rallyboy

That is so unfair! The football authorities put them into this mess by forcing dodgy owners upon them and the Football League keep punishing them for the same offence. They won't even let them put out a competitive side so it's not fair on other teams too - and now they threaten to chuck them out?? Someone needs to put this right because pompey have done nothing wrong and are being victimised by authorities and even by referees who all had an email from FIFA to tell them to give goal kicks instead of corners, throw-ins the other way, and to deny them penalties. This is a scandal, hopefully a packed park tomorrow for the comfortable home win again Hartlepool will bring this to the attention of the world media who will lap it up and put in on their front pages. The faithful blue army should wave hankies, but only small ones - in case it looks like The Dave Clark Five surrendering.

I can't be bothered to plough through all of the non-answers from yesterday but I'm sure I spotted an admission for the first time that this is no longer a plucky fan buyout but a partnership between a property developer and the Trust. We all knew that, but was that the first time they've admitted to mission-creep? Prior to that it has always been sold as simply a fan buyout. Maybe this is the brave new world of transparency that we were promised. Or a slip of the keyboard.

Now I know who their spokesman is. Q. How is the Trust going to finance the club going forward? A. That would be an ecumenical matter... drink, feck, ar$e, girls! Craggy Island FC.

technically there is an argument to say it was 'relaid' - he took the facts about insolvent trading, multiple promises of PPs to all, and basketcase plans for the future, broke them up with a sledge hammer and created a new fluffy version that would fool dim people. He then presented this new version of reality to both backroom staff and players and the really thick ones all rushed down with their wheelbarrows to be part of the biggest and bestest and most passionate cash bonanza and liquidation party ever. If only people in football could use Google, or this thread...no one knew that there were any issues surrounding the club at any point, everyone has be taken by surprise at every turn. Criminals, money-laundering, prossies, tax-evasion - it's all come as a massive shock, unless you have a basic grasp of the internet. Cue people being aghast that the figures still don't stack up - surely they must have some sort of Broadband in Portsea? Is it the keyboards - too small for webby fingers? Or the actual words - are they all long and lettery?... It's not difficult to do research so I have zero sympathy with any player or hairdresser who went to an insolvent club and was then horrified to discover that the club was insolvent.

I guess it's quiet on here simply because there is no takeover. Watching someone arrogant and gobby sink into abject poverty is funny I grant you, but for laughs I preferred it when they were in bed with organised crime and lunatics - a time when Ho had a little Fisher Price megaphone and we could hear delusion close-up. It was way more entertaining than some over-the-hill journeyman nobody pledging his future to the battling blues and announcing that he will score the goals to fire the bestest back to glorytown Or seeing Guy Whittingham stood in a technical area as bailiffs dismantle the dugout behind him and take his boots off. It's getting tedious, something entertaining had better happen soon or pompey will become an irrelevance.

SiP makes a valid point, there is little risk for the council loan as they know from their own extensive research that they could set up a burger van in Frogmore road and make £13M at every home game. But those recent postponements have done them no favours. The water table has been drenched by £13M of undrunk beer and Bovril, and another £13M of hot dogs have gone to landfill, it must look like the Sutton Hoo over there - but rather than wood and armour it's mainly a mound of pig's b0ll0x, eyelids and stale rolls. Tony Robinson might want to steer clear of that dig. Yeah, the council loan will be fine, and the Trust will certainly meet all those conditions laid out about no other bids, PP going straight to council etc.

you are right Richmond but Chinny is obviously still standing firm and willing to do ANYTHING to get his money. I was surprised when pompey first drew a line between players and other staff when it came to the football creditor rule. Surely anyone who is employed fulltime by the football club in any capacity should be a football creditor? And if this isn't the case and it is strictly players and clubs, how did Lampitt stake his claim under that ruling? Either way, pompey should have been down to a skeleton staff two years ago so it just shows how they have just continued to trade insolvently, ignore the debt, and reality itself. As for Birch, he's not as funny as AA, and his autograph isn't worth as much, but he seems just as efficient when it comes to rebuilding a football club. He has been a bargain - to put it into context, the bill that Trev has run up since October 1st is equivalent to the money we spent on Rickie Lambert. Then again they spent his transfer fee just on architects' drawings and development plans for the Harbourdome so that they could host the World Cup Final. But that wasn't a mad waste of money, no! - it also incorporated an underwater casino, The Maradona Hopsitality Lounge, the world's only underwater Mr Clive factory outlet, HMS Warrior as the dugouts, a seabed Saab dealership, Avram's Member Only Club, and the exclusive VIP monkfish/haddock-petting aquarium. Suddenly Nicola looks sane....briefly.

Chanrai has changed his tune! I still have a debenture over the club as security on the club's full assets, so one way or another I'm going to get my money back. Oh, actually he hasn't. Despite all these courtroom defeats and boosts for the Trust, the big-hearted loan shark doesn't appear to have budged one inch. That bodes well for the masterplan to negotiate him down a few hundred percent.

I think they were too busy laughing at our overly-ambitious chairman - and looking down on our signing of an international defender who isn't on a tax-free £100K a week, plus image rights. (Well I fricking hope he isn't!) Then again I've been hearing all season from the other side that our weak point is our manager and that's why we'll go down. I've now seen a massive U-turn concerning how we'll go down because of changing managers.... And on that one, as I have no interest in joining the madness on the main board - how come when other teams change managers we are convinced that they will improve dramatically as a result, yet the bedwetting self-indulgent drama queens are weeping because our relegation is now set in stone? My fave was the guy who obviously doesn't have a season ticket as he said he'd burned it in a 'look at me' stance. Think I'd have cut it up as it's plastic - though if it were 1988 I'd have burned it. Ho hum, Black Friday has passed, but the future is still red and white. Have pompey taken any money this month? Expensive business is winter - for income it's a bit like summer, but will less Slaughter in Gibraltar holidays.

didn't even know they had a hairdresser.

well spotted Lazlo. You win the Sherlock Holmes award for observation, codebreaking, and attention to detail.... Meanwhile, I see pompey's unbeaten run continues but their turnover has hit rock bottom. With unused hotels and coaches booked the HNWIs will be coughing up a few more quid before the next court appearance with no revenue to cover Trev's ever-spiralling fees. If I didn't know any better I might think that they were terminally-insolvent. Normal service is resumed.

If Nige taught us anything it was to look for the positives. So as a tribute to him - it could be worse, he could have been f#cking prossies in his club tracksuit, driven there by his club driver, all paid for by season ticket money. Or he could have stood in the middle of the pitch with a hard on and delivered a cliched rallying call to a partially-packed park of cross-eyed sister-botherers.

Black Friday is officially here. It's the duty of all Nutjobs to distract from the main board madness and continue to mock the worse off. This will be a much-needed chill room.

I've downgraded tomorrow to the most depressing day of the year so far, even though it's likely to be snowing it will officially be Black Friday... So if you want to escape the gathering storm, chill with Nutjobs, escape the madness all around us and laugh at pompey as light relief, this thread will be the place for you.

Andronikou's legacy at Swindon? Didn't it take him seven years to 'complete' that job last time? Brace yourself for the Football League hitting Swindon with a minus 40 for 'regular insolvency events' while presenting pompey with an award for work with local charities and their assistance with advanced training courses for plumbers. I presume their fine manager will blame immigration or asylum seekers, and then head off to invade eastern Europe. It could be an opportunity for Birch to make a few more quid in his specialist area, so he might want to clear his current workload a bit sharpish.....

Chez, where's your jumper? Bearsy, you cannot be serious about One Direction, rock legend Ollie Murs blows them out of the water. He's got great innovative and edgy songs, a hat that makes him look like a nice sort of pikey, and on stage he is something else - his live show is heavier than on his Hit Parade discs, sometimes his backing track uses two tambourines! - he is possibly the most talented middle of the road shop dummy that the ruthless music business has ever tried to sell to 10-year-old-girls who have no imagination and pocket money burning a hole in their pockets. The best kick-ass rock'n'roll band in the world? - still the champions after all these years - it's Fruitbat and JimBob - Carter USM. A wall of sound, a massive moshpit of forty/fifty-somethings, bleeding ears for two days, crazy - check it out on YouTube, Brixton, Bloodsport for All. Fave gig - Numan at Wembley from back in the day. Amazing gig - Lloyd Cole acoustic, stunning. Can't cut it anymore? - The Sisters, I suspect Eldritch's voice has gone, it's all smoke and long coats.

is Gemmel mildly amused that some are ignoring the thundering ten metre waves about to send a tsunami right through the fatpipes, and are instead debating whether to house their dwindling fanbase in the 30,000 seater redevelopment, or the more impressive 34,000 seater version? All for £2.75M. I sense a picture of a giant child using a harbourside toilet being posted sometime soon....and when that cheeky little toddler appears, let's remind ourselves that I believe they wasted in excess of £1M just on those plans - the sort of money that the Trust would sell their soul for. Underwater casinos, a £500M compulsory purchase of harbourfront and dockyard, moving a ship and reclaiming the seabed? When it comes to accepting fantasy developments that even a box of sectioned frogs might query, one club's mighty fanbase stands head and shoulders above the rest. And that spoof Twitter account - it did make me chuckle, even though I'm as confused as the Saints fans who have been diving in with both feet!

The pompey rewrite history series no.837. Another one for the record books - They were the first, and still are the only club in football history forced by financial constraints to field young players. Even the first game at Plymouth we had to play all the youngsters and it has just been an incredible situation I haven’t heard of in football before. ‘I’m not harping on about it to get sympathy, I’m just saying it is the uniqueness of the situation we are in. ‘Every football club has their problems, everybody has different problems on different scales but I just think this is more unique.’ Re the court, I think Torres is right, their masterplan must be to use the PP to buy the ground and worry about the debts another day - that's only IF the Premier League gives Birch the money instead of clearing football debt....and Trev doesn't spend it on himself. They might have an issue with their vital funding being IN the business they are trying to buy and not available to use until they buy it... Either way I can see insolvency event/admin 5, or is it 6, looming on the horizon. (early 1900s, 70s, 90s, 2010, 2012?....)

another glorious courtroom triumph for the Fatpipe Faithless, yes this additional fortnight of admin and legal fees really strengthens the Trust's hand. Anyone care to estimate how many pledges have been gobbled up since the intitial court date? Two bald men are now caught in a bidding war for a broken hairdryer. I reckon Birch could empty the Trust coffers completely by the time he's established a value for the ground.

If the club was liquidated, Chinny would do 'okay', and the PDT would be alright with the world's firstest and bestest-ever phoenix club. Whereas the big losers would be the HNWI's and the council, if they are dim enough to bung a few million down a black hole. It'll be a brave councillor who stands up and supports that motion, or stands against it - in fact we could be in for the first ever silent council debate. The Trust in particular is looking to shift the exposure onto other parties, as an organisation they have little to lose - and along with Chinny they would be much better off with liquidation wiping out football debts etc. Whereas your big-hearted local businessman and the council are being invited to form an orderly queue to be taken into Jimmy Savile's dressing room for special treatment. And all this to fool a judge. Again. My money is on him being fooled.

agreed in principle?.... Yeah, that's a done deal! And I'm not sure how being asked to find twice as much as you wanted to pay can be regarded as a funding boost. That'll be a national paper that has no grasp nor interest in the fine detail. Are they trying to say that they have been joined by further property developers thus complicating their future ownership structure even more? And that's a good thing? Sounds like nothing more than last minute bluster to buy more time from the judge.

pity they couldn't match Luton's points penalty, they really should have smashed that total long ago.

They say the follow up is often not as good as the original but the recent annual summer comedies from the Fatpipes Travelling Theatre Company have been excellent in different ways. Cotterill's chaotic US tour was like a remake of Airplane, and as well-judged as the time that my Auntie's friend said yes to a backstage invite at Top of the Pops - but UnAppy's National Lampoon-inspired Gibraltan farce was just as funny. It ticked all the right boxes - it shafted a local businessman reinforcing the award-winning club's contempt for the local community, it was a free training camp to help elderly and lost players to find other clubs, and it also saw pompey humiliated on the pitch. That great pompey hero UnAppy has the Midas touch, everywhere he goes people bask in reflected glory. He made Blackpool look like Brazil, Blackburn will be sure to storm up the league under his inspired guidance, and of course he did a fantastic job against all the odds at pompey. People told him he couldn't keep them up, critics mocked his inability and inexperience and said it would cost them points, but one of the country's brightest young management prospects proved them all wrong! He took a bunch of overpaid individuals and he expertly wrote their names down on a teamsheet, sometimes twice a week, and in a different order. Who can forget those battling Churchillian speeches delivered in his Nan's front room? But his legacy is often underestimated. There are many heroes who have played vital roles in their great story, pompey wouldn't be in this fantastic place without the foundations laid by Storrie, Redknapp, Grant, Lampitt and all those other great businessmen, but UnAppy is the guy who has taken them to a new level, and that shouldn't be overlooked. When he arranged that holiday (that like all previous tours didn't cost the club a single penny) it wasn't just a chaotic waste of cash that flicked V's in the face of charities and creditors, it was the start of something very special. He may have paid over the odds for battling troops, but he left in place a squad with a quality that should get them out of this division at the first attempt. And for that we should applaud him.

Good to see UnAppy has had an immediate effect and gently pulled the handbrake on Blackburn's season. Hopefully they can now look forward to a few more midtable bore draws as they slide gently towards long ball obscurity. Though he wasn't officially in charge tonight I'm sure their glorious victory would've been put down to the famous 'Appleton effect' had Wolves been wiped out again. In a world where clowns owning football clubs is common place, Blackburn surely have the longest shoes, and the cars that fall apart more than any others.

it was funny seeing an MP's chubby little face on the TV the other night saying that the cuts being forced in the city were a disgrace and something had to be done. The bloke looked very similar to the one who was on there before, supporting a local company that had raped the local community and stolen millions of pounds from the taxpayer. He didn't seem to be sharp enough to link the loss of tax revenue to the closures of cancer wards at QA or the local prison - or perhaps he wanted to gloss over that? Maybe he's thick, or perhaps he's just a little tubby puppet that gets up and dances for votes. Go on, tuck a crossed ballot paper in his grubby blue thong...he'll say whatever you want to hear, as long as you vote for him. And of course when he or Penny say the right stuff to the ever-vigilant and questioning folk of Portsea, that makes them a pair of true-blue heroes, shuffling themselves into the corners of photoshoots.... They are right up there at the sharp end of the Pluckometer with those coaching giants Appy, Cotterill, and Avram - everyone a hero. It must be time for pompey fans to start questioning these people's records and agendas, rather than relying on Nutjobs to prompt investigations.