OldNick

too many games played already to realistically mount a play off challenge. I had slight hopes of doing so but we cant expect players to win enough games unless we get. a stronger squad.

Lol, in a way you could be right. I have seen the injustice served on others whilst Pompey have time and again got away with it. I dont have anything personal against the decent Pompey fans as you know. I have never felt it was fair that the time you went into administration you never rec eived just penalties. Then in the last 5 years you have overspent and bought success.It can be fairly argued we did to a degree when we went Wilde, but we had our medicine. Now it is your clubs turn if life is fair...but of course we know thaqt is not the case and so I expect you to come out smelling of roses or the like.

Perhaps the future parachute payments are/would be already taken. Im just too cautious and expect them to gert lucky again. I dont want them to be lost forever, although at times !!!!!!!!

the return of the 'come to be entertained' always dilutes the atmosphere. The Northam were not vocal today, and the Itchen vry anonymous.good to see happy faces at full time though.

if pompey go into admin and take a points penalty .They get relegated will they thne still have parachute payments next season to make them highly competitve for re promotion under a new regime with their debts cleared? They are far from dead IMO. In fact if they dont lose too many players they will stay up. I was surprised there was no singing of 'They only score in a brothel' over the weekend

Merovian, Pes even Mack Rill are the ones i do feel for ,the gloaters and neanathals no.

????? whats that about?

Are you trolling? I like many thousands of others have paid full price.That is my choice, i also want the club to thrive and so am more than happy to see the club taking initiatives to get more into the ground. To be honest, to sit in the Chapel with thousands of kids is worth a massive discount IMO anyway. Every hloiday i go on or flight without question there will be people paying less than me for the same.Should I stay at home in protest? The more people in the stadium the better the feeling, the more that NC will be able to spend to improve our enjoyment in the future, give the club a chance it is recovering from major heart surgery and needs all the care it can get.

Again the PL will bend the rules to0 help them. It is amazing how corrupt the whole system is.

Most of us would not be sensitive to that. lol

to win the election is a poisoned chalice. I would be happy for Brown to stay and reap what he has sewn. The tories will come into power on the back of the worst finaces ever (unlike what brown inherited) and we will have misery and hardship. You only have to look at the Eurostar nonsense to see that the people have no stomach for anything not pleasant and will soon turn on the new faces.Brown will then of course be there telling them that 'he told them they were better off under him.' Cameron lose the electrion and let the looney left get what they fully deserve for their total ruin of our economy. 175billion ffs, how are we going to pay that back, let alone all the hidden borrowings.

There always has been a booking fee on credit card transactions.

I expect the club were not surprised that some would use it to save money, but it is a blunderbuss aproach spray enough shot and you'll hit something. The fans who have used it just to go by themselves may well want some more and go next time at ful price, a lot will give the kid tickets to friends and so the potential of new fans. Friuends of ours took their kids last leauge game and we got a call at 6 oclock saying they were still trying to prize their kid out of the club shop.He was a man u fan up to then.Now he is fully kitted up as a saints fan. Yes there are some who will use this to knock the club but for me, if it encourages another 100 people to become saints fans then it is all worhtwhile. Happy christmas

Im sure the |Leicester fans are really pleased that MM is showing long term intent ll, although as im very cynical he probably wants to keep in with that lot in Pompey as to keep the skeletons quiet

I was upbaeat about the team until I have read the last page of this thread, and as for our resident moaning Arsenal fan on here!!!

I have stood up for KD in the past, but i believew he has to wait for his chance again

Mourinho is the man for tha job. He gets under fergies skin and knows how to build a PL winning team.

I think that is true, to me anyway. It may be as im getting older the thrill is going but silly things have been lost . Something as stupid as the draw for the fa cup.You never knew any teams number and waited holding your breath in anticipation who we were playing or was it us who had been chosen.No, the numbers are all there to see and so that silly little extra is gone. Im sure as we go up in the world again my passion to be back in the Pl may return, but by then i hope a little more sanity will be instilled as the wages and star status may have been smoothered a little. To my miond the PL is now froth and hype, how many times can they think up 'clash of the Titans' or Super weekend to try and make Bolton v Pompey seem exciting. The empty seats are becoming more evident as time moves on, sooner or later the clubs will have to address the stupid excesses they are paying footballers.

when did that happen? I thought the newspapers had mentioned that you owed watford still.

All valid points

You knocked the nail in there. I forgot on saturday morning I was talking to a Chelsea fan who was going with a load of mates from salisburyto SMS. He mentioned how he hated how Chelsea dont kick off their games at the traditional time of 3 oclock on a saturday but more often than not on a sunday afternoon. For a fan like myself who has been going for decades, I want to have all games kick off at 3, to listen out fro the half time scores when there was real anticipation of what was happening elsewhere. The PL has lost its soul to tv, but I expect I'll love it if we get there again

of course it was never the lightbulb that was faulty , it was the fan that was responsible

If we can compete and win more than we lose then fine. Under this new regime perhaps the better players will be held onto and we can atually achieve again. I hope so

why dont you do the same as we were in the CCC and now then DD. Is it the vanity of being in the PL that rocks your boat?

The winning feeling is a good one. Yes we can build from that and move up, but I dont want to be in the PL if it is a case of paying stupid money and secondly if we are not equipped to do well. Perhaps it is the novelty of us winning a few games that has given me rose tinted glasses, but i have gone past the 'Saints are the greatest' and sneering at Wycombe and the likes because we are a big club. Football to me now is a pastime, a place to be entertained, the type of football I am watching is fine and more pleasurable than I recall many of the games we had in the PL due to fear of losing.Ie when the likes of Bolton Boro Blackburn etc came along determined to get a draw or nick a win, and at no time trying to entertain. I resent putting hard earned money into over paid top rung footballers pockets, and so I am content in seeing us do well and pushing up the leagues but alos knowing that i will find it difficult to bring myself to pay in excess of £50 to watch us.