I don't know about you, but this is the least excited I've ever been for an upcoming season. Just being in the Premier League doesn't do it for the majority of the fans now.
After all, we are in our seventh season at the top level but there are no signs of a team that are capable of playing entertaining, top level football. After two of the best seasons in living memory it seems we've now come full circle after the sobering campaign that has just gone.
We all thought we'd be saved by Sulaiman Al-Fahim and his riches and we still might be, but the fact that he said before he took over he wanted a high profile manager and then went for Hart speaks volumes in itself.
The names we've recently been linked to aren't exactly filling me with excitement either. A left back who was average at Championship Wolves? An overweight Aussie whose career is possibly over? A retired Scummer? I'm not exactly jumping for joy, especially when we've had to sell our top scorer and one of the best right backs this club has ever had.
I don't want to sound too ungrateful and before the rest of you continue ranting you should remind yourselves of this simple fact: We won the FA Cup.
We may have spent well beyond our means achieving that feat but winning this prestigious trophy is something that fans of no other club bar the "big four" have experienced since the Sony PlayStation was released and the Spice Girls first came onto our screens to irritate every primary school kid in the country.
I was speaking to an Everton diehard yesterday and I asked her if she would accept relegation if it meant winning the FA Cup two seasons before, a situation we may well find ourselves in come next May. She said "yes, without a doubt" and she supports a team whose last three league finishes were 5th, 5th and 6th.
So whilst we may whinge all season about our team being awful and we, as fans, face the realistic situation of relegation from the Premier League, just remember that we have experienced what fans of other clubs would sacrifice the security of their own club for.
I hate to sound like Harry Redknapp but we've been very lucky as fans to have had such a successful time in recent years. Last season was our first "poor" season since 2001/2002 and that included one of the best away days ever in Guimaraes as well as a dramatic competitive match against AC Milan, again, fans of clubs such as Barnet or Plymouth would kill for experiences like these.
However, as good as those times were, Pompey fans are as fickle as the next bunch and memories like these are easily forgotten if we're rooted in the bottom three come this Christmas with seemingly no money to spend in January.
And that's when those clouds of negativity that are currently hovering above Fratton Park will conjure up a vicious storm.