rallyboy

If I was them I would be fearful of a fixture between their first team and our youth team...

Those stats are misleading... They've managed to get 81% down to 9% through two CVAs -and the 9% won't bother to take them anyway. And let's not forget that Knowsley is just a safari park and chimps are not renowned for academic success - though they do make nice tea and are great at moving pianos.

I didn't see this on the template - And the former England C international sees no reason why the Blues cannot become the next Burton Albion in securing successive promotions from League Two to the Championship. It's good to have a dream.

Fair play Jimmy - none of us saw it coming! There's a few hats being seasoned and cooked up out there.

They never learn - new player, same old template. And the sought-after central midfielder, who ignored offers from other clubs to join the Blues, is targeting a season to savour on the south coast. He said: ‘The manager sold me the potential of the club, the history of the club and what it means to play for a club the size of Portsmouth. ‘When that call comes it is not one you can turn down. It is now up to us to really give them something to cheer about. Having experienced the atmosphere on the final day of the season – a game Northampton won 2-1 – the midfielder was won over by the passionate support of the home fans. He said: ‘I remember coming down for the game with Northampton and seeing a sea of blue around Portsmouth. ‘The whole community was blue and the atmosphere on the day was incredible. ‘I couldn’t even hear my team-mates next to me because it was so loud! ‘That was something that stuck with me. ‘Seeing what this club is like and how passionate the fans are – it doesn’t come around very often. ‘And for that to be your home support and to play in front of that week in, week out, it is going to be special. ‘That was one of the main reasons why I made the decision.’ Yeah, that and the wages that other clubs wouldn't be stupid enough to match. [/i]

You have indeed seen the chosen one. If you listened carefully you would have heard the slosh of the chemical toilet as he cornered, the very one that his crew share as they travel the motorways of the UK.

look over yonder, tis an iron bird in the sky...we must burn a witch to save the harvest!

Reflecting on a few of the nostalgia posts it has to be said - I think they have been the worst run and worst behaved club in football league history. Most clubs find that one administration is enough of a warning, but to strut straight from one into another, only pausing briefly to outbid solvent clubs for overpriced journeymen while ignoring a cva that was only reluctantly agreed to distract from the theft of a pension fund. Incredible. The gem in this crown of sh!t was accepting that cheque for the kids' cancer charity on the pitch, but keeping the money. That will take some beating by another club. Yes, we have a winner. If the kids maimed by their owner still had legs they would stand up and applaud them. #karma

Their recruitment policy is top drawer! Perhaps the only black box they have is the one that will solve the mystery of the missing mobility scooter.

From local press - It was the emails which broke the seal – and Mark Catlin’s tears fled. Can we call the Sealife Centre and see if the seal is okay? And have Catlin's tears been spotted yet after fleeing?

With his deliberate handball at SMS to give us one good day in 2005, Matty Taylor is right up there on my hero scale!

portsmouth football club was funded by fraud and theft? No, that can't be right. I'm shocked.

Are they still trading?

Pre-season - pompey v Bognor Oxford United v Leicester City.

Look at the gills on that little beauty - Get your fins out for the lads!....

£500k must qualify as a warchest. Let's pretend that the horrific 15/16 season didn't happen and start talking up future promotion bids and bolstering the plucky blues battle-hardened troops for another heroic campaign.

If another club was preparing a £25m bid I hope that they saw enough in the middle of the season to not table a £25m bid.

The Kenya international has had an excellent season for Saints No he didn't, he was excellent on occasions - and a waste of space on many others. Give us £15m and let's all move on.

It did remind me of the game at St Mary's - Klopp is a great manager, for 45 mins. If he gets together with Poch, who can often get 70 mins out of his team, between them they might be able to get more than an hour out of the beautifully pampered and moisturised Lallana.

His team blew up spectacularly just to entertain us and he bothered to come back to show his respect for Kelvin. I feel better about Poch after seeing that photo. Fair play to him.

Prudence is now driving her little wagon up between the Sunny Delight and cheese that comes in an aerosol. Unlike the bigger wagon in the background, her wheels didn't fall off last week.

Did he just say that the battle of the League Two heavyweights, the big hitters of the 4th tier, the teams that in reality finished 5th and 6th, was in fact a Champions' League game? I could grasp being joint top when you are 4th, but this is a step too far, even for me. And he clearly just attempted quality over quantity and he ran out of players. Does he intend to repeat that mistake but outspend the others even more? Great idea!

True. They welcomed criminals and their money with open arms and then tried to blame the league for not stopping them. They thrived on laundered cash from criminal activity and didn't complain when things were going well. But as predicted at the time, if you swim with sharks there will only be one outcome. The savaged and rotting torso still washes up on a League Two beach every May - this summer it was in Plymouth.

Wotton will be the only former Saint who will be fondly remembered at SMS, not for anything he did in a Saints shirt - just for the overly-aggressive manner in which he carried out his coaching role in a couple of Plymouth Argyle games in the bottom tier.

Before anyone takes the ****** - they did finish in the highest position in their short history and never looked likely to be relegated out of the football league, so all in all they had a pretty good season. I'd be surprised if they don't rip up Division Four next year - or at least finish joint top again.