rallyboy

While not impressed with the exodus, it is an exciting opportunity for the boss to prove his worth. And on another positive note, we have just robbed Man Utd and Liverpool in the street, as we did with Arsenal over the Ox who looked worth every penny of £500K in some games he played for us in his last season. If we can't find a decent left back for £10M I'd be surprised. The key is to wisely reinvest the top dollar prices that clubs are paying us....the next four weeks will demonstrate whether the project is over, or entering a new era. The managerial appointment would suggest the latter.

of course Madrid haven't signed him. The highly-rated midfielder will have turned his back on a host of offers from Premier League clubs, declined the chance of Champions' League football and sensibly pledged his future to plucky pompey - who will in turn have spurned the advances of several European giants and fought off competition to retain the services of the future England international, allowing him to lead them to promotion glory. And bestest of all, those 'facts' can all be shoehorned into paragraphs of eight words.

it may be quicker to ask, is there anyone who is impressed with that farewell letter? (Other than people trolling for attention) Poorly-advised is the polite description. An interview talking about the great times we have shared with him and a heartfelt thank-you and goodbye would have gone a long way to halting the out-of-control truck that this hatred bandwagon has become. He can't have wanted to leave like this. Captain Mainwaring had him sussed long before Clattenberg. Stupid boy. But on a positive note, I do thank Poch and Hodgson for whacking up the value of the squad - no one gets a bargain at SMS anymore, it's all top dollar!

He's a bit thick, he's gone - bank the cash and forget him. Save the love for Rickie, a true club legend.

Well if Awford doesn't go over budget he will be the first manager since they won the first division title who hasn't. It just seems odd that you have to officially announce something blindingly obvious. Wenger assures Arsenal fans that he won't pleasure himself with farm animals this season....Mourinho confident that none of his players are heroin addicts....Awford says he will stick to the agreed budget.

Yeah, not impressed by the style of that one, but we pocket the cash and move on.

some good points, and a funny one from Trader! I hope Spurs fail, but I wish the main three players well. It was likely that talented youngsters heads would be turned, but we have done some fantastic business. If the add-ons are to be believed and are realistic, £31M for Shaw?? Nice. Keep the production line rolling. To put it into context, we would drop any player tomorrow if it suited us, so they have no reason to worry about what happens to Saints. Loyalty is a rare thing - remember how Kelvin could have gone to West Ham for an easy life but stayed and played a big part in the return. That aside, there ain't much of it about. Bring on the next era!

Naked wood? Is Avram in da house?... Yes, that child-maimer brought nothing but bad luck to pompey - the honest club was tainted by dirty cash made from illegal arms dealing. Not that he actually owned the club, that was just a little irregularity supported by false paperwork overlooked by the authorities - but I digress. His time at Fratton was a disgrace and best consigned to the boardroom toilet of history! The old villain smashed up the oak panels, did away with the heritage, and his whole reign should be wiped from history - all of it! All of it apart from the Wembley appearances.... And the cup 'win'. And the night that Pele/Maradona declared them the greatest club in sport. And the win at SMS. Yes, it's just another round of that old pompey parlour game,cherry-picking history! Nasty villainous owner gives fans the time of their lives. Luckily Terry the shafted builder took control of the furniture made by Jesus during his old man's take your son to work days, but is there any sign of the old corner flags that were cut from the main sail of HMS Victory by Queen Victoria?

effing 'shares' - surely even the thickest of the thick must now be wondering how the property developers can keep on offering you new shares in something without diluting your existing share of fantasy ownership?

Singing is the least of our worries. It's like debating the title of a book that we haven't written yet. Let's get to the point where we can celebrate scoring a consolation goal without breaking someone's leg, then perhaps move onto putting out a team that can actually compete - then we'll worry about a song.

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.