Mick

in the last couple of years?

The hardship of sold out crowds of 20,000?

Or is it the hardship of promotion to the championship?

Hardship?

There are many times in my history of following Pompey when we could have done with hardship like that.

But now the alliance called for an end to remaining loyal.

We've had enough of that stuff.

And their appeal has led to some others emboldened on social media to make clear their unhappiness with Pompey's present predicament.

And I understand that.

Some are shocked, disappointed, even angry that summer optimism has to be punctured into winter fear.

But personally, I don't think this means anyone should be forced out of Fratton Park.

I don't believe...

Those in control are either arrogant or stupid, which is both of which they've been accused of.

They are neither of those things.

I think they've simply got the balance of their strategy wrong.

A bit wrong.

Recruiting the experience to survive has to come before the investment in promise or at any rate simultaneously.

And the lines are hard to draw.

We've brought in, as I said earlier, players of experience and achievement who haven't shown those qualities for us.

And we've signed young men of promise who haven't developed fast enough to improve our side.