TopGun Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 Any POL quotes from the insiders please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Duckhunter Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 (edited) They can always cheer me up after a defeat . Edited 25 January, 2015 by Lord Duckhunter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutch Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 Something constructive for the few to ponder - a quick business analysis of the problems encountered since the Trust launched this great new company... The board appointed a poor manager. The poor manager performed poorly, the board blamed him and sacked him. That mistake cost money. They appointed another poor manager, this time after he has already failed at his previous club. That appointment of a poor manager upset their only quality player, he stopped playing. That mistake cost money. The new poor manager performed poorly and eventually needed replacing. That mistake cost money. The board appointed yet another poor manager, he performed poorly, so they learned from previous errors...and sacked his assistant. That mistake cost money. That gave the current poor manager free rein to perform even more poorly - and results got even worse. Likely outcome - the board will appoint yet another poor manager shortly. The mistake will cost money. The common factor in every poor decision? The board. Things we have learned? 1. If you appoint someone who isn't very good don't be surprised if they aren't very good, their appointment is your fault not theirs. 2. When we said on day one that there didn't seem to be much quality in that boardroom we weren't just jealous bitter scummahs. But on the other hand, you need to balance that off with all their successes: The new tip-top playing squad The re-vamped academy The new pitch The new training ground facilities The new training pitches The new replica kits The new car park The increased capacity at FP You have to hand it to the new Board, they've really turned things around and, at last, some would say they're now heading in the right direction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallyboy Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 Indeed they are, Awford's pledge to get them out of League Two this season and back where they belong is right on track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopGun Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 Must be trouble afoot when the Snooze shows a video of the bestest booing at the end of the game. http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/video-pompey-booed-at-final-whistle-1-6541378#comments-area Has McInnes breathed some whisky talk about ringing the changes into the newsroom there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 I've noticed a new level of stupidity and hypocrisy amongst pompey fans recently. They've started referring to us as 'a sky franchise fc', presumably taking the moral high ground because they're fan owned etc. However they still bang on about their 2008 cup win, the other cup final and their 'success' in the prem, even though they at the time were more 'sky franchise fc' than anyone what with the ridiculous spending beyond their means. It's also a stupid label to put on us anyway considering how well run we are and how we're most probably going to make a sizeable profit for this financial year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 This is excellent. They're only 3 points plus goal difference above dropping out of the football league. Any chance we can send some of the U21s out to get some first team experience with some of their rivals? At first I wanted them to hang about so we'd have a chance to get them in the cups, but now that they can't even get into the same round as us in either cup, they may as well hurry up and get relegated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamplemousse Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 Any POL quotes from the insiders please? The board have banked monies from a necessary, if wretched Tesco deal. It is a poor state of affairs if we do not have the means to swoop for an incumbent boss, however well entrenced at his [lower league] club. A performance-related contract for Phil Brown is my choice. It's time to also start looking at a board shake up. Off the pitch great, on it abysmal decisions. Somewhere along the line, and imo pretty quickly, we must develop a philosophy of our own. And much as I hate to say it the board need to look a little way down the road to look at the lessons we could learn from our neighbours. No DOF position for Awford. No nothing. I'm sorry. It's time to get ruthless. We are too nice as a club now. No bite on or off the pitch. We welcome away teams and make them feel at home. We try to accommodate all and everyone and now is the time to get a bit nasty. We need a mass clear out, Awford, coaching staff everyone. Bring a new manager in and let that manager appoint his own staff. Let him decide at the end of the season which players will get new contacts out of the 16 that are out of contract and which ones will go. And finally, the straw-clutchiest posts On a positive note.... the scummers aren't going to Wembley. Made my day... It's bad enough them doing well this season, the last thing we want is them winning a cup! it would be great if Derby or Middlesbrough could win it, I think. Derby are ike Pompey in many ways- they are, unlike Scummers, a great provincial club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 Just to double check my understanding of the word 'provincial', I've looked it up: "Of or concerning the regions outside the capital city of a country, esp. when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded" Narrow-minded and unsophisticated? Yeah sure, that sounds like Derby and Portsmouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 I'm perfectly happy with them wanting to be like Derby. Dirty cheating budgies, the both of 'em. Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevegrant Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 There's Twitter talk that Awford is gone tomorrow #pray4awfs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 There's Twitter talk that Awford is gone tomorrow #pray4awfs Andy Awful to Gary Haddock it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 I've noticed a new level of stupidity and hypocrisy amongst pompey fans recently. They've started referring to us as 'a sky franchise fc', presumably taking the moral high ground because they're fan owned etc. However they still bang on about their 2008 cup win, the other cup final and their 'success' in the prem, even though they at the time were more 'sky franchise fc' than anyone what with the ridiculous spending beyond their means. It's also a stupid label to put on us anyway considering how well run we are and how we're most probably going to make a sizeable profit for this financial year. The only reason they still exist is because Sky's parachute money kept them afloat over the last 5 years. # Pompey fan selective memory klaxon # Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highfield Saint Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 According to Statto historic index they are at all time low and we are 11 points from our best ever (1982). Never has the gulf been so wide http://www.statto.com/football/odds/ratings/england/history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallyboy Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 Trousers you bitter green-eyed scummah, they were absolutely fine back then and fully solvent! It was only when the child-maimer got a bit unlucky on the world markets that things went slightly awry, not that he owned the club illegally or anything like that. And there was definitely no problem before the FA Cup theft, or the win at St Marys, other than the odd administration. So the new company gets to keep ALL of the results of the four previous companies and just loses the odd £100M of debt here and there - same as we did, same as Chelsea and Man Utd have. And if they do have to pay off another manager the parachute payments will cover it cos they is ringfenced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Bob Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 @alex_crook: Said last night it would be when not if Awford is fired. Waddock the likely successor but I Iain McInnes sounded out Warnock before #pompey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Bob Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 @alex_crook: Whoever replaces Awford has to change a losing culture that has been there for six years what is the win % since 09 @pn_neil_allen ? #pompey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Bob Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 @grahamdubber: @alex_crook @pn_neil_allen (In all comps) Grant 30.3%, Cotterill 29.5%, Appleton 25.5%, Whittingham 21.6%, Barker 20%, Awford 38.9%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 @grahamdubber: @alex_crook @pn_neil_allen (In all comps) Grant 30.3%, Cotterill 29.5%, Appleton 25.5%, Whittingham 21.6%, Barker 20%, Awford 38.9%. Do you mean 38.9% or 18.9%? (genuine question) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Fry Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 Waddock would be an annoyingly good appointment. Perfectly capable of taking them into the play offs next season, you'd think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 Waddock would be an annoyingly good appointment. Perfectly capable of taking them into the play offs next season, you'd think. Agreed. The Conference play-offs that is. He's got great experience having got Aldershot out of non-league, plus Tubbs scored for fun at that level with Crawley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bad Bob Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 Do you mean 38.9% or 18.9%? (genuine question) I'm c&p'ing from Twitter, I have no clue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopGun Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 I'd say 38% is about right. He has 7 wins in 26 league games this season but had that good new manager spell at the end of last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 25 January, 2015 Share Posted 25 January, 2015 Andy Awford @andyawford · Jan 24 I don't know what I'm doing! #pompey I assumed this was a parody account, but there's mostly genuine tweets!? Is this real? https://twitter.com/andyawford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 I'd say 38% is about right. He has 7 wins in 26 league games this season but had that good new manager spell at the end of last season. So, Pompey are about to sack their most successful manager in over 5 years...? Marvellous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Duckhunter Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 I check my daughters FB and Twitter every week for cyber safety or whatever it's called. Anyway after reading the above , thought I'd use her account to check out the #pompey . **** me , they are even more deluded than I thought. Some of the runners and riders , according to them ( and some posted "realistically " , so I'd dread to see the unrealistic ones ) Nigel Adkins Alan Curbishly Neil Warnock Tim Sherwood Uwe rosler Paulo di Cannio I did want to post " you ****ing deluded twts, but can't as it's a 14 year old girls account. One even wrote "I'd consider Nigel Adkins" . ****ing consider, chumps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 I saw a few of them talking about Rosler, as if they'd have a f*cking chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Saint Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 There's Twitter talk that Awford is gone tomorrow #pray4awfs Noooooooooooo! time to start praying to the God of sh1t managers to deliver unto the skates the new messiah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Balls Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 Seen a lot of them saying they'd take Adkins. Take?! Hopefully the board give him one or 2 more games and he can scrape a win. Short term benefit for long term pain.....or vice-versa from out point of view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNick Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 Trousers you bitter green-eyed scummah, they were absolutely fine back then and fully solvent! It was only when the child-maimer got a bit unlucky on the world markets that things went slightly awry, not that he owned the club illegally or anything like that. And there was definitely no problem before the FA Cup theft, or the win at St Marys, other than the odd administration. So the new company gets to keep ALL of the results of the four previous companies and just loses the odd £100M of debt here and there - same as we did, same as Chelsea and Man Utd have. And if they do have to pay off another manager the parachute payments will cover it cos they is ringfenced. for once Idont agree with your assessment, they were in the mire under Mandaric, It was in the media that they were £150 min debt. MM was very clever to get rid then. I do hope he does not return when he sells Sheff Wed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctoroncall Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 for once Idont agree with your assessment, they were in the mire under Mandaric, It was in the media that they were £150 min debt. MM was very clever to get rid then. I do hope he does not return when he sells Sheff Wed The biggest fan 'owned' club, lauded across the land as the beacon of how fans want to be connected to the club, a community club. They wouldn't 'sell' it to MM or anyone, that would never happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmel Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 The liehberr's bought the "club" and immediately pinned £27m worth of loans to scum. When the "club" advanced towards the PL they converted the loan to shares. Two things about this. Firstly when running up a further £25m of operating losses to get to the PL, had this investment gone belly up you lot would have been left high and dry the same as we were by Gaydemake and Chanari. Secondly they converted the loan to shares just before securing promotion to the PL to get the maximum return. That is the shares would soon be were worth more that the loans so they converted them for their own benefit. They have not acted for the good of the "club" but in manner that protects themselves and maximises there return. This is their reason for buying and remaining at scum. My main point is that since being in the Premier League the club have made clear that they will not entertain the Europa League. Last year when you played Sunderland you had absolutely nothing to gain or lose in the PL being marooned in 8th place with a stack load of points between both 7th and 9th. Still the reserves were put out and a genuine chance of success gone west. Why? because the owners don't want to risk Europa League football which will either require a bigger squad or likely to have an adverse effect on PL prize money returns. This season near full strength teams have been put out but Keoman let the cat out the bag when he said that scum "needed to be seen to be taking the competition seriously". Clearly you are not. Yes, they have invested in the academy but they have not returned to the first team squad or the club the money they have brought in. There is a reserve which, if it hasn't been already, it will be returned to the Liebherr's in the form of a dividend before the club is sold. If they left tomorrow they would have left you in a better financial but they would not sell the club tomorrow. Before any sale it is clear (as was seen last summer when i personally believe the club was on the brink of sale) they would sell the family jewels and clear out the bank account first. What is more they will leave you with the same number of major trophies in the cabinet. Please don't be fooled; they are not at scum for the good of the club, the community, the youth academy and certainly not to win any trophies. They are there to make money and that is the top and bottom of it. That means no prospect of winning a trophy as it makes no money or, more precisely, risks far more significant sums of PL prize money. So I return to my point... It's all fine and well having money but if you're owners are only geared to making money there is in the current structure no prospect of such clubs striving to win a trophy. With no intention of actually winning any trophies what is the point of being a football club? The harsh reality is, like Newcastle and Villa, you exist to sit in mid-table and collect premier league prize money whilst costs are kept to a minimum and fans taken for as much as they are prepared to be bled for. You are so welcome to it cause even though we sit at the bottom of the 4th Division, I sleep comfortably knowing that the 4:1 ratio of major trophy wins in our favour will remain for as long as the Liehberr's are in charge. You "club" is not not football clubs because it no longer strives to be the best football club it can be; only to make money. You want to back a soulless corporate whore and line the pockets of our friendly jolly foreigners then be my guest.... the last laugh is on you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambert1979 Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 Bad news - Riquelme has announced his retirement. Maybe his first coaching job will be waking the sleeping giant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallyboy Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 All that Liebherr stuff is a relief, I thought we got outplayed by Sheffield United and Palace but it now appears that we deliberately lost those games. I've also learned that apparently the laugh is on us. Which has made me all jealous. And I've just checked the glorious history of the business that operates from Fratton Park. Formed 2013. Best league finish - 13th League Two. But on a positive note it's those little gems of delusion that fuel this thread, you forget how thick some of them are - go on tell me more about the dock strike and your shares... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 (edited) The liehberr's bought the "club" and immediately pinned £27m worth of loans to scum. When the "club" advanced towards the PL they converted the loan to shares. Two things about this. Firstly when running up a further £25m of operating losses to get to the PL, had this investment gone belly up you lot would have been left high and dry the same as we were by Gaydemake and Chanari. Secondly they converted the loan to shares just before securing promotion to the PL to get the maximum return. That is the shares would soon be were worth more that the loans so they converted them for their own benefit. They have not acted for the good of the "club" but in manner that protects themselves and maximises there return. This is their reason for buying and remaining at scum. My main point is that since being in the Premier League the club have made clear that they will not entertain the Europa League. Last year when you played Sunderland you had absolutely nothing to gain or lose in the PL being marooned in 8th place with a stack load of points between both 7th and 9th. Still the reserves were put out and a genuine chance of success gone west. Why? because the owners don't want to risk Europa League football which will either require a bigger squad or likely to have an adverse effect on PL prize money returns. This season near full strength teams have been put out but Keoman let the cat out the bag when he said that scum "needed to be seen to be taking the competition seriously". Clearly you are not. Yes, they have invested in the academy but they have not returned to the first team squad or the club the money they have brought in. There is a reserve which, if it hasn't been already, it will be returned to the Liebherr's in the form of a dividend before the club is sold. If they left tomorrow they would have left you in a better financial but they would not sell the club tomorrow. Before any sale it is clear (as was seen last summer when i personally believe the club was on the brink of sale) they would sell the family jewels and clear out the bank account first. What is more they will leave you with the same number of major trophies in the cabinet. Please don't be fooled; they are not at scum for the good of the club, the community, the youth academy and certainly not to win any trophies. They are there to make money and that is the top and bottom of it. That means no prospect of winning a trophy as it makes no money or, more precisely, risks far more significant sums of PL prize money. So I return to my point... It's all fine and well having money but if you're owners are only geared to making money there is in the current structure no prospect of such clubs striving to win a trophy. With no intention of actually winning any trophies what is the point of being a football club? The harsh reality is, like Newcastle and Villa, you exist to sit in mid-table and collect premier league prize money whilst costs are kept to a minimum and fans taken for as much as they are prepared to be bled for. You are so welcome to it cause even though we sit at the bottom of the 4th Division, I sleep comfortably knowing that the 4:1 ratio of major trophy wins in our favour will remain for as long as the Liehberr's are in charge. You "club" is not not football clubs because it no longer strives to be the best football club it can be; only to make money. You want to back a soulless corporate whore and line the pockets of our friendly jolly foreigners then be my guest.... the last laugh is on you! Yep, we did indeed "put out the reserves" against Sunderland in the FA Cup... 1 Davis 2 Clyne 23 Shaw 12 Wanyama 3 Yoshida 26 Hooiveld 16 Ward-Prowse (substituted for Schneiderlin at 62 minutes') 8 Davis 7 Lambert 20 Lallana (substituted for McQueen at 82 minutes') 21 Do Prado (substituted for Rodriguez at 62 minutes) #pompeymythology Edited 26 January, 2015 by trousers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldNick Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 The biggest fan 'owned' club, lauded across the land as the beacon of how fans want to be connected to the club, a community club. They wouldn't 'sell' it to MM or anyone, that would never happen.No, but could he buy Robinson out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sussexsaint Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 I check my daughters FB and Twitter every week for cyber safety or whatever it's called. Anyway after reading the above , thought I'd use her account to check out the #pompey . **** me , they are even more deluded than I thought. Some of the runners and riders , according to them ( and some posted "realistically " , so I'd dread to see the unrealistic ones ) Nigel Adkins Alan Curbishly Neil Warnock Tim Sherwood Uwe rosler Paulo di Cannio I did want to post " you ****ing deluded twts, but can't as it's a 14 year old girls account. One even wrote "I'd consider Nigel Adkins" . ****ing consider, chumps di Cannio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint si Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 Gary Neville eat your heart out... this is how you do football analysis. http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/video-neil-allen-and-jordan-cross-pompey-review-1-6542291 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctoroncall Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 No, but could he buy Robinson out? I was being a bit tongue in cheek Nick, MM would need more than Robinson's share to get a sale but it would be funny after all what was said if they revert back to the old ownership model. Gary Neville eat your heart out... this is how you do football analysis. http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/po...view-1-6542291 i noticed they couldn't look at the camera, this is superb analysis and I've put this ahead of my Guardian football weekly podcast for viewing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 The liehberr's bought the "club" and immediately pinned £27m worth of loans to scum. When the "club" advanced towards the PL they converted the loan to shares. Two things about this. Firstly when running up a further £25m of operating losses to get to the PL, had this investment gone belly up you lot would have been left high and dry the same as we were by Gaydemake and Chanari. Secondly they converted the loan to shares just before securing promotion to the PL to get the maximum return. That is the shares would soon be were worth more that the loans so they converted them for their own benefit. They have not acted for the good of the "club" but in manner that protects themselves and maximises there return. This is their reason for buying and remaining at scum. My main point is that since being in the Premier League the club have made clear that they will not entertain the Europa League. Last year when you played Sunderland you had absolutely nothing to gain or lose in the PL being marooned in 8th place with a stack load of points between both 7th and 9th. Still the reserves were put out and a genuine chance of success gone west. Why? because the owners don't want to risk Europa League football which will either require a bigger squad or likely to have an adverse effect on PL prize money returns. This season near full strength teams have been put out but Keoman let the cat out the bag when he said that scum "needed to be seen to be taking the competition seriously". Clearly you are not. Yes, they have invested in the academy but they have not returned to the first team squad or the club the money they have brought in. There is a reserve which, if it hasn't been already, it will be returned to the Liebherr's in the form of a dividend before the club is sold. If they left tomorrow they would have left you in a better financial but they would not sell the club tomorrow. Before any sale it is clear (as was seen last summer when i personally believe the club was on the brink of sale) they would sell the family jewels and clear out the bank account first. What is more they will leave you with the same number of major trophies in the cabinet. Please don't be fooled; they are not at scum for the good of the club, the community, the youth academy and certainly not to win any trophies. They are there to make money and that is the top and bottom of it. That means no prospect of winning a trophy as it makes no money or, more precisely, risks far more significant sums of PL prize money. So I return to my point... It's all fine and well having money but if you're owners are only geared to making money there is in the current structure no prospect of such clubs striving to win a trophy. With no intention of actually winning any trophies what is the point of being a football club? The harsh reality is, like Newcastle and Villa, you exist to sit in mid-table and collect premier league prize money whilst costs are kept to a minimum and fans taken for as much as they are prepared to be bled for. You are so welcome to it cause even though we sit at the bottom of the 4th Division, I sleep comfortably knowing that the 4:1 ratio of major trophy wins in our favour will remain for as long as the Liehberr's are in charge. You "club" is not not football clubs because it no longer strives to be the best football club it can be; only to make money. You want to back a soulless corporate whore and line the pockets of our friendly jolly foreigners then be my guest.... the last laugh is on you! That's brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CB Saint Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 The liehberr's bought the "club" and immediately pinned £27m worth of loans to scum. When the "club" advanced towards the PL they converted the loan to shares. Two things about this. Firstly when running up a further £25m of operating losses to get to the PL, had this investment gone belly up you lot would have been left high and dry the same as we were by Gaydemake and Chanari. Secondly they converted the loan to shares just before securing promotion to the PL to get the maximum return. That is the shares would soon be were worth more that the loans so they converted them for their own benefit. They have not acted for the good of the "club" but in manner that protects themselves and maximises there return. This is their reason for buying and remaining at scum. My main point is that since being in the Premier League the club have made clear that they will not entertain the Europa League. Last year when you played Sunderland you had absolutely nothing to gain or lose in the PL being marooned in 8th place with a stack load of points between both 7th and 9th. Still the reserves were put out and a genuine chance of success gone west. Why? because the owners don't want to risk Europa League football which will either require a bigger squad or likely to have an adverse effect on PL prize money returns. This season near full strength teams have been put out but Keoman let the cat out the bag when he said that scum "needed to be seen to be taking the competition seriously". Clearly you are not. Yes, they have invested in the academy but they have not returned to the first team squad or the club the money they have brought in. There is a reserve which, if it hasn't been already, it will be returned to the Liebherr's in the form of a dividend before the club is sold. If they left tomorrow they would have left you in a better financial but they would not sell the club tomorrow. Before any sale it is clear (as was seen last summer when i personally believe the club was on the brink of sale) they would sell the family jewels and clear out the bank account first. What is more they will leave you with the same number of major trophies in the cabinet. Please don't be fooled; they are not at scum for the good of the club, the community, the youth academy and certainly not to win any trophies. They are there to make money and that is the top and bottom of it. That means no prospect of winning a trophy as it makes no money or, more precisely, risks far more significant sums of PL prize money. So I return to my point... It's all fine and well having money but if you're owners are only geared to making money there is in the current structure no prospect of such clubs striving to win a trophy. With no intention of actually winning any trophies what is the point of being a football club? The harsh reality is, like Newcastle and Villa, you exist to sit in mid-table and collect premier league prize money whilst costs are kept to a minimum and fans taken for as much as they are prepared to be bled for. You are so welcome to it cause even though we sit at the bottom of the 4th Division, I sleep comfortably knowing that the 4:1 ratio of major trophy wins in our favour will remain for as long as the Liehberr's are in charge. You "club" is not not football clubs because it no longer strives to be the best football club it can be; only to make money. You want to back a soulless corporate whore and line the pockets of our friendly jolly foreigners then be my guest.... the last laugh is on you! Is this football's equivalent of a first world problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 31 years ago this week, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torres Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 Gary Neville eat your heart out... this is how you do football analysis. http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/video-neil-allen-and-jordan-cross-pompey-review-1-6542291 Don't they have proper work to do rather than cock around producing drivel like that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danbert Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 Don't they have proper work to do rather than cock around producing drivel like that? Errr... you do realize they work for a local newspaper? http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/45-earth-shattering-local-news-headlines#.pmmkoLoW7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torres Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 Errr... you do realize they work for a local newspaper? http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/45-earth-shattering-local-news-headlines#.pmmkoLoW7 Yes, but even a story about a cat stuck up a tree would have been more worthwhile than a video with all the production value of a primary school project. Edit - they could, for example, be writing a story about the missing accounts..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crab Lungs Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 Cheers Gem, reading that has made me even more jealous of them. Our owners are real scumbags, aren't they? Please, Portsmyth fans, tell me what kind of tank Markus commanded in WWII again.... :lol: :lol: :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danbert Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 This whole Waddock replacement thing comes as such a shock: Gary Waddock not Andy Awford's replacement at Portsmouth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 31 years ago this week, That ground looks like something out of Escape from New York! What on earth is that in the middle at the back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andysstuff Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 That ground looks like something out of Escape from New York! What on earth is that in the middle at the back? I'd guess at a floodlight stand? Remember a similar one in the away end at Brighton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
View From The Top Posted 26 January, 2015 Share Posted 26 January, 2015 I'd guess at a floodlight stand? Remember a similar one in the away end at Brighton. Which many climbed to watch the cup game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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