NEWPORT County manager Justin Edinburgh believes Saturday’s emphatic 4-1 win over Accrington Stanley is just the beginning for the Exiles as the embark on their Football League adventure.

The Exiles, promoted to League Two last term after 25-years in non-league football, will now travel to Championship side Brighton tomorrow in the Capital One Cup as the fledgling leaders of their new division.

Goals from Harry Worley, Christian Jolley and a double from Chris Zebroski on Saturday ensured a huge triumph on Newport’s big day, but boss Edinburgh feels it’s merely a springboard to bigger and better things.

Indeed, Edinburgh went as far as to say he expected such a high class showing from his side who went through their entire pre-season campaign unbeaten.

“My job as a manager is to get the best out of the boys and sometimes to do that you need to embrace the occasion and not shield them from it,” he explained.

“With the players we’ve got now, I felt they could deal with the pressure, it was a huge, huge day and while you can’t guarantee results, you can guarantee performances and there aren’t many times this group lets me down, it was a real good team showing.

“We want to make sure Rodney Parade is a fortress that only our own fans like coming to visit.

We want to keep the good feeling around the place and we’ll do that with performances like Saturday, that’s the catalyst.

“I think this group will deliver whenever. There was more pressure on today than for 18 months. It was our biggest game as a group and now we can really concentrate on football, rather than history and nostalgia and the occasion.

“These players set standards and maintain them, they demand it of one another, that’s just how they are.”