STABILITY is not a sexy word. Stability won’t sweep you off your feet and take you dancing ‘til dawn. But stability is exactly what Newport County AFC need as we approach the start of another League Two campaign.

After years of picking the wrong man County appear to have found Mr Right in Michael Flynn and it’s time for the pair to settle down and build a bright future together.

Flynn is the sixth manager to take charge of the Exiles since Justin Edinburgh’s four-year stay in Newport came to an end in 2015.

The last two seasons have each seen three bosses in the dugout at Rodney Parade with Terry Butcher, John Sheridan and Warren Feeney at the helm in 2015-2016 and Feeney, Graham Westley and Flynn in charge last term.

County fans won’t need reminding that both those seasons ended with their side perilously close to a return to non-league football with a 22nd-place finish in the fourth tier.

And not since 2013-2014 has the club started and ended a season with the same man in charge. That campaign – their first back in the Football League – ended in a creditable 14th-place finish.

The Great Escape was fun. More than that, it was incredible. But I think most Exiles fans would be more than happy with 14th place this season.

Mid-table mediocrity may not be good for the bank balance in terms of attracting fans through the door at the business end of the season but another relegation battle doesn’t bear thinking about.

At last week’s supporters meeting director Shaun Johnson revealed that the club had lost around £250,000 last season.

Roughly £100,000 of that went on paying off Feeney and his assistant Andy Todd and covering the costs of the various postponed and abandoned matches at Rodney Parade.

The other £150,000 was spent on signing 13 players – eight permanent and five on loan – to help beat the drop.

With the estimated £400,000 cost of relegation avoided, that turned out to be money well spent by the board.

There’s no doubt that the likes of Mickey Demetriou, Mark O’Brien, David Pipe, Ryan Bird and Alex Samuel – all brought in by the much-maligned Westley – played a major part in securing the club’s Football League status.

But the County directors will not need me to tell them that sacking managers like they’re going out of fashion and buying a whole new team every six months is not a recipe for a sustainable future.

The new hybrid pitch won’t be perfect but, together with drainage and irrigation improvements, it should mean there will be no more costly washouts at Rodney Parade. And in hometown hero Flynn the club finally has a manager who will, we hope, want to stick around and take the club forward.

Now, as Edinburgh and goalkeeper Joe Day tell the Argus today, it’s imperative that the club gives Flynn the time to succeed.

Flynn said earlier this summer that he knows he has to produce results or he will be sacked.

As we’re constantly told, football is a results business but there is room for some patience when you believe you’ve got the right man in place.

It’s time to remove that revolving door leading to the manager’s office and give Flynn the chance to grow into the job.

With seven wins in his 12 games in charge he’s already made an incredible start to his managerial career.

But, like an England opening batsmen not out on 35 overnight, he’s now got to get himself ‘in’ again.

A rescue mission is one thing but planning for a whole campaign in charge is a completely different matter and there may well be teething problems, particularly with four out of the first five league games on the road.

But with the invaluable help of coach Wayne Hatswell and experienced adviser Lennie Lawrence, I’d back Flynn to get the club moving in the right direction as long as he’s given the opportunity.

Pre-season often means very little but the settled Exiles defence looked pretty solid against League One side Northampton Town at the weekend.

Matty Dolan looks a more than capable replacement for Mark Randall in central midfield and Lamar Reynolds and Frank Nouble have the potential to be one of the most exciting front pairings in the division.

Throw in the set-pieces of the versatile Robbie Willmott and the raw talent of loan signing Shawn McCoulsky, with more to come, and there are plenty of reasons for optimism ahead of Saturday’s season opener at Stevenage.

Let’s just avoid hitting the panic button if everything doesn’t click straight away.