I know first and foremost ensuring that Portsmouth Football Club does have a 'long-term future' is what we need to almost focus on and get sorted out, and this still has to be viewed as 50:50 as happening at the moment, but we also need to have one eye on the future, by that I mean next season for starters!
Right, lets just work on the assumption that <b>we will stave off the threat of liquidation</b> for the purposes of this eh...
A 'where were you' moment occurred at the weekend when Pompey went to Crewe and finally won, won for the first time since October I think it was funnily enough the against Shrewsbury, which came the game after we had beaten Crewe at Fratton?
This win leaves us 11pts from safety; although with a 10pt penalty to come into place if/when we exit administration we are, in reality, 21pts from safety.
We are not going to get enough points to survive another relegation, so we will soon be going from league one to league two but going into the bottom tier of English football is something that we have to hope we can go into being on an even playing field...
Yet another relegation is something we could be looking right into the face of if we start league two on a –10pts start!
And starting with –10pts is something we very much look as though we will do, as the football league will carry this over into the next campaign if the outcome of those points will be irrelevant on the outcome of this season.
In many ways it does not matter what level Pompey play at, but I would sooner we stayed in the football league if possible – firstly being able to enjoy this, being able to focus on the football is what we all want! – and we have a better chance next season if we start it level on points with everyone else, staying up would be next seasons main objective, actually going up would be nice but lets not run before we can walk...
Having got that first win, can others follow?
Well they do say winning becomes a habit, so with Bury ay Fratton on Saturday next up we do have a chance, and then maybe two can become three and four etc. We will not get enough wins to stay up but the 10pts we are going to lose coming off this season that would be preferable to losing them next season!
As disappointing as it would be to see the loss of points again being the 'reason' of another relegation I hope we can get ourselves into a position where those lost points are what send us down this season and we do not go into next season on a yet negative points to start, being on zero for a chance when the season starts in August would be wonderful...
PLAY UP POMPEY!
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