I think that in the last few games we’ve started to come together. We’ve kept a couple of clean sheets so from my point of view it’s going well!

We started the season playing well but we just weren’t getting the breaks, or the results.

Last Saturday’s game was similar to the Bangor match where we were all over them and they ended up winning. Last Saturday, Cliftonville had most of the possession and a lot of the chances and it was a case of grinding out the result.

We didn’t play well but we won the game. We’d rather not play well and win than play well and get beaten!

We’re not counting our chickens, though; we know every game’s a battle. People probably expected us to beat Bangor and we didn’t. You can’t say who you’re going to beat and who you’re not going to beat.

Last Saturday was just an all round thing. The forwards did what they had to do and I think we defended from the front.

Willo McDonagh had a great game and he capped it off with a goal. He covered every blade of grass and that’s what we needed; people fighting for each other.

You need to be willing to do it for your team-mates and that’s what Stevie McBride and Alan Fraser are instilling into us. It seems to be working, so long may it continue.

On Saturday we had five or six injuries and the boys who came in did well. Big Jay Magee has played in midfield in the past two games and hasn’t let anybody down. People are being asked to do jobs that maybe they shouldn’t be doing but they’re still doing them well.

I was talking to Stevie McBride after the game and he said that if that match had been this time last year, we’d have been beaten 4-1 and he’s right.

When I first signed last year, we were down at Cliftonville and were 3-1 up and ended up drawing 3-3. You learn from that and we could have buckled on Saturday and we could have ended up getting beaten. But we didn’t; we battled and we dug in.

It’s just getting together and sticking together as a team. We had a night out and I think that helped. We’re all getting to know each other and we just want to carry it on and to have a good season.