Bongo badger

The PL just want someone else to put them under rather than do it themselves.

Love this very short summary, it says it all

I dont think anyone in the world would think HMRC would sit back without a plan B,C,D,E,F,G, and so on. They are going to stick to Poompy for a very long time. How can they be seen to be watching from a far, what impression would this give out to the world of business. Make money while achieving huge debts ( this happens)including the tax man, and when you have made enough, call for admin and screw the tax man over. They have got the Skate on a choke chain at the mo and they aint going to let go.

As stated many posts ago, the tax guys have the best of the best working for them on this case, and as stated also before they have cards to bring to the table, one of their hands will win this battle and Skate will feel the full wrath.

Come on Tax man, stop teasing us and tell us your thoughts on this mess and your next step, I would think that they have the best in law the Government can find. Come on, end this week with a shocker.

Its not only the skate that have been playing corporate games. I think you will find the courts and VAT man will also have a few cards ready to bring to the table. Buy Buy the few

Dont care who takes them through admin, what i do know is whoever is assigned to do the work will be working for the creditors and nothing else. We have to remember, the suits and rooms at SMS not to long ago had packing boxes in them that were ready to be shipped out. MF did what he could and if ML didnt step in we woul dhave gone to the wall. I fell skate will not have a happy ending and their boxes will in fact be taken outside when adim can not do anything for them and a buyer can not be found. I still think Monday could have an interesting twist

Have to say i agree, he wants his money, he has been turned over by old enimies and to be honest he dont give a cr4p about the skate.

The FA will be accountable for the fit and proper person check system they have in place, they have let people take on that club using filthy lucka for a purpose to settle unpaid grubby debts that stretch back ions, and for debts that maybe best not to question. Totally not for the love of football or a money making investment. Lets face it we all knew Skate is worthless as a tool for making a return on your investment. The new guy has been to55ed off again continuing the family feud and I would imagine not a happy bunny. His interest is not the club but his money. I am sure the FA want this issue sorted ASAP, but as they are one of many shoulder rubbing entities in this soup the best thing they can do at the mo is to be diplomatic and quiet as to not raise any questions relating to the credibility of their fit and proper system.

The TAX man will not make things easy, i think they will continue to make life very hard for them and will have a huge presance and effect on what happens over the next few days. Interesting times

I think most Skate are looking at admin as a god send and a means to the end of all this poop. If they are using us as a role model to what can happen when you go into admin then they are very very wrong as the deal down the road is not a mirror image of what we went through. Bye Bye

How dare you inflict this upon a downs, downs are great folk full of fun and are really happy most the time, and some look cute, you should be ashamed Mr Keith

I have a personall fitness instuctor who is a born and bred skate, i see him 3 times a week in southampton may i add. He makes me laugh when talking about the old days, he says when all the skate navy guys were at sea the gosport and other locals used to go round and service their wives, lol, nothing ever changes, ,aybe this is why they all look the same !

My family went all over the world serving our great nation, gramps was in Africa with Monty. Was a butcher by trade and kept chickens, while out on patrol his jeep got hit by a luck shot and blow up. He was thrown clear and when he looked back all he could see were loads of feathers floating everywhere and his mates skeleton holding the steering wheel. I must say out of all my family members everyone came back from duty in one piece. My Granddads bro, was in Burma, his hat was to big for him, he took a bullet through the top of the hat and his buddies thought he had copped it, it missed his nut by an inch. One other story. I had a ancestor was a powder monkey at the battle of Trafalgar serving under Nelson. He was called George and was 14 years old. He died back in England after the battle due to his injuries by being hit on the head by a cannon ball, lol, Must laugh but if he was anything like my family today he probably didn’t feel it and carried like nothing had happened lol.

A couple of things. Was told this am face to face by someone who doesn’t care about either side but who is in the trade that Havant and waterloovle were asked recently if a ground share was possible if the Pompey found themselves out of favour in the courts. Not sure if this has been said before sorry if it has, I try a read all the posts honest. Not sure who asked the question, but we do know the FA has said it has a duty to keep a club in Pompey , hey even if its in the lower divs. Second thing. Also this am spoke to an avid skates fan and could not believe the dross coming from his mouth about Saturdays game, anyone would think the skate had won the European cup or something.

I have heard the council are very keen to help the skate out. I can not see it myself, has anyone heard the same. To be honest I think the council are keen to get the land so they can develop something that will make them money !

It was a cracking game, just a shame we will have to support Eastleigh for the next derby against you !

Millions around the world would be effected, dont shout at me lol, their words not mine, mupets

Spoke to two established skates this morning, i can not understand their thought paterns at all. The only thing they are grasping as to the saving grace of their club is the fan power. They think as well as many 1000s of others that because so many people will be effected if the club go OOB, that the courts and PL/FA will see them ok as to not p155 any supporters of. I got really annoyed at this point and left the room.

What was news last week is now old as the barrister sees it, she has set them a new challenge and one that will need not only heaps of man hours to fulfil but also a un realistic one, after all its not about paying any money back to get them out the quicksand anymore, this is because she believes they can not pay any money full stop. Cases like this are two a penny ( apart from the football spin on things) and have been going on for years, after all, business is the oldest industry known to man and the problems bolted on to it have also been around for just as long. These people know exactly what is going on. The big issue here is that the directors of the club have knowingly been running the club for some time illegally. I think this 7 days is a un-sympathetic approach by the barrister, but could be also seen as sympathetic. Plus it also gives everyone concerned or not, time to understand the outcome and to plan, if the unthinkable where to happen ! More importantly it could also be so, the legal teams can formulate and collate information to put a case forward regarding the directors, who have been breaking the law. If the barrister lets a business carry on running knowing its not solvent then are they also breaking the law ! On an investment front, no investor unless trying to self harm, will find Pompey a real asset, to plunge much cash into a commercial eating money sponge with a false promises of a small return, if any, would scare most if not all. These old hopefuls lets face, only came into the public limelight when the fairy tail of a new state of the art ground plus, was on the table, or the sea !. People were running round the painted white squeaky material model erection, with their cheque books at the ready sipping champagne, and willing to sign on the dotted line just by looking at it, and being taken in by the 100k media soup of marketing. Not sure I would have liked to have stayed in one of the rooms at the point of the arch at the sea end of said model. When this went bottoms up they were left with very red faces, they knew plan A was not going to get through and the gamble was always the hope of plan B being excepted, unfortunately this also was poo pooed and when the plans were chucked out to build on the muddy waist ground the only option was to turn FP round, not what anyone wanted, at this time all they wanted to do was jump ship and sell sell sell. The other factors to consider is the council want the ground, its a prime development site and would make the council money, having a big crowd gathering event a few times a month in the middle of a housing development is a head ache for sure for any council Could there be some corridors around a civic hall somewhere in the south, the whispers of brown envelopes and a big pay day on the lips of some cunning servant/s who have a better angle on business and who have very very good forecasting skills. The FA also have to brunt some blame, who apart from the people concerned know what deals are done late at night away from prying eyes. Have they been responsible in paying some of PFC debt. Lets face it, the bodies rules that have taken a great deal of time and effort to generate have fallen into un monitored breach and maybe there is some knuckle wrapping going on in W2. An interesting week ahead in more ways than one.

I think there will be a few upper tier staff looking for corners to hide in the next week or so.

You would need 120 mil plus to recover this club and you would have to do it with the intention of making no money from it. Not even a billionair would be stupid enough to just throw money at that place.

WGS also playing golf with Dodd today, dont forget thou chaps, his missus has a house down here !

Coppell was seen at SMS just before the pinnacle balls up, who knows the swiss may have already talked to him weeks ago before that. I will go for Coppell

Hey Thank you for interest, im sure your investment will bring not only happyness to you but to many many others also. Just one more thing, when you come over to watch the Saints you can stay at my place if you like, i have a spare room and i wont charge a penny, not like these over rated travel inns etc.