Witham Town manager Garry Kimble admits it is taking him longer than he anticipated to get his team firing again after their relegation from the Ryman League premier division last season.

It has been a tough start to the new campaign for Witham as they have had to rebuild after losing all but five members of last year’s squad and the new-look team has won just once in division north so far.

They have a chance to make that two wins when they head to Dereham Town tonight, but Kimble knows his team must cut out the silly mistakes that have continued to hurt them in throughout the early part of the campaign.

“We have had nine league games so far and one win out that is not good enough,” he said.

“It’s relegation form really, but we won’t go down.

“I’m confident of that, but we do need to start picking up points.

“It’s silly mistakes that keep hurting us and it was the same (in the 4-2 defeat) at Harlow on Saturday.

“We were poor in the first half and it was just individual errors again.

“It was different after half-time, though, and we seem to be a second-half side at the moment, but we keep giving ourselves a mountain to climb.

“I knew it would be a tough job to rebuild the side after all the players we lost at the end of last season, but it’s a bigger job than I thought it would be.”

Kimble said he had no injury concerns ahead of the game at Dereham, but said there would be changes to his side from the one that started at Harlow on Saturday.