rallyboy

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.

That was unlucky.

The way he asks his teams to play seems to be flawed. They run out of steam, they occasionally become one dimensional and their discipline is questionable. Other than that, he's a messiah! Spurs.

Redknapp is doing a top top job at Derby. #terrific

If memory of the table serves me correctly their appalling display at West Brom relegated Palace - but it's ancient history. We have future internationals in our academy system who weren't born then. Meanwhile the local media spoon-feeds toothless simpletons the version of last night that they demand - Pompey seized control, roared on by a packed Fratton Park

So they are jointly ahead going into the second leg then - advantage pompey! A draw or a virtual defeat at Home Park will take them to Wembley. Probably.

The two big hitters of the division?? It's 5th v 6th in Division Four, not exactly Real Madrid-Barcelona is it! Heavyweights! Are we are all supposed to pretend that they didn't finish 21 points behind Northampton Town? History being rewritten quicker than usual there. I'll be curious to see if they pack the park for the biggest game in their short history, the only thing Paul Cook has packed so far this season is sandwiches.

Apparently the Plymouth coaching team had a right kick-off with adjacent supporters the other week so it could get tasty tonight. Not West Ham tasty, but I'd be surprised if the evening is incident-free.

Take that 43 years and add in the factors of passion and pluckiness and he has been sat there for 170 years. Which unfortunately after two administrations comes down to a week and a half.

No, no, no, no, no! There is only one great atmosphere in world football and one set of fans passionate enough to ruin their own party! Pele said it was the bestest ever when he played at Fatpipes in 1966 during Lord Nelson's famous World Cup dock strike commemoration match. #fact

I think his one mistake lasted approx 95 minutes.

maybe he wants to go where no man has been before, but he wants to do it without hair?

He must have been confused as he bought a ticket back In August for this game expecting to see the champions - and he did.

They could build on virtual land and wave about blank sheets of A4 while pretending they have deeds? The former Toyboy should keep a low profile because everytime he sticks his head about the parapet and spouts crap there are mischievous ones on here who dig out his bestest most humiliating moments from the archive - the sort of stuff that even makes his POL buddies wince. And those classic posts are the last thing anyone of us would want to see. Again.

lots of interesting options on financing are being looked into....

Where are scum? 66 league places away. International tax-evasion news - Harry Redknapp got off to a shaky start in his latest position as Central Coast Mariners’ “football consultant” with the experienced English coach getting the name of his new club wrong in a radio interview and indicating he would not be visiting Australia in his new role.

Another myth is being written! Rather than taking the 76 reunion as a reunion, they are selling it to each other as a sad celebration by the club that demanded an open bus tour all around the city. Sorry skates, it was a reunion, and it was cool for the players to travel on the original bus from the guildhall to the ground as part of the nostalgia. That's what happens when you pay the cup final team, they look back fondly on the day and come back to see you. How many players from 2008 will be rolling up for a reunion?....about the same number of creditors that got paid in full. And this coming from people who get excited every year about the time that Norris scored at St Mary's to earn the mighty blues a battling draw that halted our promotion and kept them up...sort of.

Never trust a defender with a beard who wears gloves in May. I wonder what Jim Steele thought about the gloves!

The Sun having a pop at us? Perhaps they could have used that space to apologise for the horrific and damaging lies they published 27 years ago but still haven't withdrawn. And why is the nasty FL making poor plucky pompey take part in the play offs?? They've been joint top since August - anyone in those sell out 18,000 crowds will tell you that.

it must be quite an unusual season for winning away but losing at home against a few clubs too.

Yeah well I know that there was once a shoemaking strike in Daventry but all the tradesmen from Northampton went and beat up the women pickets, broke the strike - and they murdered kittens with their little shoe hammers. They are all scabs, and they were all members of the Cobblers Union of Northampton Traders Society and that's true.

That alleged spat just highlights how their business model is terminally flawed. They need outside investment, but they want to hang onto their 48% majority share. The Trust have three members on the seven man board and a minority shareholding so giving away more of the club will make no difference, they'll still all pretend that fans have 'shares'. The few need to decide what they want - to continue pretending they own something and get to enjoy more nights like last night, or to take some investment and get to compete with bigger clubs like Fleetwood, Chesterfield and Bury. Personally I think they will decide to continue pretending stuff - like we own our club, and League Two is real football, not like the nasty Championship etc.

Hold the lead against Plymouth, beat mighty York City, win the game in hand = 2nd place and automatic promotion. Lose to Wycombe and Wimbledon and the whole season goes down the fatty pipe.

Wow. A win for Wycombe and pompey could actually work their way out of the play-offs in the next few weeks.

Mr G sums it up - how can a referee be some inconsistent in the same game? The Leicester West Ham was a prime example - he had no consistency at all. I just think that so many games are now being decided by referees that they need some help. A twenty second delay while they decide whether a defender got the ball or not is time worth spending if it means a red card/penalty decision is correct. Games and seasons are changed by these moments and millions of pounds hang on them, we should do our best to get them right. Some of the player behaviour is disgraceful, pushing and shoving refs - with less frustration boiling over from dodgy decisions that could be massively reduced. And if you have dived with no contact you are more likely to get up and say nothing than rush up in the ref's face knowing it's about to go up on the big screen.