Have they got enough kids to put out a team? Tough on them, though I suppose there is little pressure as no one will expect anything.
Overall we've got enough players. If I was the manager the team would be; Eastwood Butler (YA) Rocha Gyepes Webster Walker Wallace (YA) Ertl Maloney (YA) Harris Connoly Walker and Maloney can wing swap every now and then, to mix things up. I can't see us beating County this Saturday. All we ask is that they give 150% for the fans, seeing as we are the ones paying their wages.
All we ask is that they give 150% for the fans, seeing as we are the ones paying their wages. _______________________________________________ The kids were always more likely to put in more effort than the older players on month to month can't afford contracts. No point in questioning that now.
Not to try and put any kind of positive spin on this story (as clearly there isn't one to find from a supporter's point of view!) bit it just says senior players will be leaving. Not necessarily all. I don't think the beeb had reported the story previously and I guess they'd asked for an official comment from PKF (as doesn't seem that there'd be anything from PFC themselves). Of course, this isn't to say that the rest will soon be on there way but apparently Gyepes has signed a one month extension.
Don't think they can do better than 1 month at a time...their manager indicated that it could be a day at a time during the transfer window.
Should have prepared better & played the kids from the start. I'm surprised they have been allowed to continue losing money all this season to be honest.
Correct, other than the Academy players who I believe are all on one year contracts. He'll be one of our longest serving players by the time his contract is up!
should have done it after the first admin (well the first one this time round). Instead of that they continued to over pay players and sign people they can't afford. Bill Murray should be their manager its like ****ing groundhog day on their island.
We've got even more questions to ask the FL and administrators now. I am however going to say that, the players on supposedly 5k or 7k a week was never proved. It is a rumour and still is. I would be disgusted if there were players that we had on that kind of money especially in our situation. Putting aside whether they were or not, a lot of this is just people stating rumours as fact.
I have a question for our administrators: mainly, why does it take so long to do not very much? Anyhow, we're gonna win on Saturday (maybe)
Here's another question; How long will it be before the standard model of running a football club implodes?
Certainly the current model is unsustainable and fans are starting to kick at the prices as well (Man City returned best part of 1000 tickest for the Arsenal game which were priced at over £60 FFS). The sooner the fair play financial rules are brought in the better.
May clubs take the line of; 1 we have x seats 2 we need £y 3 we need to charge £z per seat. Perhaps it's time to bring back terraced areas in grounds in order to raise capacities and therefore bring the game back into the financial reach of more fans.
As was stated earlier in the thread Karl Robinson said that IM took a paycut to sign for MK. Williamson turned down terms offered by Sheff Utd to sign for Pompey. How can that be so, how can a bankrupt club outbid other well run clubs for these players? In response to a Q&A session by The News Neil Allen, was asked why cost cutting is happenening now and didn't happen at the start of the season. His reply was Birch hoped that a takeover would happen by now. So that was the Pompey model, overpay people hoping that some other sucker will take on the payments. Surely they should have cut their cloth accordingly, paid players what they could afford and then spend more following a takeover. The Pompey way is to put the cart before the horse, like someone buying a brand new car hoping they will get a job, rather than buying the said car when they got one.
It puzzles me that the normal rules of economics do not apply to football. No other business would get away with letting its costs run out of control but expect the customer to pick up the tab. Ordinarily the customer would say up yours and move on but football supporters are not customers and football club aren't like anyother business so they have us by the proverbials.
Has anyone noticed how tetchy and nervous our friends down the road are at the moment. You would think it was Cameron, Cleggers and the other Eton Boys in charge down there the way costs are being cut at the moment. They are all being very pessimistic about things and are thinking the worst. I don't know how others feel but I am enjoying their squirming, their suffering, their fear for the future, their anxiety and their envious glances in our direction probably as much if not more than they enjoyed their recent FA cup win. However I am hoping the trust is successful in it's attempt to gain ownership of the club as life would seem very strange without our friends and they do deserve a club to support.
Think this last year or so has been a monumental waste of time and money for everyone involved. Pompey fans should have let the club die. That sounds harsh, but all the energy & money could have been put into a phoenix club, that could have been up and running by now. Clean slate has always been the only way forward both economically and morally. With the existing club liquidated, Fratton would have more than likely fallen back into the hands of the City Council under a compulsary purchase arrangement. Even if that had taken a season or two, I'm sure the Phoenix club could have played at Havant in the meantime to allow the dust to settle before cutting a deal with the council. I'm sorry Pompey fans, but the PST deal with these "rich" individuals backing (controlling) it, is doomed to either fail outright, or end up being nothing like what you have signed up for regarding a "fans owned democratic club".
