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Yep, £50k appeared one afternoon.

 

Blimey, better be careful here. It could be construed that running short of making the Tifosy target, the HNWs pumped £50K through the system so that it made target and looked as though it was from the general fan base. While at the same time quietly increasing the loan value or their own ownership percentage. That would be against all that Tifosy stands for of course. It's all very quiet about the share ownership breakdown these last few months in this new era of transparency.

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That looks like news to me, the property developers have a financial interest in the wholly fan-funded training ground?

And as my learned colleagues have pointed out, it does explain the sudden mysterious appearance of that £50K.

 

If so, that is a proper con even by their standards - triumphantly telling the fans that they have hit target when in fact the Trust's percentage of control has just been reduced.

I see why they wanted to keep the postcard on that one.

 

So I look forward to the fanbase quizzing the Trust about that little gem, especially as they are renowned for ruthlessly demanding answers rather than embracing the warm and fluffy version of events normally served up.

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To mothball a store that has already been built is a massive decision. :o

It smacks of a company that is sorting out senior management issues and not committing to anything.

 

No doubt the Trust will make an immediate statement to allay the fears of....oh hang on, there are no fears, because no one in Portsea has noticed nor been informed.

 

It's just Nutjob talk on the leading international news portal for all things blue and few.

Jealous scummahs.

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I think this is the first of the plucky fan funders who has paid for the privilege of writing his own personal match report on the Pourtsmouth FC site. I just find the whole concept really weird...

 

http://www.portsmouthfc.co.uk/news/article/fanfunders-wycombe-report-1933361.aspx?

 

But good enough to best Neil Allen at the News... that's a straight forward report without all the verbosity and propaganda that Allen and his henchman spout.

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Happy birth year thread to me. Thanks regular posters for the countless lols.

 

And thanks to our fishy friends for being the best-est most passionate-est collection of ignorant, gullible, self hype believing, tax dodging morons in the whole of football. I truly am jealous of them.

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But good enough to best Neil Allen at the News... that's a straight forward report without all the verbosity and propaganda that Allen and his henchman spout.

 

Completely agree. The bloke did a good job there.

 

Taking my son to Scott Bevan's coaching session later, will see if I can find out what's going on with Connolly.

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http://fansonline.net/portsmouth/mb/view.php?id=560147

 

We even get a mention :) :) :) :)

 

So November the first eh? As robinson is building the store himself, he might need some fairly big cahoonahs to start splashing the cash given Tesco'c plight.

 

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/business/local-business/government-gives-approval-to-tesco-at-fratton-park-1-6319348

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http://fansonline.net/portsmouth/mb/view.php?id=560147

 

We even get a mention :) :) :) :)

 

So November the first eh? As robinson is building the store himself, he might need some fairly big cahoonahs to start splashing the cash given Tesco'c plight.

 

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/business/local-business/government-gives-approval-to-tesco-at-fratton-park-1-6319348

 

Definitely a date to be added to my Pompey diary. This one has Gunwharf stadium written all over it.

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http://fansonline.net/portsmouth/mb/view.php?id=560147

 

We even get a mention :) :) :) :)

 

So November the first eh? As robinson is building the store himself, he might need some fairly big cahoonahs to start splashing the cash given Tesco'c plight.

 

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/business/local-business/government-gives-approval-to-tesco-at-fratton-park-1-6319348

The significance of Tesco scrapping the Chatteris project three-quarters of the way through the construction of the store seems to have eluded them.

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The significance of Tesco scrapping the Chatteris project three-quarters of the way through the construction of the store seems to have eluded them.

 

but, but PEL (Robininson) are building the store and Sainsbury are desperate to get a foothold in the city so they would come riding in on their white steed to rescue the pluckiest.. I mean who wouldn't want a superstore next to the best atmosphere in world football.

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Looking at that link to their board I guess we got it wrong - though it's nice that they come here for the information that is censored by the local media.

Apparently the property developer just donated £50K out of love for the club to make the Tifosy scheme look successful asking nothing in return - and the Trust donations scheme seems to have been converted into a share scheme so all the fans now own a bit of the club rather that a virtual sheet of A4.

I must have missed that change.

 

 

Now that details are emerging I suppose they will be asking questions of the club.

Like why did you loudly boast that the fans had hit the donations target when in fact it was a big-hearted property developer who came in last minute to save the Tifosy scheme from falling short?

 

 

 

 

These property developers seem nearly as kind and generous as those loan sharks they got into bed with.

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http://m.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-eyeing-fratton-capacity-boost-1-6318391

 

Not really sure there's a need for increased capacity at the moment, but I guess it's important to them.

If I may translate that article into English:

 

We commissioned a firm of experts to tell us what work would be required to get our capacity back up.

 

We haven't done the work. But we did do a bit of it.

 

We asked the Council to reinstate our capacity. They refused, so we've asked somebody else for a second opinion.

 

In the meantime we got different experts to tell us what we need to do to get up to scratch with disabled access.

 

We're not going to do that either.

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From the BBC report of Harry's press conference

 

Will (Redknapp) be joining Koeman on Twitter? "Not a chance. I don't know what it is. I don't remember Jimmy Greaves going on Twitter when he scored his 48th goal of the season!

 

He's sticking to his story!

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