rallyboy

I came away feeling robbed but it wasn't like that. If you make defensive mistakes and don't take your chances, that can't be called unfair. Yes we are missing key players, but sadly we got what we deserved - not for our performance that was better than theirs, but for those key moments when we slipped up. On reflection, it was our own fault. Which makes it more annoying. Let's get back on track at Burnley and continue to compete for 6th place.

Tesco appear to have made up figures and tried to con people into thinking that there is more value in the business that there actually is. They've also proudly promoted new builds that will never happen. I'm not sure that transparent pompey should be working with a company like that.

by the way, I wasn't joking above, that is a genuine description!

For those asking about the Hall of Fame, I have witnessed it, with my own eyes.... It's basically a wall of Poundland frames with pictures of old players in them, randomly hung slightly skew whiff for added drama - and each legend is accompanied by a shiny plaque fashioned from the finest perspex. This gallery that oozes quality is in the same shrine that holds the great un-ironed tablecloth, while the aroma of fat hangs heavy in the air.

How can they still think that they have shares in anything relevant? How can they think that they own anything other than a virtual sheet of A4? Are people really that gullible? It's a serious question for any visitors from the east, please, tell us why any ordinary fans believe that they really have shares, influence or ownership? Go on, seriously, explain....please! They donated cash to assist property developers to save their club - nice, worthy, well done. They then put inexperienced people in charge, who predictably, made poor appointments. Chaos ensued. ad lib and fade...

At least they admit that they are not fan-owned, in fact, not even half fan-owned. And they are looking for significant outside investment, while increasing their own percentage. Good luck with that. I think the only way they can do that is to go to a loan shark. Again.

This week. Former Pompey midfielder Alan McLoughlin thanked the Fratton faithful after his Q&A evening was a roaring success. Around 300 fans turned up at the Victory Bar on Monday night for the event, which also doubled up as an opportunity to buy his new autobiography. I bet his next book will have some interesting stuff on the Trust!

And in planning news..........plans by developers to build 480 houses on land not far from the fortress of fat are being opposed due to the 'lack of infrastructure' in that part of the city. Which could mean that IF Tesco's plan A gets put on hold they will then struggle to get planning for further residential in that area....thus leaving Robinson with exactly what he bought, a large piece of semi-worthless wasteland. Chanrai must be chuckling at the fortune that he walked away from - you know you are in real trouble when the money launderers and arms dealers can no longer see a profit in your business.

I didn't find it that depressing - they are an excellent side. We could have surrendered at 1-0 but we chased the game and got punished. Had Pelle connected in the 85th minute it could have been different - we pushed to get back from 2-0 and got hit again. I'd rather we went down trying to get something from the game than park the bus for a 1-0 defeat. Let's see how the players react over the next couple of games before getting too suicidal.

That's only fair - Leeds have cheated yet pompey were innocent victims. The nasty owners maimed a few kids, bought them a cup, and then left. If anything pompey should have been promoted as a reward, not punished.

Presumably Cellino just tells the league that his son owns the club and they carry on regardless. That's the traditional way of fooling the football authorities.

Twitter reports of pompey minority chanting anti-Islam, anti-Catholic, anti-female, anti-gay, pro-Ebola songs today. Can we assume they are getting bored watching the football? Must be time for another smoke bomb and minor pitch invasion pretty soon. The circle of life. 1970 called and asked for their supporters back.

They lost at Tranmere? It seems cruel to mock. But I'll consider it.

That's pompey for you - when the disgruntled staff hold a secret meeting, and then demand that the manager sits down and shuts up, some would call that worrying - but down there it's all spun as a positive thing! Onwards and sideways. There are no yes men there. Connolly, do you want to accept a demotion, play in a system that clearly doesn't work and score the goals to keep me in my job?.... No.

The whole idea of being a manager is to be capable of managing different kinds of player. For instance, Ballotelli is unmanageable, he's proved that. Osvaldo is trouble, he needs managing, Puncheon is high maintenance too. But Connolly's history would suggest that he is not a troublesome player, he just needs managing correctly. Awford and the board have hopelessly failed to do that, and also don't seem capable of agreeing to terminate their relationship either. Connolly could do a very handy job for them right now, but they have failed to handle him or the situation properly. And as I said before, he's been around long enough to know a crap manager when he sees one, and the truth hurts. All the time they let this one run, he's bleeding them of cash every day.

While they have addressed some of the debt, and despite their claims, the PFA charge would suggest they haven't cleared it all, I can't see that much has changed. How many League Two clubs can afford a squad of 32? Though they have done a complete U-turn in one aspect - we now seem to be in an era of quantity over quality. I guess that is nearly progress.

Lord T is correct, the competition is over. That won't stop the BBC hyping it up like it's a dizzier bit of excitement than Strictly meets Bakeoff. Man, I am out of step with society, and it feels good. I'm just relieved that they haven't shoehorned Murray or Rooney in there. The glorious sporting year of 2012 seems a long time ago now.

We haven't been beaten by Barcelona nor Real Madrid in a competitive game in my lifetime! I bet that hurts them.

No, no, no! - that's just more jealous scummah lies! I've been told many times that it was the Southampton Commercial Union of Men who after giving themselves that ridiculous title, broke some undated and unlisted but glorious pompey strike. Put that together with the genuine story of docks rivalry between Millwall and West Ham on the Thames and you have a portsmyth. Repeat it twice in a Portsea pub and it's officially a fact. Tomorrow, we explain how Marcus drove a tank for the SS several years before he was born and we then clarify how the administrations of portsmouth football club and Southampton Leisure Holdings were absolutely identical and the scummahs didn't pay their imaginary CVA and they don't own their ground.

not quite, the funniest bit was that he refused to recognise a downturn and instead continued to give it large about how great pompey were and how we were all jealous of their new billionaire owners, harbourdome etc - until his views became so bonkers that he frightened himself and legged it. Never in the history of forum threads have so many people been amused by so few - mainly one deluded bloke who dug himself a hole so big that Avram could have walked right in there and made a plucky speech. The classic Ho posts that are regularly dug out are as funny as the statue of Ted, and footage of Penny the diving wardrobe going off the topboard with the aerial grace of a vending machine in a swimsuit, combined.

What Doris has on the front of her red and white mobility scooter isn't the only basketcase in the pic... And I hope the quality of crowd-funded virtual fencing at the new training complex is better than that effort.

Connolly is an interesting one... He was overlooked for an idiot, who then demoted him, and when the idiot demonstrated he was as bad as Connolly had said, they appointed another idiot. Leaving the no.1 villain looking now like the one-eyed bloke in the land of the blind. He's the only quality player on their books and he's worked with good managers so he knows a loser when he sees one. He may be their only hope....though I suspect that he knows an idiot chairman when he sees one too and has probably voiced an opinion on the board. I don't like to kick them when they are down but has that PFA charge been lifted yet or do they still owe wages that they are pretending they've cleared? I just thought that while their freshly-dug grave is still open it might be nice to bury the debt-free claim in there too, along with fan-ownership and their rivalry. Because you have to look at the facts and say we are no longer their rivals, other than by an accident of geography. They've found their level and the only way it could resume is if we dropped to the third tier again. So it looks a little bit like more than a century of rivalry is over. Hey pompey, yeah, you down there, byeeeeeeeee!

The few are revolting. I've asked this several times over the 100,000 posts when their decline had hit new lows and I've normally been shouted down...is there anyone here who still thinks that they have not suffered or been punished yet? Aldershot Town - delivering the justice that the Football League and the court system bottled.

What a glorious night! WTFILN? Everyone!

Steady on Nutjobs! I am not worthy, it was FF who gave me life...he put the wind in my sails, he created the babbling brook in which I swim, he painted the clouds across the sky and allowed me to spread my wings, it was him that took me to a busy badger set and handed me an AK47, he drove me to Horton Heath and tucked a grubby tenner in my Y-fronts - I am but nothing without his vision and the opportunity he created.... All that, and the fact that he got a good tip off many moons ago and shared it with us. Come on you Shots!!!