04-05-2022, 09:00 AM
Last night the Cherries won promotion back to the top flight, the Scummers have held on for another year and the Seagulls have taken enormous strides that could see a top half finish...and what about us, arguably the biggest club on the south coast? 10th in League One. Pathetic!
I don't know about you but it sticks in my throat and I'm getting tired hearing all these pro-Eisner comments from idiots who don't know what they're talking about. They inherited the best team to come out of League Two for years and a fantastically loyal fan base that virtually filled the old ground to it's (floating) capacity every week. Since then they have run us down to a 'no hope league one outfit' with virtually no ambition, finally forced iton groud improvements in fear of having the overall capacity 10 or 12,000 and the associated loss of revenue.
As Jeff Stelling, a very highly respected football pundit said the other day after the last game of the season, this is a massive under acheivement for a club of this status...too right! A city and surrounding area of enormous cultural and historic importance in the history of country and known for the Royal Navy, HM Dockyard, the Victory and Portsmouth Football Club known throughout the land as Pompey...does anybody think that Eisners have any appreciation of that at all, not a chance!
The pro lobby promote various points in their defence. The Trust couldn't cope any longer, major work needed doing to the ground, the pandemic, the overriding objective to carry no debt and become sustainable, strict player budget control, crap management, under performing players etc. it goes on and on and on.
I don't profess to be an accountancy expert (like some people on these sites) but I do know that there are no columns on the balance sheet for empathy with the fans or genuine ambition in terms of success. They work on the theory that we're stupid enough to turn up to every game whatever happens. When Mark Catlin first said we (presumably Tornante) don't want promotion until the club is sustainable I could smell a rat; broadly interpreted it means finance it all yourself because we're only going to invest where we see a potential return. Five years, slipping away from what should be the primary objective increases incrementally each season. My view is that 90% of the fans don't think we'll promoted next season and an ever increasing majority never see us getting promoted as long as the Eisners are here. Let's hope that when the North and South Stand work is complete they'll sell up and go back l west coast rodeo and thejunior baseball league.
A risk? Of course it is but we're going nowhere as it stands in this moment in time.
I don't know about you but it sticks in my throat and I'm getting tired hearing all these pro-Eisner comments from idiots who don't know what they're talking about. They inherited the best team to come out of League Two for years and a fantastically loyal fan base that virtually filled the old ground to it's (floating) capacity every week. Since then they have run us down to a 'no hope league one outfit' with virtually no ambition, finally forced iton groud improvements in fear of having the overall capacity 10 or 12,000 and the associated loss of revenue.
As Jeff Stelling, a very highly respected football pundit said the other day after the last game of the season, this is a massive under acheivement for a club of this status...too right! A city and surrounding area of enormous cultural and historic importance in the history of country and known for the Royal Navy, HM Dockyard, the Victory and Portsmouth Football Club known throughout the land as Pompey...does anybody think that Eisners have any appreciation of that at all, not a chance!
The pro lobby promote various points in their defence. The Trust couldn't cope any longer, major work needed doing to the ground, the pandemic, the overriding objective to carry no debt and become sustainable, strict player budget control, crap management, under performing players etc. it goes on and on and on.
I don't profess to be an accountancy expert (like some people on these sites) but I do know that there are no columns on the balance sheet for empathy with the fans or genuine ambition in terms of success. They work on the theory that we're stupid enough to turn up to every game whatever happens. When Mark Catlin first said we (presumably Tornante) don't want promotion until the club is sustainable I could smell a rat; broadly interpreted it means finance it all yourself because we're only going to invest where we see a potential return. Five years, slipping away from what should be the primary objective increases incrementally each season. My view is that 90% of the fans don't think we'll promoted next season and an ever increasing majority never see us getting promoted as long as the Eisners are here. Let's hope that when the North and South Stand work is complete they'll sell up and go back l west coast rodeo and thejunior baseball league.
A risk? Of course it is but we're going nowhere as it stands in this moment in time.