Pompey's owners will leave kneejerk reactions to others.

Tornante president and Pompey board member Andy Redman said just that as he reflected on a good first season and backed Kenny Jackett as the man to take the Blues forward.

Redman told The News: 'We think he (Jackett) had a very good season. We said that at the end-of-season awards. It’s hard to say it was a great season. Could this team have made the play-offs? The maths at the end of the season said we could have.

‘But we think he did a very good job, and we think he is mapping to what we’re talking about in terms of long-term strategy. I know that, if anything, that is the area in theory that fans are most frustrated with us (as a club) over the years.

‘We’re long term and not week to week. If some fans are short term, these owners aren’t. So we’ll make less week-to-week decisions than some fans would like. But that’s how our ownership is going to go.

‘The current owners 100-per-cent want to move away from the knee jerk. That may well be other people’s strategy, but it just isn’t ours.’

In transfer news, Ireland under-21 striker Ronan Curtis is reported to be close to a move to Pompey from Derry City.

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