sidthesquid

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/Kushnir-in-frame-for-Pompey.6600789.jp This is one of the reasons we love his thread so much. Nobody in Poopey can keep their gob shut. It's like Eastenders where every married couple have to have their rows in public. In 40 years of supporting Saints the club have only ever been guilty of 'washing their dirty linen in public' during the Redflapp regime. We never hear the little details from the boardroom, nor expect to. But in what other organisation but Poopey would the CEO publicly discuss who is or isn't going to be chairman. Weird, but keep it up, 'cos I'd miss my favourite soap.

In a nutshell. That is exactly what winds me up. Plus the perrennial 'plucky Poopey' line and the halfwits who still don't get it that they did wrong. And that the DCFSBs seem to have got away with it.

I can't decide if you and others are a better class of wind-up merchant or genuinely deluded. All clubs from the Wessex league to the Prem push their finances to the limit to get success. It's a fact of football, and I'm not certain that constitutes cheating, though you could argue the point. Some gamble and succeed, others gamble and fail, and normally take the consequences. We, in fact, only gambled marginally, but yes, we f#cked it up, I accept that. But it never felt like cheating and it still doesn't. We then took our long and painful punishment -selling and loaning off our best players and literally 'using the kids' and a cheapo manager, before slipping into admin for a pretty small sum, and getting relegated. And. although we were lucky to find a benefactor, we are still paying for it now. You lot, with history, went on a totally reckless spending spree (whatever the motives) with borrowed money, and the fans lapped it up. Then, when it went wrong, your club weaselled and cheated its way out of paying its dues, effectively took no penalty, and now carry on like nothing happened, whilst all the time the fans take the self-pitying martyr's role. I was talking to a Palace fan the other day and he was very bitter about them getting out of admin but having sold all their best players and struggling, while you lot are signing Prem players beyond the wage bill of almost anyone in the league. People are starting to get it. If you had had your day in the sun, then sunk back into oblivion we could all look a little more kindly on you. But your club cheated everyone out of tens of millions of pounds as they continued to trade, knowing they were insolvent, and they seem happy to carry on getting away with it. I would have contempt for any that club behaved that way, but knowing so much more about what has gone on at Poopey, makes that contempt more heartfelt. And it is a sign that you are aware that you have no moral credibility left that your only defence is to try to compare others to yourself. It is, as someone posted earlier, exactly the same idiotic morality as someone claiming that doing 100 in a 30mph limit is the same as doing 35 on the grounds that you were both speeding. I hope for your sake that you are on a wind-up, because if you truly believe what you write you need help.

At the risk of repeating myself I have dug out an old reply I made to PFC some months ago to his claim that we cheated and were no different to them...... Oh, but we are, my fishy one. Imagine we are two families. Family A lives reasonably modestly but successfully and decides to move into a bigger house. The finances are stretched but manageable until a financial crisis occurs and forty percent of their income is wiped away at a stroke. They struggle to adjust, maybe make a slightly rash investment to try to regain their lost income. They struggle on, cutting costs but paying their taxes and other debts, until the bank calls in the overdraft and the mortgage holder repossesses the home. They take their pain and punishment with dignity and begin the long process of recovery. Compare this with family B. They are serial bad payers with a history of financial recklessness. Rather than invest in a new home they carry on in their old caravan, living the high-life, maxing out on every credit card they can get, running up debt and not paying their taxes, claiming to be solvent to get more credit until, it goes t1ts-up. They sell the Mercedes but still expect to replace it with a BMW. They don't see why they can't still have three holidays a year and they claim they are being persecuted and it's not their fault. They go to court, they say we're skint and there is nothing you can do about it, then laugh all their way back to the caravan park having had all their debts wiped off ready to start all over again. Not exactly the same in my book.

Just saw Lampitt on South Today. He looks like a Sixth-former. No wonder he was so keen to take Poopey job as work experience before he goes on to college.....

I was going to mention all those other annoying little costs like NI for staff, but I forgot, you don't pay that. Or St Johns ambulance, or the catering, or the electric....

Totally agree. We wouldn't have looked as closely at Leeds or Cardiff, but it doesn't make me feel any better about the game I love(d).

A little bit more of my fading love of football has gone. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/9121791.stm It's not just because it's Pompey. It's not just because Saints (& Salisbury, too) tried to play fair when they got into trouble and got royally shafted. It's because throughout all of this they have lied, CHEATED, deceived us as taxpayers, stolen from charities and then after all that they have still continued to try and spend their way back to the Prem. The whole game is tainted by the rotting fish stench of their corruption and is proof that, sadly, CHEATS do prosper.

For once I agree with Nick. The devils always looks after his own, as they say, and I have this sick feeling that they are going to go up this season, probably sneaking through the play-offs with another Wembley trip to boot. The CCC is weak this season, most teams living within their means, so out of admin by Xmas, give it large in the Jan window and away they go. Sick, sick, sick.

Most boringly predictable result of the season. And, in some ways, the most concerning. What worried me last season and continues to worry me is not a lack of talent but a lack of bottle in our team. We still very rarely come back from one down, especially away from home, and heads drop far too easily, (ie the shocking run of performances after Pardew went). In cricketing terms we are a Graeme Hick, a flat-track bully that looks magnificent when things are going great but falls apart when things get tough. I think the trouble is the players know they are the best in the division but, like last season, they will keep coming up against teams that will get in their faces or play 9-0-1 & they have to learn to deal with it. And so far they haven't. It's a bit like England's 'golden generation' - ultimately it's mental toughness, not talent that divides winners from 'unlucky' losers, and I seriously wonder whether we have it.

It's plan A that worries me. They still have a squad full of experienced internationals on big wages & if they get lucky with injuries they could go a long way in a poor league.

According to BBC south today it's all happening as we speak and new owner in place for tomorrow's game

Could you be more specific - that could be any of his constituents....

I wrote this earlier and f()ck me if some CHEATING skate supporter hasn't nicked what I wrote! Skate News site... 59 dockyardpaul, at work 15/10/2010 09:53:03 Lets face it AA has contradicted himself so many times and fed us some much claptrap you cannot believe him. A bit of back-of-the-fag-packet maths leads me to think that the wage bill is at least double what was proposed in the CVA, plus the income from player sales and support has has been far less than needed so there was never any prospect of the CVA promises being met and the FL have now called our bluff. Lets also be clear all that was after we had shafted creditors for 80% of what we owed. Think what the RN in the dockyard could do with the £30m+ we have taken from the taxman when the defence cuts come next week. Our jobs taken by what was our club.

My thoughts exactly. A bit of back-of-the-fag-packet maths leads me to think that their wage bill is at least double what was proposed in the CVA, plus their income from player sales and support from the 'best fans in the world TM was has been far less than they needed so there was never any prospect of the CVA promises being met. You do wonder if they are not still asking Peter Storrie's advice.

Easy 1. Have you got any money? 2.Have you got any money? 3.Have you got any money? 4.Have you got any money? 5.Have you got any money? 6.Have you got any money? 7.Have you got any money? 8.Have you got any money?

Looks like Thursday is the new friday again All required paperwork is now with the Football League, who will discuss PFC's position on Thursday 14th October and hopefully agree to the transfer the golden share to the new company so that the process can be completed as soon as possible thereafter.

That will be another ex-Prem player, then, on at least douible the agreed wage cap. Same old Poopey, always CHEATING http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/frattonlatest/Mendy-linked-with-Pompey-switch.6577622.jp

Mandaric in the Mirror, breakig a few fishy hearts - http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Former-Portsmouth-owner-Milan-Mandaric-rules-out-a-return-to-Fratton-Park-article598103.html I also liked this little quote from the Skate News - Pompey missed the deadline for paperwork to be submitted for September's meeting of the Football League board. Mr Lampitt said the club's entire business plan had to be changed after players were bought and sold, and hence the deadline was missed ie admitting that they are not on schedule as per the CVA because they couldn't shift the deadwood whilst signing/resigning half a dozen players on wages way in excess of what was agreed. Same old Poopey, always CHEATING

Great win today, but opposition was very poor and had we brought the banjo we could have given that barn-door a good walloping. But we look solid, our confidence is back and we have a whole second eleven - Bartowski Richardson, Dickson, Jaidi, Martin, Schneiderlin, Mills, Holmes, Chamberlain, Connolly, Barnard, (and the great A Pulis jnr as sub) - who didn't even make the starting eleven that would be the envy of any other team in our league. I hope Adkins is grounded enough to keep the workrate up because we are better than any other team in this league and the one above on our day.

Same old Poopey, always cheating http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/frattonlatest/Mokoena-strikes-it-lucky.6563363.jp

Did anybody notice that we had the fourth biggest attendance in the country yesterday - only Sunderland, Spuds and West Ham bigger. 4 Prem games and all of the Champ had less than us. Makes me think we are in the wrong division......

I would like to put a good word in for Hammond after yesterday. I thought he was immense in the middle, doing the simple things well, linking the play and closing down. He plays that undervalued but essential role in the middle of the park keeping play moving forward and when he has been out of sorts the whole team struggles, but yesterday he was MOM for me. Also thought that Puncheon, another boo-boy of late, played well, too, keeping it simple and using the ball productively. Just need Rickie back to last year and Adam 100% fit and away we go....

Michael Svensson, kind of....