WE were all disappointed by the defeat to Burton Albion last weekend but we have a chance to get ourselves back on track when we go to Port Vale on Saturday.

Vale is always a tough place to go to because they’re a good team who work their big pitch well.

But we want to come out fighting and play positively against them.

We know it’s going to be a tough challenge but we certainly can’t afford to be feeling sorry for ourselves, even though we were very frustrated to lose against Burton.

We produced a very flat performance in the first half for no apparent reason but these things sometimes happen in football.

We couldn’t seem to get going and couldn’t provide that spark we needed to get everyone going.

Despite that, we had nearly 70 per cent of the possession overall, wasted a couple of good chances to score and then eventually lost to a very good goal which again showed the fine line between winning and losing in professional football.

As a result, the dressing room after the game was a very frustrated and subdued place to be because we let our standards slip and were disappointed to suffer our first home defeat.

We want to make Roots Hall a real fortress and a difficult place for opposing teams to visit and I still believe that will be the case this season.

For that to happen though, we have to quickly learn lessons from the defeat but it’s also important to remember that we’re only four games in to a 46 match campaign.

I can understand why people were disappointed to see us lose to Burton but there is no need for any Blues fan to be all doom and gloom at this stage.

When all is said and done we’re four points behind the top three with six points from our opening four games so it’s hardly the end of the world.

Of course we would’ve preferred to get something from the Burton match and I was disappointed not to score in the second half with a close range header that was saved.

Nobody wants to score more than me and, although how the team does is far more important, I do want my first goal to come sooner rather than later.

I just need that little bit of luck but often the first goal is the hardest one to get.

I will be delighted when it finally comes and as will my family as the Harris household has been a bit depressed in the last few days.

Because of the last two results we’ve had it’s been a quiet time at the training ground but today is Blair Sturrock’s 30th birthday and he’s decided to have a Stars Wars themed night to celebrate.

The lads all think Blair’s actually nearing 40 because of the way he's trying to hang on to his barnet and they are also thinking of ways to make sure we can miss out on an evening of Stars Wars!

However, he loves it and still dreams of turning in to Obi-Wan Kenobi which is what he actually wrote to Jimmy Saville to help make happen when he was only eight years old!

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