Torrent Of Abuse

Well the full table shows Huddersfield on 1.17 points per game. Colchester 0.83. Mkdons 1.17. Saints 2.00, Swindon 1.33, Charlton 1.67. How does that work out?

Oh bugger. Didn't see that :-S That'll teach me. Back to the drawing board I guess.

Didn't see a form table thread... Second in the form table. Our rivals right up there too. Only Huddersfield and Charlton look like dropping points. A rough estimate sees us finish 7th shy of Charlton by 4 points. They would appear to be the side we must consider catchable. http://www.statto.com/football/stats/england/league-one/2009-2010/form-table/home

And how we finish this season will have a BIG say in how we start off the next. We want to be the fastest out of the blocks next season. Being the slowest out of the blocks is so 2009

I actually wonder if this punishment is a sop: a compromise in the place of a real punishment. There's a financial penalty which they can't pay anyway so what's the point? There's no points penalty - yet it is a financial irregularity. Will they get any penalty in the football league when they have already been penalised in the premier league? Perhaps not. So where is the real justice? I just fear they will get away with things while the gory details are swept under the carpet because it doesn't suit anyone to look in any detail.

Well you were a big fan of George Burley. We certainly saw all players being played in all positions under him. Perhaps we can ask George what goalkeeper he'd like to see play at RB?

Of course I can see why they feel the need to form a People's Republic Of Portsea Island. I mean they've been let down so badly. They only got a message of support from the PM. Any decent government would have stepped in and passed a law to award bonus points to any team who failed to pay their tax, and who couldn't pay their players, and whose fans enjoyed carnal relations with fishes - provided that club was named Pompey. And then there was the PL who puzzlingly insisted clubs should be able to pay their own bills and cruelly promised to advance them money instead of letting them go out of business. What they should have done is award them bonus points (to help keep the integrity of the game and give **** sides something to still play for) and erect a giant solid-gold statue of Peter Storrie outside the front gate. I mean the guy is an absolute legend! Next I can imagine them all lining up outside FP behind the guy who's throwing rocks at the sky because gravity is unfairly making things fall down to their "correct level". Bloody stupid gravity.

PROPI? People's Republic Of Portsea Island? ****, that place gets more like League Of Gentlemen every day. I imagine anyone pointing out the legitimacy of the points penalty or the fact that they really should have tried to lay their bills would be met with the same kind of uneasy silence they get when someone tells them it's probably best they don't **** a relative.

I was briefly seduced into feeling slightly sad at their demise but I've really just had it with the mournful back-patting and blue-tinged self pity. For f**k's sake, if they want to live on their own narrow-minded, introverted, inbred, ****-witted Fantasy Hayling Island then please someone help them out by loading explosives under the bridges on the only roads out of that godforsaken hole and leave them to it. They can have their own league where teams of over-paid, web-footed aquamen compete against each other in front of their six-fingered fans while the clubs award themselves +9 points for gun-running, insolvency and piscophilia.

Bernie Madoff?

Wow. Does this club know when to field a weakened side and when to field an (illegitimately) strong side? The self-pity from that end of the M27 is quite odious. If I was in charge at the PL, I would respond to AG's "hint" with a hint of my own: The advance on your parachute paymentls depends on you playing by the rules of the Premier League. You may not like it. You may not like us. We, however, can make the difference between your fans lining up for Championship match tickets at FP and your fans lining up outside the estate agents' offices to get the chance of a brand new 1 bedroom apartment on the former site of FP. So stop mouthing off, stop feeling sorry for yourself and go do your job. If you're feeling stressed then pop off down to unit 1 and ask for the usual. However, we advise you to stop short of asking her to wear as strap on because if you need to get f***ed up the a**e, you only need to keep on talking and we'll let the HMRC show you how it's really done.

[Alpine mode=ON]All I do is voice a simple opinion and the usual suspects come out sneering. It's a forum isn't it? Surely that means I'm able to put my own opinion without such abuse. Call the mods! Call the mods! Infraction alert! Infraction alert![Alpine mode=OFF] It's really easy being you, Alpine. I don't know what you make such a meal about it for. It's a piece of p1ss.

"It is the first time the Premier League will be taking this action, and it could be a mistake. It will set the precedent, and it would be the wrong precedent, so they need to think very carefully. "The players are naturally concerned about their careers, and they want to go out and win every game, but why should they risk leg and limb if they are already relegated? What planet is that guy on? Has he ever seen a football match? You can't question the 9pt penalty simply because it might demotivate the players. That happens any time a club fail to accumulate enough points to escape relegation. What does he want? To stop relegation to keep everyone nice and motivated? Here's the motivation, Mr. Android: "The players are in the shop window for their next club. It does wonders for motivation. It should help when you sell the players on - like the club should have back in January" There are plenty of precedents. Take Derby for instance. Got relegated early. Players kept going because they were getting paid and because they wanted a new contract somewhere. If they weren't good enough to be signed by anyone, they found their level in the Championship. It's the law of footballing gravity at work.

I'm sure that if we can only get rid of Rupert Lowe, pointlessly divisive threads like this will be a thing of the past.

I'm pretty sure one or maybe all of them are Anthony Pulis. If I can find enough witnesses supporting this, can he possibly be picked up and taken away?

Who was suppressing criticism or dissent? You posted a view and I responded to it. If you can't put up with people disagreeing with your point of view; if your posts are so precious that you can't put up with people telling you what they think of your point of view; then maybe a public forum is not for you.

From the attitude of some fans to a defeat after two 5 goal hammerings, perhaps it's the fans who need another season of playing League 1 teams to build a winning attitude rather than the players. I certianly don't think I can stomach a season of "This was supposed to be a Championship side AP built. Why are we mid-table? Is relegation on the cards? How will NC react? Of course I told you we should have bought a new in he summer - sort it out AP..."

I thought it read "Cranie topples over at Southampton Docks". Probably looking for a free kick.

Wow. Yet another team having an off day against us and letting us score loads of goals. How fortuitous! ;-)

Let Pompey appeal... ...with the understanding that if they lose the appeal, the penalty is increased.

Ha ha ha. Goal difference looking MIGHT nice.

Well I guess if them being 4-0 down shows how bad we were in midweek, them coming back to 4-3 says it wasn't that bad, doesn't it? Nope? Ah well, if it doesn't fit with the agenda best ignore it...

Good news! The South Africans have provided proof of funds. Apparently they are looking to build 4 houses or a hotel on Fratton Park. Harry Redknapp will win £20 in a beauty contest and Peter Storrie will go to jail - but I'm sure he'll only be visiting

I'm a little bit torn. I find myself loving this thread and then I find myself feeling sorry for them... and the I think of the cheating, the lying, Peter Storrie's punchable face... and it becomes fun all over again. I think I need help Sure enough, I think this is not the end but the beginning of the end. You can see it all unwinding horribly over the months to come: administration, a 9pt penalty (though only PL points, which means nothing as they are already all but relegated)... and then someone looks over the books a little closer and *boom* a 25 point penalty and lots of legal stuff. This thread may have some life yet. I'd really like to see Storrie get his comeuppance. I know some call him a hero for destroying Pompey but that scumbag doesn't belong anywhere in football (or business for that matter) and I'd love to see him and old Bagpuss in trouble with the law. I bet Storrie would sing like a canary... and then develop a mystery illness that can only be cured by being outdoors, preferably not behind bars of any kind.

I think you're going to need one of Baldrick's cunning plans to get out of this one. Perhaps you can stick some pencils up your nostrils, wear your underpants on your head and pretend it's not happening?