Another winning start

SO, Albion managed to keep up their impressive opening day record by edging out Coventry at Brickfields today.
It is the ninth season running Albion have won their first fixture of the new term
Their last opening day defeat came at the start of the 1999-00 campaign when the club were in National League Division Three South.
That day Albion lost 27-9 away at Norwich in Graham Dawe's first match in charge.
Dawe, who was celebrating his 40th birthday at Norwich, was one of four summer arrivals to start that match, alongside Alan Paver, Tom Barlow and Chris Atkinson.
Today, Albion gave starts to six summer signings - Tom Jarvis, Justin Mensah-Coker, Greg Nicholls, Ryan Hopkins, Arthur Brenton and Danny Thomas - although two of those - Hopkins and Thomas - had played for the club previously.
The most new faces Albion have started with on the opening day under Dawe is seven - and that was last season against Esher.
In 2000-01 three new players started the first game, in 2001-02 it was four, in 2002-03 it was six, 2003-04 it was five, 2004-05 it was six and in 2005-06 and 2006-07 it was four.
Most National Division One clubs change their squad considerably during the summer and it can sometimes take teams a few weeks to really find their form.
A couple of years ago Leeds lost at home to London Welsh on the opening day, but then went on to win the title.
Although Albion did not set the world alight today against Coventry they will be just happy with the win against a team that did the double over them last season
There were certainly a number of positives.

New scrum-half Greg Nicholls looked very sharp, as did winger Liam Gibson, who came agonisingly close to scoring a stunning try. Martin Rice looked like he had never been away, despite spending nearly 18 months on the sidelines with two career-threatening injuries, and Mike Denbee looks like he is determined to continue where he left off last season.
Albion certainly could have had more than the one try they did score. As well as Gibson's effort, Albion came close of a couple of other occasions, only for the final pass to go astray in Coventry's 22.
But next week, Albion's new-look team will face a real test of their potential when they travel to Meadow Lane to take on Nottingham, who finished third last season.
That game will be particularly special for prop Hopkins, who scored Albion's only try today, as he has spent the last two years at Nottingham before returning to Devon in May.