You’re not going to win every game three or four nil, and we had to grind it out. That was the message at half time at nil, nil, I thought we would score a set piece and first half we put loads of corners and free kicks into the box.

We got a lot of first contacts, loads of knock downs and drop downs but it just didn’t seem to be falling for us. I felt if we kept grinding away and kept churning it out that one would drop for us.

Obviously, we got the penalty and stuck it away and I actually thought we played better after we’d got the goal, and up until that point in the game it was nip and tuck but after we started to control it.

I don’t care about the table as I don’t care what anyone else does, and I’ll look at the table at the end of the season. For us, its focus on ourselves, but we’ve already seen it this year that when we’re not at it, and I say this most weeks in the programme that if you’re not at it you get beat.

You look at the back-to-back games we lost down here against Brighouse and Newton Aycliffe when we weren’t at it. We’ve seemed to have found a little bit of something different this last couple of weeks and obviously four on the bounce in terms of victories.

Three on the spin at home which was nice because it was our home form that was letting us down a touch but at the end of the day, we’ve won twelve out of sixteen in the league and we’re off to a flyer.

As I said last week the other teams at the top of the league have set a good pace as well. They’re a good side as well, Ashington, in the relegation zone at the minute but you don’t know how with the football they played.

They moved it quickly and got a real threat from the wide area from the lad Wilson Kneeshaw, and I’m sure they will be safe, but I feel that I say that about every team that are down and around it at the minute.

The league’s a free for all, its wide open and we’ve strung three or four wins together in the last couple of weeks, but you can equally string three or four when you don’t win so let’s make hay while the sun shines and we’ll keep going and grafting away.

That was one we had to graft; it wasn’t a polished performance by any means, and it wasn’t perfect, but sometimes they are the best wins, and good sides find a way to win ugly.

Lee Attenborough was talking to Chris Nelson