rallyboy

Going to the trouble of checking out the stock levels of their full replica kits is Nutjobbery above and beyond the call of duty! The much-coveted PTS medal of honour will no doubt be on the way soon. You can clean it every day - to fill all those hours that you obviously have spare!

WE ARE NOT GOOD ENOUGH. But I did get to see Lallana and Rickie playing in the World Cup! And a record number of yellow card offences go unpunished! Funny sort of night, and not in the good way. Glad I gave up four years ago.

The door is open - spend, spend, spend!!! Farm out youth, fill the squad, it's Christmas again! Tonight they're gonna party like MC Storrie is on the decks and DJ Lampitt is in da house.

Craig Westcarr has revealed Pompey’s ambition persuaded him to snub four League One clubs in favour of dropping down a division. That and perhaps the two year contract on improved wages? There's a lad with ambition! The chance to play in the third tier? - no, lower please, lower. Would you like to play in the Premier League? No, the Championship will do for me ta. Fancy a game in the World Cup? Nah, a pointless international friendly would be more my scene. Want to be a pro footballer? Not really, I'd prefer to work in a shop. It can only be the lure of playing as part of the best atmosphere in world football.

I'd have thought that 'nominal' for League Two is more likely to be around the £50K mark. Their cut should be enough to pay Connolly through the summer. The financial gulf between the lower leagues and the Championship widens with every day that passes. They must be pleased that they put their confidence in youth and concentrated on the academy to provide the players who will get them back to their seat at the top table. It's shrewd business decisions like that from their talented board that will give them the edge over lesser clubs.

Lallana might struggle out there, he has been used to having better players around him. Maybe give Rickie an hour to create chances for people, then bring on some pace? I heard football expert and Chelsea fan Alec Stewart making the case for Ashley Cole at left back because he is a better defender... Baines and Shaw have shown that they are better than him over a season. Lack of cover in front would expose any of the three. Stick to cricket mate.

1963 - what a year that was! Meanwhile, what is Farmery doing at a car boot sale in Rome? Though I understand his excitement, it's difficult to spot a pompey shirt in Cosham these days between all the Chelsea and United ones, as the little minnow sinks beneath the media frenzy of the nasty Premier League and into obscurity. They will soon be a club remembered only by bitter old men who like the superior sound quality of cassette tapes, strippers in pubs, and Love Thy Neighbour.

While I've given up guessing how good a new manager will actually perform, this looks like a great appointment. Now tell the players to stop muttering, wind their necks in, and get with the effing programme! #onthebus

If I ever want to know anything I'll always ask the ITV audience for their informed opinion.

Turf sale not going well? Need to promote your latest begging campaign and conjure up the tears of hope spirit again? We must be due another heartwarming car-wash/cycle ride tale anyday - no doubt starring a young and defiant, plucky rosy-cheeked street urchin with a penchant for right wing extremism and shameless self-publicity. It might be just a dirty square of island turf to other clubs, but this modest piece of u**** grass, this small Suffolk Punch-dodging piece of England, this tear-stained sod of grassy hope, it says more about the turfy pride of the mighty blue city than lesser grass ever could! Just one square on it's own is barely big enough to sustain an old corner flag. But when gathered with many it will have the strength of a mighty field!

Difficult. Can't confirm. Nor deny. Anything.

portsmyth no.836. The support the team receives through thick and thin is spellbinding Er, no it isn't, check out the unsold seats when they tried to pack-the-park. It only sells out when big clubs go there, clubs like Milan, and Southampton. And don't tell me 15,000 is good for League Two - yes it is.... Just as it would be if West Ham, Newcastle, Leeds, and all the other clubs that live in the shadow of the bestest played at that level. But those little clubs can't compete with the plucky blue army, oh no. Nor can Boca Juniors, or Poznan, or Galatasary, or Celtic etc. Because the little cross-eyed minnow pompey is the club that claims to be the best supported in world football. Empty seats don't support the claim, but I'm sure that their support through thick and thin is spellbinding! And if they are so on track with funding, why are they dragging in scabby tatted chavs to beg for £250K?

The football gods are cruel and mischievous...... I see Rickie missing a penalty in front of the Kop, or even one in the World Cup.

how many more times is the deadline to buy 'shares' going to be extended? Do the people who originally 'bought shares' realise that in very simple terms - with every extension, their percentage of ownership in something that they don't own, but that holds an ever-reducing percentage in a football club that they have minority voting rights in and little control over, reduces? To put it another way, if you and ten other people shared a cake, if you then introduced another ten people to the party, your slice gets smaller. Not that they get a slice. Cos the cake is owned by property developers.

It's quite simply a clear breach of FIFA rules so there will be a massive fine to follow. Possibly even bigger than the crippling 3000 Euros that clubs and countries tend to get docked every time their fans are racist. Unless of course FIFA is riddled with corruption and inefficiency and has no interest in upholding its own agendas, then they might just shrug their shoulders, cosy up to the politicians, and concentrate on making sure that 75% of the refs are way out of their depth in the World Cup. But that would seem unlikely.

I recently visited Normandy and then the Somme and Ypres. Other than standing on the beach and looking across where it all happened, I found the most moving bit in Normandy was actually at the Pegasus Bridge Museum. There is a weapon display there and it brings home the stark reality of what they faced. If I was sat at the top of the beach with a machine gun that dishes out 600 rounds a minute and has a range of 4km, I'd be fairly confident that no one is coming up that beach in one piece. The bravery shown by the forces on the beaches and from the Paras was extraordinary, and as referenced above, very British - low key. Imagine wandering up the road under heavy fire with your bagpiper playing? The fact that some of the veterans had to jump through hoops today to get passes to attend services, and that their police escort didn't even show up, says something too. When the guys jumped out into the water to liberate France seventy years ago no bastard asked them for an effing pass. And today when their transport didn't work out they just sorted it themselves. Top men. I guess we'd all like to think that if asked we might be as committed and brave as some of those guys were back then, but thankfully I've never been tested. They stood up and proved their worth. Respect. And long may their visits to Normandy continue.

Yes the former hero is now villainous deadwood that is being cleared to bring in the new battling heroes who will gobble up the bulging warchest and lead the mighty blue army back to upper midtable glory.

Can't be traded? Don't have any real value? The money goes to the Trust not the club? What a fricking bombshell that is! It's as if these so called 'shares' are in fact just donations sold to simpletons via emotional blackmail, smoke, mirrors, and smallprint that is glossed-over in the PDT's chosen media partner's regular sales bulletin begging letters, and the donations are being used to prop up an unsustainable business model that refuses to reduce wages and has delusions of grandeur based on some success just after D-Day... I wish someone had said before. I'm now just starting to wonder if this is 'real fan ownership' after all.

Before the recent departures you would think the decision to leave would be difficult but in light of the ongoing clearout of coaches and some players, it's a no-brainer. I'd also question how people like Lovren must feel as they see the squad being dismantled around them - we need to apply a handbrake before a sales flurry turns into a stampede. I begrudge no one the chance to better themselves and Lallana, Shaw and Rickie can do that. We need a strong managerial appointment as soon as possible to reassure the players that we do actually have a plan and intend to be competitive. But today it all looks a bit rudderless and Lallana's statement is fully understandable so let's cash in when his stock should be highest - after the World Cup. Ditto Shaw. Keep calm and appoint a good manager.

All the best Rickie, that was a golden era. What an honour it was to share and witness his journey from factory to World Cup finals - sad to see him go, but if you love em... Now let's build a new side.

You think we need to adopt a **** with a bell? Have you read some of the people on the main board? I think we just need the bell.

FarehamRed makes a good point, Krueger takes any flak over this sale, the last thing a new manager would want to start his new job with would be selling a legend or a clearout. See the case of Clough v Leeds fans. Either way, I still love Rickie - and in geography news, Fareham is red and white!

yeah Mack, slight price difference though. Looks like we are going to get more in cash for a 32-year-old supersub than the whole of plucky pompey cost the property developers. Times have changed. You'll be able to sing, scummahs going down with £200M in the bank....

He was an overweight goal poacher when he joined us. We've shared his journey from League One to the World Cup, it has been amazing for everyone. Whether the deal is great for us I'm not sure, but it's great for him, and I don't begrudge him the chance to go home. Legend is an overused term. Rickie is a legend. So who will be the first retarded tosser to boo him if he gets a game at SMS?

We really could do with a new ground design sometime soon. I miss those Maradona Harbourdomes that would host World Cup Finals, with their underwater casinos, seabed Mr Clive factory outlets and porpoise-petting zoos. I'm not sure that the proposed £1billion compulsory purchase of real estate is now justified in League Two. That was an era!