Sour Mash Posted 2 March, 2012 Share Posted 2 March, 2012 I'd like to win the league fair and square without their help, they'd bleat on forever how we only won the league because of hem.? Oh hang on, they'd be dead, ha ha ha ha ha Another poster that seems very confused. Can you tell us how it wouldn't be 'fair and square'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 2 March, 2012 Share Posted 2 March, 2012 I still can not understand why some folk want to see them die. Is it the paranoia that they might beat us again in the future? Clubs need rivals. 1. I'd like to see them saved (not by a rich Swiss consortium, but funding to keep them survivable...but poor ). 2. We thrash the **** out of them at St Marys. 3. They go down. 4. We get to play them again in the future...and thrash the **** out of them again. Because the sh*t and bad feeling between us, and the way they have sullied the name of the sport with their cheating and general bent-ness, has gone way, way, WAY too far. Who gives a sh*t anymore about the poxy derby game ? We'll just get fixated on one of our other footballing neighbours instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RingySFC Posted 2 March, 2012 Share Posted 2 March, 2012 They took the **** when we were docked 10 points, they took the **** when Markus died, they took the **** during the silence for Ted, they took the **** full stop. No respect Skate ****s. Hurry up and die. Sha la la la la la la and who the **** is laughing now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northam soul Posted 2 March, 2012 Share Posted 2 March, 2012 They must survive until after our game in April. They need to be given a full 90 minutes in a lesson in football and a total humiliation from us supporters. After that there bubble can drift off into the sky never to be seen again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 2 March, 2012 Share Posted 2 March, 2012 (edited) Do think it would be funny if their final gesture of any significance would be to take points off West Ham's total to give us the championship! Wonder how long it would take for kids in portsmouth to start wearing saints shirts? It would happen if we re-establish ourselves as a top tier team and they are no more - might take a while though. Based on my experience in Newport with Cardiff City shirts (bearing in mind they were at the same level the season before Newport went bankrupt), it takes 5 years for local sport stores to start stocking the rival's kit - I got into trouble for hiding them when I was working in sports retail , and it took 15 years for "native" people to start going. Though in Cardiff's case they were a going-nowhere League One side for most of those first 15 years, so if Saints were in the Prem and relatively successful the change would be as quick as the appearance of Skate shirts in Eastleigh and Winchester in 2008, 2 years after we dropped below the Skate Cheats for the first time in 45 years. I am appalled to note that 6 or 7 of my Newport-born friends are now Cardiff ST holders and most are taking their kids with them, which is when it really takes hold. Parents trying to defend against watching "those Skammah Kants" aren't going to have much to fall back on if the alternative is a side on a par with Havant and Waterlooville reserves, and no amount of Wessex League success will impress kids as much as being on telly. Edited 2 March, 2012 by The9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 2 March, 2012 Share Posted 2 March, 2012 Yes, but not going up means they'll be in a similar position to the Cheats. It shit or bust for them, so I can see them "buying" a couple of the Cheats' players with enough money (just added to the Hammer's huge debt) to keep them (the Cheats) from folding mid-season. It's not worth them giving away the tens of millions they'd have to "invest" just to keep a side going that might possibly be worth not losing 2 points, when the usual position is that teams make the end of the season anyway. More to the point, if they get liquidated in April they wouldn't be able to do anything about it, and if West Ham chuck money at them there's no guarantee it will make any difference. Also, if West Ham know they're up the creek they won't want to sign any players on Skate-sized contracts, and there's the possibility the FL will punish them for it too. An equally logical policy would be for them to go out and deliberately lose to all the sides in financial trouble just on the off-chance one of them is liquidated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martel Posted 2 March, 2012 Share Posted 2 March, 2012 It's very sad, but Pompeys finances are so bad, I can not see why anyone would want to buy them. They would probably get a better return by chucking all their money down a drain. Shame really, I was looking forward to our match. Have to agree, unless of course they can find a multi-billionaire with an I.Q. of around 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krissyboy31 Posted 2 March, 2012 Share Posted 2 March, 2012 Have to agree, unless of course they can find a multi-billionaire with an I.Q. of around 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony13579 Posted 2 March, 2012 Share Posted 2 March, 2012 It's simple. Sell 1000 £3000 lifetime 30 year season tickets and 1000 £1000 7 year season tickets. £4. Million raised club lasts a few months more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brmbrm Posted 2 March, 2012 Share Posted 2 March, 2012 Bucket collection my rrse. I've already contributed too much through their unpaid taxes. Good point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the saint in winchester Posted 2 March, 2012 Share Posted 2 March, 2012 The rivalry would still exist as we would become rivals of any AFC Portsmouth that gets formed by their fans. It is in the Football League rules that all their results would be expunged. Meaning... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?14620-Pompey-Takeover-Saga I'd take this scenario as a Saints fan. Pretty sure Reading fans would LOVE this as they would be within striking distance of us, and a game in hand! When do we discover if Pompey are liquidated? Is there a set meeting or decide-by date? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsland Red Posted 2 March, 2012 Share Posted 2 March, 2012 Looking at the revised table and assuming the teams around us win their games in hand, we're actually worse off if Pompey go under- instead of being two points clear of 3rd place, we'd only be one point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulwantsapint Posted 3 March, 2012 Share Posted 3 March, 2012 If the skates go bust they will surely start next season in conference south (6th division of english football) after Havant & Waterloovile rename themselves afc/united/city They can play lots of localish derbies Eastliegh Basingstoke Dorchester Farnborough Salisbury Eastbourne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brizzie Saints Posted 3 March, 2012 Share Posted 3 March, 2012 Why should we care. I couldn't give a flying ***** wot happens to em, dont even know why were discussing it, we should be more focused on helping our team to the promised land than worrying about where a load of web fingered gypsies are gonna park their caravans and the disgusting price of lucky heather. Just leave them to their own devices, theyll f*ck it up all on their own....as usual. COYR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 3 March, 2012 Share Posted 3 March, 2012 Another poster that seems very confused. Can you tell us how it wouldn't be 'fair and square'? I can see both sides of this "logic" war. Yes, the league table would show every team having played the same amount of games at the end of the season. But if Pompey go under then the teams that have already played them twice have played one more game than the rest of us - that's another game they've trained for, prepared for etc. Also suspensions - if Pompey go under and their results are void, do any suspensions served whilst playing them become reinstated? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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