rallyboy

Does anyone seriously think that Poch has met his targets? His sole task was to improve on the last sacked bloke - top four minimum, ideally at the expense of Arsenal, perhaps with a good Europa League run... How's that going for him? Ditto Liverpool. Their target was to win the Premier League - and to make good progress in the Champions' League. Put aside our disappointment at missing Champions' League - both of those clubs are staring down the barrel of disastrous seasons where they have lurched backwards.

Congratulations to the Property Developing Trust on their second birthday, League Two's youngest club has been a roaring success. After a wobbly first season they have now found stability in midtable, the new car park looks sensational, described by many as the best piece of tarmac outside the Championship, and the fencing at the training complex is the envy of many Premier League clubs. With a few games to go they could even improve on last season and record their highest ever league finish, the future looks bright, they look all set for a big promotion push in the next campaign. Anyday now we will hear talk of warchests, battling troops turning Fratton into a fortress and other stirring stuff that is annually spun to distract from reality and extract season ticket money from easily-led simpletons. But I'm not having a pop, they have done so well that not a single shareholder has cashed in their investment, and that tells you how well the club must be doing. We just wait now for the summer holiday that doesn't cost the club a penny - and the sale of Wallace who will immediately go from the club's finest asset to a flawed bit part player who won't be missed. It's been an incredible two year journey for everyone's second favourite club, the south coast minnows have come a long way in a short space of time. It's funny to think that barely two years ago they were facing a season in the bottom tier with a crumbling ground, now look where they are! On day one they were favourites for promotion and were going to rip up League Two. Well they are still favourites for promotion next season - and that achievement is down to the passion of the faithful who have shown unwavering support for property developing and supermarket construction in Fratton. Shrewsbury might be going up, but do they have a nice car park? I don't think so! Bigger clubs like Burton may well be playing amid the dizzy heights of League One next season, but visiting fans will scoff at the lack of access to a big supermarket, and do Wycombe have chainlink fencing all the way around their local park?... Much has been achieved in the first two years. The PDT - blazing a trail for football to enviously follow since 2013.

£12? If they want to tell me the true story they'll understand why I'll give them 3p to hear it.

Talking to a pompey fan who described Wallace as a headless chicken. He says he's hyped as an all-action hero when the truth is probably more like him being caught out of position so often that he has to charge about trying to recover. But in the land of League Two the man who can trap a bag of cement is king.

He took a hit like the rest of that team and was treated like a criminal until he agreed a paycut. But let's not let the truth get in the way of a good rewrite of history! He's up there with Kanu - a hero when it suits, but a bloke who was denied his wages and treated with disdain until he agreed to being robbed - at least twice. Yes, let's celebrate a draw!! #strawclutching

They didn't love him enough to pay him!

Exactly. Possession, flair, solid defence - but at the moment, little cutting edge or goal threat. We have come a long way in a short time, it's been an incredible journey and some more striking options could lift us to the next level. But did anyone believe that we can realistically compete with the squad depth of the top four over 38 games?

Pulled squirrel - a delicacy on the a la carte menu of Cotterill's Bistro, and a service available at Horton Heath.

Just to offer a possible explanation...perhaps the PFA agreements in which the greedy villains gave up their wages in return for abuse, included further payments if pompey returned to the Premier League? With them on the brink of a return to the top flight it would seem sensible to keep a charge in place, unless of course you trust the people enough not to need security? Let's not forget that they claimed to be debt-free on day one of the current circus. Debt-free other than the historic debt, and other debt that was outstanding.

I gave up trying to educate years ago. Remember, these are the people who thought that Man Utd and Chelsea were in the same boat as pompey regarding debt. Some still believe that our administration was exactly the same as one of theirs, they have convinced themselves that we had a CVA. And some think they were punished twice for the same offence, they really are too simple to understand much at all. Just accept that they cannot grasp maths or the basic principles of business, it is a foreign language. Your time is better spent explaining the plot of Harry Potter to a heavily-sedated donkey. We just have to accept that they are the only debt-free club in world football, that we are £50M in debt and that their shares are worth a fortune. It's easier that way.

what a bombshell! members of the public can make a donation to the Portsmouth Supporters Trust Donation? That's a fricking share you little green-eyed scummah and I'm looking forward to my dividend!

Lawrence should be concentrating more on next year's season ticket sales rather than offering player advice.

yes, building a 40,000 seater stadium is the answer! The Fortress of Fat has 5,000 empty seats, so they need to increase capacity asap... And as they looked around that decaying memorial to 17th century toilet arrangements yesterday and listened to the booing, what was it exactly that made them think that there is far more potential there than at Brighton or Southampton? Hello, world calling! You're living in the shadow of Bournemouth, you even lost your cup final battle of Hampshire to Aldershot, yet the delusion remains undiminished, not through any sort of admirable plucky fighting spirit, just plain toothless cross-eyed stupidity. And people wonder why we chuckle...

Increased capacity, that's the answer to everything! Imagine being able to hear 28,000 people booing instead of 14,000. Even by portsmythmatics that's still nearly three and a half times as many, and double the size of Old Trafford.

Could someone just remind me again of why we are all so jealous?

It was the international market crash, everyone knows that, they were just very unlucky. It certainly wasn't theft, fraud, greed, delusion, lies and tax evasion.

Don't forget how Micah personally researched all the criminal owners and exclusively exposed them on his blog. #hero If only we'd thought of doing that - then this thread might have been longer.

The Jed 'superstar' Wallace auction hots up...he's going all villainous sometime soon. Inevitably his form has alerted a number of clubs from higher divisions
 Yeah, that'll be because most people are in higher divisions! It's not really possible for pompey players to attract interest from clubs lower in the league pyramid.

There is a little storm brewing. It will not reflect well on the club. A fans' hero will turn villain. It will be an engaging story. That Nutjob teaser should keep Mr G out of jail for the mo.

Confucious he say, if you are a **** in real life you will probably come across as a **** on Saintsweb. I think we could ask the same question about how people behave in a football ground as part of a crowd. I'm fairly sensible on the street but if Kevin Friend denies us one more blatant penalty I will go effing mental at him. And that would be an interesting video - see a film of yourself at a game and see how many times it makes you wince.... So I guess your forum persona could also be your SMS persona, respected businessmen in the week, looney on matchdays - though the abuse chucked out on here at times would get you banned if you tried it at a game! It can be nice on occasions to hide behind a user name, I could do without clients reading my posts - but you still have to accept responsibility for what you say so it's not a licence to abuse. I'm not sure I've ever fully ripped into anyone on here (Ho apart), I just keep a black book of those who've had a pop at me.... The best use of the anonymity for me is meeting some infamous semi-celeb people at events and thinking, god, if only he knew the stuff that the mad fuc£er RB has written about him! But the tip I would give any newcomer is, think before you type, then think again - the late night pretentious drunken rant about hankie waving, player exodus, never going again or manager sacking looks less like a good idea when dug up a few months later, even if you are hiding behind a user name.

So the Inland Revenue does have a sense of humour - plus a list of pompey associates, and a long memory.

They are 4th in the league table on current form. Sadly the team that is top of that form guide is between them and the playoffs. And several that are in that top eight are also in the mix for the playoffs. If they replicated their impressive record of one defeat in ten it would not be enough to meet the points haul they need to make the playoffs. I'm thinking that perhaps the playoffs might be beyond them. And even if they did make them, their inability to put away very poor sides like Cheltenham would suggest they would not win them. Shame.

This does look like a bit of a crisis for the property developing Trust. Financial shenanigans, accusations, chairman forced out, a resignation - next thing they'll be telling us our shares are worthless! Who'd have thought it possible in the new world of transparency, especially after they drove all of the crooks out of their club. At least Chanrai only helped himself to money, he didn't give his mates interest-free loans and abuse supporters as well. But a win tonight and all is well, nothing else matters is the motto that the former club owners adopted over the last decade - the Trust proudly continues following in the footsteps of the child-maimers, the pension-robbers, the money-launderers and the loan shark.

He resigned 'because of the behaviour of one of his fellow Trust board members'....which must have been pretty bad to make you want to jack it all in. I think they need to come up with a good explanation before we invent 35 of our own. My first guess is the rather odd loan to Europe's greatest investigative journalist.

You have to feel sorry for Poch. His only target was to get into the top four and that little dream is disappearing faster than a greedy man responding to a call from North London. But at least he can be proud of the achievements of the team that he left us and that is doing pretty well - Forster, Mane, Pelle, Tadic etc, all those great players that Poch brought in that have made Ronald look so good.