rallyboy

with the basic requirements of administration-exiting still to be attempted, let alone completed, there is no sign of an end for this thread yet. Unless of course you fit into the simpleton group that believes pompey have paid off all debts, cleared the CVA, and it's just a matter of building the new ground with all that parachute money? Once the CVA has been completed, and the forensic enquiry clears all club officials, and the related tax cases lead to no convictions - then the thread will have run its course. I wouldn't be surprised if this thread actually lasts longer than pompey's south coast dominance lasted - it would put that little blip into context. In years to come it would be cool to say, yes you did go to Wembley, but we have a forum thread that lasted longer than you were above us. Would make me chuckle.

is Stevie making them up, are they having a larf? That'll be an anagram of F*ck Ram Toss. Signing a Hungarian striker is a real coup - if you are still on rations and looking forward to the Beatles doing their first school concert. At least the bloke looks cheap, which is progress.

Wembley, promotion, top of the league - let me have a long hard think, do I trust Nicola and Nige or am I more interested in what Warnock has to say?...... Difficult one that.

yawn.

nice lineup! Just enough room left on the pitch for a photocall of club officials mugging a charity worker. And what of the down to the bare bones plucky bestest bench?.....

give it up Ho, some of your arguments like some of the few, just don't wash. We are bored trying to explain attendances and boycotts, the difference in the two clubs plight etc - the facts have been laid out, if you can't accept them just move on, let it go. Please. Accept the fact that we have bigger support, in the modern era of one club loyalty it has always been that way, probably always will be. We may even be the bestest, but who cares, that is for the likes of Claridge to go on about. Understand that the media are just being patronising and making out there is a little plucky underdog with undying support, even if the figures suggest otherwise - it fits their cartoon style - grab a simple theme and milk it to death. They will now adopt Swansea, or perhaps Norwich who in particular do have really impressive support and would deserve such a tag. Coming soon - the plucky little canary tweaking the tail of the mighty Chelsea - the media have forgotten pompey already, its over mate, other than court cases, the club is the day before yesterday's chip wrapper. You still have your club, that should be a bonus, but you need to let go of the past. Let's get this thread back to the funny stuff not the boring. Court cases, tax evasion, pending prison terms, delayed CVAs, deranged managers, ridiculous signings of old fat men, and continued spending despite debts remaining unpaid. I miss people like Avram, especially when he used to lose games really badly, spout rubbish, then give little Avram a run out at the club's expense. How about when we discovered the pompey kitman was on more than our manager, or when the potless Sheik dressed as an ice cream vendor or when the administrator signed autographs! - let's get the comedy back. Happy days.

nice one! Don't take any sh)t from these people. Or anyone in fact!

more like the next Maxwell.

and the funniest thing of all is that however unpopular Rupert was, and whatever ludicrous financial decisions he made, compared with the insolvent trading and blatant criminality that has gone on down the road he now looks like a financial genius and an honourable gentleman. pompey have improved Rupert's PR image ten fold. He drove us into a wall because he made mistakes. They drove over the cliff because they were greedy and twisting the rules. They then did it again. And are still doing it now. Or as Ho will point out, there is no difference between the two situations. Yeah, whatever. zzzzzzzzz........Ho continues to try and bore the thread into submission. And what hurts most is he didn't quote me today, I can't have been offensive enough, this one will qualify for a response surely.....

without us seeing the precise detail of the most recent takeover it would be standard for the new owners to have taken responsibility for ALL aspects of the business, ie any due income, and any due debt. To think that Chanrai would have made a special effort to retain responsibility for a certain portion of the debt just stretches reality. The club owed the small creditors, so the present owners of the club now owe the small creditors. In the same way, just because Storrie ordered certain items or agreed contracts doesn't mean he owes it not the football club. The club stole the charity money, the club shafted the businesses, the owners bought that responsibility via the CVA they agreed to honour. Just pay up pompey. And anyone who continues to defend the current regime's lack of activity when it comes to debt clearance by passing blame or saying, yes we don't know the details of the latest change of hands..... Well I would wager Ben Haim's wagepacket on the Russians being legally responsible for all debt, and if they aren't and £120K is outstanding from Chanrai, they could be local heroes by paying it off themselves from their HUGE fortune, and ripping into those that haven't. Simple. It seems they haven't done that, so I reckon the circus is still in town - same old show, just different clowns. Roll up, roll up! - Lampitt and Cotterill dancing like little monkey boys on strings, and the few lapping up every spun word as gospel. One little set of figures they can't spin - the league table.

Any new mystery investors coming in from Libya?.... Not sure they need to spend anything as Cotterill points out after every game that they were either - a. robbed by the ref. b. the better side. No, they are doing fine with that squad - and how depleted can it get by December? Rather than wasting time on strengthening I presume Lampitt is concentrating all of his efforts on trying to make sense of that hugely complicated and confusing paying back a charity scenario. No funds for small creditors but here's another new striker!....the madness and criminality continues.

we are developing the technical skills to play champagne football - and the wisdom to know when not to. Some people were jumping up and down near the end demanding we charge forward. We were winning, we had the ball, they couldn't get it off us - job done. Good three points against a strong side who will scare a few this season. We are more comfortable against sides who try and outplay us, mainly because we haven't met anyone who can yet! Good use of subs, slightly risky but its along season and we have a strong squad for that purpose. 10/10 Nige. And well done to Seabourne, he is stepping up to the plate. D'Urso is quite poor. Did I see him wrongly over rule a linesman's correct decision from his vantage point half a mile away? His use of cards is somewhat erratic as well, nice he's got the hang of counting them though.

get Theo to come round and read his autobiography to you.

all the debts were proven to AA and he listed them to the court after carefully investigating each and every one of them - so there is nothing to dispute. Unless of course the debt figures he conjured up don't quite match the figures now due for payment? Did he move a decimal point or two perhaps, just to leave the taxman in the cold?...now people are watching to see what is paid and the figures don't quite add up. A meeting with HMRC and the court to explain that would be a meeting worth delaying. (Thats a little conspiracy just to keep Ho amused, better than listening to ludicrous pub myths and publically declaring them as fact.) Lampitt says pompey are a third party to all that has gone before. He is distancing them from the debt, but still happy to be associated with the cup win? The old problem, trying to embrace the glory while ignoring the crime behind it. Gobbing off about Harry and the arms dealer's achievements but slagging them off after they've left the sinking ship. Tis a confusing and fickle business when a cup is financed by taxpayers and you have to be selective about the bits you want to remember. Unlike accountancy that is quite simple and generally goes like this - Small creditor does agreed work. He bills you. You pay it. By now they must have paid more in management and accountancy fees to ignore this debt than to pay it. But the simple cost of closing the book on this massive PR gaffe that has bankrupted local businesses and damaged the club name even further? Less than a months wages for one player.

so Ho is in protest-denial despite press coverage and facts, yet tries to sell us another pompey pub myth - the club is for sale. Bearing in mind Cortese doesn't even tell his missus if he is interested in signing a player, please tell us Mr Ho, what is your reliable source for this piece of business news? Do tell, we are like Gareth Bale, all ears..... Is it the same cross-eyed, sister-bothering, dentist-dodging pub simpleton that brought us great favoutites like the SS tank commander, the dock strike, scummers don't own their ground, the 2 for 1 unemployed tickets at St Marys, the Lambert to pompey close season transfer perhaps? Endless drivel thought up by the dim, for the dim. No matter what rubbish is peddled over that way as fact, or whoever had protests or didnt, there is only one way to judge who is the top team in Hampshire and you are now on the wrong end of the league table, so just like Avram's favourite leisure centre assistant - take it on the chin. We had six years accepting we were in that position on merit. We deserved to be playing Dagenham etc, the table doesn't lie. It may be different in a month or two, but today it shows that we are the top team in Hampshire. Let the tiresome attendance argument end there.

in the Northam I just go with Lockets, but I did stumble into the upper Kingsland once where the finest bone china and cake stands were a must. I know crisps are banned in the Chapel as they exceed the permitted noise levels.

I see no indication that the current poor pompey attendances are due to a boycott, I have seen no march calling for the Russians to step down. That makes the comparison irrelevant. I suspect they just have a small fanbase, and there is nothing wrong with that - lets dress it up as a quality* over quantity experiment. It is a simple commercial issue - they are now getting squeezed from west and east by progressive modern clubs with good facilities, and the fickle few do like shiny things, so no wonder their heads have been turned. It's over. *Sort of.

thanks for taking points off one of our promotion rivals, nice one.

the drugs and porn reference was about football club owners generally - porn re West Ham, Birmingham - and there are South American teams and no doubt some in europe with all kinds of 'interesting' funding. Though if our financial authorities investigations are to be believed you have your link with organised crime and no doubt drugs, but the jury is still out on that one. And Chanrai is a loan shark - he lends money to those outside of the banking system at whatever rate he fancies. And because the child-maimer only made some of his money from arms dealing, doesn't make it okay. Fred West only spent some of his time torturing and murdering women - generally he was a nice bloke. People just bang on about his negative side!

A breakthrough! We'll take that as a first acknowledgment that the cup was bought with blood money and as well as massive debt, the businessmen involved left a trail of limbless children across foreign lands - all in the name of plucky little bestest pompey. That's progress anyway, unless of course Ho you believe that landmining kids is just pushing the limits of capitalism? I'm sure there are companies out there that we all deal with and if we knew all aspects of their business dealings we would be uncomfortable with some and take action. There is one thing knowing that big banks have funded dodgy businesses, it's another knowing that every penny being put into your football club comes directly from arms dealing, drugs, money-laundering or XXX porn? Being associated with companies is one thing but it's not as blatant as an arms dealer or an international loan shark standing in your director's box waving to the fawning sycophants. There are some 'unusual' club owners out there (Bates, West Ham) but pompey have topped the league for owners that you would like to distance yourself from for several seasons, and are still currently several points clear. Still celebrating the cup but glossing over how it was funded? There's a careful juggling act.

I told you Gosport had gone all red and white! Really poor attendance for a local derby, the ship has been well abandoned. Any news of the missing 240,000 from Southsea Common? It's like Cambodia all over again. Another couple of weeks like this and they will no longer be rivals but an irrelevance - and that will end this thread. Funny how quickly six years goes by.

according to the exhibition in Fareham museum on the rivalry, pompey fans are known as 'Skaters'.... They also seem to gloss over the whole prossie-bothering and sex-offending management, cancer charity theft, child-maiming funders and tax evasion years as well - or is all that for the next exhibition as much if that era is still ongoing and under investigation?

Could be embarrassing??? It is! We were two divisions beneath them not long ago and all was well in the garden of the few. It may be early days but things seem to have turned around somewhat... Stattos out there will tell me how many places behind them we were at the worst point, what has the shift been from behind to in front, presumably when we were locked at the bottom on minus ten - 65 league places? Though Cotterill says they deserved something yesterday - so I guess they will get some points for that when the FL discusses it.

and with the world famous Gus Poyet's amazing diving and time-wasting circus up next! That will be worth a few cards for the frustration alone. I'm confused, who do we dislike the least this week?....I guess a draw and four red cards would suit us best.

tight gits! - if Chambo is worth £12M then Puncheon must be worth about £2M. Do Man City need a door stop or a coat stand? Just offload him, or hope that the ongoing lesson in who is in charge eventually forces a change of attitude. If he does a total U-turn he has a role to play - barring that he'll be training with Joey Barton between tumbleweed in a deserted field.