‘And if you are a supporter and you pay your money, you are fully entitled to your opinion. As a striker it’s my job to get on balls like that.
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‘Our club is geared for success now – whether that is Paul Cook or someone else.
‘We want to do this for them so badly’.
But he was far more satisfied with the level of performance this time around.
‘It will give us confidence going into the next two games. We have played a lot of the fancied teams in the first nine games and maybe we can now look at a slightly easier run of games coming up. “It is not all doom and gloom, but we need to start grinding out some results”.
‘Adam did his ankle in the warm-up, which was unfortunate but Jayden came in and got the goal. “That is where they are at, but we didn’t help ourselves because too many of our players had an off day with the ball”. I don’t think there is a whole lot that needs to improve, but we have to stick together and hopefully things will start to go our way.
‘I’m not really interested, if the truth be known.
An injury to Adam McGurk in the warm-up paved the way for Stockley to return to the starting line-up and bag the victor at the Memorial Ground.
‘I was just about to take Jayden off when he scored, so I’m glad I didn’t!
Stockley said: ‘I’d be a liar if I said it wasn’t a great feeling.
But he always felt ready to answer Cook’s call.
‘I haven’t spoken to him about it yet but I will have a look at that one.
Best of all, albeit at the end of September only, Pompey are now top of league two not to mention the fact we’re still unbeaten in the league!
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‘We are pleased but now it’s on to Exeter on Tuesday night’.
