We knew it would be this guy as it’s entirely in keeping with how Landsdown operates. Talks big, acts small!!
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I would have preferred the Lincoln manager tbh but I don’t dislike Mousinho and Portsmouth found some very good home and away form towards the end of the season which kept them up
The biggest concern for me was our own home results and performances from mid season onwards
We looked truly awful at times
The biggest concern for me was our own home results and performances from mid season onwards
We looked truly awful at times
For me it’s hard to answer that question.
We have had various different faces in the dugout over the years and whilst we have successfully consolidated our place in the Championship we have failed to make it further under successive regimes and different managers.
The only managers we’ve had with Premiership experience and pedigree have been Coppell, Pearson and Hodgson (who was only a backfill anyway).
All the others have been championship or lower.
The names being bounded around now are not filling me with excitement.
I’d still take Warnock even now, but it won’t happen.
Warnock is same age as Roy (maybe a year younger) . Yet people mocked his age,
Mousinho was with Pompey who had second lowest budget this season to Sheff Wednesday (my granddaughters probably had more money than Wednesday) . Got same amount of points as Stoke when few would want Robins here.
There is a great write up on him on OTIB no idea what page that may open your eyes on him.
Big rumour is Ellis is already in the building but waiting on announcement, been working behind the scenes to get him.
Mousinho was with Pompey who had second lowest budget this season to Sheff Wednesday (my granddaughters probably had more money than Wednesday) . Got same amount of points as Stoke when few would want Robins here.
There is a great write up on him on OTIB no idea what page that may open your eyes on him.
Big rumour is Ellis is already in the building but waiting on announcement, been working behind the scenes to get him.
I may have come across wrong.
I’m not disrespecting Mousinho. I’m just saying we never seem to go for proven managers at this level (gettting teams promoted I mean).
Remember the forum rule. If RR likes the post it means you’re losing it.
PS Manning apart from GJ are the only ones to get us to the play offs
Here’s the report I mentioned but you have to pay to read it
inews.co.uk
But someone copied and pasted it.
There will always be a magnetism towards wariness at Fratton Park when it comes to money. There exists a generation of Portsmouth supporters who will not remember that their club was once a byword for economic implosion, Icarus FC. There are plenty others happy to remind them: the past can be a handbrake on the future.
The only thing that really matters is that Pompey still exists. That has become part of the fabric. Last season in the Championship, Portsmouth recorded one of the lowest annual losses. They had the lowest wage in the division by almost 20 per cent. In a division of gross overspending, Portsmouth’s wage-to-revenue turnover actually improved. It was also the best in the league.
In that context, the last two years represent significant overachievement and consistency. In 2024-25, they won 14 games and stayed up. With one league game remaining, they have won 14 matches and stayed up. They are an outsider in this company according to their financial might; they are still firmly inside.
With respect to Michael Eisner, the US owner who did so much of the reconstruction post-collapse and supporter ownership, this is the house that John Mousinho rebuilt. There is no exact measure, but there are few higher performing managers in England over the last half decade.
Mousinho was registered as an Oxford United player when he was approached – and appointed – by Portsmouth in January 2023; he had played in the FA Cup for Oxford two months earlier. It was a significant gamble by a club that had become a little stuck in League One, 15th and drifting their seventh straight third-tier season.
Mousinho lost two of his last 18 games in 2022-23 to take Pompey to eighth. The following season they took 97 points – second highest total in the club’s history – and won the title. Championship consolidation has followed without Portsmouth ever dramatically loosening the purse strings.
The usual weakness of newer, younger managers is struggling to adapt to adverse periods of form: Michael Carrick at Middlesbrough, Russell Martin at Southampton, Rob Edwards at Luton, many others. They are able to maintain momentum through the delivery of their tactical message. But when form turns, addressing it is too much of a challenge and the tenure fades to grey.
That is where Mousinho has impressed most. Portsmouth took nine points from their first 14 games last season; he oversaw a recovery. At the end of March, they had taken one point from their previous six games and lost 6-1 away at QPR.
They then beat Middlesbrough, Ipswich and Leicester without conceding. The resilience – and the way that resilience is instilled into the team – is incredible and still catches its own disciples off guard.
As such, Mousinho is rightly adored. After their 3-1 win at Stoke, the travelling Portsmouth support serenaded him with “One more year, one more year, John Mousinho”. That they chose only a 12-month extension is indicative of the acceptance that their manager is destined for loftier climes.
Portsmouth are safe for another season in the Championship (Photo: Getty)
It also puts Portsmouth at a difficult crossroads. After safety was secured, Mousinho spoke extensively about how far behind the rest of the Championship the club is in terms of infrastructure, training ground, staff networks, playing budget.
“If we don’t invest, on and off the pitch,” Mousinho said. “I think we’ll perennially be in this relegation fight and we need to try to move away from it.”
Which is true, but the finances of English football are scary for everyone and terrifying for any club that has tasted the poison of administration. And Eisner knows that only too well.
“No club can survive for the long-term in this system and if that continues, catastrophe will happen,” Eisner said in March.
“We need effective player salary cost controls, real attention to fairer distribution of media revenues… My family is walking headstrong into this storm, but if I was a historic fan in Portsmouth, I’d scream for change in the structure to protect the beautiful game.”
The problem: Portsmouth have two conflicting forces that they must fight their way through. They have invested in the academy, but it is still category three. They are aiming to improve their player trading model (they have signed seven players on permanent deals aged between 20 and 25 this season). Eisner has transferred the majority of his shares to his sons as a means of future proofing; he is 84.
But all these are long-term projects and the short-term aim is keeping one of the best managers in their history happy. There will be suitors for Mousinho this summer and he deserves them. It would be brilliant to believe in the club and manager growing together into a promotion contender, but it takes a huge suspension of belief.
Portsmouth, a club accustomed to walking through a storm and remaining whole, are having to continuously rebottle lightning or risk their own financial future again. That seems deeply unfair.
Portsmouth’s survival is the most underrated story of the season
Portsmouth have one of the best managers in the country. They are one of the most sustainable clubs. The important question: can you keep rebottling lightning?
inews.co.uk
But someone copied and pasted it.
There will always be a magnetism towards wariness at Fratton Park when it comes to money. There exists a generation of Portsmouth supporters who will not remember that their club was once a byword for economic implosion, Icarus FC. There are plenty others happy to remind them: the past can be a handbrake on the future.
The only thing that really matters is that Pompey still exists. That has become part of the fabric. Last season in the Championship, Portsmouth recorded one of the lowest annual losses. They had the lowest wage in the division by almost 20 per cent. In a division of gross overspending, Portsmouth’s wage-to-revenue turnover actually improved. It was also the best in the league.
In that context, the last two years represent significant overachievement and consistency. In 2024-25, they won 14 games and stayed up. With one league game remaining, they have won 14 matches and stayed up. They are an outsider in this company according to their financial might; they are still firmly inside.
With respect to Michael Eisner, the US owner who did so much of the reconstruction post-collapse and supporter ownership, this is the house that John Mousinho rebuilt. There is no exact measure, but there are few higher performing managers in England over the last half decade.
Mousinho was registered as an Oxford United player when he was approached – and appointed – by Portsmouth in January 2023; he had played in the FA Cup for Oxford two months earlier. It was a significant gamble by a club that had become a little stuck in League One, 15th and drifting their seventh straight third-tier season.
Mousinho lost two of his last 18 games in 2022-23 to take Pompey to eighth. The following season they took 97 points – second highest total in the club’s history – and won the title. Championship consolidation has followed without Portsmouth ever dramatically loosening the purse strings.
The usual weakness of newer, younger managers is struggling to adapt to adverse periods of form: Michael Carrick at Middlesbrough, Russell Martin at Southampton, Rob Edwards at Luton, many others. They are able to maintain momentum through the delivery of their tactical message. But when form turns, addressing it is too much of a challenge and the tenure fades to grey.
That is where Mousinho has impressed most. Portsmouth took nine points from their first 14 games last season; he oversaw a recovery. At the end of March, they had taken one point from their previous six games and lost 6-1 away at QPR.
They then beat Middlesbrough, Ipswich and Leicester without conceding. The resilience – and the way that resilience is instilled into the team – is incredible and still catches its own disciples off guard.
As such, Mousinho is rightly adored. After their 3-1 win at Stoke, the travelling Portsmouth support serenaded him with “One more year, one more year, John Mousinho”. That they chose only a 12-month extension is indicative of the acceptance that their manager is destined for loftier climes.
Portsmouth are safe for another season in the Championship (Photo: Getty)
It also puts Portsmouth at a difficult crossroads. After safety was secured, Mousinho spoke extensively about how far behind the rest of the Championship the club is in terms of infrastructure, training ground, staff networks, playing budget.
“If we don’t invest, on and off the pitch,” Mousinho said. “I think we’ll perennially be in this relegation fight and we need to try to move away from it.”
Which is true, but the finances of English football are scary for everyone and terrifying for any club that has tasted the poison of administration. And Eisner knows that only too well.
“No club can survive for the long-term in this system and if that continues, catastrophe will happen,” Eisner said in March.
“We need effective player salary cost controls, real attention to fairer distribution of media revenues… My family is walking headstrong into this storm, but if I was a historic fan in Portsmouth, I’d scream for change in the structure to protect the beautiful game.”
The problem: Portsmouth have two conflicting forces that they must fight their way through. They have invested in the academy, but it is still category three. They are aiming to improve their player trading model (they have signed seven players on permanent deals aged between 20 and 25 this season). Eisner has transferred the majority of his shares to his sons as a means of future proofing; he is 84.
But all these are long-term projects and the short-term aim is keeping one of the best managers in their history happy. There will be suitors for Mousinho this summer and he deserves them. It would be brilliant to believe in the club and manager growing together into a promotion contender, but it takes a huge suspension of belief.
Portsmouth, a club accustomed to walking through a storm and remaining whole, are having to continuously rebottle lightning or risk their own financial future again. That seems deeply unfair.
Yes - and a couple of reminders:
LJ was an integral part of GJs playoff final side
- and a lot of our points during the LM era were gained when Chris Hogg was in charge.
Only looked after two games I think.
Skubala’s release clause has been activated according to a BBC Lincolnshire saying by us.
Follow up ~
staceywest.net
Championship Club Triggered Michael Skubala Clause: Don’t Panic Lincoln City Fans
Championship Club Triggered Michael Skubala Clause: Don’t Panic Lincoln City Fans | The Stacey West
BBC Radio Lincolnshire have confirmed Bristol City triggered Lincoln City boss Michael Skubala's release clause. However, it is very important not to panic.
staceywest.net
Apparently neither are interested back to the drawing board-Micky Mouse or Donald Duck coming in.
Have we interviewed the tea lady yet? Is there anyone at Ashton Gate with forward thinking because these appointments should have been done and dusted when they even thought about sacking Struber and from my point of view we just become more beiger every day we exist. For goodness sake get some balls and make another mistake in hiring as the whole scenario is getting more like our DNA every time we vaguely hear a rumour. Remember above everything else going on in the background Lansdown still calls the shots and therein lies our consistent problems which is always money.
There is nothing on the main page of our website about any hiring for the men's team but the Women have a new Sporting Director. I did not see one item about all of the nonsense going on with the destruction of the men's team because I guess soemone doesn't give it any priority. Perhaps we will wait until the season gets started and hire the first manager that bites the dust at some other poor club. Cheap option but at least they would get a chance to reach the stars in BS3 along with the knowledge that they will get full support if anything goes wrong. Ha!
Ashton Gate Eight member Mann dies age 73
Jimmy Mann: Former Bristol City midfielder and member of Ashton Gate Eight dies
Former Bristol City midfielder Jimmy Mann, a member of the Ashton Gate Eight in 1982 who saved the club from ruin, dies aged 73.
www.bbc.co.uk
