'Pompey cannot keep getting away with it'

The first is that this is probably the easiest season you could have wished for to stay up in the Championship for a very long time.

Points deductions for two, and maybe even three teams this campaign, have meant points have been easier to come by against some of the sides down there, albeit also meaning the tally to stay up is slightly and unusually higher.

The second is that Pompey's season this year could have been about so much more than just surviving.

For a number of intrinsic reasons, what this campaign appeared to be after the first international break in September last year, and what it has turned out to be, are remarkably contrasting.

John Mousinho is a miracle worker. He has time and again been sent into battle on the good ship Pompey rudderless and with little to no ammunition, and has somehow emerged from the other side victorious.

There are only so many seasons in which you get away with this, and only so many times you can ride your luck as we have done this year.

Over the summer, the football club must, and I'm sure it will, have a number of sensible, rational conversations about where and what it wants to be.

Could you just imagine what a manager as talented as Mousinho could achieve with the appropriate tools at his disposal?

There is no endless war chest required and that is not what anyone is reasonably asking for.

For the time being, enough investment to prevent yearly scuffles with the bottom end of the Championship, and more regular opportunities to look up more than we look down, would suffice.

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