MICHAEL Flynn insists his Newport County AFC players are focused on their own jobs and will not be affected by their relegation rivals' results, writes Ryan Robinson.

County begin the first of “six cup finals” when they travel to St James Park to take on play-off bound Exeter City on Saturday.

But Flynn insists the team will be solely focused on the task in hand rather than the progress of Hartlepool United at Morecambe or Cheltenham Town at Wycombe Wanderers.

“If we don’t win the game then it doesn’t matter what the other teams do,” he said.

“Cheltenham and Hartlepool [still have to] play each-other but they could still lose the majority of their remaining matches and we could win one and still go down so we’ve just got to concentrate on our own performance.

“If then after the game we find out that one or both of them has lost then great but if we don’t win then we have no chance of closing the gap,” he added.

“There’s no point worrying about what others do until we’ve done our job. We can’t affect those results so we just have to concentrate on our own performance.”

Asked whether the players would think about other results during the game, Flynn said: “I don’t think for one minute that the players are thinking about what Cheltenham and Hartlepool are doing.”

“They are concentrating on what we are doing, and what they as individuals are doing and that’s what the team needs.”

However, Flynn does concede that some may start to become affected by other results on the final day.

“If it comes to the last day and we need to win to survive then I would think a couple of them would look at results," said the caretaker boss. “They may also be thinking about it with ten minutes to go. But for now, they’ve been focused, they’ve been brilliant and I can’t praise them enough."