Truro adapting to National League step up - Rooney

Dan Rooney has started in all five of Truro's games in the National League so far

Truro City midfielder Dan Rooney says his side's winless start has made them appreciate "quite quickly" the step up in the National League.

The Tinners won the National League South title last season to become the first Cornwall club ever promoted to the fifth tier.

However, Truro currently sit bottom of the National League table, losing all five games in the season thus far, recording just one goal.

"I think in the league below, I think you can afford to make mistakes and not get punished every single time," Rooney told BBC Radio Cornwall.

"Whereas in this league you make one mistake and the quality that other teams have got, they're going to take the chances and it's the same going forward.

"If we don't get many chances, and not many teams do get chances in this league, when you do get the chances you also have to take them.

"I think the step up has caused us to realise that quite quickly, but at least, we're creating the chances."

The former Northern Ireland youth international was speaking ahead of Truro's match at home to 15th-placed Boston United on Saturday.

Despite their poor start, Rooney believes the club's recent performances mean they will soon convert promise into points.

"We haven't got any points on the board, which obviously is not a positive, but we've been in every single game so far, bar Tamworth," added the 26-year-old.

"We've had chances and to be honest, I think it was our own fault we've conceded the goals we have."