NEWPORT County boss Justin Edinburgh is hopeful the club are going to reap the benefits from a more attacking approach this season.

The Exiles delighted their supporters on Monday in their 1-1 draw with Cambridge thanks to a high intensity performance that saw them create a host of chances.

Edinburgh feels his options at wingback, as well as the midfield tandem of Mark Byrne and the in-form Adam Chapman, will mean County soon turn their chances into goals, hopefully beginning today against Northampton Town.

“We’ve been a bit bolder this season, the wingbacks we have are less defensive than we had them last season, it’s about being attack minded now,” he told the Argus.

“We’ve worked on ways to get them more involved, with the extra man in midfield and I think as a manager, now, I am prepared to be a bit bolder.

“We have revisited the Cambridge game and tried to put a few things into training to work on movement and recreated a few of the situations from the game, because we have to start scoring more goals as a team.

“I had the belief in the group that we can reach higher standards, we are a year further down the line and we are a bit more bold and positive because I know we have the quality.

“We are three unbeaten and want to improve and push on after a difficult start to the season.

“This little revival we’ve had to put in has been very pleasing and we need to maintain it, because we don’t want to go back to the feeling we had in losing our opening four games.”

Midfielder Byrne, who has been County’s most consistent performer throughout the campaign to date, admits he’s relishing his partnership with Chapman.

“We are building well as a unit, we are playing well together, and we are all different type of players (in midfield) that provide a good blend.

“I really enjoy playing with Chappy though; he’s got two great feet and can pick passes all over the pitch and I know I can get the ball to him and he’ll do his stuff.”

Byrne felt Monday’s game suggests Newport will thrash someone sooner rather than later.

“It was a good performance from us against Cambridge, if we’d have got the first goal it would’ve been a different story because we battered them from start to finish,” he start.

“The issue we had was needing to be more clinical in front of goal and the gaffer has told us that we could’ve had five or six if we’d stuck away some of those chances.

“That was especially true with our corners because we had 17 of them.

“Hopefully today we find that touch in front of goal and keep going from there; we will end up winning four or five sometime if we keep up that level of performance.

“Our final ball wasn’t an issue on Monday; it was just inside the 18-yard box.

“We had so many chances, the keeper made some good saves and I hit the crossbar, we mounted pressure on them and luckily Robbie got the equaliser.

“When I hit the crossbar I looked at Chappy (Adam Chapman) to say, ‘what is going on here’ because it just felt that whatever we did, we weren’t going to score.

“We had so much possession, but we let ourselves down in the 18-yard box.

“We’ve just got to find that ruthless streak, because if we stay on a run we will shoot back up the table.”