rallyboy

let's celebrate it three months late, and lets leave the organisation to someone who isn't actually involved with the forum and regularly criticises it. And anyone who suggests McIntyre is a comedian deserves to be fiddled with.

NONE of us know all the facts yet many still want to leap to take sides. My personal viewpoint is I have great respect for Matt, Lawrie and the old players - many are legends and we'll never forget the times we shared with them. And without Markus and Nicola we wouldn't have a club, their project is to get us back to the levels Lawrie achieved in a different era. This is not a black and white issue, we don't have to take sides, you can support the great names AND the current regime - while being disappointed by both on occasions. I believe from what I see on here between the knee-jerk postings is that there are many people share that middleground view - two thirds of the fanbase maybe? You tell me... But if we want to analyse the problems surrounding the weekend, this is where we all start guessing as we don't have all the facts - As a major part of the club's history did Nicola have an invite to these unofficial events? If yes and he declined, boo to him. If no, disgracefully insulting. What exactly did Lawrie do to upset the current regime? If we knew the detail which side would we take? Did Matt's unfortunate link with Pinnacle damage the Leibherr bid and delay the project or is Nicola being over-sensitive on that? Matt was doing his best to help the club, but some suggest Pinnacle were messing up our whole season - two views of one simple thing. We don't know the facts - so I suspect disappointing behaviour has occurred on both sides. As for the BBC stirring it up - you just ask the club about the award they have given Lawrie and you get that answer, simple journalism - but the factual response is altered by the delivery of the presenter who gave the impression it was sinister.... The flimsy argument that Cortese doesn't care about the club's history? Look at the shirt. And look at yesterday when he allowed a plaque to be put up regarding loss of life in the blitz, a campaign that has fallen on deaf ears for decades - the man who doesn't care about the club and city's history made it happen. No big fuss, no gobbing off in the press, he just did it. He's in charge of my club, was vital in saving it and is trying to bring us success. I love the legends of the club, and in Nicola I trust. Anyone who is really not happy with his management should boycott the club, presumably as they did with Wembley last season. Stop putting money into a regime they despise and let the rest of the fanbase vote with their feet. I think it will be a lonely protest.

where are all these emergency loan players that they promised? I see them staying up, clearing out the squad, hopefully getting a mid-summer points penalty that will send new signings running, and starting next season with a 5-0 drubbing at St Marys. Or Fratton. I'm not fussy, as Tiger would say.

good point about Carlisle yesterday, though the game was very poor we could have played until Christmas and they wouldn't have equalised. So far this season the days of last minute panic and disappointment is history. We are a strong team and the opposition is more worried about us than we are about them. I'm very keen for us to avoid the play off lottery and go up in 2nd, but if we can't do that no one would fancy coming to a packed St Marys or attempting to do us over two legs. Forget Boro, Everton, Villa, Leeds etc - our worst recent case has been conceding two dodgy late penalties - and we still got a draw against a form side away from home. My worst fear would be a play off final against Oldham - football is a fickle mistress who likes to remind you that 6-0 at their place counts for nothing in a one off game...

I heard mildly racist stuff yesterday about Guly, I've questioned people before when I know who has said it, time for people to make a stand and remind the yoof club rejects that you can't get away with it. Report it if it happens at the next home game, shut these idiots up. The Northam isn't full of mongs, it just includes a vocal minority who need educating.

nice one! Saints shirts appearing at top sports events and on the same day, Storrie's charges if proved MUST mean deductions - from football's point of view they look horrific in black and white. IF Storrie is found guilty in his role as Portsmouth ceo the FL couldn't let them get away with that, surely?... The charges look as bad as any previous case that has generated serious penalties, and worse than most, they have slipped out of tight corners before, their luck has to run out soon. but that was in the past, the sins of former owners........yeah, tell Luton Town that, if you can find them.

Adrian, you can have 4% of that answer each year, less expenses at a level that I will set, starting in 14 months time - I did ask everyone and they all agreed. But in good faith, here is an intitial amount - A. The

give her three quid and send her down Asda for some sturdy slippers, they are great for the kitchen and when washing the car. You need to knock these sort of fancy requests on the head early doors. Good luck with that.....

it looks like the least plausible of all the takeovers thus far, but I guess we need to wait and see. I'd like to know what Lampitt and the FL make of their backgrounds. Experience suggests this is nothing more than a distraction from the lack of emergency loan cover that was promised. If they are rich and interested why didn't they come in when there was something worth buying? Why didn't they act even a month ago when the team could be strengthened? Or does Chanrai need to do a desperate deal before payday?......no legitimate business will be rushed (!), due diligence will take ages, if the next wages have a 'banking error', we know the game is up. It has got to the point where you can't blame the few for being thick. With so many different parties trying to settle old business vendettas via pompey it's difficult to keep up with the plot - though anyone who got confused in chapter one and thought Storrie was a hero is thick.

maybe Puncheon shot at him 18 times?....

a very good summary Landford, and that's why I think that despite some vocal objectors, most of the fanbase are on the bus - still respectful of legends of Saints past, but supportive of the man who will stop at nothing to create future Saints legends. That spat is not a black and white argument, you don't have to take sides. In Nicola we trust - and as an example, his decision to sack Pardew will be judged in May by the table, not by knee-jerk ranting on here. I think he's made some mistakes but as I've said before, Cortese wants the club to succeed, and so do I.

so am I right in thinking we now have a 'banker' who has been linked to organised crime and whose fellow director and brother was shot by a hitman? And between them they couldn't afford Bournemouth? And the motoring industry was concerned over their own version of the FaPPT? Allied with one of Ridsdale's advisors, and a bloke who makes our own estate agent saviour look bigtime?!...... I just knew someone would get shot before this deal completed! With an arms dealer, money launderers and two branches of the Russian mafia involved, it should get really tasty now. Once again it's going to be like three old tramps fighting over one wet shoe - but this time they're tooled up - book front row seats now to avoid disappointment! Our entertainment aside - the FL should knock this one on the head right now, Lampitt has seen the same background info that we have, his former job leaves him in no doubt as to these people's likely intentions. A return to Cash + twintub. It's very obvious.

this might be a little gem that popped out of the News report on the Derby game..... The official declared attendance was listed as 14,555. The number of people actually in the ground was 12,882. That means that - a. nearly 1,700 season ticket holders have paid up but abandoned ship mid-season - a massive percentage. or b. they are giving the impression that the breakeven figure is being met when it clearly isn't. what's worse?..... I'm sure every club has a handful of empty season ticket seats listed on the attendance, but not at the rate of 10-20%.

no one can hijack the club name and organise events that to the casual observer appear to be officially sanctioned. A guest list of worthy participants doesn't make it official, any such affair should be organised with the club's approval, not as an aggressive action to raise headlines. Meeting Cortese and agreeing limits for the business he's in charge of would have been polite. If you then wanted to organise an unofficial event go at it as hard as you can within the limits he had set, knowing from day one that no one from the club would be present. As soon as this was exposed as a non Cortese-sanctioned event we all knew it was in trouble, why didn't the organisers? Yes Nicola is tough and occasionally wrong, but he is very predictable on image rights and there was never going to be a player at this unofficial event. Love you Matt, but let it go, don't keep feeding the Mail with non-stories.

nowhere near rich enough, they need someone to risk £50M to stand still and £150M if they want to seriously turn things round. The years of debt and ludicrous wages is crippling their future. A new owner needs to buy off so many people and service so much debt it's a non-starter - hence the lack of any interest in a year. The business just doesn't offer a return to justify the outlay. The only way it could work is with Prem money coming in - that was the only asset a year ago, that's when they should have taken what they could get, but Chanrai chose to gamble.

They have deliberately not developed the boxes - I think the club are worried that if you offer free parking with hospitality the guests will bring forty untaxed vehicles and stay for a month - especially troublesome when you don't own the car park and a child-maimer charges you for every space. But with the 'posh' seat you do get a match programme, pegs, commemorative horse brass, and the chance to 'grab' the man of the match. Great to see Avram's career going so well. He now knows that Karma isn't the name of his favourite Latvian crack addict.

it seems fairly clear that Haim is a pompey player and they owe him wages, it looks like a clumsy and illegal way to try and save money. Not sure I've ever heard of a player who doesn't know who he is contracted to play for. His loan is up, he returns. And you know you are in trouble when West Ham (who are happy to pay insane money to a sadly-fading Bridgey and 50 year old Robbie Keane) decide your player is too expensive. even now pompey can still outbid the maddest millionaires.

it's greedy footballers first in line for the cash so that means most of their parachute money rather than being utilised to stabilise a relegated club and give it infrastructure will be invested in chrome wheel trims, oversized baseball caps, shiny ear studs and tattoos. That's how they chose to spend it - the TV money is still going through the club, not into it.

is this the same reason they delayed the January payment to the legal firms and administrators? I can't see why AA would go without his cash if it was there. A neutral might suggest that it looks like cashflow is on a knife edge. If that is the case, how on earth are they going to pay this month?? If I were among the few, and I shudder at that thought, if I didn't see an apology from Lloyds backing the pompey version of events I would be very worried, the financial safety of the end of the season and end of contracts is a long way away for a company with no money. Time for another competitively-priced loan from the shark! - at a rate that will amount to the parachute income.

congratulations, did the same for my son a million years ago, we lost 4-2 that night, you have a far more interesting result to tell him about. Get a couple, get Ricky to sign them and then little Lambert Markus Cortese can enjoy them in years to come.

half the squad have wage issues, it was a bank error.......again. Funny how the bank hasn't come out and apologised or offered a version of events as any delay would be a PR disaster for their customer and they would want to support them by making a statement. Yet we have nothing. If we are playing Call my Bluff I will go for the 'waiting for Utaka fee to clear' version. Which is significant if cashflow is that poor.

guessing that their wagebill has gone a bit mad, are West Ham the new pompey? Avram has been splashing out again, following a disappointing semi. I know they too have the bestest fans and you can't take their spirit etc. Are they risking all to stay up?....

that short break in Egypt to relax and recharge batteries doesn't seem to have helped. They should have gone on another of those well-organised and useful US mini tours, paid for by taxpayers and creditors of course. Or perhaps just stayed at home and paid bills. And practiced defending. Or maybe recruited cheap players.

I guess they've delayed the first cva payments to make time to reduce the wagebill further. If Lampitt is attempting to meet the cva, (and there has been no indication yet that the club intend to address any debts), he desperately needs the forthcoming player clearout in the summer. He can then get the wagebill to a sensible level, though signing players on £3K a week will be difficult as this regime has already sanctioned £20K a week. Their rebuffed offers in the transfer window demonstrated that by already overpaying loanees etc, no one will take a paycut to come to a sinking ship. Who wants to take £5K a week knowing there are others in the squad on three, four or five times that? That would suggest the post-exodus starting squad for next season could be desperate journeymen unwanted by proper clubs, and kids, all on peanuts - plus a very miffed Lawrence and Kitson, and a grossly-overpaid middle-aged immobile Nigerian. Meanwhile further parachute payments will have to be utilised to cover the lack of transfer income - or is Chanrai going to chuck more money in the bottomless well?... Are they about £12M down on the proposed income from two windows? That leaves a whacking great hole in the cva figures! Getting the wages sustainable will be a start but Cotterill is close to cracking. His comment the other day that they need to remember that the club is a football club and not a bank means he has been told he has to cut costs and the squad will suffer. Lampitt can go either way in the summer - try and cut costs and address debt, or continue to sanction overpaid signings. The inactivity this week might indicate that it is finally reality check time - has the madness finally ended? No more big wages, no more expensive loanees, just a battle for club survival. To sum up - nothing has changed in a year - as it was in Feb 2010 - The only answer is still cash on the table, and lots of it. They must still be trading insolvently. The current manager still doesn't understand how a business works. Many of the fans don't understand how a business works. Creditors have got nothing, and they are still idiots. They still have the taxman on their backs. They still have tax evasion charges hanging around. They are still blaming previous owners, even though they are now one of them. An investigation still needs to take place. They are heading for a firesale/clearout in the summer. oh hang on, a couple of things have changed since Feb 2010 - a year ago they were fighting relegation, but it was from the division above with a life-saving cushion of four years of big money. And they could fill their little ground back then. If they get their act together I will look forward to Cotterill's rousing little speech on the pitch when they survive on the final day, glossing over the fact that they needed to go up, not stay up.... It'll be like carnival time, as if the prossie-botherer never left - the flags, the extra thumbs, the cheers - just drowned out by the sound of fifteen ferraris leaving the rented car park for the last time and taking the club's entire income with them. the few's 2011 doesn't look great on paper - and it was all gambled, and still being gambled for a solitary fa cup. At least Leeds aimed high.

Cotterill - 'we were the best team tonight in both halves, we were excellent - QPR know they've had a game tonight!'..... yes Steve, you really had the league leaders worried, they must be quite down after their comfortable 2-0 win. I preferred it when he slagged his own players off, at least you could believe that.