Where do you want your club to go now, PM..? Realistically, I mean. Don't give me the answer that a real-life Sugar Daddy comes riding in at this stage, because it doesn't happen. Well, perhaps sometimes. Anyway, failing the obvious, where do you want to see Portsmouth FC going..? EDIT: I should say, before you answer, if you do, that when we were in a similar position [similar as, in administration], and seemingly beyond all hope, the last thing I wanted was to have Lowe & Co anywhere near the club. I would easily have rather had AFC Southampton, than Southampton FC with some cobbled together package involving Rupert Lowe, Askham and Co. So, tell us.
If they go down the pan, for me that's it. I don't come from Portsmouth and honestly, the only club that has the right attitude, to the halcyon days of yore, are the Corinthian Casuals, about as far removed from 21st century Pompey, as one could get. Bit of a trek though, Waterloo, then back down the Chessington branch to Tolworth. I used to watch Bognor years ago too, so I would pop down to Nyewood lane, now and again.
I agree. Any money raised from friendly games would be of much greater proportionate help to a club starting out.Even small amounts (in Championship terms) of cash would be huge help. In the present situation, the sort of income raised would be insignificant compared to the problem.
The only way i would support any kind of friendly would be if money raised went to charities and small local businesses that had been stiffed yet again by Pompey. If any money was going to the football club,either the current one,or to help start a new one,i would give it a miss.
I think most people, all joke's aside, would hate to see Pompey go. At the games we may all sing along saying Pompey going down etc, but in seriousness i'm sure no one wants to them to just disappear.
I'd like to see them live - no doubt relegated but still alive. For all those saying "they just laughed when we we're in trouble", isn't this a time to prove that we are the better man by not exploiting schaudenfreude, but showing genuine sympathy? If they do get an AFC Portsmouth together then a friendly would be a very good fund raiser to help them get off the ground.
I want them to survive but to be banished to the S.E. Hants League Five for the rest of their existence. In that way we would never hear a thing about them ever again. Now wouldn't that be true bliss. We can then focus on a club worthy of the name rival such as brighton or Reading.
Godders, have you never been to a local derby? Would you not miss the sheer energy, the exhiliration of those matches, even despite all the difficulties for the Police? (Quite sortable, btw) And you believe we might get this from Reading or Brighton? If I didn't know you better, I would accuse you of dissembling!
Contain yourself Godders. There's an exiled Reading fan who gets into my local and he is always giving me ear-ache about Reading being our "rivals" and how we must fear them in their current form and blah blah blah. I am forever telling him that I don't know if I could find Reading on a map. Other than football, I've been to Brighton once - by accident, I was trying to find Newhaven. Pompey are our rivals. I doubt my family was an exception in having Pompey and Saints fans within the same blood group. There were no Cherries fans, Reading fans or Brighton fans. So if Pompey go out of existence I will personally be saddened. However, they must now pay the price of their mis management like any other business - off to the Conference and re-build!
Meowth, you'll have to get your mum to knit you a pink, light blue & chocolate coloured scarf for you trips to watch CC's. I know, I've been there.
