Dumbarton manager Stevie Farrell has urged his players to bottle the winning feeling and keep their perfect start to the season going.

The Sons currently top League Two after a blistering start to the 2022/23 league campaign that has seen them pick up six wins from six and have an eight-point gap over the chasing Bonnyrigg Rose and East Fife.

The club have been never started a season as well as this in their 150-year long history with Farrell receiving manager of the month for August and striker Declan Byrne being named player of the month after netting two of his five goals for the club so far during August.

With no games taking place across the country at the weekend as a mark of respect after the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Dumbarton’s clash with Stranraer was postponed but Faz, his coaching staff and the players remained hard at work on the training pitch and the Sons boss is delighted with the position that the club is in.

Speaking exclusively to the Reporter, he said: “When you’re on a roll like this you want every next game to be tomorrow, never mind next week.

“We came in on Saturday and trained really hard, so we’ve still been working whilst we hadn’t been able to play. The best time to re-enhance standards is when we’re on a run like this and it’s about the small detail.

“We continued to work hard on that small detail because although we’ve been on an unbeaten run and it’s been excellent, there’s still things we can improve on in our shape with and without and the ball.

“We need to continue to never become complacent in this run and always look to strive to become better if we possibly can so that we can keep it going.

“A type of run like this brings so much to the group and a togetherness and a belief. There’s a good spirit in the dressing room amongst the boys and the backroom staff.

“Football is easy when it’s going well because everyone is your friend and wants to talk to you and pat you on the back and tell you how well you’re doing, and it’s the best feeling.

“That’s a better feeling than getting beat and the opposite of those things so they’ve got to make sure they bottle it and keep it going as long as they can.”

Whether games go ahead this weekend or not remains uncertain but Farrell admits he has to prepare for the visit of SPFL new boys Bonnyrigg Rose on the assumption that it will take place – and hopes it does, otherwise it will be three weeks without a competitive fixture for his Sons.

He added: “We’ve got another break the week after that due to the international break, so it’s our only game in the next three weeks.

“Everything that we’re doing and all our analysis is in relation to that game because it’s all we have.”

Kick-off at the Dumbarton Football Stadium is at 3pm.