OldNick

Just had an e-mail the headline A week of laughs at Jongleurs Portsmouth. You dont need jongleurs for that!!!

lets hope Coventry are relegated before we play them, there i was hoping we could lose to send the skates down lol

To me Reading seem to fluke results, but they do it too many times for it to be a fluke. Away to WHU, BHA and us, they have been battered but won all three. That makes them deserved champions. I back the manager but I dont get his decisions, Sharp should have been taken off and Guly put up alongside RL to give us something different. Guly has scored qwuite a few this season and is sadly some fans whipping boy. Chaplow was missed when he was injured and has now been put in the team on the wing, not where he was earlier in the season when he was more effective and scoring. Note that Cork who is in his position has not scored. As for SDR, how anyone can make him MOtM is beyond me, did he do anything telling? yes he ran back after knocking our defender over and getting the ball off Roberts but creatively i cant recall a dangerous ball. After an ight of bad sleep and reliving the game over in my head im still agitated. The last 2 home games, 6 real attacks and 5 goals conceded!!! Jason Roberts was a master signing, apart from him Reading were just average, he is their talisman and whilst Le Fondre scored 2 well taken goals, Roberts is the reason they won last night.

basically Chanrai will be back, throwing good money after bad, there is no way he will allow the 17m to be written off and so may buy the club in the last minute as TB is about to liquidate. By then the players with high wages will be shown the door by Birch.

perhaps he ought to invite Neil Allen from the Pompey news Lol. NC is rightly getting good news put out about our club. In the long term football fans in Asia , USA ETC wont give a toss about what the Echo says about us or even some of our national press. If we are to develop into what NC and ML had envisaged they will have their eyes set on worldwide exposure and will cultivate good news press from friends. I cant ever see us as a major name in the world of football but it seems to me ML did, and we are at the very beginning of a longterm project. Whether it is a pipe-dream time will only tell, but it could be fun or complete humiliation.

Birch will start to get edgy as soon as the money looks very close to running out. There is no way he will risk having to pay the shortfall as an administrator. Reading his words it seems that the transfer window opens as soon as the season ends. Therefore a firesale will happen then. of course he has to wait until after the playoffs and so that is another couple of weeks tagged on

Lol sadly not, now if he was Pompey he would have had his own boat with the worlds best rowers all paid for by St Johns Ambulance

Just found out that William McMaster Murdoch is a distant relative on my mothers side. He was First Officer when they hit the iceberg, he shot some of the passengers who tried rushing the lifeboats. Quite a hero in Scotland in a small town near Dunfries.

Just found out that William McMaster Murdoch is a distant relative on my mothers side. He was First Officer when they hit the iceberg, he shot some of the passengers who tried rushing the lifeboats. Quite a hero in Scotland in a small town near Dunfries.

If Pompey were liquidated now it would deduct 2 points from our total -6 from WHU , they could give us promotion Lol

Sold out , are we likely to get any more/

It was a derby, normal rules do not come into play. the side they put out is strong and they had the rub of the green. I am sick of not seeing any pace in the side and we do not leave defenders for dead.the loss off Lee is most unfortunate as he seemed to bring a zip into our side. Adkins should have played Puncheon last week at Blackpool where he would have gone back to his old club, and Chaplow today as his zip and aggression would have helped, as for putting a defender on in the last few minutes!

Did anyone else see how the ref and Varney did the very friendly high handshake before the game? (it wasn't a normal respectful handshake, but almost a high five) I hope somebody has footage of it)It was that of two very good friends meeting up, then within 2 minutes of the game starting Varney did Morgan with that tackle and the ref let it pass.

that is why they have made the 2 stands exempt from this offer.

it will be something that they will not be able to counter and just rubs in their fears of relegation and liquidation

'you'll never play here again' that is the song for saturday, that will find a nerve.

Ive been watching Homelands on Channel 4, so far i have found it to be very good. Anyone else think so?

yep the FL will show the world what they are made of, and instantly award the Skates the -10 back

there is an old saying on the lines of a kettle watched takes longer to boil. It seems to me the toaster takes even longer. I look on here each day and my spirits are raised as I'm reliably informed they are finished, only for my newly raised spirits to be quashed. Pompey have and always will get away with it, and whilst some say that being relegated from the PL was punishment and the recent -10 also , i would say that the relegation from the PL would never happened in the first place if they had not cheated as they would still be dragging around the depths of the lower divisions. To me they have had little medicine for their years in the spotlight and Wembley visits. I dont hold with, 'let them die slowly, as its more fun' as patently the patient while breathing still has a chance. Put a pillow over their face and finish it off quickly. It seems TB is as crafty as AA and perhaps feels that any creditors have given up expecting any money and will just shrug their shoulders and take nothing, also I wonder if he thinks that they are not going to take them to court by throwing good money after bad. Clapham doesn't post enough IMO, we need his insight to TB's moves and where they are likely to go next.Personally i believe that TB has Chanrai in a difficult position and he will in the end get little of his 17m back.

I havent looked, but has anyone checked how many loan players were on the pitch last night, and if they kept to rules the rest of football adhere to? I would never be surprised if they played more than the legal amount and the FL turned a blind eye. It would be karma if we have promotion guaranteed by the time we play Coventry and we can give them the 3 points by rolling over. Sadly I think even if we were the integrity that NA displays would make him not allow us to do so. Pompey look as though they could well escape, although BC and Coventry will have to be overhauled. Pompey have a great chance though and as i said the other day on here they will fight like mad against us . We have a role to play in not get uptight if things do go our way early on.

yep Mark Draper and that German forward were his 2 main signings.Lol all those players he signed for Spurs flopped as well. He was at his best when making the players Dave Jones bought, more organised and starry eyed. Any player of stature didnt get too impressed by his skills showing off during training.

I was calling for Eddie Howe so i put my hands up, I was wrong.

The reason FP seems so loud is that all the decrepid stadiums with the fans really close to the pitch are gone. Merson etc would have played at many of the more modern stadia and the now unique bearpits are unusual. At the Dell when the fans were right at the players it unsettled many teams, they fell apart.Nowadays players are not used to that and so people and commentators get the unusual atmosphere. To be fair the constant bell ringing also gives a unique feel and it becomes a bit like a Delhi market. 2 more loans in, are the league going to turn a blind eye to their rules regarding the number of loans players in a squad ,is it 5? Beware of being over confident of our game with the Skates as they will fight hard to try and spoil our hopes, the fans will need to be patient that day , although if we could get an early 2 goal lead their will might falter.

I saw on sunday that there were supposed talks with the FL for Celtic to be parachuted into L1 (I would be strongly against this) but would it be due to a certain club leaving the league Lol

He will come good. i think it is great that we can get a player in and he is given time to acclimatise ready to play in our system.