The bottom line is that we don’t have a good enough team to go up and, even if we had won today, we would probably have been knocked out in the play offs.
As Danny Cowley says:
‘We weren’t good enough to get promoted, even if we had got in the play-offs, we weren’t good enough to get promoted’
We all knew that though didn’t we?
People are, understandably, disappointed and are lashing out with all the usual ‘xxxx out’ stuff.
The problem is that Jackett assembled a crap squad, virtually devoid of strikers, and we are left with that legacy.
I don’t think we can blame the owners just because they haven’t spunked silly money on players. They have, in the main, backed the decisions of Catlin and the manager. Catlin can’t really be blamed either, Jackett is respected in the game and his appointment was not controversial. Similarly the Cowleys come with a good pedigree and many clubs would be happy to have them. We have no divine right to promotion just because we are Pompey.
We now need to allow the Cowleys to build their own team and then we will see what they are made of.
Knee jerk ‘get rid of everybody’ stuff does no good whatsoever.
I think we are in good hands and I’m looking forward to next season.
PUP
As Danny Cowley says:
‘We weren’t good enough to get promoted, even if we had got in the play-offs, we weren’t good enough to get promoted’
We all knew that though didn’t we?
People are, understandably, disappointed and are lashing out with all the usual ‘xxxx out’ stuff.
The problem is that Jackett assembled a crap squad, virtually devoid of strikers, and we are left with that legacy.
I don’t think we can blame the owners just because they haven’t spunked silly money on players. They have, in the main, backed the decisions of Catlin and the manager. Catlin can’t really be blamed either, Jackett is respected in the game and his appointment was not controversial. Similarly the Cowleys come with a good pedigree and many clubs would be happy to have them. We have no divine right to promotion just because we are Pompey.
We now need to allow the Cowleys to build their own team and then we will see what they are made of.
Knee jerk ‘get rid of everybody’ stuff does no good whatsoever.
I think we are in good hands and I’m looking forward to next season.
PUP