Foxstone Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 Like many of you, I'm afraid that I know several Poopey Fans who for some reason are revelling in our situation. Jokes sent to me this morning from Blue Few acquaintances .... Strange thing this global warming - Nice and sunny in Portsmouth and -10 in Southampton. Three ships have left the port of Southampton never to return - The Titanic, The Premiership and the Championship ! I suggest we bank these for the inevitable time when we will be able to repay such sentiments in much greater measure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 The boot will be very much on the other foot in a couple of years' time. Let them have their little giggle at our expense, the situation will be magnified in reverse when it all goes tits-up down there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crab Lungs Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 Just wait til they go pop - and they will... They've got the end of this season and the next in Prem, they are crippled with debts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crab Lungs Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 Snap, Mr Grant. Likewise, they'll go down next season after the exodus and cost cutting in the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eelpie Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 Inevitable. But not a patch on our own gallows humour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sambosa75 Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 £100m in debt and will eventually get relegated. The proverbial will hit the fan with them at some time or another and they will be in a much, much worse predicament than us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridge too far Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 And, it seems, questions about who actually owns them are being asked again: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/apr/24/portsmouth-owebership-arkadi-gaydamak He who laughs last ............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRobbie Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 The boot will be very much on the other foot in a couple of years' time. Let them have their little giggle at our expense, the situation will be magnified in reverse when it all goes tits-up down there. I agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobM Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 Let's be honest though, they are funny. If we were not Southampton fans, that is.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slickmick Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 I sent a picture from my mobile, of a can of coca cola, to a Pompey fan when they dropped into the bottom three a few weeks back. He sent it back last night, with the message 'you wont be seeing that again for a while'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warsash saint Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 I have had a stead stream of the above jokes sent via text this morning from my comical skate mates. I have to play 5 aside with them tomorrow - I suggest they watch out of some unfortuate mistimed tackles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Johnson Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 The banter is all part of being a football fan IMHO... Those jokes are quiet good, I work in fareham so I get abuse all the time... I'm just soaking it up at the moment... it wont be long till I can get my own back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eelpie Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 And, it seems, questions about who actually owns them are being asked again: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/apr/24/portsmouth-owebership-arkadi-gaydamak He who laughs last ............ When they eventually go into administration they will claim that their holding company actually IS Arkadi Gaydamak. What will the PL say? "Ok, that's alright then - no points deduction." (ironic lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin C Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 I think football will wake up before they go under and put some sort of rule in such as wage caps etc. to keep clubs from getting into silly debt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toomer Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 After best part of 30 years being in our shadow let them have their 5 mins in the sun it won't last for ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelso kev Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 Josef Fritzl has admitted rape, incest, enslavement & murder, but says the rumours that he's a Pompey fan are downright f*cking sick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 I sent a picture from my mobile, of a can of coca cola, to a Pompey fan when they dropped into the bottom three a few weeks back. He sent it back last night, with the message 'you wont be seeing that again for a while'. Clearly your response should point out that Coca Cola sponsor the entire Football League, not just the Championship. Or maybe not... and I wouldn't get too deeply into Barclays sponsoring the Premier League either... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daren W Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 The boot will be very much on the other foot in a couple of years' time. Let them have their little giggle at our expense, the situation will be magnified in reverse when it all goes tits-up down there. But the irony is that Fratton Park might just save them. St Marys is a millstone around our necks, imagine if they had a £100 million pound stadium??? Ok so Fratton can't sustain their wage bill but it could be their secret weapon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daren W Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 After best part of 30 years being in our shadow let them have their 5 mins in the sun it won't last for ever. (cough cough) 50 years... thank you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadhall Saint Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 But the irony is that Fratton Park might just save them. St Marys is a millstone around our necks, imagine if they had a £100 million pound stadium??? Ok so Fratton can't sustain their wage bill but it could be their secret weapon... agreed on that - but if everything goes well we won't have that millstone any longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 I think football will wake up before they go under and put some sort of rule in such as wage caps etc. to keep clubs from getting into silly debt. I doubt it. The head of the Football League is a Thatcherite conservative with a history of supporting harsh market economics at the expense of the greater good, the concept of community and welfare, and the Premier League clubs are receiving enough money that they're not bothered. Plus the long and short of it is that any change will be opposed by the very top clubs who are happy enough on the self-perpetuating sloping playing field they sit atop, with the threat of them leaving the ultimate sanction (hence the Premier League's existence in the first place, and now the PL2 rumours). There are always other clubs to replace the dissenters. The cork came out of the bottle in the early 90s, when the FA ignored its responsibility to supporting football as a whole in favour of creating a money-making juggernaut where the rich get richer - there's no way that a wage cap could be implemented, as it would have to be consistent throughout the divisions and the Prem would never agree to it. The entire contract structure of professional football would have to change, or the Premier League would be accepting that players would choose to play in countries where there were no wage caps instead of the Prem, thus removing their claims to having the best players, and diluting their "Global Brand". The only place it's working in practise is MLS, which fits with existing conventional US sports models, and sits in a bubble above all other US Soccer - and even they have "star" players breaking the salary cap - but they're not in competition with European leagues and regularly lose the better players to other Leagues where they can earn more. In England, a wage cap simply will not happen. There will always be more clubs far distanced from immediate financial collapse than there will be clubs in immediate peril, and self-preservation is always the key - much as the competitive, controlled environment of a wage-capped League is preferable to a predictable one all-but based on money alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draino76 Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 My facebook wall is being bombarded. "They do nice fish and chips in Brighton I hear!!! (your lot brave enough to go to Millwall then are you???!!!)" "Scummers going down again!" "Phil come and join us and see some real football" "LOL @ SCUM" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monosaint Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 A few Pompey fans must have put their Brain cells in this morning then..:cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West End Saint Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 Let them have there fun afterall is said and done they are still fence licking gippo's and they stink of fish F U C K EM UTS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadhall Saint Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 My facebook wall is being bombarded. "They do nice fish and chips in Brighton I hear!!! (your lot brave enough to go to Millwall then are you???!!!)" "Scummers going down again!" "Phil come and join us and see some real football" "LOL @ SCUM" I suppose that was the response when the whole of the Farton end were asked to comment? As to Millwall - been to the old Den twice and the new Den once and will quite happily go again. I bet thats more than the ones that hit your face book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallyboy Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 The only premiership ground with horse brasses, an awning and a towbar. Yes they are free of stadium debt but the place is falling down and their business plan is based on champions league income, not scraping through in 16th, so the old house of cards is a wobbling. Wonder how that water borne super stadium hotel complex is going in the harbour, maybe the complulsory purchase of the dockyard and waterfront is proving more complicated than they realised. But we shall see them again in May 2010, it's a date - not like the ones they have with their sisters though.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesus Reigned Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 Like many of you, I'm afraid that I know several Poopey Fans who for some reason are revelling in our situation. Jokes sent to me this morning from Blue Few acquaintances .... Strange thing this global warming - Nice and sunny in Portsmouth and -10 in Southampton. Three ships have left the port of Southampton never to return - The Titanic, The Premiership and the Championship ! I suggest we bank these for the inevitable time when we will be able to repay such sentiments in much greater measure... I heard the second one twice in the space of about half an hour this morning; it did somewhat burst the balloon of the second skate when I finished the punchline for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camdijk Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 And, it seems, questions about who actually owns them are being asked again: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/apr/24/portsmouth-owebership-arkadi-gaydamak He who laughs last ............ Interesting paragraph in the Guardian report .....'In court HARARY said that Gaydamak Sr constantly writes his assets under the names of his children or foreign companies for tax reasons and to avoid creditors. Gaydamak was not present at the hearing.' Surely they have put an extra 'a' in Harary. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mack rill Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 Gallows humor is all part of the healing proses for us long suffering football fans when miner hiccups like relegation just appen to come our way. So hear is some more medicine. what is Southampton's favorite breakfast cereal....................Cheerios:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 The only premiership ground with horse brasses, an awning and a towbar. Yes they are free of stadium debt but the place is falling down and their business plan is based on champions league income, not scraping through in 16th, so the old house of cards is a wobbling. Wonder how that water borne super stadium hotel complex is going in the harbour, maybe the complulsory purchase of the dockyard and waterfront is proving more complicated than they realised. But we shall see them again in May 2010, it's a date - not like the ones they have with their sisters though.... The Navy vetoed it because they didn't want their shiny new carriers to bump into it and all those footballs flying out of the stadium would have damaged the JSFs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 "They do nice fish and chips in Brighton I hear!!! (your lot brave enough to go to Millwall then are you???!!!)" Blimey, genuises, we've played both of them in the Championship already and they're two of the more successful clubs over the past 30 years currently in League One ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micky Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 I think football will wake up before they go under and put some sort of rule in such as wage caps etc. to keep clubs from getting into silly debt. Errrr talk about 'shutting the door after blah blah......' Have you actually checked to see how much some Premier league teams are actually in debt to the tune of today. Most are in debt to the tune of 10's of millions - how much sillier can it get...???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNick Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 The only premiership ground with horse brasses, an awning and a towbar. Yes they are free of stadium debt but the place is falling down and their business plan is based on champions league income, not scraping through in 16th, so the old house of cards is a wobbling. Wonder how that water borne super stadium hotel complex is going in the harbour, maybe the complulsory purchase of the dockyard and waterfront is proving more complicated than they realised. But we shall see them again in May 2010, it's a date - not like the ones they have with their sisters though.... That really made me Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNick Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 I spoke to a skate today who really has a dislike for us but he was very sincere that he doesnt want us to go out of business. He says who could be their rivals then, Bournemouth, Brighton it just wouldnt be the same. No in their heart of heart many of them need us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revolution saint Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 I spoke to a skate today who really has a dislike for us but he was very sincere that he doesnt want us to go out of business. He says who could be their rivals then, Bournemouth, Brighton it just wouldnt be the same. No in their heart of heart many of them need us. Yeah I know a few pompey fans that feel the same. Frankly I don't really care about them though and never have. When they came up I felt I had to make believe a hatred I never really had but they're just another club. We just haven't had enough recent history for me. Now that we're below them it makes me wonder just how they kept their hatred for us so strong - I mean I never check their results or know where they are in the table. I don't mind if they're obsessed with us but I couldn't care less about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMPR Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 Now Ive known Granty for a more than a few years and weve always had banter. However there are assumptions in this thread, administration is new to Pompey? Weve been there and survived that. Of the 12 or so years we had in Div One I think 7 times we were fighting and survived relegation. Over the past 16 or so years weve probably been involved in 10 relegation fights so again that sort of mentality is not that far away even taking into account recent success and the next few years will see us fighting and hopefully surviving relegation from the Prem. The one difference between the two sets of supporters in my opinion is the closer to doom the club is Portsmouth supporters will stand up and be counted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrollman no2 Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 Now Ive known Granty for a more than a few years and weve always had banter. However there are assumptions in this thread, administration is new to Pompey? Weve been there and survived that. Of the 12 or so years we had in Div One I think 7 times we were fighting and survived relegation. Over the past 16 or so years weve probably been involved in 10 relegation fights so again that sort of mentality is not that far away even taking into account recent success and the next few years will see us fighting and hopefully surviving relegation from the Prem. The one difference between the two sets of supporters in my opinion is the closer to doom the club is Portsmouth supporters will stand up and be counted. But how many Pompey supporters stood up to be counted when you were in our shoes? If i remember rightly it was about 8000? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
INFLUENCED.COM Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 The one difference between the two sets of supporters in my opinion is the closer to doom the club is Portsmouth supporters will stand up and be counted. Now we know why attendance was so low for your European tie, its similar to how most of you get a women outside of family, only feel able to get involved when their on their knees and desperate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMPR Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 Yep in our darkest hour that was around it, but we never stopped singing even way back then. But I suppose we were crap for long periods and any bright spots were exactly that, spots. Even with last year its was extremely nice but we will hopefully settle back into routine and get behind the team with more vigour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrollman no2 Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 So FMPR if you follow our route and come down from the Prem,do you think your support will wane,or do you think you will hold on to those new fans and keep the support you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loyal Saint Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 The one difference between the two sets of supporters in my opinion is the closer to doom the club is Portsmouth supporters will stand up and be counted. Counted on one hand? You know full well we'll always have better support. Bring on next season, can't wait. Saints & Proud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chez Posted 24 April, 2009 Share Posted 24 April, 2009 The one difference between the two sets of supporters in my opinion is the closer to doom the club is Portsmouth supporters will stand up and be counted. is that why you are currently booing Hayden Mullins? I suppose you have got quite close the relegation battle (doom) and those famed great supporters of yours have slated a hard working skate and therefore effectively " stood up and been counted". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunty Posted 25 April, 2009 Share Posted 25 April, 2009 I spoke to a skate today who really has a dislike for us but he was very sincere that he doesnt want us to go out of business. He says who could be their rivals then, Bournemouth, Brighton it just wouldnt be the same. No in their heart of heart many of them need us. Can't you get him to organise a bucket collection outside Fratton?!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now