'This Pompey side have relegation written all over them'

Saturday was the darkest day of Pompey's season.

It left me, and I'm sure many present alongside us in the Loftus Road away end, genuinely shocked leaving the ground and heading home.

An argument you could've made heading into the weekend was that, although the results hadn't been falling our way, Pompey weren't being blown away and when losing, were usually losing by a single goal in games. On Saturday that completely changed.

The performance was insipid, we were hopeless and, based off what we saw, as heartbreaking as it is to say, nothing is telling me anything other than Pompey are going down.

With eight games to go and (somehow!) still a point keeping us above the drop-zone, that might sound like calling it early.

But I'd ask anyone to watch that 90 minutes of football and come to any conclusion other than this is a Pompey side with relegation written all over them.

Pompey's away following has snapped. The travelling support was visibly and audibly furious throughout the game and at full-time, and rightly so.

Chants in large part revolved around the ownership, many deemed the players not fit to wear the shirt.

For me, the zeitgeist of ownership at Pompey is absolutely a conversation to be had. We were under-funded in the summer, and under-funded in January. I've written previously about a rudderless Pompey being sent into battle.

But Sunday in isolation had very little to do with the powers that be at the football club. The performance was rancid and we got it very wrong from the off, and those decisions aren't board related.

In the same breath, John Mousinho did an exceptional job in the promotion season during his inaugural full campaign in management and played a blinder keeping us up last season. He is widely held as a huge gamble which paid off emphatically.

His decision-making has been questionable this season, granted, and he is far from immune from criticism, but there's only so many miracles a man can pull off.

Two years ago, our away trip to Peterborough ended up signifying the moment the fanbase knew we'd 'done it,' in terms of promotion from League One. It wasn't mathematically sound at the time, but it's a moment many reflect on as a time when we all believed.

Now, I'm afraid to say, I've got a horrible feeling that the QPR game may be a point we look back on as a time where many stopped believing. I'd be the first one to be happily proved wrong, but that is sadly the severity and precarious nature of Pompey's Championship status at this moment in time.

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