Welcome back to Kenilworth Road for today's game which begins a very important week of fixtures for us.
Since my last notes we have continued our fine run of form, adding to our sequence of victories with successes over Kidderminster here and then at Ebbsfleet last Saturday.
We went into both matches realising that we were in for two tough 90 minutes of football but came out the other side brimming with confidence after taking six points and scoring nine goals.
Against Kidderminster we were well aware of what we were going to face. They had just been beaten 5-1 at home in the FA Trophy and were intent on restoring some professional pride.
However, we scored three terrific goals in the game and despite them pulling a goal back to make it 2-1, we nullified their threat in the second half quite comfortably, before we went on to add the third.
That made it four wins on the bounce and we followed that up by making that five at Ebbsfleet following a magnificent second half display.
We thought we played well enough in the first half and were frustrated to go behind in the manner in which we did.
But we came out firing straight from the kick-off in the second 45 minutes and handed out the kind of result we have been threatening to do to a team all season.
I have never been involved in a game like that before and I must congratulate Claude on a superb hat-trick.
It was a performance that all involved should quite rightly be proud of and, while I don't want to pick out other individuals, I was thrilled for Matthew Barnes-Homer for scoring the sixth.
Today Hayes & Yeading will provide another stern for us as they showed earlier this month when we left Church Road will all three points thanks to a 3-2 win.
That day we were disappointed that we didn't turn our chances and dominance into more goals and were nearly made to pay for the profligacy in the final minute.
After five straight wins and a 6-1 victory away from home, confidence is sky-high at the minute but we must not get complacent.
It's a age-old cliché, but we are taking every game as it comes. We need the teams above us to slip-up so it's important we keep the run going and not worry about what the other teams are doing.
With another home game to come on Tuesday before we go to Stevenage a week today, the next seven days could really shape our season.
Thank you for all your support and to those supporters who had to put up with the grim whether at Ebbsfleet last week.
As ever, your support is really appreciated by the lads so please keep it up.
Enjoy the game.
Pilks.
