rallyboy

My old gardening mate Hayling Pete gave us one of those exotic Ben Haim pot plants for the patio, he said it would be really good. But the little fecker took root and sucked all the life out of the shrubbery, it never bloomed despite us spending a fortune on it, just sat in the corner taking up space. I left it out all winter last year and it still wouldn't budge, was a ba$tard to get rid of, I couldn't even give it away in the end. It was one of the main reasons we were forced to concrete over the grass and had to sell the land to Tesco. That and the fact that I was paying a gardener £36,000 a week. Hopefully my spindly Kitson tree will fare better - the leaves turn a beautiful red in the autumn.

I'm with Steve on this one - they have embraced every manager in the disturbing style of an abuse-victim - their emotions have gone awry and they now believe that all of their managers are wonderful and will look after them. We had it with prossie-bothering, relegation expert and embarassing centre-circle speech monkey Avram who abandoned them and went to West Ham where he annnounced he had joined a club with the best fans in the world, then Cotterill was a tactical genius for narrowly steering the highest paid squad in the division away from relegation. They only went off him when he left. Now Appy has worked miracles inspiring his overpaid greed monsters all the way to league one. Perhaps a glance at the last three seasons' league tables might offer a better indication of who did a good job...looks like none of them to me. As for the Telegraph, their piece the other day was wholly inaccurate, I don't see anything different in that one. Several thousand people have already pledged? No they haven't. 20 or so supporters are considering putting up £50K plus? No they're not. Spin don't pay the bills.

it did make me chuckle when I saw that a few mischievous individuals have taken Appy from about 4%, to 31% and hot favourite, in 24 hours. I do hope the WBA board are swayed by public opinion. Some of you are just messing with their minds now for your own entertainment, haven't we had enough excitement for one week?....though if that's what the Birmingham public wants then who are we to argue. Power to the people!...whatever their motives...byebye Appy, get out while you can.

latest skate gossip I've heard - apparently they should be favourites to bounce back as 'there isn't a lot of quality in League One'....good luck with that plan. To save ploughing through thousands of posts, what is the latest on the CSI debt? They said it is £28M according to Birch, did I miss something? Has AA used his limited power and made it conveniently leap from £10.8 or is it just skates not understanding what's going on again?

I can already see where this one is heading... West Brom must have ZERO interest in handing over mid-table respectability to an inexperienced manager who recently marched his plucky troops directly from Fortress Fratton into League One. But for local people with a local club that will translate into... Hands off! - Fratton hero is going nowhere! Loyal Appy has spurned the advances of the Premier League outfit and has told them he's staying to fight his corner, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the mighty blues' bestest, and pledging his future to proud pompey as the lads launch a glorious bid to immediately return to the Championship! yawn. Don't believe the hype. That said.....I could see Roy taking him to the England coaching set-up, which would be a better escape route than even Cotterill managed!

is that Paul Walsh having a conference call with his backers? We'd have noticed if that had sailed into Ocean Village. Anyway I've arranged myself a good night out tonight... Going to watch the City Utd game tonight with three mates at one of their houses - and they are all skates! Can't wait to see their faces when I let off a red flare in his living room....

pompey to sack the administrator? How does that work then? The club has no power to do anything. Telegraph story looks like a work experience effort on a quiet Sunday - having basic facts wrong raises question mark over the whole credibility of the piece. Think I'll await the PR version The News will churn out to the faithful. Meanwhile Birch has some big decisions to make now the season is over and he ticked that box. No income....big wage earners returning, deferred wages needing to be paid, could be a busy week or two.

they really picked the wrong day to get on the pitch for a show of strength! As we both exit the division in different directions, us to try and consolidate a future at the top table, them to try and find enough money to complete the week, perhaps a ceasefire could be called? Even I feel a bit guilty about ripping into them this weekend, it would be cruel, like punching a blind tramp - dignity is a fine trait in a victor. That said....I still see rubbish being spouted... I might respect a ceasefire on the more acidic posts, all those gags about stadiums with jockey wheels, sister-bothering, money-laundering, extra digits, prostitutes, undersea fantasy worlds, Riquelme etc. I might, if I didn't keep on seeing bizarre self-promotion about the best fans in the world and the following.... Lawrence was going to fire Cardiff above us and feck our season. Henderson joined the 'champions' West Ham. Huskellop was going to launch Birmingham's challenge to knock us off our perch. Norris scored the goal that would deny us promotion. Hilariously, ALL of this turned out to be the usual deluded b0ll0x!! So I'm considering a fragile ceasefire.....which could collapse with the first mention of a mythical dock strike. And to the eternal question.... Their nearest rivals were 50 places below them not long ago, they have now been promoted as pompey have been relegated. The scummers even had six points they didn't need and gave them to Bristol City. The rivals are off to The Emirates and Old Trafford, pompey might not even make it to play Crawley Town. Their last game even featured ex-Saint Dexter sending them on their way to the backwaters, the last ten months could barely have been worse for them. So, have they got away with it? They can put on a brave and cross-eyed face, but looking at the facts of their nightmare season, I think the answer must be a resounding NO. Justice is finally being served.

Firesale? The building burned down nearly two and a half years ago, yet they only start a firesale today?! The stock is beyond repair, much of it was pretty ropey when they got it, and some of the few believe they can get £2/£3M for Ben Haim! New thinking required down the road - It's been mass clearout time since 2010, just get rid of the wages. And for god's sake stop worshipping the players who have damaged the club, it makes you look silly. Man Utd striker Danny Welbeck earns less than the majority of the pompey first team - let's just look at that in the cold light of day. The richest club in the world with 75,000 gates and massive international commercial income, pays significantly less to some players than the likes of Kitson are earning?.... And they think the firesale will be easy! - the bonkers wages alone mean that the likes of Man Utd could not, or would not afford Ben Haim etc. That fact of the month should get through to even the dimmest amoeba that pompey have been gaining a sporting advantage by outbidding rivals with money they could never afford. But they don't want reality. Appy's plucky battling heroes, never giving up, the great escape, Fortress fratton packed to the rafters with the bestest getting behind the loyal troops. Even if the club survives hopefully we've heard the last of that type of embarrassing b0ll0x. They were neither plucky nor loyal, the park was nowhere near packed, and Derby and Millwall stormed said fortress without breaking sweat as the troops proved to be a bunch of lethargic Girl Guides who only played when they fancied. As for the homo-erotic Escape poster of Appy, I thought it was a long lost and previously-banned Frankie Goes to Hollywood single now released under the 30 year rule. Pity, was looking forward to hearing it.

calm down my pretty ones - it is already set in stone...banish those nerves. There is nothing WE can change, and we don't need to. We saw it in him the day he appeared, we've celebrated the fact in song for three years. You cannot argue against fate. Tomorrow, Rickie will take us to the Premier League.

things don't get any better... I'm trying to buy World Cup finals tickets in the Maradona Suite, Upper Tier of the Limbless Child Stand at the Harbourdome and TicketBa$tard are treating me like a looney. What is their problem? Anyone know the best to travel to the arena? I know there is parking for 80,000 and the two new rail stations serving the whole complex run every fifteen minutes to London and Paris, but I'm tempted to go over on the Gosport Ferry. And with the stadium sticking out halfway across the harbour, if the number of people is too much I could probably jump across. Any good places to eat pre-match in the pompey village complex built on the land compulsory-purchased for £500M? I've heard that Jamie Oliver's place is quite good, the one next to the underwater casino and leather shop - makes the Spinnaker Tower look like a project delivered six years late with the main item not working. Anyway, need to get back online because if the Southsea 250,000 are on there that'll be most of the World Cup tickets gone. I take it the new stadium has the traditional hot and cold running fat? Can't wait to see England walk out in the arena, the three lions draped over the huge bronze statues of Storrie and Lampitt....I know it's wrong but as a Saints fan, like the rest of football, I'm really jealous of what they've created. You have to give it to them, it's quite a feat to take the club from where it was fifteen years ago, hopelessly in debt, no future, living in the shadows of rivals, owned by idiots, supported by myth-peddling, heather-selling, sister-bothering simpletons, staring down the barrel of the lower leagues with only charity-raping to look forward to - now look at them! I'm a little green-eyed monster - grrrr.

jealousy? :lol:

going out in a mo, returning later to plough through 10 pages of thread no doubt. Predictions for today - Some random pikey will announce that the situation is worse than they thought. UnAppy will put on a brave face while his agent organises a move as his staff are removed from around him. Birch will put on his serious face and appeal for a new owner, perhaps adding a new deadline. Trousers will come up with a ridiculous farm animal-themed excuse for not going to work. A toothless simpleton will appear on Sky saying that the club will never die and that they are the bestest in the world. Ben Haim will lie on a beach faraway, sipping cool drinks. Peter Storrie will prepare yet another press statement deflecting the blame. The FL will act all concerned, in public. Another charity-shafting will be confirmed. Nothing will change.

Let's have some clarity amid the confusion - some blunt facts for the few. 1. The Trust cannot afford the club, nor should it. There is nowhere near enough financial backing, all they would be doing is taking on HUGE debt. The Trust idea is 100% doomed to fail. 2. All senior players are ridiculously overpaid. 3. If a player pledges their loyalty it's not a good thing, you need ALL of them to leave - see point 2. 4. The business is WAY beyond worthless, even organised crime and money launderers can no longer see a profit there. 5. The only answer is STILL someone with about £10M in cash, and further money to invest - by now I think we've established that they don't exist. 6. The parachute payments are being frittered away on Ben Haim etc and Chanrai will outbid any attempt to buy the club for peanuts, so don't believe the fantasy accounting being discussed. 7. It's over. 8. It really is.

by the end of the week a fund supporting a marathon runner that nobody knew will exceed the pompey Trust's warchest. And no one will go into debt to give, no one will be worried about losing an investment, they will just have been moved by her story and her efforts to help others. To support something financially you need an emotional attachment - so the sad fact is that not enough people care about pompey. Football results - Irony and Karma League Division 3, pompey 0, Charity 5.

been out all day and come home to the worrying bombshell headline that Ben Haim is off. Having seen the detail, thankfully he isn't going anywhere until he's paid up, but it had me worried for a mo! - nice bit of News spin, no facts, just standard agent talk, looking to engineer a move from a sunk ship. I like the idea that some of the few think the oldCo debt can be dumped while the Golden Share can be carried forward, even though the two are stapled together in the same sealed envelope. A bit like the purchase of the cup and the folk involved - airbrush the child-maimer, the building debts, and the greedy players from 2008, but continue to claim the dodgy cup win from the era. On a technical point, I presume that CVA1 hasn't REALLY failed as long as CVA1 creditors AND CVA2 creditors agree to new terms this summer. If CVA1 creditors don't vote yes to a further brutal raping, then the club is exiting admin without a CVA. Looks like they have just delayed the failure, consolidating all their points penalties into one easy package. Talking of dodgy CVA1, where is the king of close-to-the-wind financially-based comedy AA? He is always good value for entertainment, and he's the only administrator who signs more autographs than Ben Haim.

the portsMyths keep coming - Lallana has put in a transfer request apparently - that's right up there with 13,000 free SMS seats to asylum seekers, and the nazi gold. If Doncaster loved them that much they'd have given them a nice painting - but I see no watercolour of a London and North Eastern Railway Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific hanging in Birch's office, so it must be boll0x... Saw a big skates fan tonight, he's got signed shirts, gives it large everytime I see him and goes to all home games. I asked him if he had put his money in yet. He looked puzzled and asked me what the Trust was.... More marketing needed. As for Birch - pretending relegation isn't a major blow and saying it doesn't change the finances. The figures he quotes are nowhere near, there is a significant drop in income, at the last count it was something like £3M+ in TV alone. He is a desperate man. The fat lady has sung, the four horseman are leaving an unholy trail of sh)t up the Eastern Road and he's making out that they are right on track. Reality check required.

it was just another January gamble that failed - we knew their luck would run out eventually. Hang on to a few players that should have been moved on, bring in loans that DID cost money, continue to ignore the debt, and try to dodge the relegation bullet. But Rallyboy you smug nutjob, the players refused to go... Okay, well let's bury the myth that they are plucky heroes who stood firm, let's point out that they are in fact greedy moneygrabbers who took out wads of filthy cash stolen from charities and used them as hammers to bang nails into the club coffin. Pearce and friends have bled the carcass dry, yet the bestest few still love them, because that's the PR version that suits. Loyal players, Appy's troops, packing the park, fortress fratton, best fans in the world....stuff of fantasy. It was meek surrender to poor teams in front of empty seats with fat blocking the pipes and Birch clutching a lottery ticket. If it is the points penalty that saw them off and not the suicidal transfer policy, then this must be their first genuine punishment for a decade of irregularity. But they should have been good enough to overcome that. pompey must have several players in the top ten wage earners in the division - the return on investment has been woeful. We've been banging on for years - they said they would stay up in the Prem, we told them it wasn't enough if you are running on Champion's League wages. They said Cotts would keep them up last year, we pointed out the requirement on that budget was not to stay up, but to GO up. As for the current manager who inherited Q over Q - UnAppy knew the situation, he's an idiot if he didn't, and I believe there is more honesty to him than Cotterill, but he failed to motivate an expensive squad. Home defeats to Millwall and Derby when the stakes are so high?... Like the previously heralded football geniuses Grant and Clotts, I don't think Mr Appy delivered - he was the cheap option and he's used pompey to make his mistakes. The idiotboy Cotterill has just rubbed it in by only finding some form when he went to Forest. So ignoring the heavily-pregnant herd of liquidation elephants in the room for one moment, I can see pompey getting out of League 1 first go......especially when the next penalty kicks in....

so as expected they went and got themselves relegated while I was away - typical. It was fun to watch though, in the surrounds of my lovely executive suite in one of Middlesbrough's finest hotels. The reviews said it was 'tired' - turned out to be fricking exhausted. I loved the 80's first time round, but I didn't want to stay in it again. Nice picture of The Queen up on the wall at breakfast, the stockiest TV I've seen since Avram pushed the boat out at Horton Heath, and wiring in my room that looked like it was in an opening scene from London's Burning. But as for our friends to the east. Never mind, at least the future looks Rosey, which reminds me, one of their main abusers was always telling us it would be fine. Where for art thou Toyman? Can we only expect a Ho return if our first year in the Championship ends in the dismal shame of finishing third? As David Steel once famously said 'go back to your caravans and prepare for liquidation!' Byebye pompey, I'd like to say it's been nice but it hasn't. Should the club fold I'll feel sorry for approx 10% of the fanbase. The rest have been spouting crap for years and deserve no sympathy.

it's getting a bit desperate when you start going through bins looking for scrap to sell. They should weigh in Varney, he must be worth a tenner a ton for medical research into apathy or lack of eye and foot co-ordination. This morning I'm off to a distant football ground next to a river. By the time I return to the beautiful south I suspect pompey may be a former championship club. If I miss that moment on here, fear not, I'll be enjoying it on a bracing northern waterfront. The only thing I would ask is that we don't have a mad claim by the toyman or a News webchat while I'm offline. I don't want to plough through 30 pages on Sunday.

and that's another problem. Everytime you start to feel a little bit sorry for them, because let's face it, forget their brave face, they are having a fricking nightmare of a time, some member of the few starts arrogantly spouting off. Huskellop is going to keep the scummers down with Birmingham. Lawrence will blast Cardiff into the top two. Henderson will help the Hammers get their rightful top two place. The wonderstrike by Norris will be the one specific moment aside from anything else that has happened over nine gruelling months that changes our whole season and will be slightly re-written in folklore... Stains will come straight back down and they are bankrupt. We are much better off in League One, we'll bounce straight back... Good luck with that, it's a ****er of a division to get out of even when you have money! And the whole bestest thing.....pompey are the best in the world, while all scVmmers boo their own team and leave after 70mins. I'm not aware of another fanbase that makes these outrageous claims, and that's the embarrassing bit, being the only people to say you are the best, when you are so clearly not. You could say, we've had a fricking nightmare of a season but there is still a trusty hardcore and we have a bell perhaps, but don't let the likes of Liverpool or Newcastle laugh at you as much as we do. Those guys have bigger groundsman's sheds than Fratton, who would seriously announce that their fanbase is better than that of big clubs?? Even Leeds, West Ham and Derby must chuckle. Norwich have a fantastic fanbase - Reading made more noise at SMS, but I don't hear them claiming to be the Galatasary of the south. I saw hardy York City fans in Peterborough, didn't hear them saying they are bigger than Barcelona. So I'll feel sorry for pompey if they want to be a bit humble, but it doesn't take too much of their delusion to wash that feeling away. A polite tip for the few - be less deluded, get a reality check, bin the ludicrous portsMyths, and you might get less people laughing at you, and some respect from the likes of Crawley and Stevenage.

meanwhile the pompey Trust is desperately trying to cobble together a deal but MoneyPenny is calling for stricter regulations on club owners. Not sure that the portly vote-harvester's antics will help the Trust this time. The last thing a potless consortium needs is more restrictions, they don't have proof of ANY funding, her call for more regulation could scupper any Trust deal. Imagine Bristol City going into this weekend without those extra six points....and the few were worried we would do a 'West Brom' against Coventry. The sporting gods have prepared a script for Saturday, the planets are coming into alignment..... And despite having their own ref that day, what about those two points that pompey dropped at St Mary's that cost them a home banker against Millwall? Those events have left the table on a delicate knife-edge that couldn't have been predicted back in August. Could it be that we will go up the same day that they go down? If so the swing in our league positions could be up near an astonishing 100 places quite soon. Surely a plan couldn't come together that well? And as one of the more vocal nutjobs on here I have to admit that if they are relegated and start next season with a penalty while we start life in the Premier League, I would consider that justice has finally been served. No one is in prison yet and the madness of loanees and charity-shafting continues, but looking at the table I'm not sure they are getting away with it anymore. This thread has been about investigating and highlighting the criminality, and laughing at the delusion. So if they get some justice this weekend, or the next, perhaps PTS should be retired in the summer with full honours, and replaced by something that covers the plucky little clubs in the lower leagues?

I didn't get in until 3am so I'm a bit sleepy. But that league table looks mighty fine this morning! A thoroughly professional job last night, in total control, nerve-wracking to watch, but this side is playing well enough to reclaim the title if Reading don't deal with Birmingham. IF we can finish the job on Saturday it will be an astonishing achievement by Markus, Nicola, Nige and the rest of the staff. To turn the business and the club around in such a short space of time would be remarkable. And as a nice little side order, I can see Bristol City relegating pompey the same day. The world is a much happier place than it was last weekend.

more myths getting written in Portsea pubs. All scummers boo their own players and leave after 70mins, and apparently we all called for Nige to be sacked after they won a glorious point. Methinks they still don't get the difference between booing Nugent and the ref, and booing your own team. I think the Steve call has confused them too, bless. As for Kitson comparing himself to Ronaldo today.....they both get booed, it spurs them on....mmmm. Yes you lanky Wotsit-look-a-like netball player, your being a bit selective about your results - in reality you get booed loads, you lose loads. Other than that, well done for raping the club coffers of £20K a week - and try not to punch the ball into the net tonight.

Positivity alert.... When we were going well I thought Nige suggesting that we don't worry about what else is going on was a bit off the mark. But he's right. West Ham can do what they like, no need worrying about that in advance. We need to ignore all the complications gathering around the run-in, all the negativity, all the worrying that many of us are guilty of. We have a simple plan.... Beat Pboro, draw a line, back on the bus, everyone row it to Mboro, same again. I'm not saying it's easy, but it's simple, and we are capable of it.