We're not kidding ourselves that our start to the new year has been anywhere near good enough.
Back-to-back home defeats following our 4-1 loss at Wimbledon in our final game of 2014 have done nothing for our play-off hopes. The one consolation is that other results have been fairly kind to us and, even now, we're still bang in the mix.
We started well against Northampton on Saturday and could easily have been a couple of goals to the good inside the first 15 minutes.
Tom Nichols has been one of our star performers so far this season and you'd have bet good money on him scoring when he raced clear of the Cobblers' defence inside the opening few minutes. Unfortunately, on this occasion, it wasn't to be.
Moments later, a great bit of improvisation from Tommy looked for all the world as if it was destined for the back of the net until, at the very last second, it drifted frustratingly wide of the post. And not long after that their keeper got a fingertip on a fantastic volley from Aarron Davies. If any one of those efforts had gone in there's no doubt in my mind we would have gone on to win the game.
While it's difficult to pinpoint what exactly has gone wrong in the past few weeks, I think it would be too simple to put our loss of form solely on Matt Grimes' departure.
Of course, Matt is a huge loss but, at the same time, Tis has drafted in some quality replacements and, with the squad we've got, I see no reason why we shouldn't still challenge for promotion.
If there's one thing that's missing from our game at the minute then I guess it is the confidence that comes with being on a really good run.
When you're winning week in, week out, everything comes easy and you don't think too much about what you're doing out there on the pitch.
Unfortunately, when you've lost a few games you start to feel under a bit more pressure and inevitably that can affect how you perform – for sure, I know I haven't been at my best in the last couple of matches.
I don't want to make any excuses but I didn't think we were helped on Saturday by a few questionable refereeing decisions.
The two that really spring to mind were a stonewall penalty shout 10 or 15 minutes from time, and my yellow card when a Northampton player went to ground as I made what, in my opinion, was a fair attempt to win the ball.
Then again, when you consider it must have taken the referee the best part of a minute to spot a flattened James Hamon lying motionless inside the six-yard box, with what could very easily have been a serious head injury, I suppose you shouldn't be too surprised.
However, I don't think there's any need for panic – we're certainly not a million miles off – but right now it's plain to see we need a result to kick-start our season, and I don't think it matters too much how we get it!
I've been asked to mention a couple of events which will be taking place at the club over the course of the next month or two.
Firstly, the Great Exeter City Quiz returns in early March and our operations manager Andy Gillard is looking for teams to compete in Norman Warne's unique test of knowledge and intellect which, I've been informed, has been a huge hit since it first ran a decade ago!
Entry is £25 per team of five and the winners will bag Flybe flight vouchers; the two qualifying heats will take place on Wednesday, March 4, and Thursday, March 5. There are some more details available on the club website at exetercityfc.co.uk
On a similar note, World Cup final assistant referee Mike Mullarkey will be the special guest at an event being organised by the club's disabled supporters association.
A Game of Two Halves takes place at the club on Tuesday, January 27, at 7pm. Entry is free and, in addition, the supporters' trust will be putting on a special multimedia presentation, The Day We Played Brazil.
We travel to Mansfield Town on Saturday when, as you might imagine, we'll be doing our utmost to resume winning ways.
The Stags beat us 2-1 at the Park back in September, at which point we were bottom of League Two and they were just outside the play-off places. Four months later, we find ourselves 10 points clear of the Nottinghamshire side, who dispensed with the services of manager Paul Cox at the end of November. To be honest, we will be disappointed if we haven't extended that advantage to 13 points come 5pm on Saturday.
New boss Adam Murray has bought in half-a-dozen new players since that meeting at the Park so it's hard to know quite what to expect.
At the same time, we know that if we can recapture the form we were showing a month or so ago – during the run which saw us lose just once in 15 league games – we can go to Field Mill and get a result.
