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even by obsessive Nutjob standards that is a VERY good spot - it has to be the same development. Do we now have a personal financial link between Arry and other influential people in football? Could there have been any 'unusual' transfer activity between Arry and people with whom he held joint investments? Surely not...no room for mischief there. Back to the present - Guy needs to speak to his boss, they seem to be working to different business plans. ‘The budget is not set. If there is a player and the board think it is possible and if we would like to do it then there is a possibility. ‘But it is not set in concrete that there is money there so you can go and spend it. And I thought the boy from Bury said they weren't budging on wages for anyone.

Even the most jealous and bitter Nutjobs now HAVE to take their hats off to them. That must be the first time in about 100 years, through approx five insolvency events, that pompey have actually paid a debt in full. Just like the underwater casino - it's an astonishing development! Congratulations to pompey fans everywhere, today you can be proud of your club. Whatever next, sticking to a sustainable budget? Or accepting that bigtime football has sailed off into the sunset and you've been left on the dock? One step at a time... By the way, that season ticket income was the working capital for the next few months, so good luck with the overheads and the repayment to the property developer. But today isn't a time for cheap shots, it should be a day for congratulations on meeting the minimum requirement of a proper trading company for the first time in at least a decade. It's like they are a real business. Amazing.

maybe their fringe is on the back of their heads...

so many rants, so little time. On the cycling theme and to offer a little balance.....people who walk their dogs up and down and across cycle lanes without looking, fat pedestrian families who waddle up cycle lanes with their bulging shopping bags of shiny tat and Iceland ready meals, blocking the whole path. People who call themselves proper cyclists but don't wear a helmet, if you want to go at 35mph, what do you think will happen when you come off? Train companies - you paid £3K and you expect a seat? You've lost your £22 return ticket, that'll be £38 for a single...and why on earth do they have those squeaky tables?? Were they 3p cheaper than proper ones? Barclaycard - customer service run by a retarded chimp. Any company that you can't get hold of that hides behind online barriers, but thinks that they can fob you off with a list of frequently asked questions, all of which are totally irrelevant. Ebay search - you searched Ford Fiesta, did you mean Fiesta by The Pogues? No, I'd have typed that if I'd wanted it. Parking fees. Awful music - what are the Pet Shop Boys up to, is that meant to be a serious single? There should be a board of control that stops really poor songs being released. Men who like Mamma Mia or think that Olly Murs is good. These things are aimed at 10 year old girls, what is wrong with you? Gok Wan, why does he even exist? Breakfast telly, bland nothingness presented by bland vacant former-journalists - not much news, but lots of promotions of forthcoming BBC programmes. Strictly on the BBC - people I've never heard of doing something I'm not interested in, to a script based on a strict panto formula. The movie Warhorse - woeful, I'd broken my own leg ten minutes in and begged to be shot. Eastenders, Holby etc - written by idiots, for idiots. Got to go, time for my meds.

has that site been hacked? That's the most sensible pompey debate I have ever seen, all five of their non-deluded fans must have gathered in the same place. And now we know that there are sensible ones, these brave few need to put the rest of the gobby majority on a leash, and advise them to stop fuelling our comedy. If that handful had come on here admitting money-laundering and admiring how Saints were being managed, this thread would have croaked at 100 pages. Thank god for Barbie Boy. In fact, if common sense and facts are the way forward, this would be a watershed moment in inter-club relations! But don't panic, I'm sure there's a portsmyth around the next corner.... Osvaldo used to be called Tina, and he murders puppies for fun.

Indeed Mero, we are all guesstimating. Though it is a fact that selling an extra 2,500 tickets per game at discounted rates for cash upfront, results in a shortfall of more than half a million pounds. It is also a fact that the wagebill that was set in stone, has already been rewritten. Chuck in reliable information about the amount being paid to Ferry, and it all looks a bit 2010. So I'm just reminding you that the owners of your club blatantly lied to you for the last few years about costs, and we were dismissed as Jealous Nutjobs for pointing this out. We are now just wondering if anything has changed under the all-new transparent team... I guess we will just have to wait for the great investigative genius Hall to enlighten us, or for accounts to be filed.

Don't believe the hype. break even was based on about 8K season tickets. The glorious success of discounted sales means actual matchday income on an 11,500 attendance is significantly lower than projected. Add in the ongoing overspend on the wages and the overall figures aren't that clever. Either way, they should be congratulated on seeing off mighty Morecambe - certainly the football event of the week, I know I'll never forget where I was when I heard that Jed Wallace had chipped Arestidou. Off hand I think at our lowest we were something like 52 places below the few? That means we have seen a swing in our favour of about 125 league positions. Nice.

never been so excited by something before the season has started, and certainly not by an England friendly - yesterday was very special, just hoping the season lives up to Rickie's international debut.

in financial news, we spent £1M on Rickie Lambert.... pompey spent £1M on architects' plans for the 80,000-seater Harbourdome. SRL has given us much joy - as have those plans! £2M well spent.

Supporting England, bothering to watch the game, yet not celebrating an England goal because it has been scored by a player from a certain club?? - that sort of stunt was mainly reserved for the National Front, and is the first sign that severe mental illness is beyond help. I'm no fan of that nasty Cole/Terry gang, but I've just not bothered to watch them, rather than boo when they win a game for England. Fair play to most of the few, rather surprisingly there has been a lot of praise for SRL on The News site - mainly because what he did was fricking amazing and difficult to criticise! Though I suspect we should be due a new version from the east sometime soon - pompey's own england star Alex created the winner by making the space for the former Blackpool, Macclesfield, Stockport, Rochdale and Bristol Rovers man to accidentally deflect a corner into the empty net. As for pompey fans being selective about whether a victory is worthy because they are picky about how it was won - oh the irony!

I don't think so Ken, that would suggest that a slightly different version of events is being spun to gain sympathy. Furthermore I find it difficult to believe that anyone would try to influence the easily-led and make them lap up every dubious story given to them as fact. Then again I only see the good in people.

Has Hall spent his newfound wages on personal grooming and sacked his nan from cutting his hair with bacon scissors? If you run a thinly-veiled PR campaign under the guise of investigative journalism and your reward is a job from the winning candidate, there will be personal expenses - that's business. At least he now looks like a man who can afford the legal costs that are the predictable result of launching a legal battle against people who shoot each other. Removed the article but stands by it? There's a thin line between brave and foolish. And I thought we were assured that there were no problems with the blog. Maybe that was just big talk to maintain the spin around the Trust being the only answer? But this development is not an unfortunate twist of fate. Like most of pompey's woes, this situation was completely predictable, and on reflection, must have been a risk worth taking in the PR campaign to steer the fanbase away from other bidders. But once again, just like his great club - you've had your fun, got the result you wanted, now it's time to pay up. They must be running out of buckets.

Not really, they scooped his signature from under the noses of dozens of other suitors who offered way more money, but he chose to leave us and join them as they are a much bigger club... Though I haven't seen him fill in the standard template press release about the bestest most fantastic fans....he must be the only one in that squad who hasn't tried to buy popularity through shallow statements. Then again he's the only one there who does his talking on the pitch. The poor bloke is surrounded by the runts of a non-league litter. They don't need a transfer window, they need a bolt gun, or a big bag and a canal. Perhaps DC recently played in front of more passionate fans, in quantity, and who were a lot more supportive as he played a significant role in our return from League One?

Gaydamak seems to be painted as a panto villain there - but I thought he was a great hero who guided them to plucky cup glory? They need to get their story straight before going public. It seems that Terry the builder covered his back when he realised he'd been shafted. His friend is helping with storage. Otherwise known as securing your debt. If the Accrington tv highlights were anything to go by they should take one of those oak chairs out of storage and put it in a keeper's shirt. And if there was ever a myth with portsmyth written right through the grain, it's that their old Woolworth's table was made with oak from HMS Victory! For a new company that hasn't even got around to filling their first accounts, they seem to be interested in a lot of old stuff that isn't relevant to them and belongs to other people.

Whether it was Wembley or home games, the eternal attendance debate was settled ages ago. We won, it was wrapped up before halftime. There was no right of appeal. They just need to clutch onto their glorious selective history, keeping the trophies, ignoring the wars, brushing out the changes of name, glossing over the multiple insolvency events. Brand new pompey, a fresh start, free of historic debt, no connection to the criminal past - but still trying to pretend it's the late 1940s and wanting to cherry-pick from history. Can you really distance yourself from the child-maimer who bought the cup using laundered blood money and didn't pay the players, and still celebrate the cup? Err, no. Not if you genuinely want to be a new business, fan-owned and respected, playing on a level playing field. Pay the bills and you get to keep the stuff. Tis the rules.

I go away for two days and they open up a new myth factory - all on the back of a glorious point at Accrington Stanley. The rewriting of history is laughable and deluded in equal measure. It's as if the Oxford debacle and ground evacuation has been wiped from the record books. I'm interested to hear of creeping wages and crass behaviour... Normally I might dismiss that sort of talk as wishful thinking, but on this occasion I suspect that it may come from a reliable source. Any more snippets that we ought to workshop into comedy routines?

before one becomes a role model for Barcelona and Manchester United to enviously copy, perhaps one ought to get a safety certificate and open the ground - it's called prioritising. But no, pompey blaze a trail! - a pioneering digital revolution, set against a backdrop of lardy plumbing, unsafe stands, and looming cashflow-crisis...next thing they'll be going on about their catering and radio station being the envy of the world. This isn't running before they can walk, it's like claiming Olympic 100m Gold before the fastest sperm has even thought about going out on manoeuvres.

to hand? You'll need a fricking truck to move that list.

Don't underestimate the power of a packed park. Oxford looks pretty intimidated when they visited the fortress of fat - many of their players froze in the cauldron of noise and looked like rabbits caught in headlights. The famous blue army 12th man really makes a difference, and it was mainly that world-renowned passionate home support that helped them avoid relegation last season.

Same old hype - battling pompey give a good account of themselves against top opposition....err, it was Bournemouth, reserves, and the BBC said that the boys in blue barely created anything. The city is shrouded in spin. If we could be slightly critical of the board for a moment - the lack of transparency in general is one thing, but assuring a rabid fanbase that the wagebill is really low, is odd, and a bit dim. Of course they're going to bay for more players, they won't accept that ALL of that money is needed elsewhere. They've been brought up on a diet of insolvency and a culture of writing off debt, telling them that there's money about is like asking Avram to pick up a lady in a lorry park late at night, and expecting him to offer nothing more than a lift. He'd take her straight up the Junction 2 slip road, before dropping her safely home. I see no U-turns yet. New owners, same strategy.

The trickle of info on figures could suggest that it doesn't include the PPs, if it does they are already terminally insolvent. As for Whittingham looking to follow last year's plans, Clapham is indeed correct - bring it on! Warning - very long and complex sentence coming up..... Though one might ask - if you were already on the limit of your wages budget and you asked for more, and it was found from somewhere, if then the following week Aldershot, a potless basket case (no offence) take your youngsters on loan, presumably without reducing your own wagebill, why the feck would you look to extend beyond your already blown self-imposed wagecap once again by replacing them? This would give the impression that you have no respect for your own budgets, and are still overspending like a club hellbent on self-harm, and destruction. Though I'm sure that the PPs will cover it.

They built a new path for football to follow...and they came. In their thousands. Pouring into the fortress like a blue wave of optimism. Carrying with them the hopes of a city, and football itself. Hampshire was gridlocked from dawn as the swelling blue river of expectancy burst it's banks. And there he was. Washed ashore on this fresh tide of hope, the future of the club - a small rosy-cheeked urchin who had feared that this day would never come. But it had. Like a frail twig carried on the shoulders of a mighty blue river, our little cliche boy returned triumphant. He had stood in the same spot last season, teary of cheek, surveying the green turf that had faded through a bleak winter like the shattered hopes of a misled creditor. On that fateful previous visit he had turned to a man with furrowed brow and innocently asked 'please father, can we have our club back?' Well the innocent dream of that plucky child came to fruition. On Saturday. There it was, out there on the pitch in blue and white, as if Dagenham and Redbridge had come to town in last season's kit. And in this great moment of pride and glory, our small child defiantly held aloft an even smaller card. On its own it was just a bit of card. But when you put it together with other similarly plucky bits of card, it became an army of card - like a really big bit that had been cut up. And so it came to pass. From those small bits of card a message was sent to football worldwide. A shining beacon for others to follow. The biggest community club in the history of the universe had arrived, and our young friend was standing proudly shoulder-to-shoulder with people of a similar height, shoulder-to-waist with others. The trumpets sounded, the faithful roared, mobility scooters revved, and eleven brave blue warriors took their place in sporting history. Doubters had said they wouldn't be able to pay the debt, and that the financial projections were fantasy. People had sneered and said that the ground wasn't up to standard, even saying that they wouldn't be able to sellout and would have to pretend. These foolish few had even suggested that the squad didn't have much quality. Well those doubters look pretty silly now! At 3pm on Saturday the all-new and pluckier blue army took the first step back to the Premier League, watched with envy from all corners of the country. An acorn of hope had been planted, watered in by the hopeful tears of a nation, because pompey are every real football fans' second team. That small acorn took hold and within half an hour it had become a sapling. The first goal of the new era burst the net in front of the incredulous Oxford fans. Still high from their triumph in the boat race, the bicycle-riding students couldn't believe that their hopes had been dashed, though many were still reeling from just being in such exalted company. But yes. Their hopes of an upset were dashed. A towering cross was met by a blue head and the club had established a foothold on promotion! Boaters were thrown to the ground - the fortress rocked, three points secured. The club had indeed taken its first step towards basecamp - next stop the League One title, then onward to the summit of British football! Where a small child will no doubt emotionally plant a tear-riddled flag of hope. But enough of the future, today we should just celebrate the first win of the new era, pausing briefly to laugh in the face of the jealous doubters. Result pompey 1-0 Oxford att 33,990.

MLG, I love Claude - you have my personality sussed! Meanwhile, have they paid back any loans yet? Somewhere out there in a creditor's back office the fatpipes clock is ticking.

I like that, a new record for the fastest and most orderly mass evacuation of a League Two ground in history - 10,000 back out through the turnstiles before the 80th minute! Maybe that will bury the portsmyth about dirty scummahs leaving early while the fatpipes faithful cheer every last kick. In the past it was Thierry Henry, now it's Dave Kitson who left the field to mass applause with his team in total domination, and paused briefly to tell the locals that they are the greatest fans he has ever played in front of...sort of. But now the pressure builds, on Bournemouth! The game this coming week is now massive for them. The plucky blue minnows from League two will raise their game, after all, it is pompey's cup final, their only chance to have a pop at their local rivals. And that's why it isn't fair on Bournemouth because pompey will give it everything in their big game, let's just hope the ref is big enough to cope with such a massive fixture. I'm guessing it's a sell out? And if it isn't, just reduce the ground capacity until you hit the figure of tickets sold.

it's getting a bit embarrassing now, I thought this thread's golden era had passed - it's like people still insisting on giving you lavish Christmas presents in March. I 4-1 think that the few have just had a wake-up call. And there's me going to be seeing three of them tonight... I wonder whose fault it all is this time. Trust out!