ANDREW Staff is not pressing the panic button just yet as his Swindon team go in search of a first win of the season at Apperley tomorrow.

The duo are the only teams yet to taste victory in the WEPL Glos/Wilts Division this term and defeat in Gloucestershire would start to cut Swindon adrift at the foot of the table.

However, with the season only two games old, skipper Staff is not worried about his team’s below-par start, instead focussing on the long game.

“It’s still way too early in the season to be worrying about where we are. Obviously it’s not ideal and we’d have liked to have won our first two games but we are certainly not panicking,” said Staff.

“I have always said I think we are a good side. We are not going to chance too much. We will play the same way we have done in the first two games. We want to win our next game and we’ll give everything we can to get off the mark this weekend.

“It’s a long old season and all the teams are pretty well matched so if you can put two or three wins together you can go from the bottom to the top pretty quickly.

“If we can win on Saturday and then a few more together after that we will be in a good position.”

There were positives last weekend as John Sore hit an impressive unbeaten century, although that was not enough to prevent a 52-run defeat to Burbage & Easton Royal.

Staff added: “There have been positives in the first two games. John batted really well on Saturday, we just needed to bat around him a bit more.

“Will Nichols has bowled really well so far this year, we just need to put it all together and all play well as a team.”

Tomorrow’s match will be a trip into the unknown for Swindon as they have no recent experience of playing Appeley, who were promoted as champions of the Gloucester Division last season.

But despite a lack of knowledge of their opponents, Staff thinks it is far more important for Swindon to concentrate on themselves.

“They were promoted last season so we haven’t played them before. It will be a new experience and a new venue to play at and we’ll look forward to that,” said Staff.

“We won’t worry about them, we will worry about ourselves and if we do everything as well as we can we should come away with a good result.’’ “At the start of the season we would say they are a side we should be beating and we’ll do our very best to do that this weekend.