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  1. Mr Plow

    Premier League reveals payments made to clubs for 2015/16

    http://backpagefootball.com/premier-league-reveals-payments-made-clubs-201516/108411/ £172 Million in parachute payments shared between 10 clubs last season, £10.5m of that went to Wigan. :stunned:
  2. OldBlueLady

    Sponsored parachute jump/sky dive

    Those of you who are Trust members will probably have seen mention of pursuing the above as a potential fund raising idea in the latest newsletter. I thought I would seek some thoughts from amongst the Zone membership, and particularly from those who aren't Trust members, and see if anyone...
  3. fbm

    So what exactly DO we want then?

    This board is about opinions and this is mine. It is clear to me that there is an enormous amount of people on here that have not got a clue what it is they actually want. Well, let me rephrase that; they do, but can't see they what they actually want is impossible. They are all like one of...
  4. Fly on the Wall in Pompey's Court Hearing

    For this afternoon at least, I'd recommend following or reading http://twitter.com/danroan's tweets from the high court today. Some very interesting excerpts regarding Pompey's plight and case. Some quotes from Pompey's defence... Sheldon QC: "the other clubs wanted Portsmouth to go the wall...
  5. Coleman Cast Into the Championship Graveyard.

    Another season in the Premier League graveyard grinds to a halt and Chris Coleman departs Coventry, charged with the heinous crime of failing to take them aboard the Barclays gravy train. Who’d be a manager in the Championship, eh? Such is the stature of the second tier of English football in...
  6. Rules Are Rules. Unless You're Portsmouth.

    When Portsmouth’s 4th owner of the season presumably won the club in a game of pass-the-financially-defunct-parcel, did nobody explain the basic rules of English football? The news that Portsmouth have applied for extraordinary circumstances to the Premier League in order to sell their...
  7. Kenny

    Championship bottom 3.

    .....Doncaster, Barnsley, Notts Forest. With the amount of parachute money being thrown around these days to ex-Prem clubs it looks like a gap is opening up between League One and the Championship, even Forest and Donny who I thought would do ok this season are finding it hard. I can see it...
  8. Pubey's "Tunes from the leftfield" - 3

    Following on from Mogwai last week... I'm sticking to a Scottish theme with my next selection. Arguably not their best song, off probably their worst album... this is still an absolute blinder, and alongside one of the most visually stunning pieces of film i've ever watched... makes for one of...
  9. The Shrimpertruth - more Karma comebacks - the FA Cup

    Funny old world as "no end product" JCR dumps us out and the value of quality players is rammed down our necks. A player who was an outstanding individual talent and a committted team player, JCR ,left SUFC with hardly a thank you and turns up to win 60k prize money plus another FA cup tie for...
  10. Interpol Shrimper

    Evel Knievel

    RIP, no cheeky comments about him being buried alive as one final stunt :p
  11. Interpol Shrimper

    UK chooses 'most ludicrous laws' - from BBC News

    A little-known law which prohibits people dying while in the Houses of Parliament has been voted the UK's most ludicrous piece of legislation. Another law which states it is treason to use a postage stamp upside down was placed in second place by those polled by UKTV Gold. The most absurd...
  12. Tilson Out !!

    Glad to see a decent manager at the Hall - nothing like a close up on BOOT-it Boothroyd to show us how football should be played - BOOT-it and win the throw in and then scrap for the corner - class tactics from the man who shook the Prem-****e. And seriously when is Tilson going to learn how...
  13. Cash windfall

    Reports about windfall from PL to league clubs. Clubs in the second tier of English football will receive an extra £11.2m next season because Sunderland and Birmingham, who made an instant return to the Premier League, will no longer receive parachute payments. That leaves West Brom...
  14. Spaceman Spiff

    Championship

    Just looking at the table in the Championship to see who out of the sides finishing in the top places would be most likely to kick on and challenge again next year, and it occurred to me that: 1) The top 3 all got promoted 2) 4th placed Preston are about to lose their manager 3) 5th placed...
  15. Second tier

    Just thinking that the Championship must be a lot tougher than the last time we were there. I reckon this is down to the parachute payements to the ex-Premier$hite teams.
  16. Spaceman Spiff

    Politically incorrect jokes

    The Ages Of Women 1. Between the ages of 16 and 18, she is like Africa, virgin and unexplored. 2. Between the ages of 19 and 35, she is like Asia, hot and exotic. 3. Between the ages of 36 and 45, she is like America, fully explored, breathtakingly beautiful, and free with her resources. 4...
  17. MY SOUTHEND UNITED DIARY

    Today is a sad day. I got wrong at the clinic on yesterday’s yesterday for punching Sara’s lights out but it wasn’t my fault. She shouldn’t mess with rubber bands because they can have your eye out and she shouldn’t take them off my parachute man anyway. Thackery say’s I have to apologise when...
  18. Napster

    Premiership to**ers

    All-party group calls for extra £30m to be shared Vivek Chaudhary Thursday February 12, 2004 The Guardian The Premier League yesterday rejected calls that it should redistribute an extra 5% of its broadcasting revenue to the Football League and the Conference, on top of an existing 5% it...
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