Midfield metronome Sam Togwell insists Barnet won’t look at the League Two table until at least Christmas and believes the Bees have enough to steer clear of relegation.

The 30-year-old has refused to be disheartened by a start which has seen Martin Allen’s side unable to build on the momentum gained from winning the Conference title last term.

Back-to-back home victories against Stevenage and Dagenham & Redbridge saw the Bees climb to 18th but they have subsequently fallen to consecutive away losses.

Head coach Allen has always maintained he does not look at the league standings, right back to when the Bees were comfortably clear atop the Conference last term, and Togwell says it is too early to read too much into the League Two table.

He said: “We don’t look at the table at the moment, it’s too early.

“We’re creating that many chances in games, we’re competing and the wins will come. At the moment we don’t look at it, we just look at the next game.

“We will probably look at Christmas time. That’s when everyone says it’s time to look at the table and it’s halfway roughly.

“There is plenty of time between now and then and plenty of points up for grabs for us to start winning games.

“If we get two wins on the bounce we climb straight up the table and no-one’s even looking at the table.”

Togwell won the League Two title with last club Chesterfield in 2014 and knows the division inside out having also plied his trade in the fourth tier with Wycombe Wanderers, Northampton Town and Oxford United on loan.

But he does not feel there has been much change at this level since he won the title with the Spireites.

“It has changed a little bit,” he said. “There are some big teams in the league for starters and big money in the league for some times as well.

“Standard-wise it is the same really. It is a hard league to get out of and we’ve seen that so far with the teams we’ve played.

“Most of them have been at the top and we’ve competed for long periods of time against these teams and at times been the better team.

“We’ve got a lot of confidence from that and we have just got to keep going, believing in what we’re doing and it will change. It has to change.”

Bad luck has been a recurring theme in Barnet’s first 11 fixtures back in League Two but Togwell is adamant once the side’s fortune improves, they will have enough to book a second season back in the Football League.

He said: “I think we’ve been desperately unlucky in games – we’ve had bad luck in all of them in different ways.

“These are fine margins. Last season nine times out of ten those chances we have missed would have gone in.

“We are at this level for a reason and I believe we are good enough to stay at this level.”

An ever-present in the heart of Barnet’s midfield in the league, Togwell is reaping the rewards of a full pre-season at The Hive after joining the club a week before the season got underway last summer.

“I think I’ve benefitted,” he said. “I did my own pre-season last year so I was playing catch-up from day one.

“This year I had a full pre-season and it’s helped me massively.”