rallyboy

that greedy butcher is having a slice of the £13M generated for him by the club at every home game - he should be paying the Trust just to have a shop in the same city. £300M a year!- surely the traders can give up some of that so that the highest paid keeper in League Two can have some more shiny tat for his mock-tudor living room?

that could be quite significant - if they could get bibs and cones they just need a whistle and a little crate for carrying drinks and they could open an academy, in the local park.

No, don't plan for the future! Close the forum academy, offload the younger posters to the main forum where they can abuse each other every time we drop out of the top four, and bring in failed journeymen posters that no one else wants - if we haven't already. We'll offer them unsustainable deals, five posts a day, a delayed and annoying VIP train trip with Granty, new monitor covers, free tickets to the monkey-petting zoo... We're a massive thread with great history, in fact this thread is a fortress that scares visitors, even the Mods can't cope with how big and plucky the thread is.

well Florida M, let me just clarify the latest from the Villainometer dept...tis very simple. McInnes was a massive hero for saving the club, for doing a fantastic deal with the property developer that will lead to a new stadium, and for getting off with a drink-driving charge on a technicality - anyone who dodges the law in pompey gets extra hero points. Then they lost at home to a town that we thought was a motorway service station, and he slid down the scale and was dangerously close to villain status. But then they won again, so an immediate U-turn was allowed, and he just kept his chins above water. His failure to explain the current overspending on wages, the Trust's lack of transparency, and the curious case of the council charge that still stands, obviously cements his hero status - any form of insolvent trading goes down a treat to the east. So he is firmly on the correct side of the hero scale.....unless he sacks hero Whittingham. Unless Whittingham has surrendered his own hero status, thus making him an anti-hero, and McInnes an anti-villain hero. However, Wallace is teetering on the edge - poised to drop straight into greedy villain status as the player they sell on their own terms. His future sale could be spun as McInnes doing everyone a favour by shrewdly offloading the greedy player for a tidy profit after clubs queued up for the youngster's signature, thus putting the sozzled kerb-clipper right up there with heroes like the prossie-botherer, UnAppy, Cotterill and Adams. This attack is dedicated to the Truck man, one of our our PTS brothers-in-arms - I do recall him sweeping through this thread like a ranting nutjob. RIP

just when you think the thread is winding down they start up again with all the scummahs never paid any debt just like us - and Chelsea are cheating too stuff. Can someone PLEASE explain to them the difference between Man Utd or Chelsea servicing debt, and pompey collecting money for a cancer charity, and keeping it? If they still can't see a difference between what they did and how the top clubs are run, then we might as well discuss it with a fencepost. It's like trying to educate and herd a bunch of retarded and visually-impaired cats - along the beach, during a tsunami.

so that tweet from the Trust is now saying the previous owners were failures? And I thought the previous owners were heroes who led them to cup glory... Presumably an important part of the current heroic clear-up operation by the plucky fans has been to acknowledge that the cup was not paid for, and to distance themselves from those dark days. It'll be a shame to see their name scraped off the old trophy but I guess that's the price of admitting to the sins of the past. I would lend them a sander to sort the job, but I fear I wouldn't see it again. And fair play to the Trust for starting the ball rolling by admitting that the owner that led the club to Wembley was a failure. Well, the son of the real owner, obviously - not the one they told the football authorities about, the secret one. No, not the one that didn't exist, the secret one before him - the one that maimed kids for a living.

I suspect that liquidation could be more unlikely next time. Write off yet MORE debts and you are left with a small club with a decent size fanbase for League Two. It could be run on a shoestring - in theory. Unless the next bunch repeated history and started to overspend, but I'm sure that wouldn't happen. The FL could have pressured them but they let them off with the last dodgy administration exit, so I can't see them doing anything, and we've established through some odd decisions that they clearly have friends in high places when it comes to court appearances. I expect them to stumble on whatever future madness occurs.

is it just me being a bit Nutjobbish, or are pompey currently spending their way out of trouble? If they ever file any accounts, I suspect they will show that the wages have crept a bit. The recent PR campaign about projections (not facts) will have muddied the waters, but the accounts will tell the real story. Luckily the parachute payments cover any insolvent trading. Forever!

As a football club they have become irrelevant. Until they start ripping up the divisions they will just exist as an occasional source of comedy.

Antiques Roadshow meets Mastermind. Isn't that the armchair off HMS Victory upon which Nelson drew his final breath? And he's wearing Davy Crockett's original shirt from the Alamo... Nice Ming vase in the corner, and he should get a few quid for Elton John's dentures.

sorry mate - wouldn't want to be accused of plagarism - and it certainly wasn't me on there! Hadn't seen that....they can't have done the Avram one?...the RB Corporation registered copyright restrictions on all prossie/Horton Heath gags a while back.

As a gurning Avram said when the police raided Horton Heath, Ive started so I'll finish.... The overpaid battling midfield heroes of the current team are incapable of doing what?... pass.

There’s no reason why we can’t win the next six games. Shouted Jed Wallace through the door hatch of his padded cell at Broadmoor.... They really need to get a press officer.

I have no time for Milliband, Cameron nor Clegg - no agenda here. But a newspaper that openly supported the Nazis, now has the cheek to imply someone else is anti-British? The Mail has dragged all tabloids even lower.

I've heard some deluded claims, and there have been brave words before, but Guy has just made the bravest pluckiest promise of all time...you can only admire his confidence, it's good to have a dream. Guy Whittingham admitted he and his players had let Pompey fans down and vowed: It will never happen again.

If you offered me a finishing position of 7th, I'd have your arm off. As pointed out above, there are six teams we cannot compete with over 38 games. One or two fans may have to manage their hopes if we slip to somewhere worrying like 10th. Either way we've come a long way from Rochdale in a very short time, mainly thanks to Nige driving us straight through the Championship, and Poch taking us up yet another level. I don't know what the destination is, I'm just enjoying the journey.

Mack is always a laugh - and that gag was a slow burner!... Presumably when he's not on here as his dislecksik alter ego, he's out on Southsea Common with Mero and the toyman trying to explain to the 249,997 who ARE taken in by the hype, why things need to change. I did expect them to beat a quite poor York, it makes you wonder how bad things can get. While they are struggling, there is no way they can force their way into that bottom two. But I'm happy to admit I'm wrong if they do manage that!

don't be so smug, they are on the up! Last saturday was rock bottom - this week they got beaten by someone I've heard of. The swing in league places is approx 130 now.

Pack the Pork - isn't that a party game favoured by Uncle Avram? It would also explain the issues with fatty pipes.

oh yes Mero, I remember you leading that huge protest against him pumping money into the squad. You and a bloke with a handful of Barbie seconds stood firm and managed to get the whole ground to boo the players he brought in. And I'll never forget that protest where you all stood outside at kick off time and chanted for him to leave. A great sporting moment that paved the way for community ownership.

I miss all the criminals, and the prossie-bothering managers. And Ho and his funny old ideas, and the underwater casinos with Saab dealerships and a seabed-based Mr Clive factory outlet. Oh well, that was a golden era of comedy, and we were lucky enough to be there.

The Russian former owner of Pompey was the primary mover in a ‘colossus fraud’ worth over £400m which forced the bank he controlled to be nationalised, a court has heard. Vladimir Antonov, 37, and his Lithuanian business partner Raimondas Baranauskas, 55, are fighting extradition to Lithuania where they are suspected of stripping 470 million euro (£396m) and 10 million US dollars worth (£6m) of assets and funds from Snoras Bank. I seem to recall that despite this reputation, he was welcomed with open arms by pompey directors and fans alike... Yet it took a Nutjob ten seconds on Google to discover the way that he did business. pompey presented him as a prospective owner, he was then given a clean bill of health by football authorities, and this stolen money was used to strengthen the pompey squad. I guess that explains why so many of their fans feel so bad about results they gained while using this stolen cash, even though they weren't to know what he was like. I remember I was as staggered as everyone else when a man who is involved with professional hitmen turned out to be a little bit criminally-minded. If he looks like he's involved in organised crime, if his father has been shot, if people around him are involved in professional hits, if one of his business associates has been gunned down, if he has his own page on a mafia website and the FSA say they don't want him in the UK as he is involved in mass fraud and money-laundering, then you have to wonder how dim you would have to be to welcome him into your club. Presumably someone else's fault.

it's very simple - the visiting players raise their game because it is their cup final - the pinnacle of their careers. The home players backed by fanatical support that they have never experienced anywhere else, have turned Fatpipes into a fortress. This world-leading backing has spilled over into pressure, thus making the home side the underdogs in someone else's imaginary cup final cliche - but on the plus side, it gives them additional plucky and battling status. Meanwhile the referee who will have recently been officiating Championship games etc, fresh from reading his inbox full of anti-pompey emails from his bosses, will be overawed by the occasion. He will find the cauldron of hate atmosphere of a League Two basement battle similar to an Istanbul derby, and way too big to cope with. As a result he will give decisions to the team with hardly any support in the arena. So any defeat is clearly the fault of other people. Team selection, recruitment, coaching, and an obvious lack of squad fitness have no bearing on the league table.

That’s why Sports Direct want to get behind our shop – they see this as a massive deal for a massive club. Perhaps one day someone at the club will recognise that it's over. Like concentration camps and rationing, they were big in the 1940s. They are now in the bottom tier, on merit. I fear it will take a home defeat by some team we've never heard of to make them realise that they are not massive. Repeating the claim just make them look silly, and fuels this little bonfire.

surprise, surprise, Robinson controls the future of pompey. He waves cash, they have to dance, and approve any plans he submits. That's the debt-free pompey owned by the fans. Massive. And if you sat on Terry's handcarved playschool chairs to eat off the famous £500K table that is from the Mary Rose and rescued by Prince Charles in person, they're so short you'd have your chin on the placemat. Who ordered the chairs, Snow White?