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Surely only if the player is out for an extraordinary length of time or has to retire. Can't see insurance covering wages every time someone picks up a minor injury, the premiums would be horrendous. Don't forget out of that six month period they wouldn't be playing anyway because of the close season.

Pompeyonline are saying that around 12,000 out of 32,000 tickets for the semi remain unsold. Will go on gen sale soon to anyone who's been to one game or more this season. On that basis and given their poor crowds this season I can foresee them not even selling out.

I'm pretty certain that it is more than £1.8m a month, if it was only that much Pompey wouldn't be in such a sorry state.

New stadium?

he's Italian! Gabrielle Marcotti

on the Pompey site fansonline they are saying that they've got Silverspoons and it is costing £6 each to get in. Didn't go in myself but met someone to get a couple of tickets for some mates and it looked an absolute dive.

From pompeyonline, this is what the article said before it disappeared:

SaintKiptanui is a legend!

Saintkiptanui, you have a pm.

I'll take that if I can

The amount owed to HMRC will come out in the wash but some of the figures quoted in the press are probably understated. I may be wrong but I'm guessing that the figures quoted for HMRC when they were pursuing the winding up order were the amounts that Pompey were late on not the entire amount. In any case HMRC got stung by slippery Bates when Leeds were wound up with some questionable liabilities turning up that pushed the HMRC % down below 25%. They will be keeping a keen eye on things f'sure.

£30m! PMSL

If Pompey get liquidated then all of the players will be free agents. Can't see anyone spending much. They already sold Begovic in a similar manner, he'd played for two clubs this season so Stoke signed him knowing he couldn't play for them this season. Did they loan him back to Pompey? No they've stuck him in the ressies. Even then they only got decent money for Begovic because he had a great run of form leading up to the last transfer window which meant several clubs were interested.

Shareholders aren't classed as creditors, they are (former) owners.

Disagree. Pompey fans gloating at our expense last year was hard to take but totally expected - I take no issue with it. Let's face it we've never had the season in seson out rivalry that others have had e.g. Celtic/Rangers, Arsenal/Spurs, Liverpool/Man U so I won't miss playing them in the derbies. They are a scumbag club and I hope they pay for the shenanigans of the past few years.

So you're in admin, just been deducted 9 points, facing certain relegation, and your much publicised new backer has just missed the deadline for the £3m - so what do you think a popular topic would be on a pompey internet forum? yes you've guessed it - the best options for a new stadium! PMSL http://www.fansonline.net/portsmouth/mb/view.php?id=249564

Meanwhile the latest bidders have missed their self-imposed deadline to hand over the £3m exclusivity bond. quelle suprise http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Pompey-bidders-miss-deadline-to.6157772.jp

Who cares if they get the points deduction or not? They are blatently going down anyway. What is more interesting is whether or not they start next season in the Championship with any sort of penalty.

Potentially correct but it wasn't the fans that chose that course of events over Hoddle. The choise after Strachan from the fans point of view was Hoddle or anyone else. The choise wasn't Hoddle or Sturrock, Wigley, Redknapp. There was only one person who chose that.

I disagree on all counts. The fans didn't choose Sturrock nor did they choose to have him sacked so early in the season. The fans didn't choose Wigley nor choose to leave him in the job for so long. The fans didn't choose Redknapp and nor did they choose to spend so little in the Jan transfer window. Many fans, I would call it a majority, did point out that Hoddle wasn't welcome. But your argument is based on several assumptions and false logic. There was no choice between Sturrock and Hoddle - I'm sure there were many other potentially successful candidates. There was no choice between Hoddle or relegation - you continually premise your argument on this but it falls down because there is no guarantee that Hoddle would've been a success (his record since Saints is pretty poor let's face it) and there were many other candidates who could've been chosen and been a success. Further IIRC the talk after Strachan was about getting a manager to "take us to the next level" (lol), relegation wasn't even on the cards at that stage. In any case it is several years ago, change the record FFS.

Seriously?

So Hoddle was the only person in the entire world that could've kept Saints up? Is that what you are saying?

Funny that we should get some right wingers on here seemingly moaning about "socialist" policies that mean that people like MB get treated badly. In a true capitalist system there would no unemployment benefit anyway so you wouldn't even have the chance to moan about it being bureaucratic and unwieldly.

"conveniently forgotten" - don't follow? But does administration actually stop the debts increasing? do all suppliers get paid instantly? if say Southern Electric are owed £50k by pompey and when admin starts this is debt frozen do they have to instantly pay for the new electricity they consume?

What's the chance that by the time the administrator tots everything and reports back to the creditors that the HMRC debt fall slightly short of the magical 25%? Can the unsecured debt increase during the admin period? will HMRC take part-payment that reduces their debt even if that pushes it below 25%?