BILLERICAY Town's first half performance against Thamesmead was slammed as "abysmal" by manager Craig Edwards – but he was pleased with the way they fought back to win.
The Blues trailed 2-0 at the interval against the newly-promoted visitors, but goals from Dave Collis, Glenn Poole and Javlon Campbell turned it around to give Edwards' side their first win of the season.
And the Blues boss admitted that his side's performances so far this season have simply not been up to scratch – making their points haul of four from three games satisfactory.
Edwards said: "We were abysmal in the first half, absolutely shocking.
"I can't remember ever having a side play as badly as that.
"I still maintain we've got good players but for some reason there's a number of them that are not playing to their potential.
"I'm not going to make any bones about it – we've been poor in the three games.
"We were tremendous in the second half on Saturday, but overall we've been poor.
"We've taken four points from the three games though, so I do believe strongly in this side.
"I'm not panicking, I think we've got good players, there's one area I want to strengthen and I'm working on that, but other than that I think the squad's looking very strong."
Having started the season with a 1-1 draw at Thurrock, Edwards saw his side beaten 1-0 by East Thurrock United last week, and the Blues boss admitted confidence was low at the break against Thamesmead as they went in two-down.
He added: "It's the hardest thing in life to come back when you're really down – and we were as far down as you're ever going to be at half-time.
"It was a case of picking them up and also giving them a dressing down.
"We couldn't go in there and completely destroy them – while there are certain things that went on that weren't acceptable, you need to give a good performance in the second half.
"Fair play to the players, they responded magnificently."