rallyboy

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??

they're obviously at a stalemate and have as predicted, ground to a halt over the wagebill. Put yourself in Ben Haim's position. You've been kind enough to defer wages yet you're still owed loads, you've also been made out as the villain, and you still have a year of guaranteed future income that they want to thieve off you. But the club was GIVEN money by the Premier League to cover these costs - shedloads of it. If the club has spent that on other stuff, why is it the player's fault? He has every right to stand his ground, so I don't expect to see any ripping up of contracts - this also goes for Kanu who was a hero one minute and is then being described as a greedy moneygrabbing ba$tard the next. The only way to break the stalemate may be to draw up new contracts. Ben Haim is released, byebye! - but the next parachute payment gives him a lump sum, ditto the next one - as the old expression goes, he will get all of his money, mush. The minor problem with this would be that the parachute payments don't cover all the contracts, and there is a small queue of secured creditors with first shout on the remaining £4M-£7M.... If they get liquidated Ben Haim will still get paid for central PFA or league funds, he is more secure than Chanrai - for that reason alone Birch cannot threaten him with anything, other than a visit from CSI. His blinged-up, over-chromed Range Rover might less look cool with 100 jagged holes in the driver's door. But to get this business at least looking like it's solvent, Birch has got to pull a humpback whale out of a hat.

they can't afford the wages, they can't offload players, and they can't sign new ones. Unlike before they can't afford to buy out contracts and pretend the players were free agents. If Chanrai agreed a 'deal' tomorrow it would take six weeks. If they have a next season I think it's already damaged - Appy will be starting pre-season in four weeks with half a team, and we've seen in the past how a disruptive pre-season is difficult to shake off. They are limping. Sounds like Birch may have squeezed the players and the wages are now about £600K a month with maybe a further £300k deferred? - and the tax ignored, ditto image rights. Income for May-July from the league is less than £350K. Their wagebill is five times that of Doncaster, maybe six times the League One average. That must be quite a letter that Birch has sent to Portugal, I'm amazed he hasn't attended to fight their corner. It will have to be the most persuasive bit of A4 since Hitler convinced us that the shed behind him full of Panzers with a forty-foot-high skull logo on the door was actually a sewing machine factory.

and let's not forget that any unsustainable signing they made wasn't an unfortunate misjudgement, these signings were completed to beat off competition from other clubs. They outbid rivals to prevent them from getting players. They paid over the top to gain a sporting advantage. Signings like Ben Haim were not unfortunate errors, there was a deliberate policy to gain an advantage in an underhand way, a form of cheating that could have been put down as a mistake, until it was repeated. And that's why they deserve punishment not sympathy. Poor plucky pompey with their greedy players is actually greedy underhand pompey trying to get Bristol City or Millwall relegated instead by giving contracts they could never pay. Any fan who cheered Norris, Kitson, Lawrence or Varney and didn't question the funding has to take it on the chin. The carcass wasn't savaged by the nasty league or the world recession, it was self-harming all along.

pompey in transfer policy U-turn shock!...how about this bombshell from financial guru Appy... You have to be realistic, we have a budget which I am sticking to. Finally, after years of painstaking investigation through the debris of two administrations, someone has spotted where it all went wrong. Appy and his shrewd team of scientists from the University of Insolvency have discovered that pompey....spent more than they earned... This startling confession should be enough to satisfy the league that the leopard has changed it's spots and that all fixtures can be completed - the future looks rosy. No, not the manky jetsetting tax-avoiding mongrel that sh!t on the beach.

should the fans accept some blame? Mandaric - paid over the odds on wages to get the club out of the championship, promised a new stadium but knocked down one shed, abandoned ship at first opportunity - made money from pompey. Child-maimer - pretended he wasn't the owner, paid crazy wages to win the cup, promised a new stadium, didn't sell enough landmines and legged it. Storrie - gave out ridiculous contracts, oversaw the biggest train crash in football history, thought the Harbourdome was a good idea, approved several dodgy owners, did quite nicely thank you. Al Fahim - self promoted, spouted rubbish, looked silly, achieved zero. Al Faraj - failed to exist - so fairly blameless in the scheme of things. Redknapp - paid out crazy wages, signed an unusually high number of players, made a fortune from pompey and abandoned them, twice. Grant - was paid a huge amount to halt the decline but instead ran around the wreckage of the train crash shooting survivors, made an awful speech, dragged the club out of the big time forvever, and laid the foundations for a second relegation. Cotterill - paid crazy wages, launched a suicidal transfer policy, was shown up as a poor coach, got very well paid and abandoned ship. Chanrai - lent money to a desperate client, kept the patient on a life support for his own personal gain, has no interest in football let alone pompey. Antonov - paid crazy wages, used 'borrowed' money to fund shortfall, did terminal cashflow damage to the business. Lampitt - paid crazy wages, took crazy wages, failed to address obvious insolvency, sanctioned a suicidal transfer policy, was shown up as a VERY poor CEO, directed the club towards League One. Appleton - decided to join a train crash, failed to motivate players, managed to lead one of the highest paid team's straight out of the Championship at the first attempt. And what do these characters have in common?.... At one time or other they have ALL been heralded as heroes by the park-packing, plucky bestest fratton few... With the spin and a vague grasp of reality these guys have all been lorded as true blue greats or club saviours, yet the majority have been quite poor in their roles, have taken a fortune out of the club, and have moved on without looking back - unless they needed more cash out of the carcass. Legends indeed. And that's one reason to have little sympathy with people who can't tell the difference between a relegation-loving prossie-botherer, a money-laundering crook, or a perfectly respectable businessman. Appy is the only one still waiting for the actual facts to emerge, the new fixture list might be the catalyst for his status to change from hero to average coach. if he is so good, how come we're playing Hartlepool, Crawley and Stevenage?...

not sure why they should be upset by this thread, it's basically just a news portal.....with a dash of ruthless satire...and the occasional undercurrent of irrational hatred. Any decent developments have been on here before local press, you get a reality check behind the spin, and if my club was in their position the last thing I'd want to do is seek out a rival forum to see how much fun they were having, so any pompey fans who come on here must be half bonkers. Sorry Mack and one or two exceptions - though I think Mack knows he's bonkers anyway. Let's not forget that there was a strong fan lobby that the latest charity theft was the fault of the News for reporting it, not the club for the actual thieving. It's the truth they don't like, not the messengers.

They translate that Birch statement into we have been assured that there will never be a further penalty. This spin also drives the Trust, there may be investors worried about a further relegation, this satisifies them. If a penalty is imposed later it now means the nasty FL have lied, gone back on their word, and plucky little pompey will have to plead once again for a level playing field. This vague and selective knowledge of the facts leaves people comfortable with life - they ignore the cheating, gloss over the theft, but remember with great clarity the cup, and the 4-1. I bet there are very few few who realise the gravity of the situation this week - ignorance is bliss, this latest spin from Birch is nothing more than a little pikey comfort blanket.

more worryingly..... I have read every one of 1,266 pages. I've commented way too often. I've spent far too long composing some of those posts. In total I must have lost a full couple of months of my life. And now you fricking tell me we are only halfway???? Die skates die, asap.