The Swindon Wildcats coach writes every week

I didn't get much of a break over the summer. It was very busy but hopefully it will be worth it.

It is nice to get back with the team although, now we are training three times a week, Monday and Fridays are the only days the lads get off.

This is a totally new team and I am not going to come out and say we are going to win the league.

We will aim for the play-offs and to finish as high as we can. I would love to be in the last four. I think this team is good enough.

But it is going to take us six to eight weeks to geland between now and then I will be looking for gritty performances.

We'll also be looking to find the right combinations. It takes time for people to get used to a new system and new players but everyone is positive.

Consistency is also the key. We only allowed 30 shots in each game against Sheffield and Bracknell which is a lot less than last season.

Every player is going to be big for us, whether they were here last season or have been brought in. It is a 60 game season, not a sprint. Chelmsford started off incredibly fast last season but then fell away, I don't want to do that.

We've begun with two defeats, something which is disappointing but there are a lot of positives we can take from the games against Bracknell and Sheffield.

We could, and should, have taken something from Bracknell on Saturday. We started slow but as the game went on we dominated. We were dreadful in first period in both games. But then we won the next two periods against Bracknell and drew against Sheffield.

This team was losing 9-1 to Sheffield at the beginning of last season but it will not happen this time.

This is not the English Premier League of two or three years ago. It is a very strong league and there are some good players.

There are nine quality sides playing each other, there are no bad teams, Milton Keynes can surprise a few people, they have serious firepower but if we can get a run together then we can surprise anyone, It is not going to happen for six weeks but when we gel, we have some team.