rallyboy

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As we're between administrations and Indiana Jones is still out there somewhere in a tomb or jungle trying to locate the missing 12th month of the accounts, there is time to ponder Tesco's strategy and guess at the next move... Everything would point toward them shelving this sort of development at the moment. Presumably they have a deal with Robinson so he might get some compensation if they u-turn, I guess he has another agreement with pompey if the development completes. If it doesn't he is left with land to sell and pompey don't get their all seater 50,000 stadium/hardstanding for a burger van. The land only has value if a buyer is out there so it could even return to wasteland for a while, or Robinson might even see it as his opportunity to move on? His motivation has always been the Tesco deal - and of course his love of the club. His shares could be bought by a another begathon, but I don't think they could muster the millions he would need which would turn him directly into a greedy villain. They might even find themselves in the rare situation where someone controls the club for personal gain, and they want them out... I do hope pompey haven't spent the Tesco money already on their plan to return speedily to the midtable Championship position that is rightly theirs. But if the store does go ahead then the Fortress of Fat is landlocked for a generation, so I see win-win - though a Tesco pull-out would give more laughs, a dash of panic, and might allow our favourite Toyboy to step in and negotiate his fabled £20M fee from the city council.

The England set-up and selection policy has left the national team back in the dark ages. We will never win the World Cup again. There, I've said it, the elephant in the room has been introduced to everyone - sorry if that was a bombshell to anyone. The last eight years should have been the clue.

Come on hurry along, big page coming up. And when we get to 1976 May I be the first to shoehorn the date into a sentence for no reason. I'll be curious to see how that colour experiment went, I fear it will look a bit scary...

Too late, I've moved on - I'm off to the main board to seek out as many threads as possible that don't interest me, and then to comment in the strongest possible terms on subjects of which I have no knowledge whatsoever. To fit in I shall also be suggesting that Rickie is a greedy Judas who should be booed at every opportunity and removed from the website - and that we should employ Glenn Hoddle without delay or I shall never go to any sort of sporting event ever again. Yeah, that's right, we have normal views for normal people over there, unlike you saddo nutjob freaks on here still banging on about the mafia and criminality and unpaid debt, all from a club whose supporters heap filthy abuse on Saints on a daily basis. I can't see why you people find their little blip so entertaining. It's not like they came to our ground and abused a dead man's memory. What is so funny about their hard-earned season ticket money being used to pay a bloke to drive their manager to an industrial estate brothel? And three relegations in quick succession is no laughing matter, you are just jealous. Their supporters have done a fantastic job and deserve our praise, while we have to suffer asset-stripping and firesales, pretty soon they will have a 48% share in a length of fence.* So leave it, and get on the main board with normal people. *there are no shares, they are donations!!!

okay, will do, thanks everyone, bye.

sorry Lord T, you forget, we did just the same... We left loads of debts, we didn't pay our CVA, our half-empty ground St Fairies, in Little Delhi, is owned by the council, while the meagre attendances are propped up by free tickets to asylum seekers. We owe £35M to an offshore loan shark, and our owner, the daughter of an SS tank commander, has asset-stripped the company bare and is desperate to firesell during the current meltdown, before we plummet to non-league. Apparently. And at this time when the role of the Nutjob in modern society is being debated, when you have to put up with being told these things on a weekly basis despite pompey walking away from criminal charges, massive debts and financial irregularities unpunished, you don't ask for threads to be locked, you stick Dr Marten right in and joyfully harvest every last laugh from their hilariously predictable and crushing demise. Is there anyone who was at Fortress Fatpipes for the 4-1 defeat who suffered the accompanying ridicule and think it's time to be nice to them yet? For each one of them, I'll show you a pompey fan who feels the cup was illegal, didn't celebrate, and refuses to accept it.

Mid-table Championship level is Fulham, Leeds, Brighton etc. That's quite a leap from League Two, even over a couple of years... It makes Cortese's Champions' League dream look like the target of a sane man.

pompey fans have done a great job! Nice wind-up! But don't announce that on the main board, there's people on there who despise Rickie and dislike half of our current team - god knows what they'd make of your fishy love-in! Anyway this current takeover hasn't completed yet - and it's a bit late to halt bitter, that ship sailed long ago! Try living on the frontline and hearing anti-Saints stuff and portsmyths everyday, then see if you can ignore the rivalry.

Without wanting to sound too much like a bitter jealous scummah, unless you are playing them at rowing or University Challenge, a win over Cambridge is no big deal! Just sad to see that the ref found the game too big, it was his cup final after all. (deluded myth no.646) But the sleepiest giant is awake and Fortress of Fat is ready to cook chips again! The old stadium was packed to the rafters, it was rocking - sort-of, only a fifth of the ground empty, which is no problem in League Two, it's a great gate, really. RB you old cynic, it's fantastic support. Unless of course you have spent the whole summer talking about full houses and the best support in world football, and then at the first opportunity, you fail miserably to back it up. Time for the spin factory to ease off the accelerator and get real. Go buy some fence and kid everyone that you have a training ground.

They seem to let anyone umpire at Wimbledon these days.

No. Despite an appeal by Bob Stokoe, 1973 was downgraded in CVA1 to 395. It was further downgraded in CVA2 to 4AD. Which either means that the Romans hadn't turned up yet, or that these four pages will be spread over five years. Luckily they are ringfenced, making them the pluckiest bestest most passionate virtual pages on the internet. Which makes me jealous.

It's difficult to judge what is happening in someone else's head and the default assumption of most people is that their viewpoint on others is the correct one. 'How can they be depressed, their life looks great from here'. Clark Carlisle did that great programme where he explained that as a footballer your entire life is defined by what happens on the pitch. Make a mistake and you are a failure, it isn't just a game, you are a failure as a human being, and he couldn't see beyond that failure and considered suicide. When someone gets to that state the rest of us can't understand it. He has a big car, a mansion, so he gave away a penalty, it's only a game.... And how could he do that to his kids? We don't know, and nor does he, because his mind is in a state far beyond anything we can comprehend on our spectrum of normality. Applying logic to someone at the end of their tether is pointless, they are operating at a different level. Gary Speed - what the f? Few outward signs, so many unanswered questions. What was happening in his head was obviously very different to what we could see in him. While the train or bus jumpers look selfish, when they reach that point, they don't have the mental clarity to even consider what happens afterwards. They don't mean to mess up our commute or upset the driver and emergency crew, they may just want the voices to stop, or their torture to end. I don't want to come across as Mr Caring, I'm as selfish as the next man and probably more insensitive when it comes to asking why the victim couldn't have just done this at home rather than blocking my motorway - and I think I'm joking when I say that...deep down. But in the cold light of day you have to think of the people they left behind. And in this latest case many people confuse success and wealth with happiness - even though people who are purely driven by money will never have enough. Make a million, you want ten, make a billion....see Ecclestone, he should be retired and doing what ever he wants, but he's driven by greed and wealth, and it won't make him happy. In fact he doesn't even look happy. Robin Williams had everything material around him, but I'm guessing that he had become someone who was just wanted as a prize dog that did tricks for people. Wheel out Robin, he'll make us laugh for a bit. Being poor isn't any fun but money doesn't equal happiness, and success is brief and fleeting. You don't want to be reliving the past all the time. The other slight problem with being stinking rich is you can change anything. A court charges you with fraud, you pay them off. You can go anywhere VIP. Someone annoys you in business, have them dealt with. Money can make you all powerful. But one day you will get old and ill, and your money will achieve nothing - you will age and you will die, and this lack of power must hurt even more if you have always been able to buy your way out of trouble. I watched a family member die and it really struck me at that time. You could be richer than Abramovich but all the money in the world won't save you. The most important thing in life by far is your health, physical and mental. People worry about debt, war, Shane Long, parking tickets, home defeats, the state of their lawn. If you have a roof over your head, and food, and your health - you are doing very nicely. *Dr RB is not a qualified health professional and most of his advice should be ignored.

What is the ownership situation of this new training ground? I realise that ownership is not an exact science down that way but it is being spun as theirs, I just wondered if that is true. Is it land owned by Roko, leased to the club long term, plus an agreement over sharing gym facilities? Or is it a proper training ground? If it is the former, the only thing the few will own is a fence.

Bizarre style... Or a pioneering new way? Lazy cut and paste sentences. Likely to annoy many. Odd layout. Criminal some might say. Killing journalism through machine gun delivery. Subs to blame?

It makes you wonder about Pochettino's judgement. He has taken a job where a 5th place finish is failure, Spurs have a divine right to Champions' League football, it is their destiny etc - so he has to take a fairly ordinary squad above Man Utd and Liverpool. Now he thinks he can buck the trend of the huge fees our players have raised and can buy Morgan at half-price. I look forward to seeing him fail, on all counts.

Rather worryingly some of the madder conspiracy theories have been proved correct - arms dealers, non-existent owners, money-laundering, fantasy accounts, mafia connections, prossie-bothering managers, underwater casino plans etc. Nutjobs just ask the questions that should have been asked by the few for the last ten years - plus the odd ones that don't need asking... So out of interest, why the unusual declaration of an 11-month accounting period? - and where did that speedy £50K suddenly appear from?...some fans who had mysteriously missed all the previous begging requests, or a greedy property developer claiming another little chunk of the pie?

Village People have gone a bit downmarket since their last hit. And I think it fair to assume that little John doesn't see a lot of action, so the chance to show him off for the enjoyment of like-minded men must be as good as it gets.

Indeed, that final 20% came from nowhere. And it arrived the very day before the first game. Remarkable. What a coincidence. Like a story of fantasy pluckiness to launch the new season. Can we see the accounts? Thought not.

Jose stands up and shows some spirit, Morgan puts on a dress and starts blubbing. What's French for sort yourself out you big girl.

I'm bored. Can someone find that link to Moneypenny going off the top board like a wardrobe in a swimsuit and emptying the pool - it gets funnier with every viewing.

While I would like to see more quality added before the end of the window, had the board turned down the crazy money offered for some of those players, that would have needed some explaining. Every player has his price, we have done very good business, now we need to strengthen. If that doesn't happen, then I'll be waving my little hankie with the rest of them.

Mero is right about attendances holding up, they've got the pricing right for an injection of capital in the summer, but I think the unusual release of figures for just 11 months trading raised a few eyebrows and hinted that perhaps the 12th month don't look too pretty. After pompey outbid better financed clubs last season and continues to beg, we are not convinced that the leopard has changed it's spots. The constant spin about how fantastic the failure to hit the training ground target is, just reinforces the feeling that the easily-led are once again being led.

Indeed he is a villain, a greedy mercenary, one of the blokes who demanded to be paid his wages - most of which he is still waiting for each month. And here he is now, bold as brass, strutting about like Mr Superstar, helping their fundraising efforts. What a ****.

Whether they hit the target or not I'm sure it will be yet another resounding success, blazing a trail for lesser clubs to follow.