rallyboy

has anyone seen my goat?

you have to be pretty annoying to get blocked... Congratulations! Though I suspect you may be overqualified in that respect - personally I suspect you must be one of those bedwetting nutjobs blinded by hatred, and Phil finds your golfing celebrity encounter stories dull, while Granty thinks you moan too much about our fine rail services. No wonder you were blocked, probably vocalising the questions that the few fear to think....brought it upon yourself! That said, keep stoking the fire.

There are so many sticks Chez, but let me have one last whack as it is a sturdy one... As you so kindly remind us Mr View, I and many others here are nothing but effing losers and c**ts, and indeed we are all blinded by hatred - but that said, I still think that dressing up donations to pay player wages as a 100% charity event is out of order. You may see decency in the football club getting out the charity begging bowl to quietly pay the wagebill, but do you know what, I think I still disagree! And while irrational abuse is a fine attempt at talking anyone round and a shrewd tactic that should be deployed far more in high-brow debate on Question Time, I'm not entirely convinced that your eloquent and beautifully-crafted argument has swayed me on this occasion. But I thank you for adding a new dimension to the discussion. The event is clearly promoted and labelled as a charity bike ride. But half of the money is going straight into a local business. You support that approach to club finance - but surely you can see why a bunch of blindly-hating effing loser nutjob c**nts might not?... If the Saints Foundation started diverting charity funds into club coffers I would be horrified. If Liverpool started taking a cut from the Justice campaign they would rightly be condemned. This is not about Nutjobbery, it's just ethics and morals.

Geography ain't the problem. There is no issue at all with the 50% that is going to charity, whether it's in portsmouth, Southampton, Sutton Scotney or wherever - tis a worthy cause and a fine effort by all. It's the £8,000 being diverted into club coffers under the banner of charity that might make people recall the days of big bouncing cheques on the pitch and theft from kids in wheelchairs. The politest way to put it would be that they may have been poorly-advised. Raise funds for Jack. Then raise funds for the club - but don't kid the public that both gigs are charitable.

One doesn't like to tap into an open goal but when it's presented it's difficult to resist.... Indeed there is a very worthy charitable cause for a young child who died.... Is this cycling event really raising funds using that worthy cause as a selling point BUT diverting half of the public's 'charity' donations to pay player wages and to keep the boardroom drinks flowing? Really? If true it wouldn't be a new low as stealing cash from dying kids will take some beating, but dressing up begging to sort a cashflow shortfall in a poorly-funded business, as a charitable act, is a pretty good contender. Some people still need to understand that there is no share, there is no glorious ownership, fan-control is a fantasy myth spun to help the cartoon soap opera plot to hobble along in a manner that is pleasing to the eye of the hard-of-thinking. There are just donations, and these are used to pay the likes of Kitson and Connolly, to buy cases of Aldi Fizz, and to pay off Barker and Whittingham.

As if we didn't know it from the decision-making, their directors box looks short on professionalism. Is McInnes following the trail that TCWTB blazed? Once a figurehead and harmless character, now a figure of fun and ridicule who shames the rest of the fanbase. You can dress him up but you can't take him out.

This is all going wrong! Their survival will be so comfortable they can't even spin a great escape into folklore. There's no glory in midtable obscurity and abject failure - simple folk demand a final-day, last-gasp hero to celebrate, worship....then fail to pay and abuse. How else can the easily-led be distracted from the Trust losing control of the club? Poor PR.

That Easter 'sellout' was 4,500 home fans paying on the day. With a massive financial boost like that I think they should give Awfs a five year contract and an increased warchest to take the south's biggest club back to the point where they can try and compete with lesser mortals like Bournemouth, who are comfortably fifty league places above them. But in the defence of the few, I have referenced the league table from 2014, not one from the 1940s - so it isn't a fair comparison of where the clubs are right now.

No, but Defoe and Crouch shared the trophy as the fastest heroes up the A3 once their wages stopped, Liam Lawrence was nominated as ticket office assistant of the year, Jonny Ertl still holds the record for most squirrels eaten in a tent by a player not costing the club a penny, Cotterill's US tour broke several records for pointlessness and lying to the fanbase, and of course Avram was three times a finalist in Horton Heath's slowest driver through the industrial estate competition - and he came first, every time. But no is the short answer.

Looks like the dream is over. I thought they would make it to the summer without losing a majority shareholding. How long before 26% becomes an issue? They are so not 'fan-owned' it isn't even up for debate anymore. We are fan-owned. KL is a fan, she owns us. Chelsea are fan-owned, as are Villa, etc, etc.

She's so hot she brings her own extinguisher...but why was she was dressed like she's playing The Fonz in a camp musical? It has to be said, looking at that picture, I've been to school fetes that have spent more time on presentation and branding. Next time they have a spare tenner the Trust's official tablecloth could do with an iron. Do we know if anyone was allowed to ask the awkward questions? Any local press thrown out for indepth quizzing?

The City Council that saved the club via a rather odd loan, is giving an award to the Trust for saving the club?.... Sorry, I forgot, local elections around the corner! Everything happens for a reason.

They do seem to struggle with maths. The budget should be guided by accurate projections, not what everyone else is doing. McInnes is saying that he will just raise the spending, because other people have raised theirs....perhaps the others didn't give away season tickets, or don't have to service massive debts?... He has already given up on stability and is blindly following a dream. The name above the door has changed but it's business as usual. I still don't understand why, if their budget was so low, how did they manage to outbid other clubs? Bury couldn't afford the keeper, yet the lowly potless minnows can... I guess we will be dripfed this upbeat nonesense until the season ticket deadline day.

Congratulations to Luton, the new management at that club were shabbily-treated and shunted right out of the league. It will be good to see a big club in League Two that has been penalised and come back strong. The few should remember how lenient the authorities have been with them, from imposing penalties with no effect to ignoring their own rules a year ago, an act that has kept the club in the league now. The league also kindly averted their eyes to all of the financial irregularities, false-ownership and criminality that has surrounded the club in the last decade. pompey owe them a big thank-you. Had penalties been imposed in the style of Luton Town's case, pompey would be having local derbies every week in the Dockyard League.

That's a lot of grounds to visit! He sounds like the sort of guy who when younger was busily filling scrapbooks, making his own league tables and obsessing over stats. I wasted those formative years by climbing trees, talking to girls, listening to music, playing football and trying to jump my pushbike over things...

I never post on here, apart from when I do.

So they just need a swing of approx .3% and the LNW individuals have the majority shareholding, to add to their majority control of the board. Seeing as the 59% was quietly whittled down to under 51% over six months, it wouldn't surprise me if an emergency cash injection to pay just half a wagebill over the summer would be enough for the few to lose control of the biggest fan-owned club the world has ever seen. Then again ownership isn't about a bit of paper, it isn't about figures, ownership is not lost just because someone else owns it, oh no. Ownership is about what's in your heart, and this pioneering journey to end all journeys was started by that single tear on a child's rosy cheek, and who can forget how that lone salty droplet proudly gathered with many and washed the criminals and their dirty debts out of town, leaving the cup behind - and those tears are now the frothing maelstrom upon which the club is sailing to glory, like a plucky twig carried aloft on the shoulders of a mighty blue river, a trailblazing river that will ripple throughout world football and guide the game's direction for generations to come. So even if someone else 'technically' owns the club, the fans will always have full control. Sort of.

They lose enough evidence when it suits, you'd think that the old bill might have mislaid his laptop, or stored it safely for him in a bath of water. Some police already mistakenly think that they can delete images or prevent legal photography in the street, let's not give them power to do stuff like that. If you think the police should delete these pix, imagine your mate being beaten up by a couple of policemen at a game and you film it on your phone. You have just voted for those policemen to legally delete the evidence and arrest you for anything they fancy. This laptop contains family pix, given to the perv by the family, or taken by him at family events. They are not porn, and they belong to him. The real issue should be stopping him from abusing kids in the first place.

That's what I was wondering. How can they be ahead of debt repayments whilst increasing debt? It sounds like someone is spouting spin. Or perhaps.....and I know this is unlikely and I'm going to be shouted down for even mentioning the crazy idea....but maybe the figures don't stack up?

Spring is here, it's time to start bigging up next season in a desperate attempt to sell season tickets and more donations. Keep an eye out for 1. Talk of a promotion challenge. 2. Reference to a busy summer shakeup with the board backing the manager to spend big on wages. 3. More revenue being discovered from somewhere. 4. Morale-boosting warcries from players who pledge to give everything to get the club back to the dizzy heights of League Two midtable mediocrity. 5. Anything celebratory about the Trust's first chaotic year in charge, purely spun to distract from reality. So what has the Property Developing Trust actually achieved in a year? The fans own less of the club than they did then. They have appointed and sacked two poor managers. They will finish approx 88th in the league pyramid. They have overspent on wages in the annual failed promotion gamble. They gave away season tickets too cheap in a failed attempt at packing the park. They failed to get enough donations so they keep extending the deadline. They have given crap players long contracts. They embraced the pin-up girl of the local far-right without researching the family. They are supporting a property deal that landlocks the stadium and leaves it vulnerable to future development - all in return for a small bit of car park. Have I missed anything? Probably.

We are debt-free they shouted from behind their pile of debt. Yes, that was a great day. The local business experts had driven all the criminals out of the club and the fans would return in droves to pack-the-park. They were all set for a promotion season in front of sell-out crowds....there was no excuse for empty seats, they were cheap and every penny went into pompey. Guy had his plucky warchest and the pick of the free-transfer market, it was onwards and upwards for the biggestest club outside London. If anything they were too big for most games, and the little clubs who made up the numbers were overwhelmed by being in such exalted company as the mighty blue giants ripped up the division. Whoops! Well I've enjoyed the year. They are spoiling us, there can't be another year as funny as this one around the corner, can there?

It always makes me chuckle when someone tells me they have just 'loaned' one of their kids money - you can wave goodbye to it! Personally, in simple terms, I don't want my kids to worry about money - but I want them to understand that if they borrow something, they pay it back. Last time my daughter started paying off properly I wrote off the last amount to give her a pleasant surprise. The key is that they make an effort and don't take payouts for granted. And they certainly don't owe us money while still managing to have three holidays and a new car - If they are broke I want to see them suffering! You can always remind them that if they owed money to a bank instead of you, they would be less generous and would come and take stuff away. Good luck with the balancing act.

Indeed, when you get mocked for your fashion choices in South Wales you know that you've hit rock bottom! Now they're avoiding West Ham, Millwall, Leeds, Cardiff, Stoke etc, presumably some old men are reliving the excitement of Football Factory by frightening the big firms from the likes of Accrington and Northampton. Perhaps they will have tales to tell their great grandchildren about the day that they took the home pub in Morecambe or Torquay? And they are such dinosaurs from a bygone age that they can actually tell those great grandchildren their stories when they get home that night. They have so found their level.

I do hope Rangers aren't trying to gatecrash the insolvency club self-love-in with their paltry 49,000 fans at a game in the 4th tier. Everyone knows who is the bestest in the world, their loyal minibus of fans keep reminding us. They are so small it is embarrassing when they make these claims. Remember that footage from a Poznan under 12s fixture? That is a passionate fanbase.

I was only discussing that with a pompey fan on Friday. I told him that the rivalry changed for a lot of people that league cup night, previously people were not fussed what the blue quarter of Hampshire was up to, but when you start abusing the dead in our stadium, you are asking for trouble. I also mentioned the dignity given to Flahavan but I just got the old, it was only half a dozen pompey fans at SMS that night and they were downstairs and didn't realise, and the Saints fans made most of the noise, and you shouldn't have held the silence at that game. The alternative was to say to a visiting chairman, we won't be holding that silence tonight because your fans can't be trusted not to behave like filthy inbred pikeys, and some clubs might have taken as an insult. Their behaviour since, and particularly over JayRod, just supports that theory. You are also correct about Chimes, where I was astonished to see sensible debate when I last looked. The contrast to POL where they just make stuff up and show an inability to grasp basic maths or grammar is significant. 50% of their fans must be hugely embarrassed by the other 75%. I'm told there is even a pompey song that refers to Jimmy Savile having relations with a tramp, and we discover during the chorus of this potential Eurovision entry that the lovechild of that beautiful union is TCWTB. So there are sensible pompey fans.... I know that's a bombshell, but they're shouted down by the home-tatted, EDL-leaning, wonky-eyed, sister-bothering majority.