WE’RE all incredibly disappointed by the start we’ve made to the season and would certainly have wanted to have points on the board by now.

But I think it’s important to stress to everyone connected with the club that football is a very long season and, as the cliché goes, it’s a marathon not a sprint.

If things have not improved in a few weeks then that will be when to panic, but certainly not now because things could quite easily have worked out differently in both our league matches so far.

Against Accrington we had more than enough chances to win the game and at Oxford we were undone by a very soft red card to Michael Timlin.

The way we see it justice has not been done in either of those games and we just need to have that little bit of luck on our side again.

Right now we’re trying to bed in a few new signings which always takes time and things seem to be going against us a bit.

But the only way to turn that around is by working even harder and that’s what we will be looking to do at Northampton on Saturday.

In Aidy Boothroyd they have a fantastic manager and it will be another tough away game for us.

They will be quite direct and a real threat from set pieces, but it’s time for us to roll up our sleeves and grind out a result.

I'M FIT AND READY FOR COBBLERS

IT was disappointing to come off with a calf problem in our first game of the season at Peterborough.
But our physiotherapist Ben Clarkson really did work his magic to get me fit enough to be in the squad for Saturday’s game with Accrington Stanley.
By Tuesday night’s game at Oxford United I was raring to go, and I am again for this weekend’s trip to Northampton Town.
Of course, just like everyone else, I would love to be starting, but with seven substitutes again this year there’s the chance of any one of 18 players being a match-winner on the day.

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