rallyboy

let's not forget that the nasty press have to shoulder a lot of the blame as well. They keep writing stuff about the club, reporting the facts and other annoying things like that. The Sun in particular have it in for them, I remember them suggesting that Al Fahim had no money and that Storrie would be charged, they also continue to print the league table, it's really out of order.

disappointingly it seems that Pompey may have turned a corner - it's teatime and they haven't taken out a loan yet today. Though on the upside, I guess the horrendous interest due on the rest of them is gathering momentum with every passing hour. Tick, tick, tick....

sorry Verbal but I don't think 'legally trading' has been on their agenda for a year now! The business is in terminal decline yet people at the top continue to drain it of funds... The auditors and taxman are going to have a field day sometime soon and it's now making our debacle in the summer look like a minor blip. It will be the hottest ticket in town and I hope Sky cover it live - 'the full financial report on Pompey's last few years of trading' starring senior judges and financial investigators - I can't wait...

now that the club is primarily financed by regular loans shouldn't the league be doing a fit and proper person test on ALL of these generous businesses? An investor would have to pass, why not people who are lending? It looks like a simple scam to bypass the regulations. £10M of drug money to launder? Lend it to Pompey, get a bit of land in return when they default. Come on Prem officials, wise up, they are taking the mick out of you again.

who takes responsibility for the repayment of £50M-£100M of debt without even looking at the books?... Or is it just another implausible storrie.

Fortunately they made the last two owners go through the 'new stringent' test, otherwise they might have ended up with an arms dealer or a skint fantasist obsessed with taking out loans. Interesting to hear Grant say today that he didn't know there were any financial issues -presumably he didn't know they were down the bottom either.

it does appear that they are on the brink but personally I would prefer it if they just hung on and stumbled through the season and got relegated. Then they will look at the figures in the summer and realise that the game is up, thus damaging another season and starting with a penalty. This could be the longest running comedy ever. And on a personal note, if this had occured ten years ago I would have had some sympathy, but the night they came to our ground and abused the silence for Ted Bates, that's when they showed their true colours and it was the night my attitude towards them changed. The arrogant boasting and admin-related abuse dished out in the summer just adds to the current hilarity. What's the temperature in Hampshire now boys?

just a minor query which I am sure some Pompey fans might ask - where exactly has the £15M loan gone?? I thought about a month ago they had sufficient to clear the transfer debt and some of the tax/VAT, with enough to finance wages until the New Year. Neither seem to have been paid yet there isn't enough to pay £1.8M in wages?? The company is burning cash faster than Elton John at a florist convention. How do you mislay £15M, and can I have a front row seat when the auditors visit? They will be curious as well. Could this mean the last loan never actually happened and it was just more lies? Agenda for 2010 - Financial irregularities following Storrie guilty verdict - 10-25pt deduction? Admin - 9pt deduction Relegation anyway and resultant firesale = Start in Championship on minus 24pts with no cash, players or structure. OR billionaire with a mental illness and £200M to burn sails in tomorrow and Maradona is installed before Christmas, groundworks for the new stadium start in January, Messi fires the goals that lead them to midtable safety. Suddenly Rupert looks like a businessman.

with Wotte lined up we can see right through Storrie's revolutionary idea - Total Business! Based on a Dutch policy of people seamlessly swapping roles, the cleaner has been organising debt re-structuring, the groundsman has been seeking international funding and Dindane has been playing as a Premiership striker.

it's not fair, they didn't realise that when you buy cheap players from Africa they tend to be involved in that Africa nations competition - it's not like the clue is in the title... Anyway, more interestingly, looks like it's about £20M they need to find in the next eight weeks, hope they get some advance money from the world cup bid or Maradona shirt sales. It maybe time for financial whizzkid and Saints legend Storrie to look down the back of the sofa again. This must now officially be the most drawn out train crash in history, and if they fail to beat Burnley and we win, well - I won't know whether to just laugh or shriek like a girl on Christmas morning.

I can accept that some players may get offers they can't refuse but most knew that this was a two/three year project and who knows, one or two like Connolly and Murty might even consider they have some loyalty to a manager and club that have shown faith in them. So I'm hoping for no great exodus, but then again I think we could still go up, so maybe I'm in cloud cuckooland. Pompey down and in admin, Saints winning a playoff at Wembley - come join me in cloud cuckooland, it's a pleasant place.

that is a great stat, so we spent nearly all of 2009 in relegation zones? I thought it just felt like we did. If we can keep this momentum and continue climbing that will be real progress and a sign that we have finally buried the ghosts of the past.

Have they paid the taxman yet? If not their latest loan may be used up by March on wages and old transfer fees, and the Sky money will go to taxman - or whichever creditor has first shout on it. If I had just put £15-20M in the pot I would be taking most of the TV revenue in January, the other creditors could whistle for it. Rather than strengthening they might need to sell to see them through to the summer, and then there is a LONG wait for the next Sky money.....and if Sky had financial problems or wanted to renegotiate their Prem deal in the morning, Pompey would be in admin by teatime. Many of the fans still don't get it - Three points against Burnley won't interest the bank, taxman, creditor clubs, investors, financial institutions - they just want their money - or the items secured against it. As with our own sad tale which should be a lesson to anyone sharp enought to understand, the real trouble is OFF the pitch. Hart may be gone but there is still a herd of elephants sat in the corner. Lucky they have the FA and city council to prop up the club by building that new money-spinning stadium for the world cup, without that they would be in BIG trouble. Time for another hefty loan at crippling interest rates?

The grave digger's having a laugh if he thinks they can get away with one miracle, they need two - one on the pitch and one off it. Christmas is a good time to get one but they could be buried by Easter.

The FA and FIFA will go ape when they discover that Lord Lucan and Elvis are on the boards of all of the holding companies behind the funding of Leeds, Notts County and Pompey - a clear breach of ownership rules.

I reckon Grant only got the job because his standard facial expression sums up the state of the club. Seven people and a stray dog will turn out to watch their cup dream end tomorrow, then they have the mother of all six pointers against Burnley. Burnley are definitely there for the taking, the only hope is that Coyle comes for just a point and shuts shop during the warm up. If both teams push forward it will be about 12-9 as they don't have a defender between them. I would be surprised if they don't beat Burnley, but that is their big three points in about six games so let's not get down when it happens! The bus will be warming up, simple people will be making ticker tape, the mayor is ready on the guildhall steps - they could reach that magical ten points at the weekend, and most fans thought it was just a dream that wouldn't be possible this season. Double figures? With that squad? Incredible.

the next court case will be over Hart's contract, they've tried to fob him off with a demotion and that failed so they'll have to dig into Grant's January warchest (shoebox) to get rid of yet another Storrie mistake. I wonder how the old grave digger will get on, he did really well motivating Terry, Lampard, Drogba, Cech etc, this job can't be that different... If he can get results against the likes of Burnley and Sunderland he could have the gap down to ten points by February. Joking aside, I'm sure they have now turned a corner, on and off the pitch. NOT!

in the olden days of the Prem we put the 'woe' in woeful - but that's history, the future is red and white! And if Hull can hang on to the current 3-2 then they would be 11pts ahead of Pompey. A few more results from other teams and it will be over by Christmas.

with so many poor teams their real problem is the opening seven defeats - all they need is three teams to go seven consecutive games without a point and they will be out of trouble - but Wolves aside, I can't see anyone managing that. A 3 or 4 point gap is easy to overcome if you say it quick but quite an ask of a poor team. And while they are lumbering through their next few fixtures, some of those teams down the bottom will be taking three points off each other, leaving the worst down there and creating a large gap. 'we are still in touch with Wolves!' the blue few squeal - yes you are, and that's because they'll be going down with you.

It will all be in place by January - Financial wizards and joint directors of football Rupert Lowe and Al Fahim in their personalised tracksuits, stood in the Fratton technical area shouting conflicting instructions at their new club captain Nigel Quashie....

sad news, I was enjoying his reign. Anyway I guess they are now entering their Wigley phase followed by their 'big name desperate for a job' - ''what there's no money?..But I can't do anything with this bunch of losers, you told me there was big funding on the horizon'' phase. It can't be as funny as the last few months but there should be some laughs along the way.

good luck and respect to those going, and no prizes for the maths and geography graduates who will come on here at midnight claiming to have driven back to Hampshire.

you are right, 30pts might be enough at this rate, there are some woeful teams. The only worrying thing from their point of view is that despite 5/6 awful teams failing miserably Pompey have still managed to pull away at the bottom and as we all know, that deep well where you store those great escapes of the past suddenly runs dry and it's someone else like Hull or West Ham that win three on the trot. They do have some winnable games in the run-in so it could be possible with a new manager and squad changes, but a lot will depend on whether someone wants to lend more to improve things. Ideally they will be 12pts off safety at the end of January and just plan (badly) for the Championship.

I think his knees gave up when he got to fifty, though they could do with him, Hunter alongside, Harris and Reaney, it would have to look more secure. Obvious comic misunderstandings aside, being rated one of Pompey's best players is like being voted the nicest serial killer or the least greedy MP. Maybe.... 1. He's frightened of open spaces and rows of seating, and saw that they took less to Stoke at the weekend for a vital game than we are going to take to Hartlepool on a wet Tuesday night. 2. Doesn't believe Hart every week when he says they have been the better team and the results will come. 3. They haven't paid him. 4. They haven't paid for him. 5. He doesn't want to get caught up in the Jihad that is brewing behind the scenes.

funny stat from today - they've only scored ten league goals all season - but their former strikers scored seven in one match this afternoon!.....which also put Pompey's four goal haul against Wigan into perspective. Delap kicks one of them in the head and they miss the penalty, and then one of the poorest strikers to ever pull on both a Saints and Pompey shirt pockets the points, very funny. In fact stop, this comedy has gone on far too long...it's TOO funny, I'm going to wet myself....who have they got next?....No!...don't joke, stop it!! If only they had a tenner to pay off Hart....might be time for a new loan? We had five years of misery, they have consolidated their misery with one simple phone call and are trying to cram it all into one season.