“Everything is the start,” Sam told the official site. “Everything is then a trigger to the whole season and whereabouts you are going to lay and finish. The perfect example is our first two seasons in the Premier League, where we acquired 14 points in the first eight games but only eight points from the first eight last season and we saw that last season was a struggle.
“Our life is about results and it doesn’t matter how well we play or compete against the opposition, the end game is winning and we haven’t won so people will be disappointed.
“Nobody will be more disappointed than me or the players as we all knew we were in a great position to start the season off with a very good three points against a team that was meant to finish in the top four this season. In terms of creating changes, could we have done any more? I don’t think so.”