WORCESTER City are conceding too many goals at the moment for my liking with another two against Tiverton Town on Saturday.

I was pleased with the goals we scored against Tiverton and I don't think you will see a better four goals anywhere this season, including a super hat-trick from Phil Stant.

But I was concerned with our defensive display.

A perfect game for me would be 1-0 or 2-0, but having to score three or four just to win is doing me no good -- despite the fact I know the neutrals enjoy our matches.

As a spectacle they are outstanding with plenty of goals and dramatic last minute winners and enough to make people think they will pop down to St George's Lane again.

But the defensive side of our performance both collectively and individually remains a worry.

If you look at our goals against column it tells its own story.

Last year we felt we wanted more goals because we weren't scoring enough, but this time round we are conceding too many. It is not just the defence's fault, as a team we are not defending as a whole.

I think we have conceded too many silly goals and I don't see too many mistakes being handed to us on a plate so we have to tighten up.

Marc Burrow came off at half time as a tactical change and he'll be back. He responded well after the Kettering game, but with young players you have to rest them from time to time.

He won't like being taken off but I was the same at his age and you think 'why me?' but you have to learn from the experience and come back a better player.

But we are looking at why we are conceding so many goals.

We've looked at formations and systems but at the end of the day it is players that count.

People say we are not blessed with an abundance of pace at the back but I have known many players with a lack of pace but who had good positional sense -- Bobby Moore was hardly an Olympic sprinter.

It's a point we have considered, but to analyse it on the basis of pace is unfair particularly with people like Martin Weir who has never been fast but I know a lot of people who would willingly swap their careers for his in the non-league game.

Up front Darren Middleton and Phil's performances were a bonus and if Darren produces in attack as he has done in midfield then we could have found our solution to Mark Owen's absence.

We would lose his presence in midfield where he can be effective getting from box to box, but Darren Bullock has the capacity to do a similar job to Middleton.

Recent results in the Dr Martens Premier Division, with Havant losing to Hednesdford and Ilkeston having six put past them by Chelmsford, shows the inconsistency of the league.

But it isn't inconsistency week to week, it is inconsistency within games.

City are having a good half hour, a mediocre half hour and then a bad half and what we haven't achieved yet, but which I'm striving for, is a solid 90 minutes.