It is unlikely that, behind the scenes, Neal Ardley and his team are just sitting around and relaxing with a beer while working on the tan.

They will be watching and re-watching our past couple of games, making notes on each and every tap of the ball – who to who, when, left or right, forward or back.

Each and every AFC Wimbledon player will be under the microscope.

But what will Ardley and his management team learn from this excessive scrutiny?

It’s fair to say that we have not been properly out-classed in League One, the crux of our defeats has mainly come from being punished for – often – small errors that we were fortunate enough to get away with in League Two.

We can get the ball into the box, we can – now – score from set pieces, we can occasionally defend; it is just that last little bit of quality: the final touch, that toe in for a clearance.

It’s not great being in the bottom pack, and it's games like this Saturday’s clash against Charlton Athletic that we must win.

In recent years we’ve generally done quite well against teams chasing promotion and suffered against strugglers (not to say that Charlton are “strugglers”).

Charlton are mid-table, and should be a comfortable benchmark for us this year.

While we would take a point, we need to follow through and come away with all three.

If we fall six points behind the lower-mid pack then clawing back the deficit will be much harder.

Ardley told the official Wimbledon website on Thursday: “I don’t think there will be any games when we are favourites. We have to get our heads around it. If we are good at being ‘us’ we will pick up points and be competitive.”

That pretty much sums it up.