But are we really going to give up already?
Yes, it has been demoralising both on and off the pitch but there are signs of recovery. The meeting with Sulaiman Al-Fahim on Friday may not have silenced the sceptics but at least there was a major positive in the announcement that our new owner has secured £50 million to pay the debts and stave off administration.
Peter Storrie has also said he is staying so that is another huge plus for us because without him then this club may possibly have died.
On the pitch we have just seen our best performance of the season, and if we continue to perform like that, with our players gelling and getting fitter and having had time to settle in, then the rot has to stop sooner or later.
The facts are that Pompey are currently six points adrift from safety, although Fulham have a game in hand on us, so effectively it may be seven points, a tally that our next opponents, Wolves, have managed so far this season.
There are still 93 points up for grabs and we need to get approximately 38 of them. You might think that Paul Hart isn't capable of getting us out of this mess but we have only deserved to lose two of the seven games we have played, and have found ourselves suffering from the most rotten luck from day one.
There are some Pompey fans who have given up already and have accepted relegation but I refuse to call Portsmouth a Championship side yet.
I believe the next two games will decide our fate. Defeat at Molineux may erase hope but it is the Tottenham game that I look ahead to and not just because of the ex-factor.
That game takes on a significance that the Southampton game did back in our first season in the Prem where most felt we had to win not just for pride but for any realistic hope of surviving that season.
You could say the same about the infamous "Mendes" Man City game where even the most optimistic of us knew that if we failed to win that game then we were consigned to the drop.
The Spurs match may be at least four months earlier than those previously mentioned but it takes on just as much importance given the emotion surrounding that game and that a win may spur a run of results like the victories against the Scummers and City did.
After Redknapp's return we play Hull, Wigan, Blackburn and Stoke before a run that consists of playing all of the "big four" in the next six games after that, with the games in between against Burnley and West Ham.
There is an opportunity to get a good return of points from the games before the "big four brick wall" and even then, the two claret clubs offer reasonable respite. But we must have a catalyst and that will be a win against the man that many Pompey fans loathe the most. If we can get that, then the belief from the fans may return again.
So I urge you all to keep believing! Yes, it will take something special to keep us up but this is a club capable of special things.