1976_Child Posted 2 April, 2009 Share Posted 2 April, 2009 Article here Well played pompey-fans.com. Thank you for a balanced article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGTL Posted 2 April, 2009 Share Posted 2 April, 2009 Rivalries make football, without us imagine how boring it would be for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smirking_Saint Posted 2 April, 2009 Share Posted 2 April, 2009 I'm guessing that as not from pompy john ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stkev7 Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 Fairplay to that website for writing such a good article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EFM Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 Stunned but impressed! I'm not so sure I was that magnaimous during their decline (infact I know damn well I wasn't) but fair play to the author of that article. I think he also recognises that it is not inconceivable that they may not be a lot better off in 2 or 3 years than the position we find ourselves in now. If the current positions were reversed I WOULD be gloating like f.u.c.k. but if we didn't have Pxmpey as rivals at all I would feel we had lost something. Albeit something approaching hatred but a loss nevertheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefuriousb Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 Colin is a real football person. He was one of the teachers at my college many moons ago. A thoroughly decent and great bloke he was then. Its great that the turnabout in our clubs' respective fortunes has not changed him (those that are the worst are those that do not remember Gregory/Venables) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNick Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 I take it that he wants us to survive so he can take the p###. Begging for us to get the 10 point penalty. I dont blame him though, although when they were in our position i felt for their football fans not their thugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorpe-le-Saint Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 Crikey, wasn't expecting to read that - Fair play to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 Thought this point a good one about our similarities but contrasting fortunes: To be fair, historically Saints spent very few season in Div Three. They, like us, sit somewhere between the (old) Division One (ie Premiership) and Div Two (ie Championship). I have long maintained that Pompey and Saints are clubs of very similar stature for completely different reasons. Of late though we seemed to have turned into them (in their late Dell days) and them us (in our Martin Gregory period)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 My other half is a Pompey fan but he's agreed that we can donate some of our savings to SFC. He wants us to survive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docker-p Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 I don't believe a word of it. Skate b*st**ds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solentstars Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 got to agree with pompey fans com, i really miss the derby matchs and we usually won most of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFKA South Woodford Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 Nice of him to still be wishing a ten point penalty on Saints, even though he admits his club were guilty of the same thing and got away with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 Nice of him to still be wishing a ten point penalty on Saints, even though he admits his club were guilty of the same thing and got away with it. Prior to there being a points deduction penalty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merovingian Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 sorry to post on your main board but the general consensus of our lot in the office do NOT want to see you disappear completely and I wish you well in finding someone who can help you out of your current predicament. I can remember the coffins going down goldsmith avenue around 10 years ago when we were in the same boat. nervous and apprehensive times, we all have one common thing between us and that is we are all fans and no fans should have to go through such times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenevaSaint Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 Well I've gotta admit even in their darkest hour I never wanted Pompey to go under. struggling like hell to keep afloat, but not actually go out of business forever. How dull would it be having Bournemouth as your local rivals. Mind you, we might be playing them more often than Pompey soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack rill Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 I don't believe a word of it. Skate b*st**ds. Thats the spirit Docker, You f*ckin tell em.....Now all of you pony boys get your ass holes threw the turnstiles at SMS and with luck keep your club afloat.....Southcoast football would be allot poorer without you stripe ****s up the other end of the ally;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 Thats the spirit Docker, You f*ckin tell em.....Now all of you pony boys get your ass holes threw the turnstiles at SMS and with luck keep your club afloat.....Southcoast football would be allot poorer without you stripe ****s up the other end of the ally;) Nice to hear from you again, our old fishy friend. Enjoy it while it lasts and come back again when you have replaced your corrugated-iron lean-to with a proper stadium. perhaps you'd like to rent one up this way? You'd all have to play in red and white stripes, mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack rill Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 Nice to hear from you again, our old fishy friend. Enjoy it while it lasts and come back again when you have replaced your corrugated-iron lean-to with a proper stadium. perhaps you'd like to rent one up this way? You'd all have to play in red and white stripes, mind. If the Tesco number goes through we could be in blue n white just like there bags;)....Joking apart hope there is light at the end of your tunnel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ribbo Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 i work in a pompey office and im used to having the **** ripped out of me at every oppertunity, however the guys who are old enough to remember the numerous bad times they went through gueniunly wish that the club survives, one of them even said it'd be pompeys kind of luck that we get some Arab oil billionaire end up owning us! the Johnny come latelys however are still c.ocks, but as i say, support through the **** times to make the good times taste that little bit sweeter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 3 April, 2009 Share Posted 3 April, 2009 If the Tesco number goes through we could be in blue n white just like there bags;)....Joking apart hope there is light at the end of your tunnel. Didn't that used to be Brighton? I'm sure that they used to cut the bottoms out of the bags and put the numbers on the back with felt-tip pens. Have you thought about ground-sharing with them? It would save on having to repaint the stadium between home games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibden Purlieu Saint Posted 4 April, 2009 Share Posted 4 April, 2009 Just had a message through Facebook from a random Pompey fan saying that he is going up to Hull today but has bought a Saints shirt from the website. Got to say fairplay to that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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