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Will Pompey fold? (merged threads)
- Thread starter Brighton TID
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Well done Pompey. Tw@ts.
- Jul 7, 2003
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Good to see them triumphantly announcing they've cleared all their debts today.
Reckon most of us could clear debts pretty sharpish if we only had to pay 0.2p in the pound.
#Twats
Reckon most of us could clear debts pretty sharpish if we only had to pay 0.2p in the pound.
#Twats
bernster
New member
Hear hear.....twats
Some fantastic quotes in there from the smug-faced **** who runs the show now.
They haven't actually paid off the debts, they have reached settlements with ex-players.
Some of the classic quote-bingo:
"Fantastic Achievement"
"We are at ground Zero now"
"The club was in a crater - we now have foundations built"
"Level Playing Field"
"Never taking our eyes off the ball"
And on.....
Tremendous work
#twats
They haven't actually paid off the debts, they have reached settlements with ex-players.
Some of the classic quote-bingo:
"Fantastic Achievement"
"We are at ground Zero now"
"The club was in a crater - we now have foundations built"
"Level Playing Field"
"Never taking our eyes off the ball"
And on.....
Tremendous work
#twats
Barrel of Fun
Abort, retry, fail
Ground Zero and crater? That doesn't do their plight justice. It was clearly more catastrophic than 9/11.
Creaky
Well-known member
It wasn't the fan's debt though - it was the club's, or more accurately the previous club's owner's debts.
What the fans managed was to keep the club 'alive' as well as taking over more than £7 million of the previous owner's debts and repay them.
Tw@ts they may be, churlish though to belittle what the fans have achieved.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,225
But they haven't repaid them, that's the point.
They've just reached the stage where all their remaining creditors (the ones who haven't been shamelessly written off by the previous administration...ie everyone who isn't a footballer) have agreed to accept (some of) what they're owed, in due course.
bernster
New member
Your fair minded reasoning has no place here. They will always be a bunch of twats.
Creaky
Well-known member
They have repaid the debts they accepted liability for - it is the previous owners who reneged on what they owed, not the current owners.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,225
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,225
I see Andy Awford berated his players last night for taking their position for granted, claiming they are the only club in League 2 to employ three physios/ masseuses. It's good to see Pompey are still keeping it real on the finances front, isn't it?
I just hope the Greatest Fans In The World were treated with due reverence by their Aldershot counterparts, who should have appreciated the true honour of having FA Cup winners (don't know if they mentioned that at all?) grace their town.
I just hope the Greatest Fans In The World were treated with due reverence by their Aldershot counterparts, who should have appreciated the true honour of having FA Cup winners (don't know if they mentioned that at all?) grace their town.
British Grenadier
I hate P*rtsm**th
Inbred FC have Mr. Bean on loan...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30129081
Today they play a club who, in 2007, were promoted to the Football League for the first time in their history. Yes, IFC are playing Morecambe in a league game. Actual Morecambe. That's funny.
#Twats.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30129081
Today they play a club who, in 2007, were promoted to the Football League for the first time in their history. Yes, IFC are playing Morecambe in a league game. Actual Morecambe. That's funny.
#Twats.
severnside gull
Well-known member
I remain eternally hopeful...........l
surlyseagull
Well-known member
- Aug 23, 2008
- 841
Those are the same fans who belittled our club for playing at Gillingham and Withdean and for having no money ,and the same fans who knew their club were in debt and paying for players they could ill afford but still rammed it down other clubs throats what they had achieved off the back of other peoples money .And incidently I know of two small businesses who were owed and still owed money and one had gone under because of it .....Churlish ....I dont think so .Their debts had far reaching implications on a lot of people so when you hear "fantastic achievment " etc.... bit insensitive in my book regarding what regime it was !!!
Stumpy Tim
Well-known member
Newport 1 - 0 Pompey. 5 points off relegation 
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Newport 1 - 0 Pompey. 5 points off relegation
#twats
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,225
Massively.
They just signed Matt Tubbs though, the ultimate fourth division flat track bully, which disappointingly is sure to see them improving somewhat. Obviously he'll be no use whatsoever should they ever drag themselves up to the third tier, but for now, he will almost certainly score goals.
Did he play yesterday in their plucky, unfortunate defeat to divisional big boys, Newport County?