Toadhall Saint Posted 14 October, 2014 Posted 14 October, 2014 It will end in tears and sooner than their fans realise. When the manager/chairman relationship breaks down it is only a matter of time, believe me. Agreed - spoke to a bloke at work the other day (follows them) and he said something like thingsg aren't right down there at the mo - he couldn't say what but I thought I'd pass it on as it seems to back up your recent posts.
rallyboy Posted 15 October, 2014 Posted 15 October, 2014 Two famous blueprints for future prosperity. We have world class catering and a radio station. Rupert Lowe. You can buy a cheap cup of tea at our place. Mark Catlin. Yes, the media bombshell today is that Fatpipes offers a cheaper day out than St Mary's and compares very reasonably with other clubs. Their tea is cheap and their shirts come in a whopping 63p under the average for the division. Hail the fan-owned revolution sweeping through world sport!
The9 Posted 15 October, 2014 Posted 15 October, 2014 Don't forget last year's claim that they had the cheapest shirts in the country - on a technicality, as Newport's were cheaper and some people think that's in Wales.
rallyboy Posted 15 October, 2014 Posted 15 October, 2014 That's a bit harsh, I tend to call it spin. It's only barefaced lies if the easily-led decide not to buy it. But they lap up any old **** so for the moment it's not lies, it's just a few nice tales with a feelgood twist. Like a crap soap opera full of escapist **** that distracts you from the horrific reality of life. Why are we stuck in League Two?? Don't worry about that, look how cheap the tea is.
suewhistle Posted 15 October, 2014 Posted 15 October, 2014 (edited) Barefaced lies **** me, it's unreadable with those one line paragraphs and staccato style. It must be designed that way for people who trace the words with their finger when they are reading. PS: Danbert, can we have an executive summary please... Edited 15 October, 2014 by suewhistle PS
Pamplemousse Posted 15 October, 2014 Posted 15 October, 2014 ‘Thankfully, there is nothing wrong at the moment. I can honestly say there is no problem to deal with.'
Danbert Posted 16 October, 2014 Posted 16 October, 2014 **** me, it's unreadable with those one line paragraphs and staccato style. It must be designed that way for people who trace the words with their finger when they are reading. PS: Danbert, can we have an executive summary please... In the wake of the Kevin Pietersen saga, Andy Awford gives us as his considered opinion that dressing room harmony is vital. As a player, Awford experienced the nebulous "dressing room unrest" but declines to name names. As a manager, he feels it best to let the players deal with any disputes themselves and only to step in when they cannot do so. Fortunately, he can completely honestly say "that there is nothing wrong at the moment. I can honestly say there is no problem to deal with." So, after their 4th league draw on the trot, a sequence in which they've managed just two goals, with growing unrest on the terraces and with their only quality (if somewhat decrepit) striker and former coach permanently ostracized from the squad (but still pulling down a healthy salary), Awford is confident, indeed certain, that there is no squad unrest, no problem, in fact, at all. Indeed, there is soooo not a problem that Factless Junior has written an entire article about the complete absence of any sort of problem in the pompey dressing room. I for one am reassured that The News' gallant defenders of the truth are there to dig out stories like this and tell us what's really going on behind the scenes.
Danbert Posted 16 October, 2014 Posted 16 October, 2014 http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/youngsters-sample-new-pompey-training-ground-1-6359205 ‘The Academy lads are stepping in as guinea pigs, if you like, checking the pitches are fine and the showers work and hopefully it will be the next step to us having a home. ‘Looking at it now, the pitches are up to standard, the catering facilities are finished, the changing rooms are done, the groundsman’s equipment store is on its way to being completed and they are working hard to finish the fencing. ‘Work is still going on with the buildings, so it could be a month or so before everything is finished. ‘In the meantime, this is a chance for us to see everything functioning, trying out the facilities to discover whether they are working from that side.´
Marsdinho Posted 16 October, 2014 Posted 16 October, 2014 http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/youngsters-sample-new-pompey-training-ground-1-6359205 ‘The Academy lads are stepping in as guinea pigs, if you like, checking the pitches are fine and the showers work and hopefully it will be the next step to us having a home. ‘Looking at it now, the pitches are up to standard, the catering facilities are finished, the changing rooms are done, the groundsman’s equipment store is on its way to being completed and they are working hard to finish the fencing. ‘Work is still going on with the buildings, so it could be a month or so before everything is finished. ‘In the meantime, this is a chance for us to see everything functioning, trying out the facilities to discover whether they are working from that side.´ Obviously, its all finished...just not quite finished yet.
rallyboy Posted 16 October, 2014 Posted 16 October, 2014 I think we are more curious to see what happens with Tesco. Another three senior staff left this week as the new team picks their way through the 'unusual' accounting methods of recent times and reviews all plans. The only thing that might save Tesco fatpipes could be the building contracts that are already signed and may be expensive to halt. Either way It'll be interesting to see if it starts in a fortnight as scheduled. No doubt the local media are all over it and ready to update the fans who are always so desperate for information, especially when finance is involved.
badgerx16 Posted 16 October, 2014 Posted 16 October, 2014 Presumably being Pompey, that's a 'borrowed' charity collection bucket ?
suewhistle Posted 16 October, 2014 Posted 16 October, 2014 In the wake of SNIP Why, thank you!:-) So that would be a 'no problems at all' scenario... Apart from suppressed giggling, sn iggering and muffled guffaws down Southampton way.
Danbert Posted 16 October, 2014 Posted 16 October, 2014 Presumably being Pompey, that's a 'borrowed' charity collection bucket ? Almost :-) It's a highly decorative tin pot
trousers Posted 16 October, 2014 Posted 16 October, 2014 Out of idle curiosity, I just had a look at the Companies House website and can see that "Portsmouth Community Football Club" satisfied/cleared 2 of the 5 charges on Nottarf Krap last month (23rd September) but the other 3 charges remain in place. Those 3 are for the PFA. Didn't they recently announce that they had cleared all "legacy debts" and doesn't the retention of these charges suggest otherwise? Might just be a time lag thing of course. Just wondering...
FloridaMarlin Posted 16 October, 2014 Posted 16 October, 2014 "...as the eagerly-anticipated £1.1m project nears completion." Just remind us again how much Saints training ground has cost to date. So it's down to the youngster to risk AIDS, Hepatitis B, and goodness knows what other foul diseases lie festering in the soil, or on the discarded hypodermic needles on the Septic Isle. It's the poor rookies who - after a strenuous session with Mark "The next George Best" (A. Ball) Kelly and former Salisbury boss Mikey Harris (affianced to Meridian's very own Sarah Gomme) - will switch on the showers to either find jets of scalding hot steam to burn their skin off, or freezing cold, chocolate brown water with chunks of rust in it, coming out of the shower heads. This, after finding all their clothes nicked from lockers which have no locks.
St Chalet Posted 16 October, 2014 Posted 16 October, 2014 Ashamed to admit I once took part in a training session with Pompey under the care of Alan Ball at Moneyfields. It doesn't seem as if they have improved their facilities in the 25 years that have since past. In comparison the Staplewood facility seems to have been transformed a fair bit.
stevegrant Posted 16 October, 2014 Posted 16 October, 2014 Ashamed to admit I once took part in a training session with Pompey under the care of Alan Ball at Moneyfields. :hunt: :hunt:
1576 Posted 16 October, 2014 Posted 16 October, 2014 Ashamed to admit I once took part in a training session with Pompey. Skate ****.
do i not like fizzy pop Posted 16 October, 2014 Posted 16 October, 2014 I think we are more curious to see what happens with Tesco. Another three senior staff left this week as the new team picks their way through the 'unusual' accounting methods of recent times and reviews all plans. The only thing that might save Tesco fatpipes could be the building contracts that are already signed and may be expensive to halt. Either way It'll be interesting to see if it starts in a fortnight as scheduled. No doubt the local media are all over it and ready to update the fans who are always so desperate for information, especially when finance is involved. Wouldn't worry too much about any building contracts being in place. All the retailers are pretty happy to blow off a chunk of money in order to halt a store development. Better a million now than 18-20 million capital on a store that no longer meets strategy
Toomer Posted 16 October, 2014 Posted 16 October, 2014 Ashamed to admit I once took part in a training session with Pompey under the care of Alan Ball at Moneyfields. It doesn't seem as if they have improved their facilities in the 25 years that have since past. In comparison the Staplewood facility seems to have been transformed a fair bit. I was asked to go down there for a trial when I was 17 that was over 40 years ago, unpolightly told them no thanks.
Hatch Posted 16 October, 2014 Posted 16 October, 2014 Ashamed to admit I once took part in a training session with Pompey under the care of Alan Ball at Moneyfields. . burn the witch!
Dark Munster Posted 17 October, 2014 Posted 17 October, 2014 Can a moderator get an infraction? Just curious ...
Wes Tender Posted 17 October, 2014 Posted 17 October, 2014 http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/youngsters-sample-new-pompey-training-ground-1-6359205 ‘Looking at it now, the pitches are up to standard, the catering facilities are finished, the changing rooms are done, the groundsman’s equipment store is on its way to being completed and they are working hard to finish the fencing.
Wes Tender Posted 17 October, 2014 Posted 17 October, 2014 Quote Originally Posted by Danbert View Post http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/po...ound-1-6359205 ‘Looking at it now, the pitches are up to standard, the catering facilities are finished, the changing rooms are done, the groundsman’s equipment store is on its way to being completed and they are working hard to finish the fencing.
Wes Tender Posted 17 October, 2014 Posted 17 October, 2014 Originally Posted by Danbert View Post http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/po...ound-1-6359205 ‘Looking at it now, the pitches are up to standard, the catering facilities are finished, the changing rooms are done, the groundsman’s equipment store is on its way to being completed and they are working hard to finish the fencing.
trousers Posted 17 October, 2014 Posted 17 October, 2014 http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/youngsters-sample-new-pompey-training-ground-1-6359205 ‘Looking at it now, the pitches are up to standard, the catering facilities are finished, the changing rooms are done, the groundsman’s equipment store is on its way to being completed and they are working hard to finish the fencing. edit: bugger, beaten to it! (Hunts for photos of crap fencing instead)
trousers Posted 17 October, 2014 Posted 17 October, 2014 http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/youngsters-sample-new-pompey-training-ground-1-6359205 ‘Looking at it now, the pitches are up to standard, the catering facilities are finished, the changing rooms are done, the groundsman’s equipment store is on its way to being completed and they are working hard to finish the fencing.
Hatch Posted 17 October, 2014 Posted 17 October, 2014 http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/youngsters-sample-new-pompey-training-ground-1-6359205 ‘Looking at it now, the pitches are up to standard, the catering facilities are finished, the changing rooms are done, the groundsman’s equipment store is on its way to being completed and they are working hard to finish the fencing.
trousers Posted 17 October, 2014 Posted 17 October, 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/17/labour-board-membership-minority-stakes-supporters The Premier League chief executive, Richard Scudamore, has previously described Swansea City’s model, where the club is 20% owned by fans, as the “ideal”. Others further down the pyramid, including the former crisis club Portsmouth, are wholly owned by fans.
trousers Posted 17 October, 2014 Posted 17 October, 2014 http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/awford-calls-for-pompey-positivity-1-6362814 But even though Bury are flying high and tipped by many as promotion contenders, Awford believes there is nothing to fear.He said: ‘Just because Bury will be viewed as a team that will be up there at the end of the season, I don’t want us to go there and be cautious. ‘I don’t want us to wait – I want us to take the game to them. ‘If we were going to Man United or Arsenal, then you might have to look at how you are set up as a team. ‘But I don’t mean it disrespectfully to anyone – we are playing Bury. Yeah, Bury, that small insignificant team.....that are 9 places above the mighty Pompey in the 4th tier of English football. "No disrespect" my arse.... #sameoldpompey
FloridaMarlin Posted 17 October, 2014 Posted 17 October, 2014 But even though Bury are flying high and tipped by many as promotion contenders, Awford believes there is nothing to fear.He said: ‘Just because Bury will be viewed as a team that will be up there at the end of the season, I don’t want us to go there and be cautious. ‘I don’t want us to wait – I want us to take the game to them. ‘If we were going to Man United or Arsenal, then you might have to look at how you are set up as a team. ‘But I don’t mean it disrespectfully to anyone – we are playing Bury. " David Flitcroft team talk done. Just print that off in 84pt, and pin it on the back of the home dressing-room door.
The9 Posted 17 October, 2014 Posted 17 October, 2014 If they had that much space available they'd have a new ground and training facilities envied the world over. Or they'd probably just splash the (hypothetical) investment money on players and try and buy a cup - if they were allowed.
Danbert Posted 17 October, 2014 Posted 17 October, 2014 http://www.chichester.co.uk/sport/pompey-latest/kelly-praises-pompey-training-ground-debut-1-6362818 "A Pompey team yesterday played on a training ground they own, located within their city." Shurely shome mishtake
hutch Posted 17 October, 2014 Posted 17 October, 2014 Nope, no mistake there. By the way, did you know the club is 100% owned by the fans, and they paid all their debts in full two years early. No wonder they're the envy of the modern football world, and a model we can only aspire to.
The9 Posted 17 October, 2014 Posted 17 October, 2014 Assuming this won't work, but try right-clicking and open it, I've been sodding about with an Infographic and can't share cos it's a free site. Gets a bit confusing around the Portpin time so tried to keep it simple. So can anyone actually see the source image by right-clicking and pasting into a new page?
Weston Super Saint Posted 17 October, 2014 Posted 17 October, 2014 Can see it fine when right clicking and opening in a new tab. Any chance you can re-do it to scale - the second circle is the same size as the fist... I appreciate that the 3rd circle may be no bigger than a full stop...
The9 Posted 17 October, 2014 Posted 17 October, 2014 Can see it fine when right clicking and opening in a new tab. Any chance you can re-do it to scale - the second circle is the same size as the fist... I appreciate that the 3rd circle may be no bigger than a full stop... The 2nd circle shows a huge empty grey space where the debt used to be...
hutch Posted 18 October, 2014 Posted 18 October, 2014 ...and they slide unceremoniously back into the bottom half of the 4th division.
andysstuff Posted 18 October, 2014 Posted 18 October, 2014 If only we were smashing someone as well....... Oh.
seaempty Posted 18 October, 2014 Posted 18 October, 2014 "But I don’t mean it disrespectfully to anyone – we are playing Bury"
trousers Posted 18 October, 2014 Posted 18 October, 2014 "But I don’t mean it disrespectfully to anyone – we are playing Bury" Karma
Waterside.saint Posted 18 October, 2014 Posted 18 October, 2014 "But I don’t mean it disrespectfully to anyone – we are playing Bury"
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