rallyboy

Solidarity? I can only assume that the reports of plucky booing and threats of physical violence against their own battling players have been washed away in the river of hope that came off the stream of spin that emerged after the storm of expectancy and the drizzle of despair had blown away the cobwebs of criminality allowing the rising tide of faith to burst the banks of belief at the fortress of bo!!ox.

a man with an IQ of about 50?

I was disappointed at Crouch - he now has the mobility of a telegraph pole and makes Rickie look as quick as Theo Walcott. Apart from leading with his elbows at every opportunity, kicking out when frustrated, and shouting at the ref after committing an obvious foul, he was unlucky to get booked. But Stoke are so much fun to watch it didn't detract from the spectacle. Coming soon - Hammer Films present West Ham v Stoke - good luck to Sky selling that one as a Super Sunday etc!

You come home from a frustrating afternoon and so many times in recent years there is a little present to cheer you up. Sometimes it's a drab home defeat, on other occasions it's a gloriously plucky point against the odds. Today it's Exeter equalising SO late that half of their players were in the lounge, and a couple of them had even made it home and were sat on the sofa watching the rugby. It seems that Richie's fan-owned, debt-free, gallant battling troops slipped up again - presumably because the game was too big for the ref. Madame Football is a fickle mistress, and she loves a bit of Karma. She's dishing it out to the few like a Horton Heath..........used commercial vehicle sales advisor.

it makes none, but now you have gone, and you must be looking very old tonight The devil will find work for idle hands to do, I stole and I lied, and why? Because I had games I wanted to win. But now you make me feel so ashamed because I've only got twelve fingers...etc

Pointless piece of portsmythmatics alert. Just to demonstrate how much they have ripped everyone off, if the 95,000 posts on here were judged at the same rate as their two CVAs, the TOTAL number of posts on this thread would be downgraded firstly to 19,000, then to 190. And that grand total of 190 posts would be staggered over four years. This leaving the bestest thread of all time as the subject of less than one comment a week...

Hero News - David Norris, the man who scored their late winner at St Marys, the legendary goal that denied us back-to-back promotions and kept them in the Championship, is back in the fold as a hero. He became a villain when he had the audacity to ask where his wages had got to - well he has now paid up the £900 that he pledged over a year ago, making him a hero once again! This gives him a share apparently, in a small car park adjacent to a superstore. I'm guessing that this financial blow was softened by the fact that pompey have to pay him £4568.26 a month until sometime in 2016. His involvement is a great news story, not a shallow piece of PR by a bunch of property developers begging for donations to delay their ongoing serious cashflow issues. And I'm sure cash-strapped Leeds teetering on the financial brink again, will be pleased to read that one of their players is chucking cash into a black hole in the south. Talking of shares, I was explaining yesterday to a fairly intelligent pompey fan how it is not a share and that it has no financial value. He thought he would sell his donation one day when a big investor comes in. I'm not sure that they read all the small print.

Begging? That's an odd way for a debt-free, well-managed club to behave. I do get the feeling that there will be a missed payroll or annoyed unpaid supplier story around the corner in the next few months. But at least pompey now have a good motivational manager in place who will get the best out of the players he has.... Connolly on the squad set up at Oxford - They are very bubbly, really good atmosphere, a lot of men who are treated like adults who are trusted to go and perform on the pitch.

Richie has scrapped the development squad now. Bit of a desperate move when developing your own players is the only way forward. If their academy goes the same way we know they have finally stopped trading and put the cat out. Pity really, we were told before that it was the envy of all other clubs. (Portsmyth no.283)

That must be the £20M that pompey are due from Tesco after the council give them the land for nothing. (anyone who hasn't followed the thread in full must wonder what the frick we are on about half the time)

in between dealing with alleged sex offenders the council has opened the door for Tesco to do their thing by lifting restrictions. While the club is excited at the prospect of a 'significant cash injection' towards ground redevelopment, I suspect the real outcome will just be a car park. Plus landlocking by a supermarket, and a massive profit for big-hearted Robinson.

So let me get this right, you want £20M, but you refuse to release 52% of the 'shares' for reasons of ego - and the people who are bankrolling the other 48% aren't allowed to sell by the restrictions imposed by the Trust manifesto? That means you have created a business model that prevents outside investment of any consequence, unless you do a full U-turn and abandon any claims to be fan-owned... As you have ringfenced the business and restricted new funding, other than from a handful of property developers, or donations from children of white supremacists......I'm out.

Leeds United struggling to make ends meet on Championship income? A big club with a proper history and a massive fanbase unable to compete... That doesn't bode well for a small club two divisions lower with ancient history and a modest following. I'm not sure this whole fan gig is going to work.... In fact I'm seriously starting to wonder whether the figures actually stack up. To progress they will need someone to come in with £20M+ who only wants 2% of the business, so the property developers and fans can all retain their power. I think they have got themselves in finance terms, into a little bit of a pickle.

They have been unlucky. Buy a club riddled with ENORMOUS debt, sell season tickets so cheap that you cripple your cashflow, appoint a crap manager and there you are all set to rip up the division. As long as you don't pay over the top for a dodgy keeper or ship out the only quality player in the squad it's a great plan - what could go wrong?

The meltdown begins?? Where have you been for the last four years! Presumably the game was too big and fatty for the ref today. Or the Torquay players had the advantage of being sleepy.

Connolly must be wetting himself with laughter! As we all are.

Am I right in thinking that England stalwart Mick Mills was an apprentice at pompey and they disbanded their youth set up back in the 60s and let him go? I'm sure they wouldn't make that mistake again. #harry

No surprise - overlooked for the job, taken off coaching, playing role reduced. 1 out of 10 for man-management, though time will tell whether it is a masterstroke or another clanger. He may have fitness issues but Connolly's value to the team has been obvious from day one. If you are competing at a very high level and you have a squad full of quality you can afford to make a stand and send star strikers to Juventus or Oxford as a punishment - it supports a club's reputation for integrity. However, if you are fighting for every point to save your job in the dirty basement of League Two and you have no reputation, you don't have such luxuries. The next task is to write Connolly out of history - never rated him, apart from winning us matches single-handed when surrounded by a team of carthorses, what did the dirty scummah ever do for us?

Less cheek from you Lord T - nothing wrong with living in the 80s! I'm currently on a steam-driven Nokia, every individual letter has to be painted by a monk.

Indeed Nick, it is decent away support for League Two - BUT NOT THE BEST IN THE WORLD! In some cases they have taken about half of what we did to lower league grounds, in some cases a quarter - and we can't match the travelling support of people like Leeds and West Ham, so we don't crow about it. That is the difference. They have forgotten what big clubs like us do, so they think they are at the pinnacle of everything. Something big is about to happen, I can feel it... Only because I'm going offline for a few days and I know I'll return and find 15 pages to plough through! So when I go quiet, panic ye not, I have not abandoned nutjobbery. I haven't been abducted by Kora who is using me as a sex slave, I haven't been shot by an arms dealer, I'm not doing favours for Avram behind a skip on an industrial estate, I'm not petting monkey-chickens in a designated area, I'm not swigging a Vodka and come on the veranda, I'm not even buying discounted leather goods next door to an underwater Saab dealership and casino. I'm just sitting quietly and awaiting the return of my computer.

just sat down to enjoy their latest goalkeeping calamity and Meridian didn't show their goals... Is this the slippery slope to non-league? They think nothing of showing us Basingstoke Hedgehogs against Poole Squirrels in all sorts of minority sports, have the few sunk so low that even Fred has now abandoned ship?

That is the greatest typo ever! Absolutely spot on - look at her, she's gagging for a vodka and come! Shaken, not stirred. Remind me not to have a drink at Andy's... As for the bleating about criminal owners. We discovered he was a crook within two minutes on here. He was a crook. The FSA said he was a crook. pompey ignored all that because they wanted Lithuanian pensioner's life savings and laundered drug cash - and only moaned about the FaPPT when they realised that he was a crook WITH NO AVAILABLE MONEY.

Carson has bucked the trend there, he hasn't made it to full hero status and he's already dropped into the villain zone. I still can't see them managing to get out of the division first go, there are too many equally poor teams around them. If this comes to pass their feeble survival will be heralded as a mighty victory. It's what the few want to have read to them by people who stayed at school beyond 13 - they want escapism, fantasy, heroes, and tales of plucky children from rightwing-extremist families. They don't want balance sheets, reality checks, league tables or cashflow forecasts. So I still think they'll have a great escape to celebrate. But it would be funny to be wrong.

lowly.

IMO Barker just made it quite clear on Solent that he has no time for Connolly. He wants players who train, 'we can't rely on people for 25mins'. Yeah Richie boy, ship out your best player. Either way they get another bus ride to Southsea tomorrow.