rallyboy

I'll be surprised if they beat 8,000 for the next round. While the big crowd last night proved too much for the visitors who clearly cracked under pressure in the hostile cauldron of passion at the fortress, there was an unsavoury issue that Reading are politely playing down. Some of the more special supporters in the South Stand were reported to the ref last night for targeting specific opposition players with language that's normally the preserve of the hip hop community. Presumably just a handful, but no normal club in 2015 should have anyone doing that.

Bring it on.

That could be a good plan for preventing players moving up, only buy players who have already failed at higher levels and are now so depressed they will play for realistic wages. Or kidnap their family members and produce ears/fingers occasionally to keep them on the bus.

As usual the obsessive and jealous Nutjobs only look for the negatives! You see a small damp patch, the rest of us see a beautiful, Championship-ready, fan-owned fence.

This delusion is the equivalent of Bucks Fizz claiming to be the biggest band in the world today and demanding to know why they aren't being offered international stadium gigs and headlining slots at Glastonbury. Everyone loves plucky pompey, and everyone hates scummahs. In reality - everyone has forgotten about pompey, they love Bournemouth as the media darlings of the month and many like us for our feel-good factor return from League One, our development of players and the way we go about things off the pitch - and the fact that we (try!) to play football the correct way. But if you say it enough times a portsmyth becomes true. The only positive is that it's deluded fantasy statements like those above that fuel this thread. If they just zipped it and accepted that they are no longer relevant and that football doesn't even care where they are, this thread would gently cease.

Just heard their manager on Solent. He sounds like a growling comedian doing the northern clubs on speed circa 1978. wouldn't say the mother-in-law is fat but.....

But at least they are still equal top when the table is seasonally adjusted.

You can get three season tickets at fatpipes, total cost £400. Their gates are dwarfing others, their matchday income is clearly not. And I would see a difference between a billionaire gambling on promotion against a charity consortium that includes smalltime property developers who get the bucket out if they need a fence.

Cheers 9. And if their fans were classed as long-suffering prior to a few relegations and three years bouncing along the ar$e end of the league pyramid, what cliched term covers it now? N

I'd forgotten about their last great European adventure! Am I right in thinking that they failed to pay the entry fees or something like that and lost the place as a result? I remember AA assuring everyone that he would put FIFA, UEFA and whoever else in their place and get that overturned. But didn't.

Pick and choose? They have been cherrypicking events for the last decade and rewriting history as it happens!! The old club was run by criminals, it ran up debt, stole from pensioners and bought a cup with laundered cash. Nasty criminals, poor old creditors - but we'll still claim the cup! Heroic players won a game at SMS but then wanted their wages. Greedy judas players - but we'll keep on about beating a team two divisions below us for a generation! The debt and the cup are forever interlinked - but not in portsmythery circles where small cherries are surgically gathered from the timeline before it is erased.

I don't know why we are messing about trying to sign defenders, we should be following Liverpool's policy and looking to sign up Kevin Friend or Craig Pawson, if used properly they could be worth 10-15 points a season.

Rivals? I don't think so. Five years ago yes, but not any more. It's over. They have Eastleigh and Havant to worry about now.

Since when did football introduce joint top as a league position?! That's like saying we claimed second behind Everton in the game at the weekend... Either way I've had a look today and we still seem to be in the Premier League and they are still joint toppest in whatever division is just above the Dockyard League.

That reminds me of going back to the late 90s when work kept me away from games and you think perhaps you aren't that worried about it anymore....and then Radio Solent played that crowd noise, followed by...there's been a goal at The Dell.... And there I am driving along on my own in the middle of nowhere welling up because Matt has created a goal that will keep us up on the last day. In that single moment I realised that I might not be there, but I still cared - quite a lot!

I feel sorry for their local rivals. Eastleigh are never going to hear the end of it if pompey keep on winning.

Yeah it's been St Fairies for a while, like every bro is a homo just for going, which obviously makes them nasty peeps, and when it's not that it's Little Delhi, like there is foreigners about, and you know how we fear people what is different, both of those names is soooo clever and funny! Or they would be if it was 1962 and you were a racist comic playing a ****ty working mens' club in the north. Thankfully in 2015 that kind of language just makes you stand out as a little bit special.

A big day for their season I reckon - win down there and you can see a proper promotion campaign - but lose and it looks like another false dawn.

There is no point in trying to debate with anyone who has the IQ of a doorstop. As the booing dies down (and gets written out of history) and the plucky cheers return to Fatpipes it'll only get worse...

The 4-1 that really counts is the four owners that year compared to our one. I think even the most toothless of their lucky heather selling sister-fiddlers would have to admit that our one had slightly more class and integrity - and has achieved far greater things.

I already see a few of the passionatest backing away from the idea of making it to the next round... Let's play the kids, the league is the big thing = let's get out of this cup before the jealous scummahs come into the draw...

I'm not sure I could stomach us playing pompey in the cup and putting six past them, it seems a bit unfair as they are not really our rivals any more. But on reflection....I'm prepared to give it a go if others are keen on the idea.

Come on my lovelies, you can hang on and step closer to a St Marys showdown.....

Have I missed some forum outing to Fatpipes and you are all posting on their free WiFi at the game? I'm hurt that I didn't get invited. I can't believe that some poor TV station is using that non event it to fill a hole so I can only assume you are all living it up in the luxury of the Milton Road corporate boxes.

I'm no expert but if you own, your investment is gaining value everyday. So I would politely suggest it would be bonkers to get off the housing ladder and try to get back on it in a few years time when prices have risen and you have poured rent down a black hole - unless you have a lottery win around the corner.