ENTERTAINMENT is the name of the game at Victoria Park.

Saturday's victory stroll over Torquay means Pool have bagged 17 goals in their last five home encounters and their tally of 37 Victoria Park strikes is bettered in English football only by Kevin Keegan's Manchester City side.

Now if they can get their away form in order - there's only nine in the goals for tally away from Victoria Park - the five point gap between Chris Turner's side and the play-off spots will be devoured in no time.

Pool won't have many easier days than Saturday - Torquay offered no resistance and even less when it came to attacking after finding themselves three goals down after 20 minutes.

By then it was game over and the only danger to Pool was a touch of complacency creeping into their game. There again, after such a stroll in the early stages, it's only natural that players suffer the odd lapse - but thankfully Torquay weren't good enough or smart enough to take advantage.

"The most boring 4-1 win I've seen,'' moaned one fan as he left Victoria Park. There's just no pleasing some people is there?

And the goal touch - two from Adam Boyd to take his total for the season to seven added to a Graeme Lee header and Jermaine Easter's first goal in professional football - slashed a hole in the theory that without Gordon Watson, Pool would struggle.

Of course Watson will be missed after he underwent keyhole surgery on a knee on Saturday morning and as he watched from the Cyril Knowles Stand he must have been desperate to get out there because a predator of his class and ability would have had a field day against one of the worst teams to visit Victoria Park this season.

But there's goals in this team and in Paul Smith and James Coppinger on the wings they have the people to create them.

"Gordon Watson is out for a few weeks and influential people within the club have said we are a one-man team,'' said Turner.

"We are not that. He gives us experience and quality, but we've got other people in there who are good footballers. He will be the first to admit we aren't a one-man team.

"Adam Boyd could have had a hat-trick and we deserved to be three-up at the break. We had to score the fourth goal to get there and we got it, but sometimes it becomes too easy and you get over confident.

"People don't continue to do the things there were previously and you can get sloppy.

"We said before the game that we wanted to put them under pressure from the off and we felt that a lot of people don't realise it, but they had travelled a long way to get here and it affects you.

"We scored four and had plenty of chances, we could have had seven or eight. We've been scoring goals and playing good football.''

Coppinger crossed from the right and Boyd was on hand to tap in and before the celebrations had died down Smith delivered from the opposite side and jonny-on-the-spot Boyd was there to smash in his third goal in two games.

Six minutes later, it was game over. Smith's corner from the right found Lee who didn't even have to get off the ground to direct the easiest of headers past Kevin Dearden.

The Torquay keeper spent a loan spell at Pool back under the dark days of Bob Moncur in the late 80s. He played 10 games and managed to let in 27 goals during his stint, including a pair of 6-0 defeats at the hands of Stockport and Doncaster.

At 20 past three on Saturday, he must have been expecting a repeat show because the defence he was playing behind looked every bit as shaky and unorganised as the one featuring the woeful Stephen Plaskett and Stan McEwan in 1989.

That it took 44 minutes for the next is one of football's mysteries. Dearden tipped over a 25-yard Mark Tinkler free kick and the same player - captain for the day in the absence of Micky Barron - smashed a 18-yard volley against the bar that will have the woodwork still rattling and recovering from the impact this morning.

From another corner Lee headed at goal and substitute Easter nodded in with his third touch since coming on as a substitute.

Easter has been a bit-part player under Turner since moving from Wolves almost a year ago.

But now the Pool boss believes he is coming of age and Saturday's half-hour run out was his liveliest in a blue and white shirt after a handful of sporadic substitute appearances.

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