Pompey Takeover Saga

[buctootim]

Released by Oxford on 1 February 2016. Signs for Northampton on a free. May 2016 released by Northampton who didnt want him in Lg1. Sounds a real catch.

[Waterside.saint]

Released by Oxford on 1 February 2016. Signs for Northampton on a free. May 2016 released by Northampton who didnt want him in Lg1. Sounds a real catch.

 

Thats not just a L1 reject, thats a match-winnin-bestest-pleasin-top-wage-earnin-never-loosin-hero-zero-villin-in-waitin

[eurosaint]

Released by Oxford on 1 February 2016. Signs for Northampton on a free. May 2016 released by Northampton who didnt want him in Lg1. Sounds a real catch.

 

TBF though, he shares the same name as a current England international!

[TopGun]

TBF though, he shares the same name as a current England international!

 

He does play for England (well, England C a few years ago, made up of non-league players).

 

Portsmouth have an England international.

[Wes Tender]

He said: ‘I remember coming down for the game with Northampton and seeing a sea of blue around Portsmouth.

 

Of course there's a sea of blue around Portsmouth; it's a bloody island!

[Mr Biscuits]

They really do hand them a script and say 'read that' don't they

[FloridaMarlin]

They really do hand them a script and say 'read that' don't they

 

I think it's more down to the skillful interviewing of the reporter, not that he would put any words into his mouth or anything like that.

 

The interview probably went;

 

NA: "I'm thinking of a word. Technically, it refers to an unrealised ability or having the capacity to develop into something in the future. But it can also mean having a vain unrealistic hope to offer to gullible people. Can you guess what the word is?

 

DR: "Potential"

 

NA: "What was your least favourite subject at school? PE or history?

 

DR: History.

 

NA: "If a city has a population of 190,000 is it more likely to be the size of Cairo, or the size of Portsmouth?

 

DR: "The size of Portsmouth.

 

NA: "If Scarlett Johansen promises to call you offering a blowie, when she does, are you going to refuse to take it or divert it to voicemail?"

 

DR: ‘When that call comes it is not one you can turn down.

 

NA: "While for most of the year, it is cack brown, what colour is the sea around Portsmouth on the couple of days a year the suns shines on it?"

 

DR: "A sea of blue around Portsmouth."

 

NA: "Now this is a tough one. Would you describe the people of Portsmouth as happy at the prospect of their team being confined to another season in football's basement?"

 

DR: "‘The whole community was blue."

 

NA: "How would you describe the feelings on the day Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the airless moon?"

 

DR: "The atmosphere on the day was incredible."

 

NA: "What did your team-mates say when you were taken to Heathrow airport and stood underneath the engine of a Boeing 747 trying to have a conversation?"

 

DR: ‘I couldn’t even hear my team-mates next to me because it was so loud!"

 

NA: "When your team mates played a prank on you by super-glueing your mobile phone to your forehead, how did that feel?"

 

DR: "That was something that stuck with me."

 

NA; "I want you to think hard about this next one, as it requires several answers.What does Rory McIlroy say to his caddy when he tries out his new driver, why do people travel thousands of miles around the world to see Bruce Springsteen, and what can you tell me about Halley's Comet?"

 

DR: "Seeing what this club is like, how passionate the fans are – it doesn’t come around very often."

 

NA: "That should do it, thanks very much."

[Saint-Armstrong]

Webster's gone.

 

[Highfield Saint]

 

Nice Biro.

 

Any chance of someone putting that picture in the background up on the wall at some point?

 

#tinpot

 

The boy better get a move on if he's going to join up with the England party.

[Pamplemousse]

I think it's more down to the skillful interviewing of the reporter, not that he would put any words into his mouth or anything like that.

 

The interview probably went;

 

NA: "I'm thinking of a word. Technically, it refers to an unrealised ability or having the capacity to develop into something in the future. But it can also mean having a vain unrealistic hope to offer to gullible people. Can you guess what the word is?

 

DR: "Potential"

 

NA: "What was your least favourite subject at school? PE or history?

 

DR: History.

 

NA: "If a city has a population of 190,000 is it more likely to be the size of Cairo, or the size of Portsmouth?

 

DR: "The size of Portsmouth.

 

NA: "If Scarlett Johansen promises to call you offering a blowie, when she does, are you going to refuse to take it or divert it to voicemail?"

 

DR: ‘When that call comes it is not one you can turn down.

 

NA: "While for most of the year, it is cack brown, what colour is the sea around Portsmouth on the couple of days a year the suns shines on it?"

 

DR: "A sea of blue around Portsmouth."

 

NA: "Now this is a tough one. Would you describe the people of Portsmouth as happy at the prospect of their team being confined to another season in football's basement?"

 

DR: "‘The whole community was blue."

 

NA: "How would you describe the feelings on the day Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the airless moon?"

 

DR: "The atmosphere on the day was incredible."

 

NA: "What did your team-mates say when you were taken to Heathrow airport and stood underneath the engine of a Boeing 747 trying to have a conversation?"

 

DR: ‘I couldn’t even hear my team-mates next to me because it was so loud!"

 

NA: "When your team mates played a prank on you by super-glueing your mobile phone to your forehead, how did that feel?"

 

DR: "That was something that stuck with me."

 

NA; "I want you to think hard about this next one, as it requires several answers.What does Rory McIlroy say to his caddy when he tries out his new driver, why do people travel thousands of miles around the world to see Bruce Springsteen, and what can you tell me about Halley's Comet?"

 

DR: "Seeing what this club is like, how passionate the fans are – it doesn’t come around very often."

 

NA: "That should do it, thanks very much."

 

:lol:

[FloridaMarlin]

Webster's gone.

 

 

Not that they need the money as the HNWIs are bankrolling them and all that £750,000 will be given to Cook to strengthen the squad and not used to keep the club going. No, not all. No siree!

[Waterside.saint]

Not that they need the money as the HNWIs are bankrolling them and all that £750,000 will be given to Cook to strengthen the squad and not used to keep the club going. No, not at all. No siree!

 

Their tatty timber tabernacle must need a lick or two of woodworm killer, which doesn't come cheap these days

[suewhistle]

Their tatty timber tabernacle must need a lick or two of woodworm killer, which doesn't come cheap these days

 

Sponsor a worm hole?

[The9]

Re: Daniel "Danny" Rose, did reasonably well scoring from midfield at Newport when they were in the bottom half of the Conference, left for Fleetwood who were in the process of getting promoted to the League, played 8 games for them then got loaned to Aldershot (probably due to Dean Holdsworth knowing him from Newport), and then Newport got promoted without him the season after. Not the sort of signing they should be making.

[Ziggy]

Just arrived back from a cruise from Southampton. Full of older people dressed up nicely except for one football shirt on our embarkation day. Yes it was a grinning baboon in a Skate shirt. A few days later we were given commentary on one of the tedious poolside games. So and so from Florida, so and so from Estonia and then dimwit from "Pompey". You couldn't make it up. He actually won so fair play.

[chocco boxo]

I am about to sign for the biggest and bestest club on the South Coast with the bestest fans with the biggest ground and the mostest trophies,,,,,,wait for it I must wear my sisters faded Lee Falmers Jean jacket from the 70's.

[rallyboy]

I didn't see this on the template -

 

And the former England C international sees no reason why the Blues cannot become the next Burton Albion in securing successive promotions from League Two to the Championship.

 

It's good to have a dream.

[CB Saint]

I didn't see this on the template -

 

And the former England C international sees no reason why the Blues cannot become the next Burton Albion in securing successive promotions from League Two to the Championship.

 

It's good to have a dream.

 

There is an England C?

[trousers]

Apologies for not being on this thread for a few days. I've been distracted by some posters from another club on the main board who seem even more delusional than Pompey fans.

 

I think I've got it out of my system now though so time to get back to some proper nutjobbery.

 

One thing is for sure though, Everton will never be able to compete with Pompey's "we're the biggest and bestest" levels of delusion...

 

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/pompey/catlin-airs-doubts-over-league-shake-up-1-7420137

 

The Blues’ emergence as the nation’s biggest community-owned club continues to take place on solid foundations.

 

That has been noted by other clubs around the country, with Pompey’s decision makers able to hold their heads high at the AGM.

 

Catlin concluded: ‘When I first started attending events like this, Portsmouth felt very much like outsiders.

 

‘That’s as a result of what had been going on.

 

‘Now we’re not treated differently to any other club.

 

‘Actually, I’d say we are quite well respected for the strides we’ve made.

 

‘I’ve said previously, people in the football world respect our model and the fact we are now debt-free and trying to run things sustainably.’

 

[buctootim]

Catlin concluded: ‘When I first started attending events like this, Portsmouth felt very much like outsiders. ‘That’s as a result of what had been going on. ‘Now we’re not treated differently to any other club.

 

The bestest 'not lepers' in the land

[Weston Super Saint]

Catlin concluded: ‘When I first started attending events like this, Portsmouth felt very much like outsiders. ‘That’s as a result of what had been going on. ‘Now we’re not treated differently to any other club.

 

The bestest 'not lepers' in the land

 

Not convinced to be honest. Don't lepers carry bells around with them?

[hutch]

Apologies for not being on this thread for a few days. I've been distracted by some posters from another club on the main board who seem even more delusional than Pompey fans.

 

I think I've got it out of my system now though so time to get back to some proper nutjobbery.

 

One thing is for sure though, Everton will never be able to compete with Pompey's "we're the biggest and bestest" levels of delusion...

 

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/pompey/catlin-airs-doubts-over-league-shake-up-1-7420137

 

 

 

 

Is that the one where the comments are proposing that they scrap the parachute payments, because the clubs that receive them have an unfair advantage?

[Mr Biscuits]

Not convinced to be honest. Don't lepers carry bells around with them?

 

Oh I say, well played sir!

[Mr Biscuits]

With Pompey still waiting for their mission of moving up the leagues to click into gear, there are concerns about how that could be impacted by the proposal.

 

The engine has never even started

The Blues chief executive outlined a scenario which could one day see the club arrive in the Championship in testing circumstances.

 

‘Whatever way you dress it up there’s going to be four fewer spaces in a league moving forward,’ said Catlin.

 

‘For a club like ourselves who are aspiring at some point to be in the Championship, we don’t want to arrive there with four fewer spaces and half the league in receipt of parachute payments.

 

‘That would really put us at a disadvantage.'

 

 

So it was ok for you to use the parachute payments to keep trading when you were bust, but it would be unfair for you to have to play against another club getting them?

[trousers]

Is that the one where the comments are proposing that they scrap the parachute payments, because the clubs that receive them have an unfair advantage?

Irony and/or self-awareness was never one of their strong points

Edited 8 June, 2016 by trousers

[whelk]

The future's bright....

 

[hypochondriac]

Not convinced to be honest. Don't lepers carry bells around with them?

[emoji38] I laughed.

[Waterside.saint]

The future's bright....

 

 

And Southampton, IIRC, on 20%. Still more than twice as high though

[rallyboy]

Those stats are misleading...

They've managed to get 81% down to 9% through two CVAs -and the 9% won't bother to take them anyway.

 

And let's not forget that Knowsley is just a safari park and chimps are not renowned for academic success - though they do make nice tea and are great at moving pianos.

[The Cat]

And let's not forget that Knowsley is just a safari park and chimps are not renowned for academic success - though they do make nice tea and are great at moving pianos.

 

If you gave an infinite number of monkeys a typewriter they'd manage to recreate the entire work of Shakespeare, however if you gave the same number of News journalists a typewriter they'd struggle to write a meaningful, coherent article about Pompey.

[Ohio Saint]

Honest guv! I is TRYING to run things sustainibly! Just like any recovering alcoholic is trying to.....Oooh! A bottle of beer in the trash that might not have tramp pee in it this time!........

[Pamplemousse]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-36494783

 

I wonder if any cancer charities will get any money from this...

[Dark Munster]

Irony and/or self-awareness was never one of their strong points

Indeed.

 

Blue in the Woods.

"Money is the issue in the Championship but that could be solved with an even distribution of funds for all teams. Parachute payments reward failure and should be scrapped."

[Whitey Grandad]

Indeed.

 

Blue in the Woods.

"Money is the issue in the Championship but that could be solved with an even distribution of funds for all teams. Parachute payments reward failure and should be scrapped."

 

Very true. Perhaps they should pay back all those that they have received.

[Pedro]

So they admit to being failures

[Pamplemousse]

Just had a quick look on POL. They seem rather happy with our current managerless situation. For them, Everton is a Merseyside version of themselves, they are both sleeping giants, both are massive clubs with passionate fan bases, etc. etc.

 

For someone who professes to not care about us, Corporate Ho has an awful lot to say about us...

 

Paranoid delusional fantasy of the very best kind.

 

Yes, that quote was about us. Obviously he has forgot about the posts he made on here a few years ago...

 

they'll lose another three or four of their better players this season and have to replace them for cheaper ones plus find a new manager who will want to bring his own players in to replace ones they already have. Got to go pop sometime hasn't it. Can't keep doing it year after year and expect to keep getting away with it, especially when most other clubs will be splashing the new TV money

 

He was also trying to argue this

 

In 2014/15 (last available figures) scum's turnover was £114m. Of that, only £18m was from gate receipts and £10m from commercial income. So 75% of their income was from TV. Bournemouth's gates are about a third of that so you can take maybe £15m off their total turnover compared to scum's but the TV money means they'll still earn roughly similar. No argument that scum are a bigger club than Bournemouth and probably better run (although in the year quoted scum's wages to turnover ratio was 70% which seems very high). But if Bmouths owner is prepared to spend more of the TV money than scum's board are and pay more in wages what's the attraction for Howe to go to scum?

 

And from today about our youth team:

 

If it was their academy team we'd probably smack em all over the pitch. Their current crop is dreadful.

[trousers]

Indeed.

 

Blue in the Woods.

"Money is the issue in the Championship but that could be solved with an even distribution of funds for all teams. Parachute payments reward failure and should be scrapped."

He missed out the "and backdated" bit. What an utter cesspit of a club.

[rallyboy]

If I was them I would be fearful of a fixture between their first team and our youth team...

[Mr Biscuits]

I wonder if the skates would have put the same argument about parachute payments during their first season in the Championship after their brief sojourn on the PL?

 

Also.... WATCH CORPY CLUTCH AT THOSE STRAWS! WATCH!

Just a small time supporter of a small time club in a small time town. A club that failed to get out of league two. Again.

[Waterside.saint]

I wonder if the skates would have put the same argument about parachute payments during their first season in the Championship after their brief sojourn on the PL?

 

Also.... WATCH CORPY CLUTCH AT THOSE STRAWS! WATCH!

Just a small time supporter of a small time club in a small time town. A club that failed to get out of league two. Again.

 

I bet we'll find that's the pluckiest bestest most-equal-league-topping repeat failure though. D@mn I'm jealous

Edited 11 June, 2016 by Waterside.saint

[whelk]

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/14551597.Woman_riding_mobility_scooter_on_motorway_stopped_by_police/?ref=twt&cid=dlvr.it

[Matthew Le God]

If anyone here has a Pompey Online account, I'd be intrigued to see their views on category 1 academies in the Football League trophy in 2016/17. Especially if they are discussing Portsmouth's 1st team meeting Southampton's development squad. Can you copy and paste some quotes please...

[hutch]

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/14551597.Woman_riding_mobility_scooter_on_motorway_stopped_by_police/?ref=twt&cid=dlvr.it

#justiceforprudence

[Pamplemousse]

If anyone here has a Pompey Online account, I'd be intrigued to see their views on category 1 academies in the Football League trophy in 2016/17. Especially if they are discussing Portsmouth's 1st team meeting Southampton's development squad. Can you copy and paste some quotes please...

 

...

 

First steps to diluting the lower leagues and football pyramid - clearly the intention is to have prem reserve teams in league one and two.

 

Genuinely scandalous - potential to be the beginning of the end of competitive lower league football.

 

But it is within our power as supporters to kill the idea stone dead. Let these teams play to completely empty stadia. The thin end of the wedge: a trial, then made permanent and then five divisions.

 

I would like to know where the Portsmouth vote went. Were we against the clubs of what Brian Glanville calls The Gree League entering the JPT?

 

Rather than pay for tickets to see the games, could the PST organise a boycott fund where those of us who won't watch our team play Saints or AFCB U21s, could donate £5 or £10 for example to help the club cover costs and fines? It would make a big statement and we wouldn't be hitting our club by turning our backs on it by a pure boycott.

 

So in all likelihood we will get beaten by Southampton U21s

 

we'd probably smack em all over the pitch. Their current crop is dreadful. They've been hammered by various teams all season

 

not many people would want to go, but the massive police presence would cost the club a fortune.

[Waterside.saint]

..

Originally Posted by Matthew Le God View Post

If anyone here has a Pompey Online account, I'd be intrigued to see their views on category 1 academies in the Football League trophy in 2016/17. Especially if they are discussing Portsmouth's 1st team meeting Southampton's development squad. Can you copy and paste some quotes please...

...

 

First steps to diluting the lower leagues and football pyramid - clearly the intention is to have prem reserve teams in league one and two.

 

Genuinely scandalous - potential to be the beginning of the end of competitive lower league football.

But it is within our power as supporters to kill the idea stone dead. Let these teams play to completely empty stadia. The thin end of the wedge: a trial, then made permanent and then five divisions.

 

I would like to know where the Portsmouth vote went. Were we against the clubs of what Brian Glanville calls The Gree League entering the JPT?

Rather than pay for tickets to see the games, could the PST organise a boycott fund where those of us who won't watch our team play Saints or AFCB U21s, could donate £5 or £10 for example to help the club cover costs and fines? It would make a big statement and we wouldn't be hitting our club by turning our backs on it by a pure boycott.

So in all likelihood we will get beaten by Southampton U21s

we'd probably smack em all over the pitch. Their current crop is dreadful. They've been hammered by various teams all season

not many people would want to go, but the massive police presence would cost the club a fortune.

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[CB Fry]

Have Bournemouth got the right category academy to enter this new trophy?

 

Because the Skate galacticos playing the AFCB kids would be far funnier than them playing us.

[suewhistle]

.not many people would want to go, but the massive police presence would cost the club a fortune. ..

 

..and whose fault would that be? I went to Alan Knight's testimonial when they played Saints: I live near Portsmouth, a sunny day and I thought the guy's loyalty was worthy of my appearance. The Portsmouth 657 old boys all appeared and spoilt the whole day. Alan Knight himself was embarassed as anything.

 

On Thursday I went to a new place for footie training in Havant. I grabbed a clean top from the drawer, which happened to be an old yellow Saint's away strip. One of the coaches told me, "Don't wear that round here, they really are animals", and he's a Pompey supporter!

[Whitey Grandad]

..and whose fault would that be? I went to Alan Knight's testimonial when they played Saints: I live near Portsmouth, a sunny day and I thought the guy's loyalty was worthy of my appearance. The Portsmouth 657 old boys all appeared and spoilt the whole day. Alan Knight himself was embarassed as anything.

 

On Thursday I went to a new place for footie training in Havant. I grabbed a clean top from the drawer, which happened to be an old yellow Saint's away strip. One of the coaches told me, "Don't wear that round here, they really are animals", and he's a Pompey supporter!

 

I remember that testimonial too. Weren't we kep in for an hour afterwards? Dave Beasant was trying to entertain us by telling stories. He didn't do too bad a job.

[Waterside.saint]

..and whose fault would that be? I went to Alan Knight's testimonial when they played Saints: I live near Portsmouth, a sunny day and I thought the guy's loyalty was worthy of my appearance. The Portsmouth 657 old boys all appeared and spoilt the whole day. Alan Knight himself was embarassed as anything.

 

On Thursday I went to a new place for footie training in Havant. I grabbed a clean top from the drawer, which happened to be an old yellow Saint's away strip. One of the coaches told me, "Don't wear that round here, they really are animals", and he's a Pompey supporter!

 

Ooh the passion. Some of them have been compared unfavorably to Neanderthals, but at least the Neanderthals made a few useful contributions to the gene pool

[hutch]

Ooh the passion. Some of them have been compared unfavorably to Neanderthals, but at least the Neanderthals made a few useful contributions to the gene pool

When it comes to genes, a skate family is similar in many ways to a Galapagos island.