NOBODY coming along to today’s game against Bury should take too much notice of the table.

Our visitors have a very talented squad, one they invested heavily in to assemble.

We know from first-hand experience how dangerous they can be, because we lost at Gigg Lane earlier in the season.

For some reason, they haven’t been able to put in those sort of performances consistently this season.

But they have a new management team in place and we know they will raise their game and want to impress as a result.

That will lead to a very intense game.

We have to be sure we match that intensity, impose our own game on the opposition and hopefully start to build on back-to-back home wins so far this year against MK Dons and Blackpool.

Unfortunately, after adding progress in the Checkatrade Trophy to those two results we were unable to get a win at Walsall last Saturday despite a good performance.

You don’t always get your reward, but equally you can argue we needed to be more ruthless.

Walsall had two shots on target and scored two goals, while we had so many opportunities.

But we either failed to take them or could not beat a goalkeeper who was rightly awarded the man-of-the-match award.

We will certainly play worse and win games this season.

I want to thank the fans who made the trip to Walsall with us.

And I would especially like to mention the youngsters who were there for the family away day.

Free travel, activities on the coach, and lots of gifts for them, made it a great day.

I hope it becomes an annual event which can really grow and grow.

Both Cameron Brannagan and Isaac Buckley-Ricketts were at that game last weekend, but not involved in the squad.

After three wins we wanted to keep faith with the players already here.

Plus the new boys had only trained for the first time on the Friday, so we wanted them to settle in and get used to the way we play.

They have had the benefit of a full week of training and done very well.

It means we have plenty of competition for places again this afternoon.

THIS week has seen the VAR system introduced and it is making a lot of headlines after the TV games on Tuesday and Wednesday.

I know this because when I walked into the training ground at 8.30am on Thursday, the players and staff were all arguing about it in one room and the media guys were doing the same next door!

I am all in favour of technology in sport, provided it clarifies decisions and we end up with the right call.

Football is a very fast sport with no natural breaks in play, so it is more difficult to integrate the replays than in, say, tennis.

But I remember when the technology was introduced in that sport and it took a while before it was integrated and refined.

I think the same will happen with football.

But until it does, then I fear we are going to be debating a lot of decisions, as well as the system, for quite some time.