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Der er tendens til nervøse trækninger hos mange fans i forbindelse med byggesagen, men holder denne supporters kommentarer stik, ser det faktisk rigtig lovende ud:

10 points for you to ponder:

1. PFC currently only owns the land Fratton Park is built on.

2. The land around Fratton Park was a separate sale and could have been sold to anyone, anyone who didn´t want to help PFC if they so desired and do the absolute minimum to get past the planners requirements for PFC

3. It was sold to Stuart Robinson who is ´PFC friendly´ and enabled us to buy the club in the first place by loaning the club money to buy the ground from Portpin´s debenture.

4. The Tesco deal with Robinson will see a supermarket built on the FE car park - land owned by Robinson not PFC. Land that the 2004 rotation scheme showed as being residential/ casino and was not part of that scheme´s stadium footprint.

5. The Tesco deal will also see Robinson transfer land to PFC to free up land to expand into on the north and west sides of the current ground.

6. Also part of the deal will see Robinson hand a lump sum of money to the club to be used on such expansion/ rebuild works as and when the club wishes to use it.

7. I have drawn up a masterplan to rebuild Fratton Park in stages over a period of time when it is financially sustainable to do so, to achieve a ´football ground´. A capacity of 30,000 is seen as a minimum requirement.

8. The sum of money the club receives from the Tesco deal will be put into an account for that purpose.

9. I have always advised the club to only build when the correct level of funding is there to do the job properly - there´s no point spending money on temporary or restricting solutions that we live to regret. The sum of money coming from Tesco is substantial but not enough to rebuild the north side of the ground to a capacity which would maximise its potential (the north side is where the maximum capacity expansion can be made, so we should explore all options on this).

10. Please look at what is being proposed before jumping to all sorts of conclusions! That´s what a public consultation is for, to show what´s being proposed and for the public to have their say to inform the process.


Tesco have been keen on the FE car park site for years, but it´ll come as no surprise they got fed up with dealing with the club as it was run like a circus.

I met with Tesco well over a year ago on behalf of the PST and they were still keen on the site as there are not ´21st century´ style supermarkets on Portsea Island, so it is a strategic area for them.

There is indeed room to put such a store and leave enough room for the club to expand and to improve the access to the ground on the north side (via Anson Road) and open up access from Fratton Way.

Most of the football club/ supermarket deals have been where the club has a city centre site and the supermarket move them out of town to build on the old ground. Usually the clubs involved are smaller clubs with smaller needs.

This case is a little different as the land for the supermarket is not owned by the club and the only requirement the developer/ supermarket need to meet regarding the club is to satisfy PCC´s Portsmouth Plan requirements not to hamper future expansion plans of the club, so this deal not only gives us the land to do that but also a lump sum of money to put towards it.

PFC´s being given money, land and better access to its site, simply for being a neighbour to a development site - not often you´ll see that happen. PCC´s restrictions have played their hand well, PFC get all that, Tesco get a new store and Robinson will get a slice of the profit for effectively being the agent on the deal - every party wins.


Supporteren, som står bag disse kommentarer, har arbejdet tæt sammen med Trusten.

Så er trøjerne til denne sæson fordelt:

1 Phil Smith
2 Yassin Moutaouakil
4 Danny East
5 Joe Devera
6 Sonny Bradley
7 Andy Barcham
8 Romain Padovani
9 David Connolly
10 Tom Craddock
11 Ricky Holmes
13 Johnny Ertl
21 Ashley Harris
22 Adam Webster
23 Patrick Agyemang
24 Nick Awford
25 John Sullivan
30 Jack Maloney
34 Dan Butler
35 Jed Wallace

Nummer 3 mangler på listen, og der snakkes i krogene om at den er reserveret til Ricardo Rocha.

Den obligatoriske første træningskamp mod bysbørnene fra Havant & Waterlooville blev vundet i går aftes med 5-0. Resultatet er dog noget misvisende, for The Hawks var godt med i kampen og de 3 første mål var hhv. to heldigt afrettede skud (af trialisten Ryan Bird) og et selvmål. Derefter faldt niveauet betragteligt indtil vi i de sidste 5 minutter fik scoret to gange ved Padovani og Barcham.

Næste træningskamp er på lørdag mod Bognor Regis længere henne ad kysten i retning mod Brighton. Det vil sige, i dag spiller vi faktisk en "lukket træningskamp" mod netop nedrykkede Aldershot. Holdet vil dog udelukkende bestå af 15 spillere på prøve.

Liam Walker fortsætter karrieren i en græsk klub, så det blev dermed kun til en enkelt sæson i den blå trøje.

Så kom vi også over de 9.000 solgte sæsonbilletter, og der er smæk på salget lige nu. Der er mange som først køber nu hvor de har ferie. Der er stadig en hel uge til at salget slutter. Kan vi nå de 10.000?

10.000 ville være helt fantastisk! Der er stadig mange udfordringer rent økonomisk, men et solidt fundament ift sæsonkort ville virkelig hjælpe til at stabilisere klubben :-)

Så er vi oppe på 9700 solgte sæsonkort. Jeg tror at det femcifrede antal er nået inden weekenden er forbi.

10 minutters højdepunkter fra testkampen hos Havant & Waterlooville:

https://www.youtube.com/…gMuM#at=228

Dagens kamp hos Bognor Regis blev vundet med 4-2.

Begynder der at tegne sig en start-11´er eller er det ren preseason?

Kl. 17.30 i aftes var der solgt 9.900 sæsonkort, og fristen er åbenbart ikke den 17. sådan som jeg tidligere har postet. Den udløber allerede til midnat, altså om 1½ time. Så hvis det femcifrede antal nås, bliver det vist kun med nød og næppe.

Overordnet set er det dog stadig flot, og jeg tror ikke at vi får de store problemer med at ende på mere end det budgetterede snit på 12.000 tilskuere pr. kamp.

@Saint_Lazlo

Jeg tror at 7-8 mand allerede ligger fast. Bredere er truppen trods alt heller ikke.