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I think Coventry fans are starting to rival us in the longest thread about Portsmouth stakes, although it's only reached 1210 posts. http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/14897-Portsmouth-what-on-earth And now on POL, Coventry are being bated as scummmahhhhs who know nothing about football Hi Corpy

Portsmouth FC ‏@officialpompey 3h Share your #Pompey hopes for the 2013/14 season and we'll use a selection in Saturday's programme. Use #OxfordProg Steve Kneller ‏@steveoknells 1h @officialpompey my hopes for Pompey in 2013/14 are for security, stability and investment in youth #OxfordProg Pompey Royal ‏@Pompey_Royal 2h A season of football. That's all. No mention of courts, administration or points deductions. Just football ......and promotion! #OxfordProg Jack Rubio ‏@RubioJack 2h I want to see us make the play off final for another Wembley sellout! PUP #OxfordProg Jonny Barrett ‏@BarrettJonny 2h @officialpompey Having a season I can be certain we'll finish #Pompey #OxfordProg Sophie Jones ‏@Sophie_1Dxx 2h @officialpompey To hopefully win the league and see some of the new signings play and maybe even some of the academy boys #OxfordProg Thomas Martin ‏@shadowm13 3h @officialpompey #OxfordProg promotion - plain and simple. Need to see Pompey back at the top! They 'hope' for things like stability and investment in youth but this is Portsmouth... we all know what will happen when the board are given the choice between giving the academy a cash investment or splashing the cash on a new signing. It's the Pompey Way. And when they're languishing in 20th place after a defeat at Morecambe, I wonder if the fans will continue to demand investing in the youth.

Taken from their facebook feed So, with all these sponsorship deals, what do the users of POL want the money to be spent on? Paying back creditors? Getting the fat out of the pipes? Erecting a statue of the fans outside FP? On an unrelated note, I was just having a trawl through and found this comment

BBC Solent Sport ‏@solentsport 3m #Pompey confirm the signing of striker Ryan Bird from non-league Burnham on a one-year deal That one will send shockwaves through to the other teams in League 2...

Incidentally, Avram Grant is 66/1 with Bet Victor

Tony Pulis is out of a job...

If we're not ahead by half-time then it will all be Guly's fault.

Looks like the second string XI to me

An hour to go until kick-off, where's the teamnews?? Cortese Out, Pochettino Out, everyone out FFS

I'm sure if the situation was reversed, Neil Allen would be quick to write a full length article in that so-called paper of his on those nasty scummers, so will #factless publicly condemn this behaviour?

There's another anniversary too... Neil Allen ‏@pn_neil_allen 7m Happy birthday to me. 6 years ago today I became Chief Sports Writer of The News. And Guy and Macca were the local radio pundits…….. #Pompey

The Football League ‏@football_league 1m #AttendanceStats @MKDonsFC was the most visited ground by away fans in League 1 #AwayDays http://po.st/Q5xvSP That's wrong surely... Pompey were the biggest club last year in the Football League and Fatpipes Park, a historic ground of English football, is the biggest draw? Actually, FP averaged just 436 fans in the away end. Clubs like Rochdale, Cheltenham, Fleetwood, Burton, York, Northampton and AFC Wimbledon were more attractive for visiting fans Some other interesting stats though. The average amount of fans Pompey took to away games was 894, down 23% on the previous season And in League 2, the average is just 420. So don't believe the propaganda when they say they will take 5,000 fans to every ground, with 20,000 more locked out

Even the skates on POL are mocking us FFS, we're the laughing stock of the footballing world.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-in-training-ground-race-1-5221958 Oops

Can't wait for Dave Merrington to try and pronounce his name

A leak of our supposed new home shirt has emereged Still a sponsor needs to go on, but it looks absolutely horrific.

Portsmouth FC ‏@officialpompey 30m Season ticket sales up to 6,406 and the ticket office is open from 10am-2pm tomorrow #pompey Tom Emmans ‏@EmmansizX 27m Cannot believe we have sold 6,400 season tickets! Best fans in the land! #pup #Pompey #legends Martin McInnes ‏@Pompey_1976 25m 6,406 season tickets sold already #pompey Blimey and existing season ticket holders have time still to reclaim their seat Lou Formby ‏@chimer1898 3h With Ricky Holmes now signed - is this shaping up to be the best looking squad we've had in years?! Roll on 3rd Aug! #Pompey However, there is one sensible comment Sam Wiltshire ‏@samwiltshire 8h I really do hope #Pompey do not sign any more players, have we not learnt from the past yet?!

Are you suggesting that there is some form of stripes?

http://www.whoscored.com/Blog/dxvha0memeintqots07qba/Show/League-Focus-The-Premier-League-Opening-Fixtures-Analysed According to this, we have the easiest opening 6 fixtures of any team

[TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]13:17[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext viewer_text][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Comment From WalkerIsAwful What is the latest figure on season ticket sales?[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]13:17[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Jordan: More good news on that front[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]13:17[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Jordan: The season ticket sales are knocking 6,000 already[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]13:18[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Jordan: I'd say that's down to a mix of smart pricing, decent initiatives and the enthusiasm we're seeing around the place[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]13:20[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext viewer_text][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Comment From lichfieldpompey Jordan how many more players will guy get in[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]13:21[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext viewer_text][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Comment From Les Loved the football mail going back 50 years[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]13:21[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Jordan: I don't think there is any hard or fast limit on players for Guy, Lichfield[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]13:22[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Jordan: We've got 13 in so far, with the three contracted[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]13:22[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Jordan: Then there's the development squad[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]13:22[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Jordan: Guy was looking at the possibility of a defender, wideman and striker[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]13:23[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Jordan: But I think we're getting towards the limit of that £1.2m budget now[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]13:24[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text][TABLE] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Jordan: So it is likely we are going to see a couple of loans for the last couple of spots [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]13:32[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext viewer_text][TABLE=width: 504] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Comment From Ben With William Hill, Pompey are the only team to be odds-on to win promotion in all of the Football League. Wow, pressure! I would take midtable for 2 or 3 seasons![/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]13:33[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text]Jordan: Brings up a decent point Ben. The vast majority of people I've spoken to expect Pompey to bounce back at the first attempt [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]13:33[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text]Jordan: That's despite a budget of £1.2m placing them in the middle back in the L2 hierarchy [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE=width: 576] [TR] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text][/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtime, bgcolor: #F6F6F6]3:34[/TD] [TD=class: chatmsgtext altcaster_text]Jordan: A mix of enthusiasm, Pompey's size and, most importantly in my book, the squad we've assembled are the reasons for that.[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

WEBCHAT ALERT http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/webchats

Same guy says this

One of the replies to factless Lanks ☃ ‏@Jordanlawther21 48m @pn_neil_allen just without the diving, and the cheating!

Portsmouth FC ‏@officialpompey 2h Season ticket sales still going strong - now up to 5,151 #pompey