Justin Corday, the Somerset Trojans captain, says it is too early to start worrying about his team’s poor start to the season.

Trojans have started the campaign off on the back foot, having been eliminated from the Dudley Eve Trophy after suffering 4-0 defeats against North Village and Robin Hood in the group stage.

However, Corday is backing his team to bounce back once they iron out a few kinks between now and their league opener away to Premier Division newcomers Young Men’s Social Club at Police Field on September 24.

“It is definitely too early to be pushing panic buttons,” Corday said. “We talked about that in training because the results don’t look good. But it’s all about a process and we are working on a new system on how we play and it’s coming along.

“Football is game of small margins and mistakes happen and you can only get better every day.

“We can’t harp on what we are doing wrong, we have to work on what we are doing right and focus on that.

“It’s not just worrying about the bad things because we are losing. It’s bigger than that and there’s a lot of things that we are working on that’s new.”

Trojans have yet to open their scoring account after 180 minutes of football so far.

“We are creating chances and it’s all about the final product,” Corday said. “We just have to keep working hard.”

Trojans have also struggled on the defensive end where a series of errors have taken its toll.

“I feel like we give away goals more than teams score against us,” Corday said. “We tend to make mistakes and get punished by the opposition instead of the opposition punishing us with a piece of brilliance.

“I feel like both games we didn’t deserve to lose 4-0 but it happens in football and you live and learn and look to put your best forward next game.

“You want to win the Dudley Eve but that’s the pre-season tournament to put everything you have been working on together and see where you are.”

Trojans’s squad boasts several youngsters who are still coming to grips with top-flight football, among them 16-year-old goalkeeper Yizharyah Williams who has been throw into the deep end in the absence of first choice Shaquille Bean, who is serving a three-month ban.

“We have a lot of young players so it’s coming together slowly but surely and we will get there,” Corday said.

“Right now we are just focusing on keeping our youngsters’ confidence high, especially the keeper who is just 16. He has given up a few goals in his first two games and we don’t want his confidence to drop.

“He is still the keeper and we are not going to drop him because he gave up four goals. I’d say at least five goals out of the eight he couldn’t do much about and the others were mistakes on his part. But that’s going to happen because he’s a youngster and we are not worried too much about the keeper situation.”

Corday is in his first full season as Trojans captain and says it is an honour to lead one of the island’s most decorated clubs.

“It’s an honour and I can’t even explain it,” he said. “I always wanted to do that and now that I have got it I want to make the most of it.

“This wasn’t just given to me. I had to earn it and I’m going to try and prove why I have it.”