By Dan Warren
Debates continue to rage over whether football has lost its sheen this season - but one man who could not be accused of negativity is Wycombe boss John Gorman.
GORMAN AT WYCOMBE
The former England assistant manager has overseen a great start to the season for his club, who are the only outfit still unbeaten in the Football League.
Five wins and six draws in 11 matches have taken the Chairboys to second in League Two, becoming top scorers in the division with 22 league goals along the way.
"The standard of football in League Two is a lot higher than people give credit for," Gorman told BBC Sport.
"And that's one thing we pride ourselves on, the style of game that we play.
"We actually go out and we want to win the match, our philosophy is to attack as much as we can. OK, we've lost goals - but at the minute we're unbeaten because of our approach which is not negative in any way."
Ironically, the result which best illustrates Wycombe's attack-minded approach is also their worst - the extraordinary 8-3 home loss in the Carling Cup to Aston Villa, a match Wanderers led 3-1 at half-time.
"Cynics had to have a dig at me. People can be negative," said Gorman.
"In the Villa game we played so well first half. There were some people criticising my tactics because I was so positive.
"People tend to think 'oh they've lost goals'. But if you try to win matches, you'll win a lot more than you lose or draw."
Wanderers may have come unstuck in the cup against Premiership opposition, but they maintained their league form on Tuesday night as they coasted to an easy 4-1 win over Wrexham, wth in-form striker Nathan Tyson scoring a brace to take his tally for the season to 13.
Gorman thinks Tyson will move on
"Why can't Nathan play in the Premiership? Premiership players are what you make them, there's brilliant players and squad players and you need a bit of both," he said.
"If we can't live with the pressure of being near the top, then we shouldn't be there." "
"The only problem with Nathan is that he's used to playing football every week. If he went to a top club he might not get a lot of football and that could be detrimental.
"Then he might have to go on loan which you see with quite a lot of young players who don't get their chances at top clubs."
Gorman said it was too early to be drawn on whether Wycombe would mount a sustatined promotion challenge.
But he said his players were good enough to rise to the challenge to his players.
"Since the start of the season, everybody has been saying that we've got a good chance of going up and that just puts that wee bit of added pressure on," he said.
"But, saying that, if we can't live with that then we shouldn't be there."