rallyboy

Scaremongering rubbish. There is no news there, we all knew that no one would wave goodbye to half a million just to look at the books and we all know that Mark Fry is negotiating with no aces. We all know that a deal is complex, I have learned nothing that from that piece. Can I have five minutes of my life back please? Move along now, nothing to see here.......

when they move on I do hope the clean up isn't too unpleasant, and if the weather cools down a bit that new drive should be fine.

If you were the only chairman in a division who decided that enough was enough and you were going to trim your outgoings to make the company stable, you would finish bottom and the fans would go up the wall, demanding that you pay wages and buy players that the company couldn't sustain. Peer pressure has driven all clubs into this madness. It needs a directive from the leagues, wage-capping, transparent accounting, something to make everyone step into some sort of line. Good luck organising that!

My understanding is that the club has at no point been in administration and has not missed wage payments (delayed maybe, which is unprofessional and unacceptable but not insolvency), I don't believe we have missed paying other clubs, we may have delayed payment, but that is something that all businesses practice. The club may have sailed close to the wind but if it is sold soon I can't see that in black and white legal terms the league has any sort of case to support their personal view that the club was in administration, and to enforce a penalty. Not guilty, appeal upheld, Championship here we come - next case!

talking of finalising deals, I see that the arab down the road hasn't completed due diligence but says that he is buying Pompey because they don't have the big debts of some clubs... He also says that hasn't got the £100M required to buy Newcastle, though he is rumoured to be paying £60M up the road (before another £100M ish required to get them in shape). I think I know which one I would go for as a business investment, even with the Championship status - Newcastle has the fractionally worse dodgy wage bill than Fratton but with the ground and fanbase. I see problems ahead for the Pompey deal if he has been told initially that they don't have significant debts, even former Prem club-owning alleged torturers won't want to fund that.

Bearing in mind they have stretched their own rules in dealing with our holding company and dealt appallingly with Luton, I can't see there will be much progress for the rising number of clubs living on the brink. How many duck houses has he got?

well if they live in London that cuts the field down a bit... And I have a friend in London so he'll know who it is, Londoners are famed for getting to know their neighbours and their willingness to generate community spirit, leave it with me.

1. Do not talk about Fight Club. 2. Do not talk about Fight Club. 3. Ignore 98% of internet forum advice/rumours.

yeah, the first thing Matt wants to do after assisting in the salvation of 124 years of history is to bring an end to it. Nice try to wind people up though, a good study in how a rumour becomes fact as it evolves....

like it, and the fact that Rudi has rested the shirt for a while and kept it clean and sweat-free makes it a natural progression. Replica shirt sales would soar as I can't imagine there are many players' names in the current squad you would want on a shirt.

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saw Orient last year, he should concentrate more on knocking down their stand that looks like a tribute to football in the 30s or perhaps buying some decent players. They have a nice little ground, though it is more aimed at the people who live in it than football. Orient is half a football club and half a housing development. And I do recall him hanging out at Pompey with Terry Brady when their great Venables experiment was at it's peak.

Reflecting on my early days of going to the Dell, I can't help but think there must be a few more like me thinking, if my Dad was still about he would go up the wall at what has gone on here, in fact I am not even sure I could put up with how annoyed he would be!

I remember standing at Highbury and watching the Everton fans spill all over the pitch celebrating Heath's winner - Shilts stood with hands on hips, grubby scousers leaping about, that should have been our year... As for tracking our decline from afar Tim, let me tell you that in the last six months the fans have given far more support to the team than they deserved, while the players struggled hopelessly the support was at times magnificent - the spirit that celebrated life at the Dell is still there, keep the faith. Even if we are wound up, one day soon some poor footballing backwater in the conference will get a good beating from New Saints!! We have to believe that we will rise again, and don't be depressed by what is happening down the road, you can give some people a billion quid but they will still spend it on pegs, horse brass and caravans.

I see that the administrators have opened their new office in Portsmouth. Handy if the arab with ties to Manchester City and a guy up on torture charges proves to be involved with another club or for that matter, people who are up on torture charges. Scudamore didn't bother to look at their last two chairmen so I don't suppose he will look too hard at these characters either. But it would be funny if he is just a caravan wheel kicker, that would be an oasis of ****ing-your-pants humour in the current desert of despair!

The alleged shirt curse didn't seem to prevent us hammering Pompey when they came over, that might have been an indicator if there was any spooky truth in it. And if their new owner has to remove travelling folk from any site to make way for a new ground he had better be polite if he wants their continued support.

so there is no money for the staff but the bill for Mr '48 hours' Fry keeps climbing. I hope he is on a 'no sale, no fee' deal, because if not he could drag it out a bit longer and overtake Barclays on the creditors list. How about some good news from SMS for a flipping change.

and while we look for cash down the back of the sofa to pay the wages Peter Storrie is revelling in new wealth and talking to caravan makers about designing the first 50,000 seater stadium with wheels and a towbar - with a family centre where you can buy a pair of seats to sit with your wife and sister. Any super yachts on the horizon? In the next 48 hours?...

Bearing in mind Storrie can sell Pompey over afternoon tea, incl due diligence etc, could Mr Fry get off his arse and get a deal done because them getting new investment before us is about as stupid as us getting relegated. We are cursed, that is the only rational explanation.

a balanced summing up there from The9 - I hope that no.5/6 on that scale is realistic, what happens in 'the next 48 hours'/'by Friday' may decide whether we are looking at level 1 or level 8. But if anyone wants to pretend none of this has happened to us and continue to debate what international manager we are going to attract instead, go for it! I think we should sign Tevez and Terry, get Keegan and Shearer as a coaching dream team, we could get a club Lear Jet, have our own radio station, have catering the envy of........oh hang on...

I fear that new investors will have been put off by the poor use of language on this thread. Or they may have died of boredom ploughing through it, trying to find something relevant to the topic.

nice to see in the Echo that Fry is keen to rush through a sale. Thank god he isn't dragging his feet or it could go on for weeks with no sign of significant progress, just pointless deadlines coming and going, and the media fobbed off with rumours. That would be frustrating if it happened, and would suggest that Fry is racking up a huge bill and achieving nowt, and that would be worrying. But luckily that isn't the case. Apparently.

a very exciting player, and in recent years a great man as well.

you are right about this season's efforts, quite a ropey collection I thought. I always think that the most important part of a contender is the actual finish so I have never been a fan of those 28 passes and a tap-in sort of goals (Archie Gemmel for Forest...) Haven't they missed some good ones off the list? Wigan overhead volley? As for all time, Matt's best are right up there with several of Henry's - running from the halfway line and holding off about four defenders, and Di Canio's volley that for anyone who has kicked a ball was the perfect execution of a difficult skill, and it was before he went all extremist. Let's face it, most of us have leapt up and volleyed a similar cross with the outside of the foot, and many of them went out for a throw...

I've got better things to do than read a thread and put up a pointless comment.