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Ah right. I think The Who gig I went to just before John Entwhistle handed in his dinnerpale was for the same charity. O2 on Saturday you say? Shame. Can't make it. I'll be one of the looters rifling through the offices at FP on Saturday for anything left of value. Just hope my bit of turf doesn't fall out of my jacket as I wheel away a photocopier down Frogmore road

Bugger, wish I'd known about that one. National tour by any chance?

Well, they've printed some pretty eye watering stuff about us that makes us cringe, but some positives also, so I suppose at least they report the situation in a balanced way. All you can ask for really......

Well, they've been more on the ball than all the other papers so far so it might be that they've just jumped the gun by a few hours. Dunno. If I get a reply I'll let you all know.........maybe

Say what you like, it WILL be Pompey and it WILL have 112 years of history. End of........

Say what you like, it'll still be Pompey..........

No. FC United is not Manchester United, because there's already a Manchester United. However, if Portsmouth FC goes tits up and is replaced by AFC Pompey or whatever, effectively it will be the same club, in the same colours. Maybe playing at a different ground, but to us Pompey fans it will still be Pompey. A deal with the reciever to retain the trophy room contents would be one of the first priorities, so you can forget any dewy eyed visions of seeing the whole lot melted down for scrap. It won't happen, and it WILL be the same club followed by the same fans whatever numbers we muster......

Honestly? No idea. Logically it would make sense for anyone with a passing interest to just wait for us to be forced out of business and see if the wreckage would still qualify for the parachute payments. Don't profess to know what legal hoops would need to be jumped through on that one. It might be that Storrie has a deal with some value in it for someone to come in now and stave off the winding up petitions. There's not a great deal of value left there either, so he hasn't got much left to play with. Who knows? :confused:

Yet another one who didn't read the first line......

No, not at all. A big win against your local rivals on their own patch? Doesn't matter what division you're in.......

You're going to be sooooo disappointed.......

Not many 'facts' in that reply are there? A few soundbites that conjure up the old Hovis advert music and that's about it.....

Another one who's failed to actually read the original post. Read the first line again. That first line mirrors exactly the same scenario that you're in at the moment i.e. you've probably hit bottom and are probably on the way back up. rewind to 1979-80 and for us it was exactly the same scenario, and it will be again if it all goes nuclear........

Well the glaring flaw in your argument is that: A) MKdons are not Wimbledon, a fact proved when MK handed over all the pre 2004 trophies to AFC Wimbledon two years ago, as they knew damn well that morally Wimbledon FC is now AFC Wimbledon. B) FC United clearly is not Manchester United, because Manchester United are still in existance. On the other hand, don't try telling me that Boro fans think they've been watching a different club since Middlesborough F.C. ltd was replaced seamlessly by Middlesborough 1986 F.C. ltd? What a ****-poor, desperate attempt to take away our entire history! You know as well as I do that any club reformed would still be Pompey....

You're damned right we'd be all singing and all dancing, because we know that history and trophies actually mean something. You lot only say it doesn't matter because you've won **** all, end of....

Ok then, from the scenario I painted originally, i.e. a team in the lower reaches, but on the way back up, how about these examples from Division 4: Pompey v Bradford 20th Oct 1979. Attendance: 23,871 Pompey v Newport 23rd Oct 1979. Attendance: 20,755 Pompey v Aldershat 1st Jan 1980. Attendance: 23,462 Pompey v Huddersfield 23rd Feb 1980. Attendance: 19,203 Pompey v Walsall 22nd Mar 1980. Attendance: 21,785 Pompey v Boro F.A.cup 9th Jan 1980. Attendance: 31,743 And all the other home games that season range between 10k-15k. Hardly 2-3k is it? Don't tell me we won't do numbers like that again, because we will....

Well, you'd like it to be that way wouldn't you? I think you're going to be disappointed whatever happens....

Which only goes to show how you didn't read the post properly- I'm talking about the scenario where the lower league club suddenly realises it's on the way back up and all those who said they'd never go again start coming back. Sound familiar?

Yeah, could well end up as jumpers for goalposts. Oh hang on, can we afford jumpers anymore? Might have to be dog turds for goalposts, there's plenty of those on the common..... Cue lots of: "Yer, most of them are wearing blue shirts arf, arf" type replies......

Whoa, hang on! Why are you bothered about our 2008 cup win? You all bleat on endlessly about how trophies don't matter, it's ONLY attendances that are the key to a clubs stature. Yet strangely enough, you're all suddenly excited about reaching the final of the Johnstones-is-crap-paint-but-will-do-if-you-can't-afford-Crown-or-Dulux cup. Maybe it's due to the fact that on proper, major trophies, the score is 4-1 in our favour. Mmmmmm, four-one......:smt033

Right. If we are in Blue Square division whatever, are playing absolute ******** even at that level, with zero investment, no ex players who would do a good job at that level and with no apparent hope at all of ever escaping upwards, our absolute bare minimum might be around 5-6k. In reality, we would almost certainly have good money (at that level) invested from local business and the community, we'd be able to buy good quality players at that level and we'd very soon be playing attractive, winning football. In this scenario, ground capacity and sensible ticket pricing permitting, we'll pull in somewhere between 8-12k as an educated guess, with more for games against teams at the top of the league and the odd 16-18k for boxing day games and F.A. cup games against higher league opposition. But I still don't think it will come to that. If it does, we'll survive. Sadly for the more twisted of you on here, I can promise you one absolute copper bottomed certainty- they'll ALWAYS be a Pompey, and however low we go, we WILL come back.......

LOL!! Dear oh dear, you poor deluded fool..........

We thrashed you 4-1. Again.......

Going into Blackadder 2 mode: "*sigh* Allright, sit down Baldrick, let me explain- what happens is that a daddy bird and a mummy bird who love each other very much get certain urges....." Basically, don't be surprised if we're still TWO divisions apart, i.e. the same divisions were in now....geddit?

"Quite well for 70 minutes" is no good- the game lasts or 90 minutes. Also, if we're so bad what does that make you? The majority of the build up in the last few weeks on here has been all about how many you were going to stuff us by- Many of you clearly have no idea how far you've fallen on the pitch. Anyway, it's nice to finally expunge the memory of that little **** Steve Moran in the last minute at the Milton end in '84. Another ghost buried at last. Silly game, football.....