That 'L' word again!

Rug, I think we are all getting bored of it to be honest. The two groups who stand to lose most by liquidation are Portpin and the Players. If no agreement can be reached and quick then both become huge losers. Something has to give and quick!

Liquidate and be damned I say! Lets start again if we can? Lets give our club back to the community, It's they who will once again rally round and unite all fans of this working mans football club, to become a great club again. once all the money making men have been banished from the internal affairs. I have strong feelings about more redundancies being announced, especially if its the people who make the club tick over, you know ticket office staff, secretaries, shop staff, groundsmen etc etc I hope the senior playing staff can live with this, (of course they can, they can only see $ signs going into their tax free squirrel holes and this mess is nothing to do with them anyway)! Worse still I have absolutely no respect for the grey staff! These are all employees who handled or had any input into player purchases and contracts, as I see it, it was these people who destroyed this club, they worked out the contracts, and forgot to put all the relevant clauses that have caused this mess, if they had done their jobs properly, wages would have been reduced to average league payments for whatever league they were in, the onus would then be on the player to improve their wages by moving on or accept the fact they were crap the season they got relegated and take the pay cuts on the chin, but for players to stage a sit in and demand kings ransoms and lets face it that's what they are doing, and thus forcing the club into liquidation is a lesson I hope a Phoenix PFC learns well if there is a Phoenix club. As a community run club I believe player contracts should be open to scrutiny by all the trust supporters, and objections raised if someone spots a daft of dangerous clause, its obvious contracts at PFC have never been scrutinised for the 'what if' scenario, & never risk assessed, its just criminal. At this point ill break to the Community shield game at Wembley I wrote an article short afterwards in quite a few forums about a certain conversation that was overheard in the dining area of the royal box, The club was to be sold and asset stripped and was to be left to plunge down the leagues on a yearly basis until non league, the club fan base would be reduced until there was insufficient interest in the club to keep the land for sole football use, and thus the plot of land that was once PFC could be redeveloped and the last big profit made. We have all been taken for a ride, and I still think the fans that are left have blinkers on, its a pity, time will proved me wrong but I have got the last 3 years spot on so far. Football finances are like a pyramid scheme, the people at the top cream it by suckering fools at the bottom to part with their money, and they them high and dry without a penny of their investment. Take the new stadiums that we were always promised, smoke screen isnt the word for it, even when Tesco offered to build the new stadium for free, PFC turned it down, ill leave you to work out that one. If I am correct on Monday Portpin will announce they are no longer going to buy the club, The supporter trust similarly will announce that they cannot buy the club even as a liquidated asset shortly afterwards due to being unable to fund the league sanctions required to gain entry into the football league and PFC will be duly liquidated. I for one am looking forward to non league footie with crowds of 3 or 4000, and no league sanctions, it will be good to have a year off, cos PFC will be too late to go non league this season, so at least I get chance to watch H&W next season and give them a boost along with all the ex fans who want to see H&W make it into the conference premier. So long and thanks for all fish PFC .

As depressing as your article sounds, Doggo, I agree with you and with Russellm; detached is the right word, if the season starts, it starts, if not I'll think of something else. After all these years it's a shame to feel like that but Pompey does that to you over time. Lets hope for the best but I expect the worst.