Hockey_saint

I still love the blind optimism in the trust most of them have on the Snooze, as one poster put it "how is it even feasible?" Really, honstly, who thinks the players will agree a further cut? will Kanu? how about Tal Ben heim?.....I reckon this is more a "chanrai's bid isn;t ready so I'm giving him a couple of weeks oh and by the way that PST? we here in the PFK office p!ssed ourselves! are they on drugs?"

There is a quote in that article which makes it hard to read with a straight face; in that it suggests that Birch currently favours a trust bid....on what grounds?

lol that was actually a pretty simplistic solution....and quite a funny answer cheers

Yeah, that was odd, it's up for me using Firefox but was down using IE....odd.

Who said Pompey's site was back up? it's still down when I went to have a chuckle.

That's pretty old school! most clubs these days rely on core stability excersizes to strengthen the abdominal muscles.....sounds a bit like the stuff they used to do like ripping bark off trees to improve grip or getting kicked in the shins until they develop strength to take such a kicking.

What was that brilliant line I saw concerning a US republicant bemoaning the celebration of a "failed system" (the NHS), which the same poster pointed out according to the Wolrd Health Organisation is better than the US one?....oh yes! "You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts"

Here comes that -10 points they thought they were avoiding!....I love how they seem to forget that he wants to run the club on a shoestring also....welcome back Agent Chanrai, just in time to bleed them dry and give the bestest™ fans in the world a reason not to pack the park ©

It was more than just a parlour game, it was pretty much as popular and mainstream as connect 4!...shocking really.

You all appear to be forgettting what made the Wigley situation so bad was that he already made that mistake before with Stuart Gray.

woooo hot button topic indeed. @Rasiak -9- Remember, even a wise man can be hoodwinked if he is devoted enough in a concept. The way I see it, Islam is about what? 600 years younger than Christianity, now what in the name of Christianity were we doing 600 years ago? plus, from a personal point of view I have, in no small part, Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi, an Arab muslim physician to thank for being alive today and that's just one of the truely brilliant advancements made to medicine by muslim scientists over the years.

Over the easter holidays each year I spend a week at a random holiday camp on a kung fu holiday (which generally involves...yep, you've guessed it, copius amounts of training and the odd injury) well I was told I would be sharing a room with a young member of the Portsmouth club this easter past(the federation has 5 clubs, mostly south of London) and yep, he turned out to be an avid pompey fan....now, he was quite good company actually, due to us being the only ones with an interest in football (during the holiday I was given odd looks when I suggested certain teams have a large proportion of their fan base of a specific religion e.g. Celtic and catholics and this came as a huge shock to most....also, putting me with a skate wasn't even thought of... I digress, he was quite a good boxer, as it turned out, and quite good company...we watched most of the league games in the club house and he was reasonably polite...so in all, I'd say he was a nice enough skate.

Isn't there another one of Tever Birch's warning articles in the news also about how the PST have one week to show a viable plan? why are they not resigned to the fact they are screwed? because, well, they ARE screwed.

Just remember, most martial arts today are mixed (for example Gungfu came from the silk route from India, and maybe even greco wrestling) it's just most don't insist you wear tidy little pants, put on gloves and "face off in the octogon"...also, the term "sport" kinda my point these things were life and death and when it becomes a sport, it has rules (no matter if it says it doesn't it does). Sorry, I don't mean to be negative, but a man older than I could tell you of some of the fads that have come and gone....Now Muay Thai however is grand (so is Krav Maga).

ARGGGHHHHH Won't they JUST DIE!!!!!!! Did the premier league give Swindon Town all those years ago help to "be competitive" whilst they were relegated with bugger all points? were they competitive with a crappy team? maybe not, but no idiot helped them! ALSO, where the heck is this money come from that has appeared because I'm pretty sure Old Birchy said they had amybe ten days left not so long ago? ARGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dirty cheating s****s!!! ALSO, I've just read on the news on the comments, a poster pointing out this fact and being called vermin....NOOOOOOO You skate barstewards are the vermin now die!!

Andy Cole came from Bristol Citeh and I remember him running riot for Newcastle...ok, so he burned out towards the end (when he renamed himelf Andrew) but I think it's a reasonable example.

Snap, exactly the same with my art, for example, our fighting stance typically is you stepping back with your arms close, protecting your flanks and your fingers pointing at the oppo; it sounds whimpy until you realise that A. security cameras these days generally don't have sound and you still don't look like the agressor and B...well, your fingers are pointing straight at their eyes; I remember a class we did a while ago with our founder for a bunch of newby students where the following week my sifu (teacher/master) had to explain to the new ones that "sticking your fingers into someone's eyes and using their head as a bowling ball can never be described as "self defence" . The new head of the club (the founder past away recently) is much more into his sparring but I'm more of the opinion that, as you say, sparring is a game, it's not what you'd do on the street.

Either that or it'll break ya...sounds like fun although, I think I'm probably more old school in that MMA always seems a bit wooly to me; pick an art you enjoy and get really good at it....I also love the "minimum requirements", it's almost as if they're paying you! although on balance you are gaining knowledge and time....but just be a bit weary, sounds most interesting but just don't OD it....my five cents worth.

Yep, that looks pretty cool, I'm not sure about the big gloves though and all the punching, what I mean by this is that a fist was generally designed not to fit into the eye socket, now where's the fun in that? but otherwise, they do talk a lot of sense, when fighting someone with a weapon such as a baseball bat it's always wise to get in close. Sorry about the ad, but well? £30 every 3 months founded by a guy respected as a top teacher and martial artist by people such as Nathan Johnnson, Simon Lau, Mike Gray etc....can't be bad

I've heard a lot about jiu jitsu, it's very similar to my art, traditional wu shu (not modern, definately not modern) but my art is often described as "streetwise kung fu", quick plug: http://www.hungleng.org but Krav Maga is VERY VERY similar to Hung Leng in it's assertiveness and realism. We also don't wear angry white pyjamas and wear footwear lol....and at £30 every 3 months it's outstanding value....right, plug over

The bit I love is this lovely little comment on the snooze: "No, what it means is that because we havent got a new owner yet, they havent deducted 10points, - we are, ironically, starting on a level playing field." oh how I wish I knew how to insert a facepalm smiley

so let me get this straight...Chanrai (because, let's face it, that is the only person TB has been dealing with) told TB that he wouldn't consider buying the club unless he rid it of all it's first team players; when he does, he says "nah, I don't fancy it anymore". Brilliant. You know, I don't like generalisations, but Indians tend to be very good at haggling....now so are loan sharks, violently so...now if you can find me an indian loan shark ooohhh I see now!....yep they're screwed....well played. SHALALALALALA WTFILN??

I believe the quote which is what you are thinking of is actually attributed to Hitler (the man that made Pompey record FA Cup holders innit moosh) and it goes (from the top of my head) like this: "The people can be fooled by one big lie far easier than a series of small ones"

I'm with the skate legend Alan Knight in that it'll be less painful if they were...but then, it'll be tonnes more fun for us and this thread will enter the realms of monolithic proportions if they weren't.

And that was written on Saturday "but we only have a few days" suggests Tuesday/Wednesday at most and "midweek" kinda confirms it. If that is true, they'll be screwed before Friday.