rallyboy

team higher in the league pyramid can't afford to retain player, yet potless club crippled by debt signs him.... It has a familiar ring to it! Perhaps we should be advised that he is one of the lowest paid players in the league, and that he isn't costing anyone a penny, and that his wages are covered by parachute payments - that has been the justification for the last three summers. Whatever has happened, they have done very well to rip up their own wages budget before getting into August, and being able to pay more than League One clubs are willing to.

if they are so cash rich, debt-free, and massively ahead of projections after reaping bumper corporate sales and sponsorship deals, why are they doing bucket collections? That's usually the exclusive preserve of clubs flirting with insolvency. I think we must be mistaken, all new fresh pompey is fan-owned and financially-sound. I'm sure they're not begging in the streets like a two-bit crack whore. Unless of course they are quietly struggling to raise the percentage required to wrestle control away from their latest property-developing partner.... No, I'm sure everything is fine. The local media would have mentioned that if it were true, it would have shown in the accounts. And the few valued the whole club at about £3M, but now value ONE of the players at £5M? What an odd island that is for maths.

good to see the myth factory is still open for business and that there are still easily-led simpletons lapping it all up. It's been typed so it must be a fact. Just slightly worrying to see a few pompey fans questioning the wisdom of overspending, and discouraging the signing of Rocha, the poor man's Ben Haim. It's been a long haul and there's still a long way to go but one-by-one, their fanbase is getting it. Please, please, please sign Rocha - he looks expensive, unfit, tactically-naive, and a liability.

Win-win spin. Big turnout = pompey still a footballing powerhouse that everyone wants to see. Poor turnout = Bournemouth fans aren't as passionate or plucky as the few. Let's be realistic though, two minnows going head to head in a dreary friendly ain't the sporting event of the summer. But it did allow The Cat to complete his diploma in Advanced Nutjobbery by following the non-game live, via online updates - an action well above and beyond the call of duty. Good work, great dedication to the cause, even Lord T the official custodian of the thread bonfire will be impressed with that. And that is what this thread is all about, teamwork - people putting themselves out, so you don't have to. That 24/7 hard graft has elevated the PTS thread to the status of the world's leading international news portal for all things blue few. It might be ploughing through fifty pages of court papers to find the one sentence that proves a point, it might be Googling organised crime to run a fit and proper person check, it might be trawling through Twitter looking for rash claims by deluded inbreds, or it might be as simple as loitering outside a Portsea DIY shop in the hope that you capture a shot of a mobility scooter across the road. Nutjobs everywhere, take a bow.

it's great news for the couple, well done. Do I want to hear about it 24-7? Not really. Do I want to watch vacant untalented people who have no information, discussing nothing, and desperately filling hours of white noise television? No. Have I reached a worrying point where Russell Brand starts to make sense? Yes.... The butch and camp and annoying unfunny 'comedian' was ranting about how the public is being fobbed off with sugary news in simple form to distract them from the real stuff that is happening in this world. The media gives people what they or their paymasters want to give them. Meanwhile celebrities abuse kids unchallenged, and all kinds of other horrors go unreported for decades. The beardy freak is right on this one. calm down RB, you're funny on the PTS but this is all a bit ranty, your eyes are bulging, we're scared... In the last few days there has been news of a rape victim jailed for sex outside of marriage, the church has continued to allow wholsale child-abuse, and bankers illegally made millions out of other people's misery. But those stories are not the sort of things we should be concentrating on, they were shuffled to the back of the pack - will it be George, maybe Charles? Tweet us with your idea for a name and we might read it out back to you, for no reason at all - other than it being cheaper than employing real journalists. So forget war and famine, rape camps and corruption, settle down for another cheery day of joyous royal baby celebration, with just enough false hype to bury bad news under. It's what we need to keep us happy. Cliched shallow tabloids and reality TV - that'll keep us all in line. RB you old cynic... Cynic? 'disbelief in the sincerity or goodness of human motives and actions' Yep, guilty. Though I should be more worried about having conversations with myself, not that I really exist beyond this forum...

I can only assume that the game was too big for the ref, and that lowly little Charlton gave it everything in their big cup final. No panic, that squad will be ripping up League Two before you can say what chance have the football creditors of being paid out of the next batch of parachute payments as agreed?

we dream of emulating Barcelona, while they are actually living their dream of being Dagenham. I'm jealous again.

Mero old boy, the problem is that the Trust has failed to live up to the new transparent era that was promised, no one expects sensitive info to be released but the club has been partly saved by people donating their £1000, and those people could expect to be given a few more basic facts. It has been made very clear that sustainability is the key, you may have noticed that the club nearly went to the wall through overspending, twice recently. McInnes set a budget in stone, the bloke from Bury assured everyone that he would not break that budget, it all sounded very sensible for a week or two. Now they are talking about overspending, and we haven't got into August - Guy is turning into Cotterill/Appleton, let's hope he can continue to replicate their heroic records. So what became of the sensible spending approach? Despite the plucky 10K, there must be little spare cash, and loans need paying back in the next few weeks. That money in the bank should NOT be burning a hole in the pocket, it is very much needed, quite soon. but Rallyboy you nutjob, we have 10,000 season ticket holders and Parachute Payments to come... Indeed, discounted season tickets that will hit the gate receipts long term, and the PPs are more spoken for than a young Elizabeth Taylor. but the league are watching our every move, they won't allow us to trade insolvently... Yeah, good luck under their watchful eye, they have allowed two entirely predictable administrations to occur so far. I see a pattern emerging...

Lesson One in blending into the prison system - don't proudly pose for photos in the street, but if you do, always carry a dustpan and brush so you can pick up your teeth. Without wanting to sound like an extremist, my nasty side has no sympathy with him, while my wishy-washy caring side is quite happy to look the other way. Reminds me of when you occasionally hear on the news that some multiple child-raping murderer has been killed in a high security unit. When you hear that, is there anyone out there who can honestly say that they don't have to suppress a little cheer? In fact they should do those pieces as the last little light-hearted bit on News at Ten. Well the economy is in trouble, big job losses on Teeside today, and there's a bad earthquake in China - but on a lighter note, some scummy nonce has been knifed to death in Braodmoor with a sharpened toothbrush - here's Jim with the weather.

We all suspected that they would ignore the budget and the debt, but even I thought they could make it out of July before taking the ******. If they really are going to rip up their dodgy back-of-envelope, hopeful-in-the-extreme accounting plans already, they are following the exact blueprint of the nasty criminals that they so pluckily shooed away. Perhaps not though, maybe McInnes will remind Guy of the plan to rebuild the business in a sustainable manner and deny him further funding? And perhaps, on the very same day, Avram will spy a comely crack addict in a mini skirt and walk directly past without breaking stride.... They have the chance to turn their back on insolvency right now and stick to the budget - but tradition looks alive and well in Portsea. No doubt the Parachute Payments will justify any overspend. Because it's not like the council, football creditors, the CVA, or Robinson are owed anything. Go on Guy, spend, spend, spend! The pompey Way.

That's fantastic news for creditors, Robinson, and the council, who can all now be paid off immediately as the club is so cash rich. They are cash rich aren't they? It isn't that they've banged them out at knockdown prices with six games free to get money in asap, thus leaving no actual matchday ticket sales of any consequence? I'm sure that wouldn't lead to cashflow problems once the loans have been repaid and there's not much left to cover day-to-day outgoings until next year. No, I'm sure they are fine. Let's see if they pack the park, that will be the real test. 10,000 have their cheap tickets sorted, once the plucky lads start ripping up the division the rest will come, the future looks really good. I'm very jealous.

When used by a pompey fan it is meant as an insult so I take it as a declaration of war and tailor the conversation accordingly. My immediate response to anyone who calls me a scummer is to call them a pikey or ask why they aren't at home having a go on their sister, or down the graveyard abusing the dead. That's the fun of living on the frontline, you have to adopt a different attitude to the few and accept no sh!t. Re the dock strike, it did happen - in 1926. In London! It is a story stolen from Millwall and West Ham, and peddled in Portsea pubs by cross-eyed simpletons to the toothless and easily-led. Free myth with every lucky heather. And there are so many myths it is beyond belief. Saints fans all boo their own team, we all leave after an hour, one guy told me we gave away 13,000 free tickets every home game to illegal immigrants, Cortese has borrowed £30M, we don't own the ground - rarely can a fanbase have lapped up so much drivel and accepted it as fact. To top that off, there are even question marks over the accuracy of the original London story, let alone the revamped to suit pompey version.

Game of the day. Aldershot v pompey behind closed doors - two coffin-dodging tramps feebly shoving each other to decide who gets to sleep in the shallow end of their flooded skip. With apologies to Aldershot.

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perhaps Mr Grant has taken on board the pompey accounting policy and rather than investing in infrastructure to improve the site, he just spent the fiver on something frivolous and now has rickety page-loading and fatty broadband? He did go on a lengthy pub crawl the other day, perhaps with your fiver burning a hole in his pocket? - though the only way to make your money stretch to that would be for publicans to accept 2p in the pound.....

I don't know if anyone else has noticed but they do seem rather reluctant to settle debts. Despite the mighty power of the football authorities keeping pompey honest, I'm starting to wonder whether the hero-turned-villian-turned hero-again players will EVER get paid. As Faz says, their parachute payments are likely to go to property developers, leaving another gaping hole in the future projections. And those additional PPs are of course generated by the big clubs at the top of the game attracting further TV revenues and helping out the plucky little minnows who have fallen on hard times. But do we get a thank-you?

Who has a charge on Fatpipes? It's quicker to list those that don't! The council want their money back very soon so any income would be gratefully snatched by the Trust. Think of us when we had to write off millions on the Theo deal for short term gain, pompey must be desperate for any amount from the Tesco gig, but it has to happen soon. Has Robinson shuffled them into a corner where he can now say, tell you what, as you can't afford to pay back my loan next month, I'll call it a donation to your redevelopment fund and we are quits. Or I can always call in my security, thus frightening the council, before I chuck you debt-riddled ****ers out on the street? That is assuming that their cashflow is a little stretched by the slow take up of plucky season tickets by the 'faithful'. Though I like the new strategy. Unable to sell out your ground? Reduce the number of seats until you hit the number of people who can be bothered to attend - thus ensuring a sellout!

I'm not sure whether I should be flattered or worried. To avoid any doubt, the real Rallyboy doesn't linedance, he doesn't watch soap operas, he doesn't do ironing - and he certainly doesn't post on The News. Though RB is amused that those who dismiss this thread as the obsessive work of jealous Nutjobs have obviously spent much time on here themselves, have created a News identity, then gone to the trouble of eloquently posting in the traditional style of the average lucky heather-pedalling, truth-denying, sister-bothering, myth-spreading, terminally-deluded, fatty-handed, clock-stealing, fortress-abandoning pluckster, that we have all come to recognise. Yes, it is indeed envy that drives this ungainly beast of a thread. And for those visitors researching their next News post, personally I would like to see more of my hard-earned season ticket money spent on prostitutes and poor players, and a few more bank notes ripped from the little fingers of dying kids, in my name, while I stand alongside applauding, but you can't have everything. Unlike history, where you can ignore the debt but retain the spoils, and hope that no one has noticed. ...Nearly 90,000 posts would suggest that a few people have noticed. And that's what makes the webchat format so entertaining - history is rewritten, PR is spun, the easily-led are rounded up, facts are dodged, and the Trust glosses over difficult questions faster than a culturally-dim council jobsworth paints over a Banksy.

You make it sound dirty. They were not molesting it, the pretty little plaice was gagging for it! If it hadn't been provocatively strutting around in a pair of fishnets, the 'incident' wouldn't have happened.

Nice little hint on there that some of the returning few think that Brentford was just the start, and that pitch invasions and setting up meets with visiting firms of about 20 dinosaurs from Football Factory Past will be the norm this season. As for the map - that is looking like a tight space to squeeze any ground redevelopment into... In fact it looks tight to fit that Tesco in, so I'm wondering if the artist has been asked to give an impression that is slightly shy of accurate. In reality they could end up in the shadow of a massive store, but with some nice tarmac to park a burger van on. If Robinson's deal goes through they will have no room to move behind the fatty end, and while there would just be enough room to spin the pitch, there would be no room for sensible access to the new ground, so it would be unlikely to get planning permission - especially with the increased lorry and customer traffic of a Tesco next door! Good deal though. For Robinson.

It is still soon if we are talking glaciation timescales. Give them a chance you impatient nutjob! When you take over the biggest club in world football there are priorities. They had to secure the training ground, get the shop open, unfat the pipes, release the kit, pay for the clock, post out 15,000 season tickets, sign an exclusive multi-million pound deal with Tesco to tarmac a corner of wasteland, and get the bins emptied. And they've made incredible progress, probably the bestest progress ever, and now that the bins are sorted they can crack on with other pressing tasks. So they will as promised release the details of the deal in this new era of transparency, but there is a slight hold-up beyond their control - they just need to cross the t's and some need to uncross their eyes.

So the 'stadium development' is a new food kiosk and a bit of car park... While next door neighbour Mr Robinson has sold to Tesco. Nice deal.

why was the woman on the mobility scooter carrying a big painting under her arm?

so apart from trying to stitch up another creditor by playing the old 'nothing that happened before April 2013 has got anything to do with us, apart from the cup' card, and being unable to start pre-season training because of legal issues, and failing to open the doors to their sweatshop ropey kit emporium on time because of legal issues, it's been a pretty average day for the custodians of the club future. This club ownership gig is a piece of ******. Makes me jealous.

I still find it very difficult to grasp this new idea that they claim to have a wagecap, and the bombshell that they intend to adhere to it. It's like Jimmy Savile sternly warning young girls to be wary if they go backstage after Top of the Pops.