Lower league Pompey

[sten_super]

That would do me just fine, I'm not greedy

Having said that though, how would they make space for them? Unless there's already a club at that level likely to fold, or asking for relegation for one reason or another, they can't just stick a new club in and increase the size of the division.

Well assuming that they went bust, the easiest way would be only relegate 2 teams from the Championship, and do the same in the leagues beneath (to ensure that all have the right number of clubs) until you reach the Conference South, where Pompey would take a place and you'd relegate the standard number of teams.

I'm with hkfc though, a slow extended period of failure is preferable to a quick collapse and reforming.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Well assuming that they went bust, the easiest way would be only relegate 2 teams from the Championship, and do the same in the leagues beneath (to ensure that all have the right number of clubs) until you reach the Conference South, where Pompey would take a place and you'd relegate the standard number of teams.

I'm with hkfc though, a slow extended period of failure is preferable to a quick collapse and reforming.

It seems a bit unfair to meddle with several whole divisions though, simply to accommodate one cheating, reckless failure of a football club.

 

[happypig]

If they go in the conference south, then they'll play Eastbourne and have to drive/train past Falmer.
I quite like that thought

 

[Dirk Gently]

I think he has a point. Why should teams who do keep their houses in order trail in behind teams who spend spend spend, and then write it all off, say a big f*** you to the taxpayer, and carry on regardless?

[As I posted in another thread but it's relevant here] Because the whole thing about these "sporting sanctions" is that they were introduced as a deterrent to stop clubs over-spending etc, with the idea they'd never be used. The fact they have been used so many times shows just how crap they are as a deterrent. No club over-spending ever considers the consequences - and relegation would be the exactly same as a points deduction.

In any case, usually by the time the club goes into administration those who got it into such trouble are long gone, so it's just the fans who are punished.

The only proper solution is a licensing system with on-going financial monitoring (as in Germany) - identify and stop the problems *before* they happen, rather than add extra grief *after* they've happened.

 

[JJB]

Slimy spic? Chimp features? Gay players? Latin tw@tt? Prize knob?

Oh dear

TBF Poyet does look like a chimp.

 

[JJB]

Be interesting to dig up some old threads on here re this, as I'm pretty sure a few of us found their string of "investors" and owners more than suspicious from the start.

Which suggests Pompey fans have always had their heads in the sand.

Pompey Takeover Saga - Page 938 | SaintsWeb

Possibly the longest thread on a football board, but highly amusing. Could see it would all go wrong from the start.

 

[Common as Mook]

Pompey Takeover Saga - Page 938 | SaintsWeb

Possibly the longest thread on a football board, but highly amusing. Could see it would all go wrong from the start.

Glass houses. What's Rupreckt Lowe up to these days?

 

[sten_super]

It seems a bit unfair to meddle with several whole divisions though, simply to accommodate one cheating, reckless failure of a football club.

If Pompey go bust they are going to have to mess with all of the divisions anyway to bring the Championship back up to 24 teams. Pompey coming back in at Conference South level actually stops them having to continue adjustments further down.

Didn't a team in the Conference(?) go bust last year half way through the season - does anyone know what happened there to bring the number of teams up to the correct number for this season?

 

[JJB]

Glass houses. What's Rupreckt Lowe up to these days?

No idea, hopefully dead.

 

[pompeydel]

Oh. I thought they all kind of merged into each other on that side of the city.

West Leigh (Where the ground is located) is part of Havant as is Leigh Park.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Possibility of a groundshare with Havant & Waterlooville.

This would be devastating to the Hawks who have their own unique identity and fan base, which has the potential to be enveloped should PFC come into town.

Don't they play in the Leigh Park area of the city? That's one part that's even worse than Fratton.

Leigh Park is well outside Portsmouth and is part of the Borough of Havant. There is no physical connection between them. That isn't to say Leigh Park is anymore picturesque than what you are alluding to!

 

[krakatoa]

It seems a bit unfair to meddle with several whole divisions though, simply to accommodate one cheating, reckless failure of a football club.

That's more than a bit harsh, the people who got them into that mess have all bailed out now, and they're only one of over 40 clubs who've gone into administration over the years, many of them more than once. Football financing in general urgently needs looking at, there are many other disasters waiting to happen at places like Forest, Coventry, Leeds.

 

[Steve Foster]

Can they beat us on Saturday?

https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/showthread.php?233867-BHA-v-Portsmouth-Score-Predictor

 

[Exiled in Exeter]

"Poyet -the manager of Brighton -the team who gambled on promotion last year, the team that spent money it didn't have to achive promotion so that it could fill a staidium that otherwise would not have been paid for without promotion, which would have caused a financial crisis for the club

Pot and Kettle methinks "

Gus Poyet P E N I S - Portsmouth FC forum from footymad.net

 

[Bwian]

"Poyet -the manager of Brighton -the team who gambled on promotion last year, the team that spent money it didn't have to achive promotion so that it could fill a staidium that otherwise would not have been paid for without promotion, which would have caused a financial crisis for the club

Pot and Kettle methinks "

Gus Poyet P E N I S - Portsmouth FC forum from footymad.net

It's incredible how many on that forum are so ill informed.

 

[sams dad]

Almost certainly a phoenix Pompey would start in Conference South.

Not so. Apparently a new club would be expected to enter at step 5 of the National League System ( Level 9 of the Pyramid) which would mean AFC Portsmouth starting next season in the Wessex League

 

[Steve Foster]

Pompey, haven't got a chance according to this lot!

BHA v Portsmouth - Score Predictor

 

[Cantona's Flying Dropkick]

Now offloading players before deadline day

Reading sign midfielder Hayden Mullins from Portsmouth [BBC]

West Ham sign keeper Stephen Henderson from Portsmouth [BBC]

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Now offloading players before deadline day

Reading sign midfielder Hayden Mullins from Portsmouth [BBC]

West Ham sign keeper Stephen Henderson from Portsmouth [BBC]

Interesting quote from Henderson when he signed for Pompey last July:

"I'm an ambitious person and I want to push on, I think Portsmouth are definitely a side that are on the up,"

Doesn't seem very bright now that decision does it?

 

[Daffy Duck]

And the one thing I keep telling myself with all this Pompey crap going on, is that maybe agents aren't as clever as they'd like to think.