NO-ONE at the Cat & Fiddle is panicking just yet but we really could do with three points from this Saturday's game against Sheffield Wednesday.

I still maintain we're not a million miles from being a half-decent side but, that's as maybe, having won only once in our last 10 matches we need to start getting some results – and the sooner the better.

Our Achilles heel is plain for all to see, we simply aren't scoring enough goals – just 24 so far this season and only four since we beat Tranmere 3-0 at the end of November – and until we remedy that it's going to continue to be a struggle.

It was, to all intents and purposes, the same old story at Bournemouth on Tuesday – for 60-plus minutes we held firm at the back but then the home side grabbed a goal and, try as we might, we never really looked like getting back into it.

It was, I guess, almost inevitable that their opener would come from debutant Matt Tubbs, the striker for whom the Cherries had just shelled out a cool £800,000 – if only it were so simple for us!

Big-money signings aside, former City loanee Lee Bradbury has done incredibly well to take Bournemouth from the relegation zone to within touching distance off the play-off places in the space of just two or three months.

Such is their rate of improvement, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Dorset side went on to push for automatic promotion.

With the postponement of Saturday's game, we took the opportunity to do something a little bit different and spent the morning doing some light exercise on Exmouth beach.

Our physio Neil Light, who lives in the seaside resort, utilised his local knowledge to ensure our sojourn was carried out with military precision, even advising us where we should park to avoid having to buy a ticket.

Unfortunately, there wasn't too much Neil could do about the weather and it was bitterly cold though there was at least plenty of sand if precious little sun or sangria!

Our newest recruit, Luke O'Brien, appears to be settling in well and is already impressing on the training ground at the Cat & Fiddle.

Luke's a dyed-in-the-wool Yorkshireman who had been with Bradford since he was a schoolboy so it's going to take him a little while to adjust but it helps, I dare say, that he already knows Lenny Pidgeley, who was a teammate of his at Valley Parade last season.

Incidentally, Lenny celebrated his 28th birthday on Tuesday or, rather, he would have done had he not been warming the bench at Bournemouth's Fitness First Stadium.

No doubt the club's resident croquet aficionado will be making up for it with one of those quiet nights out for which he's renowned at some point in the not-too-distant future!

On the subject of birthdays, belated congratulations too to David Noble who – I omitted to mention in my previous column – hit the big 3-0 last Thursday.

The games are coming thick and fast at the minute and we can look forward to a second midweek match in as many weeks against Notts County, at Meadow Lane, next Tuesday.

Like us, Martin Allen's side haven't been in the best of form of late – their win against Walsall at the end of last month was only their second in their last 10 League One fixtures – and as ever we will travel to Nottingham confident that if we perform to the best of our ability we are more than capable of returning to Devon with at least a point.

It goes without saying, our confidence will be heightened if, in the meantime, we can get some kind of result from Saturday's game against Sheffield Wednesday. In light of our recent form, it might seem unlikely that we'll enjoy an upturn in fortunes against Gary Megson's high-flying Owls side but, for me, it's just the kind of fixture you want when you're trying to dig yourself out a bit of a rut.

The visitors will go into the game as firm favourites, which eases a bit of the pressure on our lads, who will hopefully be further buoyed by what promises to be a fantastic atmosphere.

Certainly, I think both those factors came into play when we rolled Wednesday over by five goals to one at St James's Park in December 2010 and, again, when we beat them 2-1 at Hillsborough in that epic game on the final day of last season.

What's for sure is that if this weekend's clash is half as memorable as either of those fixtures against the Steel City side then we're in for a treat.

I know everyone at the Cat & Fiddle is looking forward to it, I only hope you are too!