rallyboy

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.

Most disappointed with that design, no underwater aspect, no mention of the World Cup final, no sign of Pele or Zidane. But it does looks like a master plan that is reliant on building on some land they don't own, Tesco raising no objections, the reintroduction of terracing in the Premier League and three promotions. I guess the budget for all of that will be maybe £150m? With only approx £100k of matchday income last weekend, it's time to bring out the BIG buckets! The fan-owned business model works in the non-league, it is flawed if you want to spend big. They should just enjoy beating people like Dagenham, Morecambe and Fleetwood, but there does seem to be an obsession with keeping up with the neighbours. Sadly for them, all of their neighbours are doing quite nicely but they are living in a landlocked leaky caravan on bricks while talking a lot about building a mansion when they win the lottery. That plan is just raising the hopes of the toothless, a rallying cry for the little simple people - the same ones who lapped up the Harbourdome and thought the club would really spend a billion pounds on the compulsory purchase of an area of seafront and part of the dockyard before building on the sea so that Diego Maradona could use the Gosport Ferry to get to the World Cup arena... It sounds like I made that up - but I didn't. Reality check needed again.

Last time one of them showed a nice touch was behind the bins at Horton Heath. They have centre backs who struggle to trap a bag of cement.

You have to admire McLaren's determination to fight reality, he just flatly refuses to accept that he is bald. We need more managers with blind faith. Well done to him for retaining that small hamster corpse above his forehead. It doesn't look ridiculous.

HMS Victory is less than 20% original wood now and the guns are made of fibre glass, but other than that it's lovely. Reminds me of a football team that is living on past glories from previous centuries and occasionally slaps Aldi emulsion on the cracks to keep up appearances.

A saints fan dying at their ground? - Top banter! Like booing a dead man in front of his family was just banter. One bloke has the right idea - look east and wave them goodbye Ted, leave them as a little blip in history, wave them goodbye....

Bournemouth's promotion was an amazing achievement but I suspect they, like many promoted teams before, will get a Premier League wake up call sometime very soon. They are in for a tough season, survival would be equal to promotion. Their matchday income isn't vast so they have to invest the TV money wisely or it could all go a bit Blackpool fairly quickly. As for comparisons, we are two very different clubs with different expectations and infrastructures - the only connection may be that we both invested wisely through lower divisions.

With that beautifully presented arena I fear we now have the confusion of virtual and real worlds. I hope the few don't get mixed up and start living in a fantasy world where you can overspend and ignore the debt and if you say something enough times it becomes true. Imagine if a team in League Two claimed to have the best atmosphere in world football, they would be a laughing stock! Thankfully it's just a computer game.

Even the pitch looks playable, that must be the same digital virtual turf sold to people at the training ground.