buctootim Posted 31 October, 2015 Share Posted 31 October, 2015 10th on current form (last 6) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alehouseboys Posted 31 October, 2015 Share Posted 31 October, 2015 Boooooooooooooooooo!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted 31 October, 2015 Share Posted 31 October, 2015 Nice to see argyle sit clear at the top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weston Super Saint Posted 31 October, 2015 Share Posted 31 October, 2015 Nice to see argyle sit clear at the top Ridiculous statement! The bestest are still top, just like they were when they were second! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurosaint Posted 31 October, 2015 Share Posted 31 October, 2015 Ridiculous statement! The bestest are still top, just like they were when they were second! Not only the bestest, they are now the 'toppest' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterside.saint Posted 31 October, 2015 Share Posted 31 October, 2015 Paul Cook: "It meant a lot to Notts County to beat us" #deludedest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Balls Posted 31 October, 2015 Share Posted 31 October, 2015 Robbed, again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorgiesaint Posted 31 October, 2015 Share Posted 31 October, 2015 Robbed, again. #NFC... well part from American Football Nation Football Championship, the Saudi National Football League and Nebraska football, I'm sure Notts County come a close fourth if he was intending to tag the opposition. Of course, spelling to 4 letters appears to be too much for the young skatelet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Neil Posted 31 October, 2015 Share Posted 31 October, 2015 more like sue pollard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallyboy Posted 31 October, 2015 Share Posted 31 October, 2015 If you can drop as many points as they have and remain in the automatic promotion spots it says much about the state of Division Four. Since superstar and future England captain Jed left, the division has become a dumping ground for badly-coached sh1t journeymen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Le God Posted 31 October, 2015 Share Posted 31 October, 2015 If you can drop as many points as they have and remain in the automatic promotion spots it says much about the state of Division Four. What does it say about the 4th tier? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsbridge Saint Posted 1 November, 2015 Share Posted 1 November, 2015 Confidence is a very brittle thing. Being the best team but still losing is the opposite of winning when playing badly. Play off agony beginning to loom on the horizon again. Pass the popcorn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyboy Posted 1 November, 2015 Share Posted 1 November, 2015 What does it say about the 4th tier? Pedant alert !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 1 November, 2015 Share Posted 1 November, 2015 What does it say about the 4th tier? No matter how they try to dress it up, that the second division is somehow "the Championship", that the third division is called League One and the fourth division is League Two, I was quite content to admit that we went down to the third division before beginning our phoenix-like rise back to the first division. However, I am even more content to state that the Skates are in the fourth division rather than some notional League Two. That way, when they wrack their tiny little brains to recall 4-1 victories from the increasingly distant past, there is a nice correlation between the league we are in and the one that they are in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyinthesky Posted 1 November, 2015 Share Posted 1 November, 2015 Still Pompey remain (just) above the mighty Accrington Stanley!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lets B Avenue Posted 1 November, 2015 Share Posted 1 November, 2015 Pedant alert !! Nah. Just a tw at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallyboy Posted 1 November, 2015 Share Posted 1 November, 2015 Dress football up how you want with Skybet, Barclaycard, Coke or any other marketing stuff.... Div Four says 1975, it says overflowing toilets, sideburns and lost dreams. So pompey are still in Division Four. And I shall also continue to deny them a capital letter until the debts are cleared or criminality admitted. Allow me my odd ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterside.saint Posted 1 November, 2015 Share Posted 1 November, 2015 Dress football up how you want with Skybet, Barclaycard, Coke or any other marketing stuff.... Div Four says 1975, it says overflowing toilets, sideburns and lost dreams. So pompey are still in Division Four. And I shall also continue to deny them a capital letter until the debts are cleared or criminality admitted. Allow me my odd ways. It also says fat in the pipes, a fanbase that's stuck in the 1940s and a deluded attitude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danbert Posted 1 November, 2015 Share Posted 1 November, 2015 Very tight table that, with Pompey just three points above Wimbledon in tenth. It would be hugely amusing if they missed out on promotion, sacked their manager and completely rebuilt the squad over the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 1 November, 2015 Share Posted 1 November, 2015 They had a really good start, long unbeaten run, yet never went clear at the top. They're already holding on to top 3 and haven't had a bad run yet, which they will. Think they'll end up in the playoffs and bottle it. But it's largely irrelevant. They are deluded enough to think promotion this season or next year or the year after will be the start of lots of promotions. It won't. They're a very small club now, can't compete at a higher level. I almost want them to go up so they see the reality of it, that League 1 is likely as good as it gets. The odd championship season perhaps and relegation. A bit of a Doncaster, Peterborough or worse. tbf they're having their bad run now. We've had a great few years at their expense but you cant expect the kind of repeat year after year **** ups that it would take to keep a club with two or three times the average playing budget to skilfully avoid promotion. That's not to say it cant be done - if anyone can do it then Pompey can, but its not likely. They will go up sooner or later, but I cant see them ever getting back in the PL without a mega money injection - and the ownership structure they have is perfect for preventing that happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waterside.saint Posted 1 November, 2015 Share Posted 1 November, 2015 tbf they're having their bad run now. We've had a great few years at their expense but you cant expect the kind of repeat year after year **** ups that it would take to keep a club with two or three times the average playing budget to skilfully avoid promotion. That's not to say it cant be done - if anyone can do it then Pompey can, but its not likely. They will go up sooner or later, but I cant see them ever getting back in the PL without a mega money injection - and the ownership structure they have is perfect for preventing that happening. Which ended well last time - they attracted a succession of chancers and money launderers and saw nothing wrong with it, always the bridesmaid... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 1 November, 2015 Share Posted 1 November, 2015 So easily forgotten. Ha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopGun Posted 1 November, 2015 Share Posted 1 November, 2015 I'm reasonably convinced they have pushed the salary envelope as far as it can go with all their new signings which seems to be backed up by Cook stating he wants to downsize his 27-man squad. If they fail to get promoted the problem they will face is the perennial pompey one of having signed older players who are not going to get better on 2+ year contracts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutch Posted 2 November, 2015 Share Posted 2 November, 2015 It would be hugely amusing if they missed out on promotion, sacked their manager and completely rebuilt the squad over the summer. As if anything like that would ever happen at Portsmouth. They are far too astute to follow a knee-jerk policy like that. I'm reasonably convinced they have pushed the salary envelope as far as it can go with all their new signings which seems to be backed up by Cook stating he wants to downsize his 27-man squad. If they fail to get promoted the problem they will face is the perennial pompey one of having signed older players who are not going to get better on 2+ year contracts. Spot on. This is the first time for many years that they have actually had to live with finite financial resources, and they don't know how. It's pretty plain they're over their budget (my guess is around £20k month) and the bills are mounting now that the season ticket money has gone. I think they now have to submit a "tax clearance certificate" to the FL every month, so they haven't got the option of the Bank of HMRC as working capital this time round. Their monthly tax bill (PAYE, NI & VAT) must be around £75k month. In previous years they've had unpaid creditors (twice), barrowloads of parachute payments that should have gone to creditors and Tesco money to bail them out. Now they've only got the pockets of their HNW shareholders who must be looking over their shoulders at the chasing pack. I imagine there are a few tasty conversations between McInness and Cook at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
for_heaven's_Saint Posted 2 November, 2015 Share Posted 2 November, 2015 If/when it all goes tits up again, you can guarantee that all of the 'fan-owned' rhetoric will suddenly die away and it'll be the HNW shareholders who front the whole blame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Biscuits Posted 2 November, 2015 Share Posted 2 November, 2015 tbf they're having their bad run now. We've had a great few years at their expense but you cant expect the kind of repeat year after year **** ups that it would take to keep a club with two or three times the average playing budget to skilfully avoid promotion. That's not to say it cant be done - if anyone can do it then Pompey can, but its not likely. They will go up sooner or later, but I cant see them ever getting back in the PL without a mega money injection - and the ownership structure they have is perfect for preventing that happening. I have to admit, it would take a special kind of skill for them to avoid promotion. If they managed it this season I would be seriously impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rallyboy Posted 2 November, 2015 Share Posted 2 November, 2015 They've managed to underachieve before - appointing several future England managers, outbidding the whole division for players and even managing to get relegated. They may just be able to pull off a wasted season one more time - it'll be tough, as they are surrounded by the worst collection of clubs seen since Tiger Woods' missus used a set to rearrange his sports room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Balls Posted 2 November, 2015 Share Posted 2 November, 2015 I have to admit, it would take a special kind of skill for them to avoid promotion. If they managed it this season I would be seriously impressed. I've just seen it's actually top 3 that are automatically promoted. Always though they needed top 2. It really would be something special to **** it up this time. Would be so funny though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 2 November, 2015 Share Posted 2 November, 2015 Would be nice for Pompey to have a little FA cup 'run' to the 3rd round this year, and then to draw them and trash them. Would like to have a real derby again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Biscuits Posted 2 November, 2015 Share Posted 2 November, 2015 What so that bunch of cloggers can kick lumps out of our team? No thanks. I would rather they got to the third round and went out to some random team from League One or the Champsionship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopGun Posted 2 November, 2015 Share Posted 2 November, 2015 Out to a non-league team in round 1 please. More of the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golden Balls Posted 2 November, 2015 Share Posted 2 November, 2015 Out to a non-league team in round 1 please. More of the same. Been there done that. Unless it's Eastleigh I want them to draw the likes of Liverpool or United, get all excited and take their eye off the league but then get thrashed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Biscuits Posted 2 November, 2015 Share Posted 2 November, 2015 Actually, going out to Eastleigh or Aldershot would be hilarious (didn't this happen last year?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
explorer saint Posted 2 November, 2015 Share Posted 2 November, 2015 Saw this on pompeyonline - Not often that I post on here, however, I, like many fans I feel the atmosphere at Fratton this season has been poor. Much is made of the nerring but it seems that not many come up with decent alternatives. I tried this 5/6 years ago which failed miserably but I now notice more and more clubs are indeed using decent old "choons" such as :- Motherwell - Twist and Shout Man U - Sweet Caroline Palace of course - Glad All over. I reckon if we use Franki Valli - "Cant take my eyes off you" it could really make a difference. I defy anybody not to get carried away by the chorus ! Look forward to anyone with any kind of inspiration for the lyrics. No real massive need to sway from some of the original lyrics either. Of course "I love you Pompey" is a must in there ! Crack on ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 2 November, 2015 Share Posted 2 November, 2015 So it seems as though the attitude continually prevalent at Pompey even extended as far as the stadium announcer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-34676743 Assume he'll be offering to pay 4p in the pound of that fine... The utterly spurious logic used by the scammed woman shows you exactly how she got fooled by it: " "He had a fantastic album full of all sorts of players, all sorts of people, all signed, all with him shaking hands. "It does make you feel pretty gutted, especially as football's a team game, you don't expect somebody to do that to you." What the actual fock is the thinking behind the comment in bold making someone less likely to rip you off? For a start neither of the people involved were even in a team together... ohhhh, whatever, what a mental. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 2 November, 2015 Share Posted 2 November, 2015 Oh dear, they are not going to be the biggest or the best fan-owned club for much longer; they will have no claim to fame at all ... "Leeds Fans Utd has today reached agreement in principle with Massimo Cellino to purchase a majority stake in Leeds United Football Club." Many supporters called on Cellino - who took over at Leeds since 2014 - to leave Elland Road after a 2-0 home defeat by Blackburn on Thursday left them 18th in the Championship. United would be the highest placed English club to be owned by their fans." They're already not the biggest fan-owned club. They're not fan-owned. Their fans are responsible for fewer than 50% of the shares in the club. That is not ownership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 2 November, 2015 Share Posted 2 November, 2015 Paul Cook: "It meant a lot to Notts County to beat us" It probably did, because they lost comfortably to Plymouth when I was there a few weeks back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 2 November, 2015 Share Posted 2 November, 2015 #NFC... well part from American Football Nation Football Championship, the Saudi National Football League and Nebraska football, I'm sure Notts County come a close fourth if he was intending to tag the opposition. Of course, spelling to 4 letters appears to be too much for the young skatelet. And near field communication (e.g. contactless payments and Saints season tickets, f'rinstance). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 2 November, 2015 Share Posted 2 November, 2015 As if anything like that would ever happen at Portsmouth. They are far too astute to follow a knee-jerk policy like that. Spot on. This is the first time for many years that they have actually had to live with finite financial resources, and they don't know how. It's pretty plain they're over their budget (my guess is around £20k month) and the bills are mounting now that the season ticket money has gone. I think they now have to submit a "tax clearance certificate" to the FL every month, so they haven't got the option of the Bank of HMRC as working capital this time round. Their monthly tax bill (PAYE, NI & VAT) must be around £75k month. In previous years they've had unpaid creditors (twice), barrowloads of parachute payments that should have gone to creditors and Tesco money to bail them out. Now they've only got the pockets of their HNW shareholders who must be looking over their shoulders at the chasing pack. I imagine there are a few tasty conversations between McInness and Cook at the moment. Didn't they just send someone out on loan? At that level that's usually the sign of a club that's overspent and needs to cut back. Not that it's how they usually respond to overspending - previous experience has shown the typical response is to continue to overspend until the amount owed to others is enough to reduce the HMRC voting rights to less than the amount needed to liquidate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 2 November, 2015 Share Posted 2 November, 2015 Would be nice for Pompey to have a little FA cup 'run' to the 3rd round this year, and then to draw them and trash them. Would like to have a real derby again! Out to a non-league team in round 1 please. More of the same. Been there done that. Unless it's Eastleigh I want them to draw the likes of Liverpool or United, get all excited and take their eye off the league but then get thrashed. Actually, going out to Eastleigh or Aldershot would be hilarious (didn't this happen last year?) They're home to Macclesfield, the draw was last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutch Posted 3 November, 2015 Share Posted 3 November, 2015 Didn't they just send someone out on loan? At that level that's usually the sign of a club that's overspent and needs to cut back. To Gosport. I doubt that's goint to relieve their financial worries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericofarabia Posted 3 November, 2015 Share Posted 3 November, 2015 Saw this on pompeyonline - Not often that I post on here, however, I, like many fans I feel the atmosphere at Fratton this season has been poor. Much is made of the nerring but it seems that not many come up with decent alternatives. I tried this 5/6 years ago which failed miserably but I now notice more and more clubs are indeed using decent old "choons" such as :- Motherwell - Twist and Shout Man U - Sweet Caroline Palace of course - Glad All over. I reckon if we use Franki Valli - "Cant take my eyes off you" it could really make a difference. I defy anybody not to get carried away by the chorus ! Look forward to anyone with any kind of inspiration for the lyrics. No real massive need to sway from some of the original lyrics either. Of course "I love you Pompey" is a must in there ! Crack on 
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