JORDAN Turnbull reckons that the end of the season is coming just as he and his Swindon Town teammates are finally getting into their stride.

Town’s campaign looked to be petering out although a fine draw away at promotion-chasing Walsall last week improved the mood around the County Ground before Luke Williams’ side finally ended a nine-match winless run by beating Chesterfield on Saturday and ensuring they will finish outside of League One’s bottom four.

A trip to Rochdale and home clash against Shrewsbury United are all that remain for Turnbull and co before the end of the current campaign and the 21-year-old Southampton loanee wishes that there were a few more opportunities for Swindon to express themselves now that the pressure is finally off.

“I think we all believed that we’d be challenging much higher in the table and doing much better things this season but the way it’s turned out and the things that have happened this year; it’s unfortunate but it’s good for the club to remain in the division – we made sure of that,” the defender, who hails from nearby Trowbridge, told the local media after the match.

“The players; we believe that we’ve been very good in the last couple of performances.

“We put in a good performance against Walsall and (on Saturday), we showed that we’re back to our best.

“It’s unfortunate that we’re going to run out of games (when) we feel that we’re back to our best and we’re playing good football. We showed that.”

Turnbull, who has so far made 43 appearances in all competitions for Town during a second spell on loan from St Mary’s, was also proud of how Swindon broke down a stubborn and resilient Spireites outfit, who did their best to not give anything away on Saturday.

He said: “We kept the ball moving really well and we were just a threat all game, and it’s unfortunate that we’re going to run out of games but we’re happy with the last two performances.

“That’s the most important thing when we’re playing a team like that in a game like that – we need to be patient and keep moving the ball side-to-side because we can’t keep forcing it.

“We were used to it last year, when teams used to bank up and try and hit us on the break, and (on Saturday), it happened and I thought we dealt with it fantastically.”