A 2-0 win against a poor Hereford side was followed by a 2-1 home win against Leeds, whom many believe are the best in our division.

Not a bad four days work!

Now we can get on with the business of beating Colchester at Sixfields this Saturday without the chattering pessimists. They wanted to build a funeral pyre with their remaining season tickets and stick Stuart Gray on top of it.

Too soon for that nonsense.

It'll still be a difficult season, we have no in-form goalscorer, and we're propped-up by loan players of whom Kyle Walker, Frank Fielding and Andy Todd were outstanding in defence against Leeds, with our winner scored by another loanee, Nicholas Bignall.

None of that should blind us to quality in-house.

Jason Crowe, Danny Jackman, Liam Davis, Giles Coke and Luke Guttridge are outstanding players in this division, and there is no dead wood anywhere in the squad, even though there is a clear pecking-order.

Leon Constantine has been a great player for other teams, and although we've yet to see that quality, (he so far is a disaster in front of goal) he is at least fashioning a role as a support man in a deeper position.

Liam Dolman and Mark Hughes were on the bench, a brave and correct decision by Gray, but Dolman will know he has time on his side, while Hughes – usually one of our best defenders – will have been able to contemplate the need to concentrate on the basics.

The jury is still out on striker Scott McGleish, on loan from Wycombe.

He ran himself ragged at both Hereford and at home against Leeds, he is primarily a goalscorer yet until his terrible fourth-minute miss against Leeds when he put a header wide from Todd's delicious pass, he hadn't actually missed a chance, he's simply not been getting any.

He'll be judged entirely on his goal tally, and for that he needs a proper partner.

If it doesn't come to pass, he'll be known as yesterday's man and be shipped back quietly to Wycombe.

If he starts hitting the net, then Gray must be tempted to a deal.

When you consider that class players Adebayo Akinfenwa, Chris Doig, Abdul Osman and Colin Larkin are still injured, we're not in too bad a league position.

The key point will be the January transfer window.

If we get that right we can push on to the play-offs, if we bottle it then it's another season in league one.

Not only must we vitally find a quick young goalscorer, we must also pick up players with the quality of Todd and Walker.

At least the loan system, for all its faults, gives a chance to look over potential players as well as plugging gaps.

I thought Karl Hawley would come up with goals.

He had other qualities, but stuffing the ball into the net wasn't one of them, so there's one off the list, even assuming we could afford him.