rallyboy

1.They are so far ahead of projected income that more budget has been offered to Barker for recruitment. 2.Yet they need emergency external funding to keep the ground legal... Those two things don't really make sense when you put them together. Why not just use the extra money to service the The Fortress of Fat rather than borrowing, and surrendering shareholding? I'm sure this new loan isn't a gentle takeover and shares-grab by the heroic presidents, under the guise of kindness and loansharkery to a struggling company with no credit history. There are a few rich pompey fans on that list who may one day have to decide firstly what is best for their cash - and then what is best for their club. First thought is - too many people with a financial interest and a say. If you were looking for a strong CEO you wouldn't appoint the Dave Clark Five.

Champions' League club comfortably beats weakened midtable team after slightly fluked opening goal allows them breathing space. The End. But as we were so outclassed in the 2nd half allow me to take one precious moment away from this game. John Terry hurt in a heap? No, even funnier than that. It was Chambers absolutely skinning Ashley Cole and leaving him for dead. Nice. No doubt MotD will cut that out as it doesn't fit their little storyline of a pro-top four Jose lovefest, but I'll remember it.

dirty jealous scummahs whipped at home by a bunch of nobodies, plucky massive and bestest pompey deserved more, and only robbed of glory by a deflection and a late wonder strike. It's really not fair and I'm quite concerned and worried about their rapid tumble down the leagues. No it's okay, as you were - I've got over it already.

everyone seems to have done okay - or is it that the people who have had a crap year don't really want to reflect on it? I'll have a 9/10 please Carol - and if you offered me an 8 for 2014 now, I'd have your arm off. All the best to everyone.

mmmm, are you basically saying that no one in League Two really buys players anymore, so an embargo is no punishment at all? I did think the quality on the FL highlights show looks horrifically poor in the bottom tier.

Has the reality of the situation dawned on Barker yet, or is he as misguided as Cotterill, UnAppy and Whittingham? His job has always been to turn this bunch of players around, perhaps with the addition of one or two signings who miraculously give up their contracts elsewhere to join him on really low and sustainable wages. He has sounded sensible thus far, but the first moan about restrictions or budgets will end that. Hopefully he gives us as much sideshow entertainment in 2014 as Guy did in 2013.

no need to spit at the chairman tonight - start up the bus, that's another glorious point towards safety!

with all due respect to one or two teams, the lack of quality in that division is astonishing, so their current league position is an amazing triumph for poor recruitment, ropey coaching and bad management. Having already lost to clubs I'd not heard of, they really will have achieved something if they manage to finish beneath some of that dross occupying midtable. We can just hope that their quality over quantity plan continues into 2014. As for St Chalet sticking his neck out and suggesting they might try to reduce the player's debt, can I also guess that a bear might relieve itself, number two style, in a wooded area?

Can someone get the bloke from Mandela's memorial service to translate?

I wouldn't go that far, it could be TCWTB for all you know. Hugs and kisses??

yo Mack, keep the faith bro - even if it is misguided and delusional.

is that really another year of my life lost on here?... All the best to everyone for Christmas - plus health and happiness for 2014.

good point from Torres there, the Conference doesn't mess about, they shoot prisoners, so there would be no room for transgressing. However I do expect them to survive, possibly spinning a last day survival into the greatest great escape since Alan Knight was wandering about with soil in his trousers. Bumping along in League Two would seriously mess up income and that is what they need beyond anything else. Someone has to fund the revival, and every year they fail to go up, the arena gets more rickety, and the enthusiasm for pretending to be fan-owned diminishes. Meanwhile I need to get to St Marys to see if we can wrestle control of 7th/8th in the country, away from a team that spent more than £100M in the summer. While the few need to prepare for the biggest match in their history against Northampton Town. Suddenly it looks like Christmas.

It might seem a bit obvious, but that my little nutjob friends, is the end of any play-off dreams. They will not be going up, and though I doubt that they will be going down, the income projections and the plan of an immediate return to Glorytown are a little bit fuc£ed. The biggest and pluckiest fan-owned dream in world sport didn't fall at the first hurdle, it came over all wheezy on the blocks* - and had to be carried away by rotund St John's staff. As the PDT plan has hit the rocks, just think what Chanrai might have achieved had he been allowed. *Avram and a prossie who suffers from breathing difficulties.

There does still seem to be a little reluctance in accepting the crimes of the past - or the reality of the present. I also suspect that a large section of their fanbase would do it all again for the glory of beating a midtable bankrupt Championship club 1-0, using players who will have to wait about eight years for their wages. Let's not pretend that plummeting from the elite to the basement isn't a punishment of sorts, but yeah you talked me into it, one more relegation should probably do it.

It's a right old slab of history - a proper trip down memory lane, in a good way. Forget the handkerchiefs with your initials on them or cartoon socks, go cultural this year.

like their fanbase, it's all relative.

The portsea myth factory is open for business! Roll up, roll up, get your dock strikes, SS tank commanders, and just in for Christmas, scummahs run on dirty cash from Colombian drug cartels, £100M in debt, the family desperately trying to launder money. :lol: portsmythmatics.

Slade really need to stop before it looks undignified.

Excellent - I'd forgotten the festive calendar game! By my reckoning the two surviving poster boys of the 2013 calendar have so far between them amassed a staggering total of exactly zero appearances for the plucky blues this season. As the club is making progress, my money is on a mere six of the 2014 dozen not surviving the January transfer window cull. It all depends on whether you are a half-full calendar sort of person. Re the quiz - there are so many questions about their recent history that need addressing! But with most of those never likely to be answered... What unique hat trick has the club achieved in the last fifteen years? Or, who is the only portsmouth-born player to score the winner in a post-war fa cup final? (probably)

Money an issue???? No, we are rolling in it! If what I hear socially every couple of weeks comes to pass then pompey will be able to buy Chelsea ten times over! And even if it doesn't, there are several consortiums waiting in the wings to snap up the sleepiest giant in world football - I can't say who but think of China, South Africa and Jupiter. Oh yes, you jealous Nutjobs with your crazy theories wish that there were money issues, but I'm afraid that just isn't true. Even if it went a little wrong we still have the parachute payments to cover everything, and they are ringfenced. Mugs! Sorry I've not been about much since my street cred was destroyed, it's a busy time of year. regards Ho. Ho. Ho.

so it's the nasty league again, allowing the other teams an additional 30mins after the hour to turn the game around. Re the myths and delusion, I honestly believe it is more about ignorance. I have witnessed first hand the lack of knowledge about their recent history. Many of the few think that they have paid off all debts, they don't understand nor care about the business side, they also believe stuff made up about our administration, and they are content to embrace every myth offered to them. While it remains the Isle of the Easily-Led, the fairy tales and delusion will continue. It would be good for all concerned if real questions were asked of the Property Developing Trust, genuine transparency was introduced, and their criminal history was addressed rather than brushed under the carpet as part of a cherry-picking of history. But most only care what happens on a Saturday aftneroon - any crimes committed off the pitch are ignored as irrelevant. If they looked at the whole picture they could move on - and this thread would drift away peacefully in it's sleep.

thanks Mr Bear, and to all the voters what slapped a cross in me box - and you are right, the Lounge is some sort of rundown council estate desperately in need of regeneration, I is definitely looking for some transfer action in the January window. I've been held in the PTS thread remand centre for years now. Me and the Trousers share a cell, and as you know he is a bloke what can fill a bucket before midnight, meaning any time spent in solitary is a breath of fresh air. So Bearsy, as Mr Big on the East Wing, do you reckon you could put in a word for me re a transfer? I'd like to get in on the main board scene and though I'm not sure that I'm fickle enough, or mentally ill, I am prepared to try. I'll throw my season ticket at the dugout if the parking price goes up, or I'll stand looking really serious in front of the ground, waving a hankie to display my displeasure. But as someone who is on the register, I am prepared to make the following offer... If you makes the official presentation at the next home game, I'll pay Mr G a fiver to buy my way off the offender programme, as long as the Bear helps me adjust back into mainstream society and offers me spritiual guidance...and first go on his sister.

The first rule of Transparency Club.

I thought the season ticket total was around 10,000 at about £200 a go. That low price certainly got the numbers in but we always said that it would damage the income for the rest of the season. The plan was to get that hardcore in for cashflow, and then to get a promotion campaign on the go to fill the ground and bring in matchday income. So yes, on paper 15,000 for League Two looks pretty good, compared with people like Newport and Accrington - but the masterplan has gone off the rails. For the self-proclaimed biggest fan-owned club in history, who claimed in their marketing material the best atmosphere in world football, there was an intention to have gates of 18,000+ cheering them back to the Prem. Perhaps a more modest club might accept some stabilising years in the basement, but when you gob off like that and then fail to deliver.... And if you think that is just unrealistic Nutjobbery, check out our own stats from League One and imagine the attendances if we had done season tickets at £200 - we took 50,000+ to Wembley paying full price. Coventry recently took 7,000 to an away game, Leeds took 6,500, people like West Ham can muster 6,000. pompey's fanbase can be measured by their away trips that are charged at full price. They may consider themselves a big fish in League Two, but their second season in the basement will tell us how the projections are working, and how fresh that feelgood factor really is. rallyboy you jealous nutjob, 15,000 is fantastic... Yes it would be - if they were all paying!