Getting it right consistently at both ends of the pitch matters. You don't have to be fully Championship ready to get out of League One, that gap is widening, and you don't have to be the great entertainers. But you do have to be set ready to cope with a 46-game season and build a body of work where you put the ball in the net at one end and keep the stupidity to a minimum at the other.
If a moment sums up this season for me then it's 0-0 away at Leyton Orient and thinking OK we've got nothing up front tonight so shut the game down, don't overplay and underpass at the back looking for non-existent movement that isn't there due to the absolutely aimless slow rigid and pointless way we play at times and just take the 0-0 we start with.
And then of course Matt Pennington ends up in no mans land completely out of his comfort zone with his teammates in a different postcode, of course it's immediately 0-1 and of course we've then lost regardless of the amount of remaining time to do something about it. Because of course we never have a response in that repeated situation. Other than pre-set subs at pre-planned times and a like-for-like going through the motions where the opposition can get the pipe and slippers out and save their sweat.
So short story long, Portsmouth just don't do that sort of thing and that's why they lead the way. You can sneer at them, take the piss out of Colby Bishop and whatever else you like based on a two-game snapshot. But they followed up the 0-0 v us with a 2-1 home win against Burton and a 1-0 away win at Peterborough and haven't lost since January.