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Pompey Takeover Saga

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By Fitzhugh Fella
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mack rill

mack rill

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I suppose having 6 toes you had a lot of chances to toe the line.

I notice that joke is on the main board

 

your rite there Nicky boy, the main board is a big f**kin joke at the mo,

dronskisaint

dronskisaint

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How the f**k do i know was banned years a go for not toeing the party line, (got board posting to myself)

Still some good news i see you have a friendly against Blackpool on satdee,,,,,,,,,,looks like being a 5 a side match!:lol:

 

Comical skate b*stard...your humour is welcome!:D

 

I misread Ebbsfleet for Webbed feet and thought your first team was playing the reserves..oh wait...

The9

The9

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Is this the right place to say "it appears all football fans are the same", after yesterday's love/hate U-turn on various ex-players and someone on the Main Board actually invoking the need for the Fit and Proper Persons test to be applied to Katharina Liebherr...? :facepalm: :mcinnes: :facepalm:.

rallyboy

rallyboy

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Ha!

I did note that some have a very sharp hero/villainometer reflex. :scared:

 

But I'd draw the line there.

I don't see too many people asking us to sign Messi, trying to buy World Cup tickets for SMS or distributing plans for a fantasy stadium.

 

Thankfully the park was only packed with 4,000 the other night so the few won't have noticed our minor staffing problems.

 

While there are certainly some bedwetting fruitloops following our club, I still reckon that when it comes to delusion and plucky bestestness, there will only be one winner.

Lazlo78

Lazlo78

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This summer har certainly shown that at least part of our fanbase has gone down the hero/villain route. We'll have to admit as much... I was quite fond of Lallana, and now I keep having to remind myself why we hate him ;)

 

Pompey are having a quiet summer and have sent their usual dose of drama up the M27?

trousers

trousers

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Yep, the similarities are uncanny. Just wait, we'll be turning a blind eye to stealing from charities, ripping off local businesses, hounding players for wanting to be paid what they're owed and defrauding the tax man before you can say "we won the FA Cup fair and square".... :mcinnes:

rallyboy

rallyboy

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I think we'll struggle to rip off the same number of pensioners, maim the same number of kids, or launder the same amount of drugs and prostitution money - but then again we never have been able to compete with their glorious history.

Danbert

Danbert

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I'm sure this is another Pompey supporter involvement first. Surely the biggest and bestest choice of two more or less identical and equally crap programme covers ever in the history of world football whatsoever.

 

http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/news/article/vote-for-programme-cover-design-1795370.aspx

 

If only we owned our club too, so we could have this sort of meaningful influence on things that really matter to us #jealousscummer

rallyboy

rallyboy

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Voting for a cover design??

Really? :o

 

How on earth can they get anything done if they want to involve anyone whose donated money??

 

I don't want Cancer Research or Oxfam ringing me every five minutes seeing what I think about their website or their latest leaflet.

Just get on with the research and give kids some clean water!

 

Fatpipes is turning into some mad hardline socialist republic where everyone has a voice and nothing gets done.

 

If that's the way they want to go, just sack Awford now instead of in November, and give his job to the Dave Clark Five.

eurosaint

eurosaint

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Voting for a cover design??

Really? :o

 

How on earth can they get anything done if they want to involve anyone whose donated money??

 

I don't want Cancer Research or Oxfam ringing me every five minutes seeing what I think about their website or their latest leaflet.

Just get on with the research and give kids some clean water!

 

Fatpipes is turning into some mad hardline socialist republic where everyone has a voice and nothing gets done.

 

If that's the way they want to go, just sack Awford now instead of in November, and give his job to the Dave Clark Five.

 

Sadly they are now the Dave Clark two !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Clark_Five

Seems that their demise has mirrored that of our fishy friends:)

rallyboy

rallyboy

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Yes it is a good number sold, but if it's the same as last year it's cheaper to buy a season ticket if you are likely to attend more than half the games - and that's why their walk-up numbers suffered.

That said, it is a reminder to football about pricing - better to have a stadium more than half-full with less income.

Not that it's a problem in Division Four but even Sky don't want empty stadiums as a backdrop for their great product, they want people to think they are watching the hottest ticket in town.

 

Fans have said before that all clubs should sell as many season tickets as possible.

They don't want to! :o

A sensible business wants a decent cash injection as capital BUT significant numbers still paying premium rates for the whole season.

Take our case, if we cut prices and sold 28,000 season tickets that worked out at £20 a game we'd have already sold to all those wavering people willing to pay up £38+ on a pretty regular basis.

 

You need balance - unless you have a cashflow problem and you are desperate to get money in before August so you operate a cut-price sales policy and hope that the cashflow shortfall later in the season is covered by parachute payments that no longer exist, or property developers who will claim another chunk of the business.

 

yours faithfully

Jealous bitter scummah nutjob.

St Chalet

St Chalet

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Any normal business would spread the revenue of season tickets across a normal 12 month accounting period. Watch the 2014/15 money his the 12th month of the 2013/14 accounts.

trousers

trousers

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http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-closing-in-on-11-000-season-ticket-sales-1-6212536

 

Credit where credit's due. Though I can't remember how prices stacked up with last year.

 

F*** my old boots.... does that article contain the first ever Neil Allen dual sentence paragraph....?

 

Around 1' date='600 were put on sale from 7am yesterday, ensuring long queues outside the ticket office stretching down Frogmore Road. By close of play yesterday, only 100 remained as it heads towards an away sell-out for the trip to St James Park a week tomorrow.

 

:eek:

Gemmel

Gemmel

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1970 was a very fine year indeed, although I've just realised the deed was done in 1969 (meal for two)

 

So as a regular contributor to this thread, I am unsure how to serve the page number with respect it deserves, so will resort to an old favourite.

 

Mr Storrie, how do you come to that asset valuation?

 

Through my 25 years footballing experience

 

From his 55 million valuation after player sales - He was only 39 million out :lol::lol::lol::lol:

MorningtonCrescent

MorningtonCrescent

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If only we owned our club too, so we could have this sort of meaningful influence on things that really matter to us #jealousscummer

 

They voted in their droves - 23 to 16, as far as I can tell! Programme 2 the clear winner, gaining 7 more votes!

 

59% to 41% - a veritable landslide! :)

hutch

hutch

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So they lost their last 3 friendlies on the trot, including that powerhouse of league football, Ebbsfleet. But they did manage to beat Havant and Waterlooville a month ago.

 

Their squad building has clearly been downgraded now they don't have parachutes to pay the wages. I wonder if they will hold their nerve when the league results go tits-up. And I remember the trumpeting last season about how far ahead of their debt repayment schedule they were due to the mahoosive increase in revenue, and that they will now pay off all the legacy debts by December. That's this December, 4 months away.

Kingsbridge Saint

Kingsbridge Saint

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As someone who believes in "Karma" perhaps we ought to ease up on that lot a bit ? :(

 

Well only until our own lot sort themselves out that is. :lol:

 

To put things in perspective we have:

 

1. A place in the Premier League

2. Ronald Koeman as Manager

3. A First Class Stadium

4. Arguably the best training facilities in the country

5. A pipeline of academy players that regularly and systematically end up playing in the Premier League, and beyond.

6. Attendances that the Skates would love

7. £100m in the bank

 

Suck on that Pompey. Lol.

rallyboy

rallyboy

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Yeah that's all great but more importantly we don't get to vote on our match programme cover. :(

I'm not going to another game until we introduce design democracy.

I'll be in the car park brandishng my season ticket at an Echo photographer if you need me.

Goatboy

Goatboy

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15/2 joint favs with Luton for the L2 title this season. Well the bookies must know something that we don't, unless Mack's put his life savings on them!

 

Weren't they favourites for promotion last season too? How did that work out for them?

rallyboy

rallyboy

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I can see why the bookies would give short odds to a club that was harshly treated by the football authorities but has bounced back from financial problems through hard work, honest endeavour and good management...

Toadhall Saint

Toadhall Saint

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I can see why the bookies would give short odds to a club that was harshly treated by the football authorities but has bounced back from financial problems through hard work, honest endeavour and good management...

 

Then there's the odds on that lot down the road.

suewhistle

suewhistle

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Then there's the odds on that lot down the road.

 

Not being a betting lass I'm still tempted to put a fiver on P being relegated this season. Thoughts anyone? The cost of 2 guest pints down my sailing club could pay for a city break or a dirty weekend (if I'm lucky) in Brighton..

sidthesquid

sidthesquid

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Not being a betting lass I'm still tempted to put a fiver on P being relegated this season. Thoughts anyone? The cost of 2 guest pints down my sailing club could pay for a city break or a dirty weekend (if I'm lucky) in Brighton..

 

Just think how much dirtier it could be if you went to Skatesmouth....

Hatch

Hatch

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Not being a betting lass I'm still tempted to put a fiver on P being relegated this season. Thoughts anyone? The cost of 2 guest pints down my sailing club could pay for a city break or a dirty weekend (if I'm lucky) in Brighton..

 

 

25/1 best price ( Corals).

 

I got 66/1 last year, was gutted when they put that run together.

rallyboy

rallyboy

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Anyway, there was this skate in my road who was loving it when we were struggling, and he was all over it giving it large when they beat us at SMS.

I played the bigger man and chatted to him about the game, then he started going on about how Cortese was selling the club back in 2010, and lots of other Portsea pub myths he had heard and was peddling as gospel truth.

 

I've not seen him for ages as I thought he'd moved, but this afternoon, hey presto, I saw him creeping out of his house.

He's only been hiding from me for four fricking years! :lol:

 

They only chat when they're winning...

Golden Balls

Golden Balls

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They only chat when they're winning...

 

So true. I know a few skates and during their PL years and our L1 days, I'd have them all over my Facebook and twitter as well as texts and voicemails when they'd been drinking. Yet, as soon as they begin to lose they bugger off and pretend it's not happening.

 

One of them in particular was a "huge fan" home and away, cup final and even went away to a European game. Since PL relegation he's only been to one game. When they played us at Fratton. Asked him about it and his genuine reply was "nah, it's **** now. I'll wait until we're good again before I get another season ticket"

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