rallyboy

I loved the New York album and some of the earlier stuff, but let's not pretend that everything he produced was great. I thought he was looking well on MotD, considering.

you also have to understand that some of the bitterness that pours out on here is fuelled by living on the frontline and having to hear the deluded claims about dock strikes etc everyday. With all due respect, I doubt that Woking is full of gobby Skates who refuse to accept the league tables as fact, and gob off about how rubbish Lambert/Lallanna is, how desperate England must be, and how they are the biggest team in Hampshire with the best support in world football. That should be taken into account before sentencing nutjobs.

mongs? Nice touch. when was the last post about the takeover? Errr, six minutes earlier... As was pointed out two years ago when a certain someone described everyone on here as nutjobs and said the thread was over, it has evolved into a news portal of all things Skate. And before the pedant police arrive, I believe the takeover won't complete for approx another three or four years when the terms have been honoured - so technically this takeover is still ongoing, but a name change to the thread might be in order. The other little thing that I do on this forum is, if I'm not interested in the subject, I tend not to look at the thread. For instance, if we lose today and the mad people go bonkers, I'll not bother to look, let alone post. Ditto for a discussion on the history of the doorstop or a debate about the different gear linkages on pre-war looms - if you aren't interested, just don't get involved.

Good point Hatch, he has been very lucky as he speaks no English and can't communicate with half of the squad - according to some gullible tabloid readers. What a crazy mistake the club made there... I remember all those people from other clubs gobbing off and hoping we got relegated post-Nige, some supporting Harry and QPR to survive so that we would go down, others predicting Saints in freefall. Add in the media-organised handkerchief non-protest, and people of a mischievous nature might be inspired to say at this point, up yours. Fickle old business. Three losses on the trot and some will be asking for his head. In the meantime, what a journey!

He wants to be the best. A bit of shiny tat from a bunch of bankers doesn't quite hack it - you get no points for it. Fair play to him, and well done. Onwards and upwards.

if we are linking the two subjects, could I just point out that one Skate told me recently that Lambert is a just a lazy and overweight journeyman... The other relevant conversation I recall was as I was coming out of fortress fatpipes after our 1-1 draw. I ran into someone I vaguely know who smugly told me that we had no decent players. I said what about Lallana? His mate said he didn't know he was playing. 'He was the one who skinned your entire midfield, in alphabetical order, just in front of the dugout' I observed, waving them off to League Two, and bringing the conversation to a shuddering halt as the bloke obviously wasn't blessed with the IQ to sit the correct way on a toilet. I'm sure they're really pleased with the look of the England squad. And they claim to be football fans.

It's the nasty Football League picking on pompey again! Just like they did when they made them drop down a division when they didn't have many points, and when they horribly let them off a points penalty when all other similar clubs have been punished, and when they allowed them to trade insolvently so that they could launder more stolen money through wages that still haven't been paid, and when they allowed them to sign players during a transfer embargo, and when they turned a blind eye to blatant financial irregularities, and when they didn't investigate why the club had a a ghost owner, etc, etc. Nasty Football League, why don't they pick on someone else for a change?

I've got over it already. Fair play to those that travelled.

several debates here, mainly about inconsistency, we've been robbed of several this season. How can a player rushing at the ball with both hands out to block a shot not be a penalty (Norwich Saints), yet the ball striking a player's hand as it flies off his thigh from two metres away is? (Spurs last week) Re diving, personally I see a subtle difference between a striker sticking a leg out at an unusual angle to catch a keeper as he goes by, and a clumsy defender sticking out a leg and inviting you to fall over it. It's not the striker's responsibility to avoid tackles that will earn penalties, but refs need to understand exactly which player is making the contact. And why will refs not deal with fouls at corners?? Any defender who has his back to the ball and his hands on a player is fouling.

there he goes across the great divide - local hero Wallace is evolving gently into a greedy villain who they want to get shot of. I'm sure that when he talks to Championship or League One clubs about a deal he will be devastated that a massive League Two club offloaded him. Or are the facts of this transfer already being rewritten in advance to save time? I'm not sure that the plucky midtable minnows have any say or control over what he does next, to pretend that they do is deluded.

Plucky blues hero Shaun Cooper says in this league you go to some places and they are rubbish stadiums with no fans. Then you come to us and there is a nice pitch, big stadium and loads of fans. Rubbish stadiums? Classy. You are in that division on merit son. And you should have started on minus ten, so it's no time to start disrespecting those clubs, some of which have already given you a right football lesson - and they haven't raped their local businesses.

Mark Catlin has revealed Guy Whittingham has been given the go-ahead to strengthen his squad. Well there's a surprise. The club have received unbudgeted income through their progress to the quarter-finals of the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy. Presently they have earned £12,000 in prize money Enough to pay off five small businesses - or to bring in more runts from culls at other basement clubs. With all this new money sloshing through the business, how about they do something radical. Like paying off some effing debt? Or fixing the roof? They need a change of mindset.

At last, a pioneering fan-owned club gets to play at Fortress Fatpipes. No property deals, no debt, just fans. Something for smaller less successful newly-formed clubs to aspire to.

the gig I saw was the Albert Hall about ten years ago and the set sort of stumbled along a bit, and then halfway in, he just went up through the gears and turned it into something special. In addition to all the health matters, he had 'something' - it might have been the lyrics, the use of guitars - don't know, but for me, and we're all different, he just had that special something that sets some artists above the ordinary. While the quality of his output was varied, thankfully he threw so many tracks at recording studios that there are many great ones. He has left a big hole in music. I don't see it being filled by Olly Murs or One Direction.

great songwriter - personal faves, Strawman, Romeo and Juliette, Heroin, Perfect Day - in fact, shedloads. Sad but predictable loss.

to be fair, I've never really been fully convinced by the 200 plucky people in a leaky shed is much better than 80,000 on tour argument. If that little deluded myth about the 'greatest atmosphere in world football' was to quitely fade away it might just save them from further ridicule. So I hope the few persist with the bestest tag! A point at Torquay. Nice.

Difficult one... I'm always wary of people who speedily declare that they have no regrets - there's always a little something here or there where on reflection you think, maybe I could have done that differently, or maybe if I'd dug a bit deeper or mixed the concrete better then they wouldn't have found her. But personally, I wouldn't change anything significant. Though leaving what must amount to about a whole year of my life in the PTS thread could be considered wasted time. But it has been funny!

Gruff's right. Great to see work on the famous casino has finally started. Presumably Mr Clive will be taking his leather goods into the shallow end of the development shortly.

56% minus the VAT and Tax/NI must be below 40%. Offer 20p in the pound that you never intend to pay brings it down to 8%. Go into admin again and Wycombe are left with so little that pompey have in reality had 99% of the play - making them the biggest club ever, and trailblazers for the use of digital media in sports marketing. Don't like to go off topic, but... Pointless? The One Show? Do you people not have off buttons on your TVs?

at least they aren't wasting any money on video production. Though getting Harry's dog to balance the audio didn't really work, especially as the little pooch kept sticking her head in the bottom of the frame and grinding her teeth. Nice to hear Bob Harris again.

just watched it - we were lucky there, Utd appeared to have 90% of the ball and could have scored about ten, whereas we only got into their half twice and 'stole a point'. Anyone who went up must have been really disappointed to see us so comprehensively outplayed by a rampant Utd - we barely got a touch of the ball.

indeed, they are doing really well, pleased for them, top result today - that should be lead story on Meridian sport, unless Bournemouth got a good result two divisions higher. Are pompey still in the football league?

I see Connolly has now missed four matches and his return doesn't seem imminent. Who could have seen that coming? Didn't he agree to leave if he missed a long run of games through injury? That could save them a few quid... If they hadn't given him the coaching role. He's more likely to rip up a hamstring than his contract.

was proposed a while back...the idea went away. I've had an injection in my face before and that effing hurt, so I don't want anyone armed with cutlery messing around in the basement dept. Thankfully all my boys are swimming in circles these days, they might be out on manoeuvres fairly regularly but I can't see them achieving much.

lucky I wasn't about earlier for the whole seasoning-based punfest, I would have relished getting involved in that. As for the charge, if you've paid off the debt and met all conditions, then get the charge lifted. It's not the rantings of 'mongoloids', it's a fair question that any pompey fan who has chucked a grand down the shi!!er should be allowed to ask - why is the charge still there? We can only pray that Europe's finest living investigative hospitality and community liaison manager will be penning another PR-heavy and selective blog to explain whether they are being vague about satisfying the council, or that they are just hugely inefficient and have little grasp of how high finance works.