Match Day Thread Portsmouth v Hull City

Yeh its really strange. I was thinking earlier, When we were minnows in the prem or even when we were in lower leagues playing higher opposition, I've never felt less optimistic of our chances of scoring goals as I have recently.

 

Hope for Pandur he gets a move to a team with ambition deserves a break after a season standing in the goalmouth thinking am I the only one here that gives a ****

 

Its funny this game. For a long time people have been saying 'we can't rely on anyone else to save us'.

Now here we are, because of the quirks of the fixture list its still in our own hands but we genuinely can't rely on anyone else to save us.

Time to see what this side are made of in a one off game. Win and the season goes out quietly and we all try and forget it as we enjoy the summer - lose and they've got to face the reality of not being good enough and the inquest really begins.

 

won’t be an enjoyable even if we stay up.

 

Nah, doubt Chris Lee or Craig Lawford would walk into our team and improve it, we're not that sh*t yet.

 

It’s still with us. Win and we stay up. Crazy considering we’re in the drop zone but it’s still completely in our own hands.

 

OK calling it early, typical City, have been playing like a bunch of tarts, Pompey are safe as houses and want to put on a show, we haven't won last game in eons, so easy one to call this ... 1-1 ... and we survive on gd ......


Then again I could be full of shyte and we'll get hammered

 

Any team who picks up the fewest points at home is going to struggle and prob go down. We've been way short of acceptable at home under consecutive managers and in truth prob deserve relegation

 

Typical City don't do good things like winning must winners to avoid a disastrous relegation. It's over. Move on and enjoy your summer, if you can. Not that I think they'll let us, again, whatever happens next week.

 

It’s more about how we play rather than player for player

 

Don’t think I’ll be able to enjoy summer with the ****show that is City on my mind, regardless if we go down or stay up. Then it’s back to work in August for the ****show that is work!

 

It'll be a lot worse if we don't.

 

I'm determined to just forget about it this time, then just see what destruction and desolation lies on the other side. The mad turk didn't give me chance last time.

 

even if we stay up, I've never seen so much criticism for the players, manager and owner at once, after a single game. With the Allam’s it was a slow boil, or maybe I've just forgotten... But it's exploded like a powder keg on social media today. I don't see how this can work going forwards, the relationship between everyone at the club (fans, owner, players, manager) just seems to be dead to me. Such a dire situation.

 

There's a scenario where we stay up, he continues to fund the club and takes a role in supporting the local recruitment guys and coaches as opposed to signing "his" players and expecting the local coaching/recruitment team to fill the gaps left by his ego.

Expensive, scattergun recruitment and rash decisions have been a hallmark of this ownership.

There's also a scenario where the club becomes too much of a financial burden on his media company , he looks to cut his losses via the kost aggressive means and that's the scenario we could well be facing in league 1.

 

It will be the second scenario whether we’re Championship or League One next season, in my opinion. The club’s up to its eyeballs in debt. More than £60 million in the 23/24 accounts. It’s probably around 50% more than that now.

 

Less than peak Allam debt then.

But no parachute payments or immediately saleable big assets.

 

You're right it will be 0-0
We won't be bad but we also won't create any real chances
But Preston and/or Luton lose

 

Erm, we have only had one 0-0 all season, vs Millwall at home under Walter

 

The issue is, Acun isn’t that wealthy. He can’t afford to write off the shareholder loans or convert them to equity. We’re in a lot of debt to Acun Medya but Acun Medya borrowed that money to begin with from creditors. He won’t put Acun Medya at risk for the sake of City so administration could be a real possibility next season.

We’re not owned by some company worth billions like some clubs. We’re owned by a multi-millionaire charlatan who happens to be a football fan but who has no business running a football club. The Allams were far more business savvy and better owners than Acun.