TWspy trawls the forums so you don't have to...
having said that, and bearing in mind that Fratton Park is as dismal a piss-pot of a ground you could ever hope to watch football - their Pompey Online Message Board is as genteel, civil and rational place as you could ever hope to spend an idle moment. There is no billy-big-bollox posturing here - no "we should murder teams like Bolton" - no hand-wringing excuses... no apparent hatred, no warring schisms, just an overall (slightly depressing) air of having long-since given up - as if they are simply counting off the days until they are back in the Championship - a sinking sense of fatalist resignation. TWspy emerges with a sadness in his heart and a hollow echoing sound in his soul, a mournful pompey-chiming if you like - which sounds more like a death knell, like the bells that deep-sea divers hear from the decks of long-sunken wrecks...
....send not to know for whom the bell tolls, young Pompey fans, it tolls for thee.
anyway - TWSpy checking in!
First thing to say - POMB - your board is backwards! Topics don't read from page one downwards, but from page 18 upwards - which is bonkers! - get it sorted!
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| Play Up Pompey!!!...Pompey Play Up!!! |
nice start, though the Play Up Pompey chant has always struck me as iredeemably quaint! It's the kind of thing you might expect to hear from a moustachioed, tweed-bedecked toff with a pipe in his mouth - echoed by his be-bonneted lady wife clutching a lace hanky to her brow...
Play up men - yes - that's the spirit - play up, bravo - that's the ticket - spiffing pass eh Mildred?
anyway - it renders the code "PUP" which it took TWSpy a few pages to decode - it's much like our COYW - and the Spams - COYI - it's an education this job!
(reflect on the fact that TWSpy is waffling a lot more than usual - that's because the Forum is so dashingly unprovocative, passionless and inoffensive that it is quite hard to take the piss!)
but let's have a go...
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predictions lads?
2-1 to us...
Pigeon winner
well I can dream... |
Pigeon = Piquionne (see how quickly TWSpy picks up this foreign lingo?) but note the lack of confidence here - and the absence of arrogance
other boards TWSpy could mention would write "2-1 to us - if we don't beat a team like Bolton then we might as well chop our dicks off and feed our knackers to the geese." (or summat like that...
not so here! It's a whimsical hope-against-hope dream that they might squeak a 1-goal win at home against a side that has lost three out of three league games.
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....................Jamo
VB........Kaboul........TBH........Belhadj
....................Mokoena
...........Brown..............O'Hara
......................KPG
.........Smith.................Piquionne
Did somebody say diamond 4-4-2... |
Jamo is James - VB is Vanden Borre - no idea who TBH is To Be Honest... KPG is a south coast nut-manufacturer.... Kaboul is the capital of Afhganistan
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Best of luck Pompey. Hope the new boys perform. Too scared to even listen to this one myself for fear of cursing it.
Play up Pompey! |
you see - there's our moustachioed hero with his be-bonneted wife, it's football support communicated entirely through the medium of greetings card sentiments... "Best of luck" .. "Get Well Soon" ... "Sorry for your Loss"
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| Matt Taylor come back home. |
I suppose he is... let's hope he doesn't bite the hand that once fed him, eh?
anyway - the game has started...
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| was that Prince who just mullered Knight? |
Prince? let's hope for your sake it's more "Let's Go Crazy" than "When Doves Cry" though I'd avoid the "Morning Papers" if I were you unless you want to read the "Sign o' the Times"... (see what TWSpy did there?)
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| is it me or does that stream have some very annoying fuzzy noise? |
I think it's you mate - turn your ipod off...
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smith has a chance, tries overhead and skies it.....
ohara looks good |
oh how we never learn - we just cannot stifle that odd feeling of hope can we???
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| Good to see we have someone that can take a corner |
cut it out now - you know this wild-eyed optimism will only lead to a bigger fall!
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The annoying noise has gone, but then so has the picture.
It just come back as they scored. Ball bags. |
ahh what cruel timing! But really - the annoying noise has only just returned from his holidays - we call him Bruno!
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| Cohen gives Bolton the lead .. 1-0 |
he's our joint top scorer - Tamir (not Leonard)
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| situation normal then, pompey are crap in defence as usual..... |
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| Can't blame that one on bad luck. |
maybe not - but it was a cracking strike! we don't score many like that!
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| playing head tennis outside their box....great. then they counter, we can't retain the ball. |
(jerks awake with shock) - did you just talk about Bolton and use the word "counter"?????
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| i might just give up on pompey this year, and come back next season when we're at a more appropriate level for chairman, manager and squad. watching us at the minute's like watching someone beat up a dog. |
interestingly enough from a bloke with the screen-name - "John - Defender of the Faith" - if John's going AWOL - what hope for the rest!!
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| Taylor nearly scores after we can't stop the ball being delivered, and can't mark up. Very Adams-esque, we had a chance a minute earlier Smudger delivering a good cross that Pigeon headed wide |
if that's what I think it was - Taylor made a DREADFUL hash of it! (no idea who "smudger" is - note-to-self - just smile and nod sagely)
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I've sort of resigned myself to relegation unless something radical happens.
We all want to be more positive, but when we do set up with more attacking intent we invariably concede goals like we have today.
Right now I'm wondering if we'll actually win a game this season...
Come on Pompey FFS. |
see where it's leading - John - Defender of the Faith" - they're all following you over the cliff!
(and - shouldn't that be Play Up Pompey? - you've sneaked a CoP in there just to throw TWSpy off the scent!)
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| GOAOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL |
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| Younes our GOAL MACHINE. |
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Get in Kaboul!
God like header! |
God like??? is he renowned for that?? And behold God created the sun and the moon and the stars - dollied them up on his left foot and nodded them into the firmament??
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| thought you were giving up John |
he was only joking!! he's DEFENDER OF THE FAITH - if he gives up all really is lost!!
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| nearly a good counter there, smudger's running his legs off |
that can't be good!
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| Oh my Kaboul, could/should have been two!! |
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| nearlykaboul again |
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| Oh my beautiful run by Piquionne..... great play. |
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| that was GORGEOUS, shame it didn't come off. |
it will if you pump it any harder!!
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Great goal by Kaboul now we've got our tails up if we keep this up
it could end up 3-1.
COME ON!!!!!!!!! |
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O'Hara can take corners!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Suddenly have hope - O'Hara + Kaboul = headed goals from corners this season!
Absolutely peeing on Niko's corner deliveries 99% of the time so far!!!
We look dangerous from corners for the first time in I don't know how many years. |
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| Kaboul's a beast. Such an important player to our team (at both ends!). |
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| hate to say it, but we're now CONTROLLING THE GAME |
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What's the odds on Kaboul getting MOM?
AT LAST WE'VE GOT PLAYERS WHO CAN PUT IN A DECENT CROSS. |

it really doesn't take much does it?? and the demon hope is right through the door and pulling your pants down.....
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| Credit where credit's due you know - Paul Hart has got a side built on a shoe string that have never played together before playing bloody well here. |
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| O'Hara has offered more from his set pieces in the first half than Niko did for all of last season, as O'Hara's delivery into the box is superb. |
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| I think Fred and Smudge are going to work well. |
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| Kaboul is epic! Gotta be Mullins with the winner surely. |
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| O'Hara really sounds class and I know it's only half a game but if he carries on like this he could well be the difference of us staying up. |
don't say I didn't warn you boys........
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| PENALTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY |
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| Belhadj continues to prove a defensive liability |
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never ever a pen
and taylor looked like he enjoyed that a little too much |
surely not!! It’s not as if he sprinted 60 yards and slid on his knees to the Pompey fans....
anyway – it must be straw-clutching time....
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| Kamara on sky said is was not a penalty he got ball first |
Ahhh – if Kamara said it on Sky – then it must be true...
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Was it a penalty?
Taylor celebrating
PUP! |
This is why TWSpy gives you the code – otherwise you might have thought he was inexplicably referring to Taylor as a small – recently born – dog – and then you might have been mighty puzzled for a while...
Here boy! Sit! Awwww... have a bone... etc...
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| It was a close call (for the pen) and it appeared Ben-Haim got a touch on the ball. That said, going in on a challenge at that angle in the penalty area will more often than not result in a penalty, unfortunately. |
There’s always a voice of reason to spoil it all isn’t there! Don’t you understand?? The injustice of it all makes it slightly more palatable....
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| no whinging about the decision, if we were anywhere near competent at defending it wouldn't have happened. |
Doh! There you go again!
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Boltons first penalty in 18 months !
Well when your lucks out its out. |
It is a pisser isn’t it – we couldn’t quite believe it either – nor that we actually scored it! Pinch me!
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| All I'm saying is what Kammy said. Not being at the game, I can't comment. |
Well shut the f8ck up then!!
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| I don't see luck having much to do with the last defender trying to dribble the ball out and giving it away. That's schoolboy stuff. |
And as the inflatable headmaster of the inflatable school said to the inflatable pupil with a pin.... you’ve let me down, you’ve let the school down – bit most of all – you’ve let yourself down... (sorry)
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| Kammy says it wern't... Andy Awford on the radio says it were. |
Ooh!! Fight???
Never mind – all is not lost.....
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| get in c'monnnnnnnnnnnnnn |
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| Lets hold on this time |
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| Woohooo Princey boy |
Ahhhh! KPB!
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| Prince scores (assuming Kammy is right) |
Kammy is always right – especially if he says it on Sky!
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Ooooooooh!
Come on you blues!!!!! |
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| Hell of a LTLL style celebration. |
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Gotta be 3-2 come on!
ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK! |
Yes... I imagine it might be.....
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| Even though we just scored, can I say WE ARE TRULY & I MEAN TRULY AWEFUL. This is a team worse than the Perrin/Zajec combo. But we might just win, but we are down - make no debate about that. |
Come on boy – get with the programme – we’re in post-goal everything is rosy euphoria land!
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| Hopfully It's a "Sign of the Times" |
Oi! Who’s ripping of TWSpy’s Prince jokes???
Now they’re all joining in!
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| The lads will be going Uptown tonight if we win |
OK – enough already!!
Anyway boys – you all seem to be forgetting what I told you about the demon Hope.....
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| Surely Hart's not trying to hang on for the draw? |
You wish!!
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| One hell of a block from Mokoena |
Thought KD was in there.....
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| Good grief! Radio says Taylor looked offside. |
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FFS.
I think that is ridiculous.
I think we are Championship bound, as we cannot defend the simple things. |
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| B*llock. How on earth did they win 3 headers in a row in the box? |
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| Gutting. 5 games gone and already it's looking seriously difficult to stay up. |
And there TWSpy backs off respectfully - But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Many thanks to the lads at Pompey Online – we have no beef with Pompey – good luck for the rest of the season...
Except one more post is worth quoting...
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| I've been with Hart till now but what really disappointed me today was the sight of him sitting still in the dugout throughout the last ten minutes whereas Megson was on the touchline motivating and cajoling his players. We need a change and quickly. |
Meggo the genius motivator – who’d have thought it??
TWSpy signing off...
