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Not really, I just don't consider that a rivalry.

 

I'd love a derby match with the fishy ones, which is why I'm glad they didn't go out of business. Have to hope they make a couple of rounds in either cup next year now ;)

 

Don't get your hopes up according the BBC

 

The result means that Pompey are still looking for their first victory in the FA Cup since they defeated Tottenham in the semi-final of the 2010

competition.

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I hope we don't play them for a decade. They need it - right now, they really need it - and we don't. Fu ck em.

 

Part of me does. They lauded it over us when they beat us 4-1 back in our League One days in the cup at SMS. (I was there!) I'd love just one game where our awesome Premier League team of Internationals can play their League Two collection of inadequate youngsters and journeymen, just one game. Then we can lay the rivalry to rest for years.

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So which local teams are now more of a threat than Pompey?

 

Bompey, Brompey and Rompey obviously in the Championship. Swompey are fairly local too. Plompey are South Coast but a long way off so they don't really count. Eompey aren't far off these days and Aompey beat them in the Cup.

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I'm with CB Fry, Pompey needed a third round derby versus Saints, we didn't other than it might have been useful to give some fringe and academy players a run out in front of a full house. It would have been a vital income stream for them and Hampshire Police. There's a small part of me that wanted us to play them and exceed the 7-0 from the FA Youth Cup last year but overall, best to keep them firmly in the shade of lower-mid-table League 2 and being knocked out by a non league outfit.

 

Hope their league and cup wins in the 1930s and 1940s keep them sustained for the next 25 years of being in League 2 with the odd promotion into League 1 to enjoy.

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Nasty Andy is taking away their massage privileges...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30129074

 

"The football club is too nice, we treat the players too well. I don't know another club in League Two that has three physios that do massages left, right and centre. It'll stop."

 

Massages left, right and centre - that's going too far. Strange club.

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I'm with CB Fry, Pompey needed a third round derby versus Saints, we didn't other than it might have been useful to give some fringe and academy players a run out in front of a full house. It would have been a vital income stream for them and Hampshire Police. There's a small part of me that wanted us to play them and exceed the 7-0 from the FA Youth Cup last year but overall, best to keep them firmly in the shade of lower-mid-table League 2 and being knocked out by a non league outfit.

 

Hope their league and cup wins in the 1930s and 1940s keep them sustained for the next 25 years of being in League 2 with the odd promotion into League 1 to enjoy.

 

We don't need to play them but I certainly miss the derbies. They are the best atmoshperes by miles. In most seasons a derby would be the highlight.

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"The football club is too nice, we treat the players too well. I don't know another club in League Two that has three physios that do massages left, right and centre. It'll stop."

 

Massages left, right and centre - that's going too far. Strange club.

 

It's not in-house though, they have to travel to their Horton Heath "physio department" for those

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It's not in-house though, they have to travel to their Horton Heath "physio department" for those

 

Only the ones in the "centre". They're extra. Massages to the left and right are pretty standard.

 

On an unrelated note, you'd think they'd be focusing on providing the most cost-effective measures of improving their players by now, wouldn't you? Three physios probably isn't that many for a 30+ squad, even in L2. Moaning about it seems completely pointless, it's hardly a luxury in a business based around physical exertion.

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So which local teams are now more of a threat than Pompey?

 

Bompey, Brompey and Rompey obviously in the Championship. Swompey are fairly local too. Plompey are South Coast but a long way off so they don't really count. Eompey aren't far off these days and Aompey beat them in the Cup.

 

Don't under estimate Yompey, albeit we cruised past them in the cup last year.

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Don't think that is permitted any more.

 

.....which would be a shame for them..... (if such a fixtured came about). Used to be seen as a valuable boost to a small club's economy. Bad decision.

 

Aldershot's game with Pompey, was " a sell-out " - just under 5000 fans. I think Eastleigh has an even lower capacity at their ground?.

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.....which would be a shame for them..... (if such a fixtured came about). Used to be seen as a valuable boost to a small club's economy. Bad decision.

 

Aldershot's game with Pompey, was " a sell-out " - just under 5000 fans. I think Eastleigh has an even lower capacity at their ground?.

 

 

If Eastleigh were to draw Chelski, Spuds or another "big" club at home in Round 3 then would they be allowed to switch the venue to SMS?

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If Eastleigh were to draw Chelski, Spuds or another "big" club at home in Round 3 then would they be allowed to switch the venue to SMS?

 

They would probably play at their opponents ground. Like non league clubs have done for years

 

They get more money that way

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I think Eastleigh has an even lower capacity at their ground?.

 

Even when the new stand is finished capacity will only be 5000. This is enough for football league standards. They can expand again to 7500 but no point as despite increased attendances they would be unlikely to get anywhere near filling it apart from the odd one off cup game.

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