Mark Kennedy said that he sees the signs of good things to come for Swindon Town despite their 2-1 defeat to Notts County.

Gavin Kilkenny had given Swindon the lead with a delightful goal, but it was two unsaveable efforts from David McGoldrick that saw Town slip to four league games without a win.

Kennedy feels that the level of performance from his team was not captured by the scoreline and it is a sign of what could be to come.

He said: "It was definitely frustrating, you can't get away from that but I thought that we were the better side against an excellent team.

"On the evidence of what I have seen from Chesterfield, Crawley, especially today, and also Crewe if you look at the final third actions, shots, and corners we have played well.

"I thought we were excellent today and football is about results but I have to look at the long term.

"I am a very keen golfer, and if I am shooting good scores and playing bad then I know that in a month's time then I am in for a whole world of hurt and if I am playing really good scores and getting low scores then I know I am on for a good season.

"It is the same in football, sometimes when you are on a bad run it is the two or three games that you win where you feel you saw it coming.

"I focus on the performances and I am really big on data, our stats are quite good, and then I look at the integration of our players, we had nine new players starting today and 15 come in overall.

"I am really positive about today but with the result I am bitterly disappointed."

Kennedy added that having added five new players this week and a huge turnover of players this summer, it was going to take time to get everything right.

He said: "Football is about players. Tactically the game has changed, there are some outstanding coaches out there and I think Notts County have an outstanding coach.

"Coming up against [Paul] Cook at Chesterfield, it was a real pleasure pitting my wits against a veteran.

"That plays a huge part but ultimately if you have good players, good coaches, environment, culture, and foundations - nine times out of ten you are going to do very well.

"If you have not got that then there are certain things you can do but there is only one man who has turned water into wine.

"We are four games into the season and we weren't building a team for Chesterfield or even for today. It is a long-term project. We have got a lot of new people in.

"I was really impressed with Matt's [Sadler] team at Walsall and the biggest confidence I took from that game was looking at Matt and thinking that he had had time.

"He has had time to evolve his team and on today's evidence, I think we are going to be fine."