rallyboy

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.

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.