Gaffer: I don’t believe in perfection, otherwise Jamal Lowe would be rated 10 for Portsmouth display against Rochdale

So can Pompey do this?

If ever there was a time when focusing on one game at a time is important, that is now.

We must really concentrate on each individual fixture, tick them off one at a time, because we can do this. Definitely.

Sunderland have dropped five points in a week – and I think they’ll drop more. While following Saturday results we clawed back four goal difference.

Kenny Jackett should be telling his players that if they want to finish on May 4 rather than May 26, they need to put in extra work over the next three weeks.

What did you make of the performance?

In my preview I said if we scored early I could see us scoring lots of goals. Thankfully it turned out correct!

If we had scored eight, Rochdale could have no complaints, while we were really stupid to allow them to score a consolation and ruin the clean sheet.

As it was, though, we could have got plenty more. Oli Hawkins had a few headers in the first half, Lee Brown missed a sitter at the very end and keeper Josh Lillis pulled off a great save to deny Omar Bogle.

It remains a concern that we tend to regularly play really deep when a couple up.

But, apart from the one defensive error, I don’t think Rochdale looked like having anything from the game.

Who was your man of the match?

It has got to be Jamal Lowe – or Conor Chaplin!

He was outstanding, absolutely outstanding, not only back to the form earlier in the season, but actually better.

You look at how he created the space to cross for the first goal. I also didn’t realise how well Hawkins did to glance that in.

For Lowe’s goal, he showed tenacity and what a great finish when running away from goal. I don’t believe anything is perfect, otherwise I would have given him a 10 for that display.

If we don’t go up, I can’t see Matt Clarke or Lowe being here next year. It will be interesting to see how they can compete at Championship level.

You mentioned Conor Chaplin?

That was funny. When that Sunderland match was 4-4, I remember saying to people around me that all it now needed was for Chaplin to score the winner.

I looked at my phone and saw he had come on as a substitute – then 30 seconds later the chant started going around!

According to my son, Chaplin was trending world wide at one point. Not the hashtag, but his actual name!

He’ll be back on Easter Monday with Coventry, but I'd rather he didn’t play. Fans become overly nervous when former players with a point to prove return. It’s always like that with John Marquis.

Craig MacGillivray 8

Nathan Thompson 8

Christian Burgess 8

Matt Clarke 8

Lee Brown 8

Tom Naylor 8

Ben Close 8

Jamal Lowe 9

Brett Pitman 8

Ronan Curtis 7

Oli Hawkins 8