Back to the main and actual question posed on the thread title. We are not a small club and it took a while for a lot of our fanbase with understandable PTSD from the dark years to get comfortable allowing themselves to think we can compete with the leagues very best sides.
On the other hand...
Plenty of big teams in the Championship. I think it’s fair to say with our infrastructure we’d never be a small club like Pompey even if we did somehow find ourselves in League one again.