Mark Kennedy said that he retains absolute faith in his preferred style of play with Swindon Town and still expects the right results to start to arrive.

After nine league games this season, Swindon have won just once, a 4-0 win over Newport County, and now head into this weekend’s game against Harrogate Town hoping to earn a positive result.

Kennedy has maintained the whole way through that he believes performances have been strong enough to earn more points than they have been able to so far and has stuck with his preferred 3142 formation throughout.

Speaking ahead of the game against Harrogate, Kennedy said that whilst you have to make some adaptations, he was happy with the way the team played.

He said: “There are three ways to play: around people, through them, or over them.

“The last couple of weeks have been a really good example of that, when I look at the games previous to Port Vale, I think that we really dominated teams and then you look at what Port Vale did with their game plan and put a full press on us and refused to let us, which is a huge compliment to ourselves.

“Tranmere tried to do the same, but what I felt we did really well against Tranmere was once the full backs jumped we played some beautiful channel balls down the sides.

“Sometimes the game evolves and changes and you see things happen in trends when before Port Vale teams allowed us to play and we maximised our ability in that and then this week they have said ‘There is no way we are going to allow Swindon to come here and play and dominate, it will p- our fans off and it will invite pressure.

“I thought Tranmere did that really well in the first half and then we counteracted that in the second half while also playing some really good patterns of play with switches of play.

“That was really impressive, sometimes you have to tweak as you go along and sometimes it is about the opposition but we want to be a possession-based team.”

Kennedy added that he had not considered moving away from what the team were trying to do because he believed in their displays.

He said: “I think we have coachable, intelligent players and when you look at the Barrow or Carlisle games, neither team plays with a mid-block or a low-block but both ended up in a low-block.

“We have to be intelligent enough to mix the game up and I think we have shown that we can play narrow and play wide.

“We tweaked a couple of things in the Tranmere game, sometimes you have to give the opposition credit and change things as you go along. Football should be like a game of chess with coaches and we have done that well.

“[Have you considered approaching games differently?] No.

“[Is there any temptation to because of results?] No.

“[Do performances make you confident it will work?] Yes.”