rallyboy

They can only dream of being 34th in the country! Lord T, you insult home cine movies... I love the way that excuse for a film just fizzles out with muttered responses and a windy and resigned dissolve to black. It just committed cinematic suicide, no note, nothing. But we learn that they've built a commercial team that would rival any, in any of the leagues??....Really? Like that academy that was the envy of many Premier League clubs no doubt. Let's just check out that claim.... Man Utd's kit and shirt sponsor deals - £122m a season. Man City's Etihad deal - £80m a season. pompey's jobsite deal - a tin of paint. It's those sort of insane delusions of grandeur that remind us that they are so out of touch that they have no clue what is happening at the top of the game, or even just higher up the league at bigger clubs like Stevenage, Newport and Morecambe. With that sort of talk pompey has become an irrelevant dinosaur - a little one, a minnowsaurus. They think that any of their players who can control a ball in less than four touches is a future international, whenever they take more than 300 anywhere they think they're more passionate than anyone else, a manager who wins three on the bounce is a potential England boss and if they sell 100 raffle tickets they think they are effing Camelot.

One or two getting very excited that it was ten years ago today that we lost 4-1 at Fatpipes. I don't think I'd swap a handful of days out for a lifetime of superiority. WTFILN - and for the next generation.

I think it unlikely that they will overspend.

You passed on four.....Liam Lawrence was the former ticket office manager who gave up his wages and was still booed, the ex-Saint who earned £4,500 a minute to sit on the bench was Antti Niemi, the first Barbie was launched in 1959, and the new offence invented by the club in 2010 was to agree a CVA to dodge a penalty, but with no intention of honouring it, instead diverting the season ticket money to be used to pay for the prossie-bothering hero manager to be driven to an industrial estate whorehouse for soul-destroying quickies behind a car lot....John, you have scored zero points, in every way.

I think perhaps West Ham are only as generous as someone who needs to tempt in an additional 20,000 fans.

Realistic Expectations - wasn't that an upbeat sequel that was written in pompey? There has always been the silent 10%, but they are no fun, it's the gobby 90% that I want to hear more from, with all of their madcap increase the player budget, pay a Premier League manager, redevelop the ground ideas. There's no comedy in business-like restructuring and keeping to a budget - we want another Harbourdome, with an underwater Mr Clive - or at least talk of a raid on Barcelona in the transfer window. Shouldn't have to wait long, there's always a deluded toy salesman around the next corner. A comment that will mean nothing to thread newcomers! Maybe we need to issue a set of notes to accompany this thing...

I know a non-league club that has just spent £25K on ordinary floodlights - god knows how much repairs to full size ones from the 1950s will cost pompey! And did they seriously think that the Tesco money was going to finance anything other than some ground repairs? I don't recall it being labelled as a redevelopment fund... Clowns.

I think they've failed to get out of possibly the worst quality League Two in living memory. That's going to be a hell of a summer spending spree to rally the plucky troops etc. It's time for McInnes to throw off the shackles, spend big and risk the lot.....a risk most fans would support, as they did the last three times they risked the lot. I expect to see an old-style, non-transparent, overpaying pompey battling for top honours in a crumbling ground next season, and worrying about the cost later.

Putting our own attacking issues aside, I'm not convinced about Spurs - they have been carried by one man. If you want to talk about pressure, if they lose to us and Man City their season is absolutely fecked! (like it isn't already! - Sherwood could have done what Poch has)

More like come to pompey, we know a bloke who owns a field.

That is Nutjob level research! If it wasn't for the complex use of Ray Hiron's name I would suggest that it was by a graduate of this thread. Good work - another portsmyth Bury-ed.

The Championship will go down to the last ten minutes of the season, I think Bournemouth need to win all three. Someone could miss out on automatic by goal difference and get wiped out in the play-offs. There will be tears... Hull's run-in looks horrendous, Sunderland could get caught out, but if anyone can cobble half a run together they can escape. I'd like to see Redknapp's fine work relegate another club, just to bang the final nail in his CV.

150 @ 20p in the £ = 30. 1% of 30 = less than one genuine applicant.

So from those comments, the masterplan is that a business with a turnover of £6M, that can't currently fill the ground, should spend £10M on increasing capacity to provide 7,000 additional seats that will remain unsold... This money could apparently be loaned to them by the Football League. Their 10% of sensible fans must despair when the nutters start typing or talking. They need to do some sort of basic business training down there, it's like Stevie Wonder gobbing off about your wallpaper choice. You can understand why the directors don't listen to the fans, most of them are absolutely clueless about any subjects other than flytipping from a moving Transit, how to clean your tooth, or the best way to cook a hedgehog. Alan Knight - yeah, that would be progress!

For me that was the moment. Their comeback was completely predictable as the game wore on, and it became apparent that we were going down. I was in the Northam and all of the goals happened right in front of me. I recall the winner was a lottery of a shot that went through a forest of legs and deserved to win nothing. Happy days.

Phase two is to lay out a tarpaulin in the car park so that passing air passengers think they have a pool. If my club was doing that badly I think I might just button it and suffer in silence, that approach has more dignity and makes you look like you don't have mental issues. But without that delusion this thread would burn out.

There's panic on the streets of Dortmund, Barcelona and Milan....the biggest job in world football is up for grabs. Awford had to go because the football that pompey constantly play says nothing to me about my life.

I think that article translates as Phil Brown's agent makes a few calls after spotting a club with a history of paying over-the-top wages....either to get him a payrise, to give the impression that he is in demand, or just to remind proper clubs that his client exists.

Nice idea - why waste money on one manager when you can pay loads for two! That dream team of Coppell and Barker worked a treat. I suspect the flaw in this idea of a big name appointment (to sell season tickets) is that big names tend to be used to coaching quality players, and not in a public park with a nice fence. They also like to be paid. And they don't like being abused by a ragtag mob of toothless simpletons in a shed that displays all the high-tech features of 17th century architecture, design, and fat dispersal. Other than those minor points, some new hero will jump at the chance. The acid test will be if Harry wants no part of it - that would confirm that the coffers are empty. The bottom line is that they have fallen too far to attract quality, or investment. A giant gets to a point where he is no longer just sleepy, he has no quality of life and needs to be put out of his misery.

I heard a rumour a few weeks ago that there is a deal already done with Gary Johnson to take over in the summer... But if Pellegrini or David Moyes become available in the meantime no doubt the sleepiest giant in world sport will pounce! That's of course if the job isn't too big for them. What with their history. Their fanbase. And all that. Good times for pompey, less of a sacking, more of a giant step back towards the Premier League. Where they don't want to be. Because League Two is proper football. Makes me jealous.

Andy Awford is considering a shake-up after the Morecambe disappointment. Not quite what he had in mind! I four one would like to take this opportunity to thank him for his fine work in returning pompey to where they belong.

Village People have let themselves go. But nice to see that their tour of bus shelters is still drawing crowds.

No disrespect intended! Every club is in their specific division on merit, we were playing in League One because that was our level. But some clubs think they are not only bigger than their division, with a divine right to beat 'smaller' clubs, but they also bang on with the deluded notion that they have the best fanbase in world football. When all of that smug arrogance is buried by a club fairly new to league football, it makes it even funnier.

Morecambe!

I'm quite happy to see them doing well - imagine how Bournemouth's success must be hurting pompey!