Wycombe as well. Administration was always Chainrai's best option, provided he could get them there. That's been clear since his registered charges were reported. Sure, it was worth a punt trying to find a rich mug that would buy the club as a going concern, and pay him back everything he was owed. But he, and we, knew that was never going to happen. The bit that confused me was why he didn't opt for admin before the first Court appearance, and risk liquidation. But in Court HMRC's Counsel asked the judge to either wind them up immediately or grant them a very short stay of execution. I expect that, somehow, they knew that would be the case. He now holds the freehold to FP, we think, and that is probably legally sound. As an unencumbered development site it is worth, IMO, around £3m - £5m. That's FP only, not the surrounding land which Gayda owns or controls. If the administrator manages to sell the club, and they continue to play football at FP, he gets around £1m a year for 15 years, and still owns the freehold at the end. That's around 5% on his investment. Not bad in the current market, if you ignore the risk (but he took that when he loaned the money originally). If they're liquidated, he only gets the current development value. It's a no-brainer. As I see it, he'll give the administrator a month or so to try and find a new buyer in admin, with as many of the old debts as possible written off. He is reported to have underwritten the administrator's fees, and we think the PL will use future money to pay, or guarantee, football debts, which, it seems, would include wages. I think there is, at the moment, only £5m available in this way (the final payment due for this season). That won't last long. Parachute payments would only become due if Pompey were able to compete in the CCC next season, and I doubt that the administrator is in a position to guarantee that at the moment. Until he can, and the PL or FL (I don't know which one has jurisdiction), believe him, the parachute payments are, or should be, out of reach. So, if they get to the end of the period when the administrator has money coming in, or guarantees, and nobody has bought the club in administration, or is so close to buying the club that they're prepared to put their hands in their pockets and give the liquidator some more cash to continue for a while longer, they'll be back to the drawing board. The other, more compelling, theory on why they have chosen administration, is that the club is now owned by a chap called Baloo. They want to: Go into administration Wipe out all of their debts and become debt-free Get rid of the dead wood on the staff Find a sensible philanthropic billionaire owner Invest in the club, it's staff and it's facilities Rebuild the club from the lower leagues on a five year plan In other words, they want to: Walk like us Talk like us Too - ooo - ooo I think that plan will fail when they get to the "human" bit. And, at what point in time does it become appropriate to stop calling them "Skates" and start calling them "Flounders"?

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