rallyboy

I think if my side has just seen a downward swing in league position of about 70 places in no time at all, I wouldn't be too worried about the rivals playing Man City. We now have to look forward to a deluded season of scummers lost at Arsenal/Liverpool and we got a point at home to Yeovil/Crewe so that makes us the bestest.... As we pointed out to Bournemouth, there's only one south coast derby. Should still be the biggest gate of the season at fortress fratton where Stevenage and Crawley fear to tread - 12K? That's ignoring the fact that pompey cannot start next season without major changes. The most likely thing is that Birch will decide that the wages can no longer be funded by PPs and he becomes liable. Like many things from the east, it makes no sense. They are clearly insolvent. By continuing to trade he must be running up more debt. The only income is season ticket money which must have some sort of protection from the bank as they release it if a game happens so there's no great injection of capital. No income, wages being deferred, Gibraltar holiday to pay for, no keeper - can't go on much longer....tis bonkers.

The striker insisted he has taken a significant cut in wages to help save the Blues from liquidation. No he hasn't, no one has taken a wages cut. They have deferred some, with the football creditor gold-backed assurance of full payment - and then had another deferral forced upon them, which has really ******ed them off by the sound of it. This 2nd deferral must be gobbling up PPs even quicker - and it explains how Birch is still trading, he isn't paying the staff much. I can't see things will improve when they all return. They can then sit around together and discuss how they have all been mistreated. And when Varney says he's hasn't had any contact from the club re an agreement, that makes Birch look like he's misleading people. He says he's negotiating hard with players, they say they've had a nice quiet holiday and not heard a thing... Just another little step towards dodging that Crawley Town fixture.

I like their run of Scnthorpe, Yeovil, MK Dons, Crewe, Shrewsbury, Stevenage - the mouth-watering fixtures just keep on coming - and that's if they make it that far. Those season tickets will be leaping off the shelves, Liam Lawrence will struggle to cope with demand. Coventry's name stands out, they must be looking round and thinking, how the feck did we end up here?

pompey. We've run out of money because our players are still on big wages. PL. What happened to the millions we gave you to cover this exact scenario? pompey. We spent it on shiny things and prossies. Well there you go - they chose to gamble everything, and they lost.

no players have left, no debts have been paid, more parachute payments have been gobbled up, time is of the essence, the Trust's only professional advisor has gone on holiday, and Birch's masterplan is moving at the pace of a lazy glacier. But there is good news, they haven't raped a charity this week. I met someone yesterday who told me they'd bought a season ticket at Fratton. I laughed out loud. He told me the season ticket money is ringfenced. I laughed even louder and wet myself a lot. Shouldn't be long now.

the problem with any Trust bid is that it involves outbidding Chinny and taking AA out of the picture. That would attract a Chinny-added-tax fee of anything up to £18M. He might now be prepared to walk away for only £10M, but the Trust seem to think that he'll write off the lot. Good luck with that plan.

ain't nothing going on but the rent. And a HUGE wagebill. as we went off topic and it's likely to happen again, I'd just like to clarify my position. If it's between a debate over Rupert's management and the pair of tits, I'll be voting for the latter. Rush me to that art gallery, but please remember the hood. As they say at Horton Heath, there's a little bit of Avram in all of us...

I didn't realise the club was overspending said Norris, gleefully pushing an overflowing wheelbarrow of cash through Swanmore, conveniently ignoring the massive wage increase he accepted from a club that clearly hasn't been solvent since Conan Doyle was between the sticks. There is one greedy bloke! Not Arthur, the other one. He blatantly came south for the cash, the loyal plucky hero clung onto his inflated deal throughout January and beyond, and now his little fat fingers are gripped so tightly onto the contract that his arm has gone numb, yet he's all sad about leaving the bestest.... Great goal - pity it meant nothing, byebye, give Rocha our regards when you see him on the football scrapheap at which you are about to join him. You might fool the few but Nutjobs can see right through your tearful farewell. As for Trev the perch - having already announced the firesale had failed and was over, why is he expecting anyone to cough up a fee for anyone? The prolific powerhouse striker that clubs are hoping to poach can walk tomorrow. And he's not a powerhouse he ain't prolific, and there are no clubs looking. It's over, just cut the spin and lock the fricking gates. Even Redknapp knew when the game was up, have some dignity. The carcass won't die, it's stumbling around, it looks horrible, put it out of it's misery.

even with a new deadline, all this talk of league cup opponents and the excited anticipation of the one-match holiday in Gibraltar does seem to suggest that the penny still hasn't dropped. Or rather Birch needs the fans to think that his task isn't too difficult as he desperately tries to peddle season tickets. Roll up, roll up, no team, no future, just tuck another £300 into Chinny's grubby thong and wave it goodbye. Does he really believe that players will walk? They are thick, but they are also greedy... It will need the likes of Ben Haim to be offered £25K plus, and that just won't happen. Difficult to be sympathetic with the poor plucky club being held to ransom by nasty players, when they are clearly victims of their own insane and criminal spending. You have to admire his courage though, Rangers are about to get wiped off the face of football with smaller debts, yet plucky pompey's spin machine still soldiers on. Well listen up my fishy friends! - without Trevor Perch organising that massive clearout, THERE WILL BE NO 'NEXT SEASON'. We are way beyond the old, something will come up or no club has ever died mutterings. It's only a guess based on two years of studying a troubled business, but surely we must be in the endgame. If it looks like liquidation, smells like liquidation, and has a teeshirt on that says Frankie says Liquidate....then perhaps there are more pressing matters than the draw for the league cup.

two choc ices, an orange lolly, and another attempted fraud involving a torturer whose banned from football please!...and if you get the chance to sell your shares to a man that doesn't exist while pocketing a few quid for your time, we'll have that too. And a slightly larger shirt. No Mr Whippy, I don't want your nuts and sauce on top, you're confusing me with your former manager.

Lowe was an idiot rather than a crook, thus the debris of our club looked way more attractive. In fact the one who has gained more than anyone from the pompey debacle is Rupert, they have made him look like a shrewd man with integrity who got unlucky. And in his defence, he wouldn't have got in bed with the mafia or loan sharks, he would rather have left the tent and gone for a long walk, as any gentleman would. We've been fortunate, but there was a solid basis to the business and no criminal actions pending. Meanwhile, through criminality and insolvent trading they've become so unattractive a proposition that even organised crime can no longer see a profit.

with Rangers seemingly heading for certain liquidation, can any of the few hear alarm bells yet, or are they still deciding whether to sign Michael Owen or Emille Heskey? This news has to be a wake up call for anyone deluded enough to think that pompey is too big a club to go pop. Having already agreed a suicide pact with Rangers I do hope they'll do the honourable thing and follow through with it.

that was way too clever SR, even for here. Though you have been asked to report to Nutjob HQ for psychiatric analysis....that train of thought was quite disturbing. No rush, there's a six month waiting list - but make sure you're in front of Hole and Truck or you'll be there for ages.

The ice cream vendor in the skimpy shirt will probably have woken up when it seems the club is suddenly available for £500K, with £14M in readies to come... He hasn't been told yet that he and the Trust need to find an additional £18M for the loan shark, and the parachute payments are down to less than £5M. Let's cut right to the chase ignoring all the vague promises and alleged interests, none of that matters. The most important aspect of all is that 90% of their players must leave, or agree to massive paycut before anything can happen. They currently have no deals ongoing. Which means that the business has ground to a halt. No income, no sign of cost-cutting, no chance to exit admin. The train wreck is now up a cul-de-sac, without a paddle.

panic ye not oh Trousers man, this Rallyboy's not for turning! My business allows me to mix in some unusual circles on occasions - it's a bit like working undercover, it would be wrong not to chat to the likes of Storrie if you found yourself in a room with them. It's good to look the enemy in the eye occasionally. And I wouldn't attend a Trust meeting unless a pompey fan paid me to be there. When we finally meet up to bury this thread, I'll explain. Meanwhile, I see no rescue package, no player departures, but plenty of opportunity to hide bad news with England about to lurch through the Euros.

bombshell alert....... I've discussed the pompey situation with Mr Storrie quite recently. It did dawn on me at the time that if he knew some of the stuff I'd written on here he might be unimpressed! His main point was that the squad they have was good enough to overcome the points penalty, perhaps suggesting that the motivation of management or players was flawed. I didn't ask for financial advice. For the record, I've never met Avram Grant, and wouldn't be able to keep a straight face if I did.

I 4-1 am pleased to see that the glorious cup-run heroes of more than two years ago still haven't been paid. You lie to the football authorities, you present a false set of accounts to gain a sporting advantage, you criminally assemble a squad for a cup run by buying out contracts in an underhand manner, you beat a third tier side 4-1 and gob off about it for ages....and it turns out that you didn't even bother to pay your own fricking players! So current situation is - no income to run the club, season ticket money likely to be used up before a ball is kicked, wages gobbling up the parachutes at an alarming rate... Chances of Chinny getting his £18M back? Zero. Chances of Trust outbidding him? Zero. Level of respect I have for them as a football club on a scale of one to one hundred? Zero. What they've done is quite simple - deliberate and prolonged cheating. Judgement Day must be approaching.

one paragraph?....the league are toothless, Chinny has made an insulting CVA offer that reduces some £10K debt to about £30 and repeated his failed promise to pay small creditors, the Trust are struggling, no players have left so no one will buy anyway - the corpse stumbles on - but the plucky bestest have topped the 72-strong table for fans naive enough to give free advertising to a utility provider on social media, a victory for park-packers everywhere! In other news - several posters suggested it isn't fair that they should get away with blatant cheating and insolvent trading, the figures don't stack up, and I did another gag about Avram and prossies.

no surprises there - wooly promises of vague amounts that will never appear because the players won't take pay cuts. Looks like Chinny trying to buy the club for nowt and write off all debt. The big competition win is the funnier one. Am I right in thinking that while the Trust were desperately trying to raise several million quid to mount a serious challenge to Chanrai, the few spent all their waking hours promoting the UK's leading supplier of gas and electricity via social media, on the offchance of winning £30K towards administration costs? Shall we get behind the Trust or shall we promote a utility company? By topping the 72-strong table the bestest and pluckiest have certainly demonstrated their passion and committment - to naivety. It's like rolling up at an earthquake aftermath with a dustpan and brush. They still don't get it.

thanks mate, I got as far as you're aving a larf moosh before I felt too sick to continue - you only linked that to stir me up into a feisty rant. It was good to see Moosh again though, he's a minor star from the whole escapade, alongside motability scooter woman. As a prossie-bothering gravedigger once growled, You can rewrite history but you can never take our woman on the little scooter! I still find it staggering that they worship a dirty old man who got them relegated - he dragged the feckers out of the big time forever, then abandoned ship and immediately announced that West Ham had the bestest fans, before getting them relegated, proving beyond reasonable doubt that his shambolic pompey debacle wasn't a fluke! Cotterill was the next hero, that coaching genius kept up the plucky bestest bargain basement squad against all the odd at Fortress fratton, when the refs had all got secret emails to give decisions against the sleeping giant - and they'll deny it now but they loved Lampitt too. Bizarre behaviour - an inability to recognise good from bad, or see beyond spin. Churn out sh!t and they lap it up. What an odd bunch, makes it difficult to have sympathy when it all goes a bit Chinny.

whatever the detail of the CVA offer the creditors might as well just bend over behind a skip at Horton Heath and wait for Avram to shuffle up close with his club tracksuit trousers around his bony little ankles - the whole process will be just as degrading and unpleasant. Sadly I see CVA1 being shoe-horned into CVA2 which could then be forced through. That could mean that CVA1 hasn't technically failed, as the dim creditors will have approved the changes?... But on a cheerier note, this is all irrelevant if Birch cannot meet Chanrai's offer conditions - the wagebill has to plummet, players have to leave Without that his CVA offer is in trouble before it even gets voted on.

in the first year (!) this thread became the best online site for ANY pompey takeover developments. you're right KenT - I would always come here first to find out what was happening as nutjobs are famed for their investigative skills, if anything breaks anywhere in the world, someone would be on it. Remember how it took three minutes to suss out CSI, ditto Al Faraj and Al Fahim? That's what makes Lampitt's excuses so funny, he 'couldn't see it coming'. And I've taken great delight in letting my skate mates know any breaking news. One of them is vaguely involved with the Trust so I particularly like giving him bad news before the Trust know it. I keep explaining that they are wasting their time, he keeps denying it, I keep producing evidence. Nothing as funny as telling them they've missed their wages before they know they have! I'm sure some skates come on here to find out what is really going on rather than lapping up the spin offered to the east. This is now a specialist international news portal manned 24-7 by highly-qualified nutjobs - which means it also serves the community by occupying nutjobs - when this thread closes we'll be back on the streets... :0

this current silence must crank up the pressure on Birch. Trev me old mate, what exactly is going on? Pretending to look like a solvent business by trying to sell season tickets and doing U-Turns on transfer policy makes it look all a bit shambolic OFFLOAD PLAYERS! Tis the only way, and as you obviously can't, start shouting at people to wake them up to the situation. Sitting quietly and hoping it goes away while running up more debt and your own fee, is not a great policy. I reckon his masterplan at the moment is to survive this week without answering questions, and then he can hide behind Euro 2012.

The silence of the FL is deafening. No statement, no action, no comment at all on the situation...they can't ALL be too busy getting drunk in the street with neighbours they don't like and will ignore for the next sixty years.

that means the firesale is over and the amount raised by transfers from now on will be zero - thus reducing the assets of the company. Not that it makes a blind bit of difference if no one can get their wages matched by another club. I'm not even sure if they have any assets now....the ground is secured, the players can walk away without a fee - the business owns nothing and is slightly more insolvent today than it was yesterday. Yet the league seem happy for them to continue..... How can they start another season??