Pompey

I expected them to be solid mid-table this season. Very surprised they're struggling so badly. Having said that Wednesday looked atrocious until February, but in the end stayed up with something to spare.

 

Pompey fans thinking Colby Bishop was the bees knees. Good League 1 striker but the Champ is different gravy

 

I agree 100% with Collins thing I said at the time if he was the right man 10 months earlier and I get it if he'd downright failed which he didn't he needed to be given time. I think if them at the top leveled with us as in it's a project maybe people would understand,for me the next time we go up we need to at least be able to compete and that's worth my patience.

 

What choice do we have unless you've got a few hundred million down back of your settee you want to "invest".

 

It's becoming more and more difficult for Rotherham and ourselves to try and compete at that level. I've got to be honest and say I thought Pompey would be mid table and comfortably stay up but it's been an horrendous start for them. Not sure what their transfer activity was like and if they spent much money.

 

Spent a couple of million on about 8 players,

 

Hasn't surprised me at all that they are down there, the summer business didn't really address their soft underbelly defensively, but for 15 mins at home and the last 10 mins away ( very very dubious penalty against us) we outplayed them in the main scoring 4 goals with relative ease.

 

We aren't a million miles from not competing at this level.

 

Don't buy that crap for one minute. We have benefactors running the club. We operate on a different level to so many other clubs throughout the football league. We could be higher echelons if the owners wanted it. They don't. That's the problem.

 

At the minute, they've ploughed in more capital than the initial acquisition cost of the club. They aren't billionaires who can throw vast amounts at things and the newer board members came at it as an investment... To make money. If you're trudging away for years, not getting success, spaffing millions every year to stand still, seeing criticism galore and increasingly empty stands... Why would you keep doing it?

And when they've had enough, who can they sell to? And what sort of person would be interested in something that only has liabilities and no assets?

I'm glad they aren't spending tens of millions, I'm glad they are subsidising losses with share rights, but I'd rather they just made the club sustainable. The phrase, penny wise pound foolish, was probably written just for them.

 

I agree. I think they're chucking their money down a blind alley. That's what doesn't make sense about them not wanting to move forward.

 

I think they do want to move forward. I'm not sure business operations come that natural to them though.

 

They need to realise that everything else is secondary to what happens on the pitch and if that's suffering then the other things will eventually too.

 

I'd disagree in that plenty of activities that aren't especially visible can contribute to the clubs future success and its future budgets.

 

You aren't going to sell as many pies and pasties to 7500 people though.

 

If you don't order the pies or train the staff, you have nothing to sell. If you don't ensure safety compliance, you may not be able to open a stand... And so on.

 

I think you misunderstood me sorry I was talking about been competitive in the Championship, other than the freak lock down season and the first half of the 2017 it's been a fair few years since we can say we have been.

 

No apology needed. I was being flippant mate.

 

How deep are the owners pockets? We're running at a loss every season and the owners are having to put in significant sums just to keep the club going. Everything else is done on the cheap...

 

They're deep enough to send it down the well. Literally .