
rallyboy
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Rome? More like Soweto.
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What could be funnier than a potless fantasist buying Pompey? Two of them doing it!! He must be quite important if he had to go to three banks to borrow £5M, at what must be hefty repayment rates. The debt is climbing, Storrie is going to court, the laughs keep coming. It can't get any funnier.... (I said that yesterday, but it has!)
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please don't kid yourself that a vote for the BNP is a vote for Englishness and our proud heritage, the rest of us can comfortably enjoy that still without firebombing shops or denying the holocaust. Church fetes, cricket on the green, jumpers as goalposts, bowler hats and bicycles, it's all here still despite Griffin's poisonous rants and scaremongering by the papers. A vote for the BNP is a vote in favour of racism, it's all about colour. And if you're on here as a BNP supporter perhaps you might like to give a view on all the players that have proudly worn the red and white but don't have the blue eyes and fair hair of the master race. Do we only win if white players score these days?? That was the traditional NF way of supporting teams and it's a serious point, you can't support a team with black players and vote BNP, they are conflicting views. I would like to think some BNP sympathisers are open to checking a bit of history and looking beyond the laughable tabloid fairytales to find out more about Griffin and his bunch of loons, do that and don't waste your vote, you can't cherry-pick his agenda and just support the BNP on jobs or the health service, if you're voting BNP you are supporting all of his madness. Our fathers and grandfathers fought against the last bunch with the BNP's agenda, I'm with them on this one.
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I like Storrie's rock solid defence for failing to declare tax on a deal (or the deal itself) during a calendar year - he was away for a week of it. Guilty, next case. I am sure Redknapp, Storrie and Mandaric didn't have their grubby fat fingers in the till, like muddy pigs snorting around a trough of cash, oink, oink, that scenario obviously hasn't occured and anyone who thinks it has would require proof. Pancake is right, we need to campaign to keep Fahim and Storrie involved, and Hart as manager, maybe we should try and get Redknapp back to look after all transfers as well, when he comes out of the scrubs. The train crash continues, and if anything, seems to be gathering pace!...choo choo, mind the doors, and the offshore accounts. I see a points deduction for financial irregularities on the horizon, or is that too much to hope for?
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I can't see how their debt can still be £70M??! Unless of course we discover that Fahim has trousered the Sky money and 'forgotten' to pay off the banks - that would be hilarious! Surely they've cleared £30M since the summer and should have done the tax bill by now. With the reduced wage bill of a Conference quality squad even hero Storrie's huge salary can't have pushed them back to the brink. If the £70M debt were true they could shut shop this afternoon and forget being a football club cos that ain't ever going to get paid. Maybe it's those nasty papers who've got it in for them, remember how they claimed there was going to be a firesale, then they wrote that Fahim was a loon, that Defoe and Crouch would go, then they said that the club was on the brink of admin and that Hart's job was hanging by a thread, nasty tabloid lies. Funny how we haven't seen much libel action launched yet. Anyway, trying to make sense of the soap opera latest, the man who could be holding the cards now is Gaydamak whose old man wouldn't let him sell to Faraj. Arms Dealer senior now holds a hand of aces over the new owner should he want access to the land for redevelopment, not only can he not buy it direct, Faraj will have to be nice to Fahim just to gain access to it. If I was the gun runner I would just sit on the land and wait until the whole lot comes crashing down which it must without ground redevelopment or HUGE investment. Plenty more laughs in this one, I've never seen a comedy with so many side-splitting encores, everytime the curtain closes and you get up to leave they come out and do more. This is a golden era, it can't go on much longer...
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Yeah let's start a glamorous grudge vendetta against the mighty Yeovil firm that leaves all travelling Saints in danger when they go there, perhaps someone here would like to launch a cowardly gang assault on outnumbered Leeds and Millwall fans and then lead the travelling support to those grounds? Orderly queue please, gobby extremists who are slow-of-thought and frightened of talking to ladies, first.... We have a great new owner, a fantastic structure building, the team is gelling, the results are coming, lets not repay the faith of our new owners by behaving like a bunch of inbred ****s - that Hampshire vacancy has already been filled.
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did cross my mind, I'd like to think he's put so much into the last few months that it's going too well to walk away from. Also a team that is right up there with a good chance of promotion will be besieged by everyone including Tony Adams, Roy Keane, Rafa Benitez and Paul Hart (next week for the last three)
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I saw them play Crewe in early 09 from roughly the spot that pic is taken. The away support that day was about 150, dotted around the remains of the middle of that crumbling stand. Orient have a smart looking training facility across the road and the main stand that was rebuilt is good, the rest of the ground is pretty average, I don't recall any great noise, and by taking that number, we will own the ground!
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where are all the cyclists, Schumacher, diving strikers, McLaren, dozens more athletes, and the footballers who actually threw a game and were convicted? Lazy, lazy journalism from a work experience boy who hasn't mastered Google, on his last ever Sunday shift.
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so Redknapp is welcomed back after his demolition of their club's structure, Storrie who drove the bus over the cliff on a huge wage and then gave players to Spurs is a hero, and they had their pictures taken with Al Fahim as he saved them.... All this on the back of the fairytale about Maradona and the Galacticos on their way to launch the state of the art training facility and a 50,000 seater world cup venue floating on someone else's land in the harbour... And the actual progress thus far? Player exodus, wages missed, crippling debts, 8 losses out of 9, Finnan signed, strikers who wouldn't get in the Salisbury squad (sorry Nick) leading the line, and as for the stadium progress, Manadaric knocked down a small shed about four years ago. So they have a small gap between spin and reality, yet they keep on buying the 'storries'. Neutral observers might suggest that Harry played a key role in their financial implosion, Storrie has his own interests at heart and was at the helm for the meltdown, the stadium ain't happening, Al Fahim was obviously a fantasist from day one, the new bloke is going to borrow and whack the debt up again if a bank allows, and Finnan and the strikers were desperate bargain basement purchases. Also Maradona isn't coming, nor are the Galacticos, and the stadium in the harbour plan was insanity on every level. But there is good news for the blue few who have bought every one of these fairytales without question - that shed that Mandaric knocked down as a PR stunt? It's still down. As for welcoming back Redknapp - time for some fresh blood in the gene pool methinks as the mental agility to form reasonable thought seems to have skipped a generation.
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I saw a game there last year and the away bit is a stand from 1900 that will fall down if we sing too loud, but they do have apartment blocks in the four corners so that's nice. And they have a gobby chairman who was very vocal during our financial problems.
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I like football, it's fun again.
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Al Fahim has just announced - I will remain head of the club’s board of directors for two seasons. Moreover, I kept 100 percent of the club’s real estate assets and this is something nobody has paid attention to or spoken about. I am announcing this for the first time that [the real estate assets] are owned by the Al Fahim Group. Without doubt the real estate aspect is important in sports investment. Praise be to God, I was able to transfer all the club’s debts to the new owner and I gained excellent revenue........ Bit of a BOMBSHELL if he can be believed on this one, I think he is saying he has asset-stripped the club of the adjacent land and left them with the ground only?.....if it's true it means they have nowhere to develop anymore and he can do whatever he wants with only a 10% concern about the annoying neighbour Mr Faraj and his little strip of football pitch surrounded by sheds. If true, and with him it's a big if, he isn't the bumbling idiot we all thought and he has just royally shafted the new owner and given himself a veto and a chance to name his price on any future ground improvements.
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there is nothing to repay, she's in Casualty, her career is over.
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and Phil's suggestions about internal middle east conflict at Fratton seem to be coming to fruition according the The Sun. Tomorrow will tell us what shape they are really in, if they were to turn over Spurs it will mean the train wreck is slowing down. But another home defeat on top of continued financial uncertainty and the fat lass is adjusting the microphone stand.
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I don't get how some supporters are still happy to trade a scraped win over Cardiff City against the whole future of their club. We all know that Redknapp and Storrie overspent ludicrously and bought the trophy (fifteen years after it meant anything), only now is it being decided how much they have to pay for it - is it to be six months of embarrased lonely silence surrounded by empty seats or a couple of years of misery, it may be a generation of failure, or possibly still, the end of the road? If someone offered me promotion this year but with a fifty-fifty chance of admin within two years I would decline, call that unambitious but IMO you cannot trade in success using the whole club history as security. Do Leeds fans look back lovingly and celebrate their ill-fated Champions League campaign and Ridsdale's wonderful fish collection? Do we look back and glorify in the last few years of mismanagement saying we wouldn't change a thing? No, but the blue few still stubbornly insist it was worth endangering all of their history just to turn over some fellow caravanners.....like the Fratton redevelopment budget, that just doesn't add up, and like the debt mountain that is PFC, I don't buy it. Which funnily enough is what every serious investor has said after meeting Storrie with their mothers at the Little Chef in Barnet.
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Jan Poortvliet in relegation battle (again)
rallyboy replied to CHAPEL END CHARLIE's topic in The Saints
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player of the season, manager of the month, yes - but a League One team of the week? Nice to be included but let's not get too excited about a thinly-veiled attempt at thrusting fizzy pop further down our throats.
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I think it's really unfair for Donny to expect Gillett to be able to find £100m from somewhere, Ecclestone is just expecting too much from him, he's only been there a few days, he knows nothing of the planning wrangles thus far and it's playing right into Silvertone's hands. He may have struggled for form this season but it just seems unfair on the lad and if they lose the GP because of him he will lose confidence and come back to us as damaged goods. Pardew is the pits. ''Donington Ventures Leisure Limited has another two weeks to demonstrate our credentials for hosting the British GP," said Donington boss Simon Gillett.''
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I recall a big goal in a top of the table Dell clash against Man City as well, good servant to the club, and his family lived in Deacon Rd. And he had an Alfa.
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I thought the Pompey train crash was over but it is starting to look like there might be further potential. Redknapp is still facing charges, which would link directly to anyone involved in the same Storrie, and now more delays in debt repayment? Odd for a second billionaire to allow that.... After a few days of silence the alarm bells are starting to chime again. I can't believe they have stumbled across another lunatic, surely not, one is unfortunate.... And the media know the details because unlike the last two owners they bothered to look at the due diligence process.
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no one needs to apologise for pointing out the fact that he was well below par last season but like all the tiresome recent history that's a different country now and should be left there, great to see him back to the player we all hoped he could be. If Surman had stayed and got back to his best as well we would be mighty formidable, there might be a career lesson in there somewhere.
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we will finish the season at Wembley carrying Liebherr and Pardew around shoulder high, celebrating the most amazing promotion in league history. No? Ok, 10th. It was a nice thought though.
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only heard Barnes yesterday saying how he was quite happy and the chairman hadn't giving him the dreaded vote of confidence. It seems he was even getting booed when they were leading the other day. It must be our storming run that is now bringing a reality check to one or two above, if we could get a point at Southend it could be the last straw for another couple of managers...
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Would this ex Saints side be competative in Premier?
rallyboy replied to Weston Saint's topic in The Saints
I reckon Theo might ask for a move after two games, and looking at that defence, if Phillips is coming off the bench it will be when we need four goals in the last ten minutes.