Re: Close Season Football Chat : Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:09 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

How many where on at Anfield tonight? Turned over after the rugby and thought I'd caught the mute button.

Dunno, not many, to be expected, really. Nothing match against a nothing team, with probable high ticket prices for what it was.

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:10 pm  

Catalancs wrote:

How many where on at Anfield tonight?

356 ?

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:35 pm  

Robbie Rotten wrote:

Young and Konchesky are poor players IMO, wouldn't want them near the club.

That's what I expected. Speaking to a mate of mine last week, season ticket holder too who was trying to say he would be happy with signing Young. I wasn't buying and I know if I would have asked him at the end of last season would he have wanted him he would have told me where to go. Interesting how opinions change when you're club is linked to players.

Robbie Rotten wrote:

Insua's decent, potentially a solid player once he gains experience and uses it well, he has ability, but lacks real speed, which allows his inexperience to be easily exposed. I want him to stay, as I feel he's solid, but, with Aurelio coming back, I'm unsure if we'll go for another left back, I think we need one due to Fabio's erratic fitness, but funds should determine that. If we do go for a full back, I'd rather we went for somebody with something going for them, Young and Konchesky have little going for them.

I don't really see why you would want either player, neither one are of a good standard. Young gets nowhere near the Villa side and Konchesky is an average player playing in an average team. I can't say I've seen a lot of Insua to pass opinion but there is potential for improvement, Konchesky/Young will not improve.

Robbie Rotten wrote:

Cole had a good game tonight, the team were nobodies and played like nobodies, but it was a decent performance, but still short of fitness IMO.

Only caught last twenty mins after I played 5-a-side but Matt Smith an co certainly pushed his case. A quality player imo, despite what the sceptics say I think, or fear , he will offer a lot this season.

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:44 pm  

F*ck off Sam Allardyce, you cheeky c*nt. The country's up the spout and you want tax breaks for the rich.

My heart bleeds for people who earn more in a week than most people earn in 2-3 years having to pay tax

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:54 pm  

Billinge_Lump wrote:

F*ck off Sam Allardyce, you cheeky c*nt. The country's up the spout and you want tax breaks for the rich.

My heart bleeds for people who earn more in a week than most people earn in 2-3 years having to pay tax

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Fri Aug 06, 2010 10:51 am  

31202 at Liverpool last night. Tickets were £20-22 I think.

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Fri Aug 06, 2010 11:56 am  

Saddened! wrote:

The worst thing though, football debts (Players and other clubs) are paid before HMRC. How the fecking hell is that allowed to continue?

Because it makes huge sense.

1, HMRC will eventually get their money, they nearly always do.
2, The clubs need to be able to carry on trading as usual as much as possible if they are to be able to pay HMRC as quickly as possible. They won't be able to do this if they can't pay off their other creditors first, as nobody would be willing to deal with them.
3, HMRC will not go bust, unlike some of the other creditors potentially when they don't get paid.
4, If other said creditors did go bust, that just means less businesses paying taxes to HMRC, which is not beneficial to HMRC either.

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Fri Aug 06, 2010 12:05 pm  

Europa league qualifiers
Liverpool v Trabzonspor
Aston Villa v Rapid Vienna
Man City v Timişoara

Dundee Utd v AEK Athens
Celtic v Utrecht
Odense v Motherwell

and the big boys

The New Saints v CSKA Sofia

and in the qualifiers for the competition no-one cares about

BSC Young Boys v Tottenham Hotspur FC

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Fri Aug 06, 2010 12:47 pm  

carl_spackler wrote:

Because it makes huge sense.

1, HMRC will eventually get their money, they nearly always do.

You don't get how this works, do you?

In no other line of business when you enter administration are you allowed to pay 100% of your liabilities to some creditors based on what industry they are in but 10% to others. Why should football be any different?

As a non-preferential creditor HMRC won't "eventually get its money". The administrator will make whatever distribution it can as agreed at the creditors meeting, then that's it. You can whistle for the rest of what you're owed as the company disappears and any subsequent "Portsmouth FC Limited 2010" that takes over running the club does so without any of the historic debt of the old business.

If HMRC are owed £10m, but only get paid £1m as a non-preferential creditor that's £9m gone missing out of the exchequer. The likelihood is that instead of going into the public purse where it was supposed to go that money will instead be sat in the Swiss bank account of some very rich footballers and their agents.

Tell me again why that's ok?

Re: Close Season Football Chat : Fri Aug 06, 2010 12:56 pm  

LFCRhino wrote:

356 ?

As accurate as ever