anothersaintinsouthsea

yep, Morris.

surely "without a ground of your own?

Presumably that is in addition to netting covering some of the seats in the away section nearest block 1?

ITV should be banned from broadcasting football their whole approach to coverage is rubbish.

I remember before the last derby there were apparently going to be hundreds of pompey fans infiltrating the home sections, never happened.

Jesus wept, some of the drivel you read on the pompey forums. Makes you realise that for all of the *****ing you sometimes get that this forum is actually pretty damn good. Just found this little snippet - apparently several thousand of us ruined Alan Ball's minute's silence: "Did you not do something similar during your minute's silence to remember the late, great Alan Ball? Or was I just dreaming the bit where several thousand red and ****e wearing *****s were shouting out about how he was a 'skate ******'?" http://www.portsmouth.vitalfootball.co.uk/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=9773&start=1

Everytime there is a big match there is a thread about ticketing. 'fair' systems of distributing tickets get mulled over and many seemingly worry about not getting a ticket. don't worry. anyone who really wants a ticket will be able to get a ticket.

"bankrupt pompey, pompey bankrupt" "we love the taxman we do, we love the taxman we do.............." "down and you're bankrupt, you're going down and you're bankrupt............."

An away tie against a bigger club that can get big crowds is probably something your directors would look forward to.

that'll teach me!

Not quite, it was a module that formed part of a degree.

actually it is not correct. what about all of the companies that pay tax? what you'd need to do is work out the proportion of total revenue that is contributed by the 30 million individual tax payers and then divide that amount by 30 million to get at the cost per individual person paying tax. maybe if you'd have gone to Uni you might have developed a bit of extra brain power to have worked that out.

You're confusing socialism with liberalism, kind of ruins your credibility.

Well another loss will hasten the protracted demise of pompey so I should probably help out but put the tickets in the bin.

In other news Pompey adopt a novel way of boosting their crowd for the visit of Birmingham: http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Pompey-plea-for-volunteers-to.5972592.jp 2 free tickets to anyone helping to clear snow.

jumping on the bandwagon IMO, most of those being killed in action seem to be young lads and you rarely hear of them having kids. I know I'm generalising but this policy will actually help very few people. if the tories really want to help out the families of those killed why not increase pensions, pay outs etc

Only a tool would think that a politician (in any country) would or could guarantee that there would never ever be a recession.

Critics who bring up the boom and bust argument to criticise Brown don't understand the context of his initial statement. The phrase "boom and bust" is a well known term in economics that refers to a repetitive cycle of a short term economic prosperity turning to economic down-term - often with the influence of electioneering governments cutting interest rates etc. Given the number of consecutive years of growth from the nineties into the noughties it's stupid to say it was 'boom and bust'.

Really hope that Bolton go down now. Their fans have become way too arrogant, with the size of their crowds why do they expect to be doing any better than a relegation scrap? Booing whilst still winning in a relegation 6-pointer is ludicrous.

SaintAndy666 - should we also invade and occupy Zimbabwe and Sudan? Your point might have a long term term truth to it but it's hard to argue that Iraq has been safer and better in the 5 years post-invasion. The respected Lancet estimated that the best part of a million people have died directly or indirectly because of the war or post-invasion chaos. Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz calculated that the Iraq situation has cost the West literally trillions of US$. The UN meanwhile asserts that the war was illegal - this is backed up by many a expert in International Law. No one will shed a tear for Saddam but that doesn't justify what we did or the way in which it was done.

What's Gaddafi got to do with it, we're not about to invade Libya. It's not about trusting someone it's about assessing whether someone is a credible threat. It didn't take much to see through Saddam's posturing. Of course he was going to talk big, he was surrounded by enemies who conceivably would have pounced if he shown weakness (e.g. Iran) and wanted to keep the Kurds (amongst others quiet). The fact that millions of people publically showed opposition to invasion shows that hindsight wasn't that necessary.

Points 1&2 were well in the past and were dealt with by the first gulf war. Blair told us that Saddam posed an immediate threat to the West. As many believed at the time this was blatantly untrue. If he posed such an "oil threat" whatever that means why did oil prices only rocket after the US made it clear they were going to invade? Point 3 - This debate is irrelevant as the invasion had nothing to do with genocide. Whilst no doubt Saddam had genocidal tendancies the attacks on the Kurds were well in the past when he was our ally - in fact he likely used weapons supplied by the West. He wasn't engaged in genocide at the time we invaded so it is pretty clear that our invasion had nothing to do with preventing genocide. If it had been a response to genocide/oppression then why didn't we intervene directly in Zimbabwe or Darfur. I keep reading on this thread that we had to do something because the region is so unstable. That's just rediculous. Has the region been more or less unstable since the invasion? The latter has clearly been the case. What could possibly more destablising than an hastily planned invasion without UN backing and without a credible occupation plan?

why are we arguing about priority for tickets. there will be more than enough to go round.

Yes because the region has been sooo much more stable since we went to war.......

can he play for more than two clubs in a season? If someone knows and can clarify that would be great. Thanks.