He said: "We're geared up to having a good start and it's important we do get a good start this year, we've started badly the last two seasons and we've had to make up alot of ground.
"Especially as we have seven local derbies this season, that's fourteen games which is a quarter of the club's season.
"There's going to be huge competition and nobody like's to lose derbies so there's extra pressure on us already, we need to start well.