Joint most clean sheets in the division so far this season, from a defensive unit that saw one of its members cruelly taken away, it is a very impressive start to the campaign in that department.

Also seem to be making Hardenhuish Park (The TS Stadium) a tough place to visit, yes it’s only four games but we’ve taken 10 points from 12.

The foundations are in place…

I haven’t got the time to work it out exactly but our average age of the team must be no more than mid 20s if not a little bit younger.

Given that there is no Bray, Spencer, Hanks, Simpson, Griffiths or Pablo, as well as 1/4 of our players are from our academy and that we haven’t been a high scoring team in years and those problems don’t vanish over night - I think we have been excellent and probably had one of the hardest staters of the season to go with it.

Things can be better but you step away and look - this is the most optimistic I have been on a Chippenham side in this Division. A lot of potential. Let’s hope it stays.

Funny old game wrote:

I haven’t got the time to work it out exactly but our average age of the team must be no more than mid 20s if not a little bit younger.

Fourth youngest squad in the division, avg age of 23.9. Only Braintree, Hemel and Weymouth have younger avg squads according to Transfermarkt.

A win is a win ... is a win! Again,gritty and unglamorous but we showed plenty of character again last night against tough opponents.  It was really intriguing  football, if not desperately entertaining as both defences dominated and both sides relied increasingly and exclusively on the counter-attack.  Ox City could certainly play and whizzed the ball around purposefully, but like us offered very little threat near our goal. They did, however, afford us very little space  and frequently had 10 men behind the ball in the latter stages. Will Henry and Ben Dudzinski had barely a save to make between them the entire game.  The midfield battle though was fast, furious and sometimes ill-disciplined  which probably accounted for the referee, who started by letting a few "robust" challenges go, becoming increasingly yellow card happy, presumably to discourage some of the borderline tackling going on from both sides. Once again, Noah and Jordan  struggled for traction up front.  Ultimately the defences won out, though. I can undesrstand Ox City's unhappiness about the penalty.  To these elderly eyes and some of those around me ( but not all) it seemed that Lewis Miccio had cleared the ball fom the goalline before Alfie went cartwheeling over his leg. Such are split seconds and the limits of human perception.  The video highlights will probably tell us more.  Jordan dispatched the penalty well and the night was ours. As The Voice has said, there is so much to celebrate in our young side at the moment, especially remembering where we were football-wise at this point last year... ie basically lost in a really bad patch. We have an intensity now.. typified, as ever, by Luke Russe that other teams clearly are learning  to respect more and more.  We're slow starters and carve out few chances.. but we work really hard and seem to come on strong in the last 20 minutes. Sholing are riding high at the moment and can clearly score goals. ( 5 last night against Slimbridge). After the Uxbridge debacle we'll need to be completely up for it when we meet them in 10 days time.

Hope the loanee striker is 6’6 and 14st.All we are lacking is presence in the penalty box.Also is he available for the fa cup?Penalty, some you get some you don’t.Over the season decisions even themselves out.Does anybody know what the 50/50 winning number was from last night