Kenny Jackett is again under the spotlight at Portsmouth after a goalless draw with Gillingham in League One on Saturday, but is he the right man to eventually take them into the Championship?

There’s few managers in League One as decorated and experienced as Kenny Jackett. The 57-year-old has managed over 800 professional football matches, winning promotion from League One on two occasions with Millwall and Wolves, and the EFL trophy twice with Swansea and Portsmouth.

Now in his third season at Fratton Park, Jackett has made season-on-season progression at the club, having reached the League One play-offs last year, missing out on automatic promotion by just three points.

Having recruited well in the summer, Portsmouth were heavily expected to progress yet again and be a front-runner for the title this season, but things have gone badly wrong for Jackett so far.

After ten games of the season, a couple behind the rest of the pack due to postponements and an EFL Cup run, Portsmouth are 16th in League One and a whole 14 points off of leaders Ipswich Town.

As opposed to this stage last season where Pompey had accumulated 24 points from an unbeaten ten games, Jackett’s side has just 13 so far this campaign. 

Most alarmingly for Portsmouth fans though is their lack of firepower. Fans at Fratton Park became accustomed to a free-scoring, attacking-minded Portsmouth last season and after their recruitment in the summer were expected to be blowing teams away this season.

But a 0-0 draw at home to Gillingham at the weekend was the third time this season that they've failed to score in a league match and it proves how far behind schedule Portsmouth are this season, having netted 12 times in the league.

Portsmouth, who were without several first-team players on Saturday due to international call-ups, went into the game on the back of three-straight wins in all competitions and it seemed as though the clouds were starting to disperse over Fratton Park.

But the scoreline has thrown Jackett straight back under the bus, and his future at the club seems dependant on each passing fixture.

They were the better side against Gillingham, who’s keeper Jack Bonham was Man of the Match. Portsmouth should've edge closer to the top-half of the table on Saturday, but failed to do so in what's become typical Pompey fashion so far this season.

They've an experienced manager in Jackett though and given time, he'd likely take them to the Championship. But time is a currency that no football team or indeed manager can have enough of, and the question for the Portsmouth board is how long are they willing to linger in League One for?