St. George's Colts coach Richard Todd is adamant that his team haven't achieved anything yet, even after their strong start to the season. And he's called on his troops to continue the hard work that has guided them to third place in the Premier Division standings.

The new boys have made a flying start to the season, impressing fans with wins over rivals St. David's as well as 2009 league champions Devonshire Cougars.

The side narrowly lost to PHC on the opening day, but now have six points and are only three points behind Zebras at the top of the table.

For Todd, however, the road to survival is just beginning. And he admitted that they have had their fair share of ups and downs already in the new season and must continue to stay focused.

"I think for us it was simply to get into the division and see how things would go," said Todd. "To me the start has been good in the sense of building confidence within the group, but by no means have we accomplished anything just yet.

"We are getting stronger, we are laying a good foundation and our start has been the result of a couple of things.

"From this I am pleased, but again we haven't done anything, it is a long season, we have six points and it is still about survival.

"When you look at the games we have played . . . St. David's are always a high intensity match that can go either way, and with Cougars we were somewhat fortunate to catch them when we did and them having played three games in the space of a week. We wanted to take advantage of their fatigue.

"Add to this the fact that we are a bit of an unknown to many and there may be a bit of overconfidence with some teams when they play us and will look past us.

"I think we were a bit unfortunate against PHC. That was a match that we dominated but we didn't put our chances away. But expect us to get better offensively as the season goes on.

"With some of the comments that are coming from players on opposing teams, like Antwan Russell, who say they will get six points off of us, the job will only get harder."

The results the club have produced have caught everyone's attention and while the season is young, teams will no longer take the side lightly, as a few may have thought before the season.

Gone is the unknown factor surrounding the team which was one of their main advantages and in its place a certain level of respect.

With a back room staff that was assembled during the off-season that includes Dean Minors and Kameron Fox, Todd is pleased with what has transpired thus far.

Add stalwart Freddy Hall in between the sticks, a player who Todd reckons is an X-factor, the side appears to have a bright future given the early season success doesn't get to their head.

"The surprise factor is over and teams will come in and have a little bit more respect but we need to keep to our game plan," added Todd.

"The main focus for us is still survival and we will need to continue with this.

"Maybe by January if we are in the same position as we are now we can look and reassess a few things but it is always about staying up.

"The commitment from the players has been superb since July since we started training as well as some key additions to the back room staff including Dean Minors, who has helped us as a strength coach, and Kameron Fox just to name a few have come in to help . . . and it is paying off.

"We're looking to get points when necessary and look to make a good impression.

"Having Freddy always makes the team stronger and he is what I call an X-factor, but if I have to be honest the work he has done is minimal.

"That is a credit to the guys who play in front of him and the work they put in, but whenever you do get past them, to have Freddy in goal makes us that much stronger."