Given that following the first week of the season the team has earned 32 from a possible 39 points I'd say I'm more than satisfied. I think it's fair to say those first initial fixtures, including the cup games, can be put down to the squad getting used to eachother and the style of play etc., although the biggest headscratcher was Shildon coming as it did a week after a real battle at Barwell. As well as currently being first, we're the league's top scorers, have the best goal difference and most encouragingly since shipping 5 at Workington, have conceded 2 goals in the following 8 games.
Clearly in the coming weeks once we've played Stourbridge, Shaw Lane and Warrington we'll have a better idea of the team's resilience, together with the inevitable muddy pitches not suited to the passing game we've seen thus far - do we have a plan B? All that said and Shildon aside, you'd have to be a professional curmudgeon not to be impressed with the football the team is serving up and to see how they clearly enjoy playing it.