It's going to be a pleasure to write these words this week.

I'm fresh back from the County Ground were I witnessed a not very good display by Town against Leyton Orient on Tuesday night.

Ex-Swindon midfielder Martin Ling was a welcome guest. Welcome that is until his side showed Paul Sturrock's team how to run a match, as we watched the best performance from a visiting side this season.

Orient were excellent and they made Swindon look very ordinary for 94 minutes, until Hasney Aljofree scored his first goal in a Swindon shirt.

For Town, Sofiene Zaaboub and Jerel Ifil were the only plus points, the midfield was out-bossed by the showing of the visiting team, and striker Billy Paynter was not given a sniff of goal by the Orient defence.

With just five minutes to go, Adam Boyd capitalised on a slack bit of defending to score what looked likely to be the only goal necessary to take all three points back to London.

If it's true that the measure of a side is one that can grab a good result out of a bad performance, Town must be heading back to the Premiership. The only meaningful shot from Sturrock's side turned out to be the last kick of the match, all bar the functional restart for the referee to blow for time.

An unlikely point snatched from the jaws of defeat.

While we might talk about application and courage and that fortune favours the brave, on the night the better team didn't gain their just rewards.

So why do I feel so happy about penning all of this? Because we are back to talking about football.

No talk of transfer embargos. Nothing to say about take-overs or CVA repayments, debentures or due diligence. No, was it a loan or was it a share purchase'.

Instead of staging after match protests, supporters made their way home discussing the wisdom of leaving it until the last 25 minutes to bring on Barry Corr, the effectiveness of playing Zaaboub at left back or the possible loss of the less than fit defensive pairing of Aljofree and Ifil.

Things don't always go your way on a football pitch and a huge amount of time spent supporting a club is spent in disappointment. This leads to debate, tactical musing, speculation and (if you can just keep the faith) renewed hope.

The behind-the-scenes issues will continue, and it won't be long before we're monitoring the front pages once more and increasing our business knowledge as further attention is diverted from the pitch.

But when I started to follow Swindon Town Football Club, the word football was the one that attracted me. If I had wanted to support a business I would have paid more attention to ICI.

Now, I wonder whether Corr will start at Wycombe on Saturday.