Brian Barry-Murphy spoke to the press to preview Saturday’s clash at Blackpool.
The Tangerines currently sit 23rd in the Sky Bet League One table but have won their last two games in all competitions.
“Blackpool have done very well since Ian Evatt has gone in there, two satisfactory wins for them," Brian began.
"The quality of their squad has been pretty evident, but we’re focused on ourselves and training has been exceptionally good this week.
"We’re looking to find real consistency in our performances and make ourselves the best version that we can be on a more regular basis.
"If we can strive to achieve that, then we’re confident of a performance that will give us a good chance to gain a positive result on Saturday.
"I’m speaking about how mindful we are of how hard we’re pushing the players because every time we’ve had a perceived setback in this dressing room, the response has been incredible.
"The Bolton game, that’s a pretty tough experience to go through, conceding in such a manner late in the game and to bounce back pre-Wrexham with the training performance that we saw, then produce that level of performance in the game.
"To then go again and put in a performance that was slightly frustrating at Peterborough, it’s just because we want so much so soon that we perceive it as being frustrating.
"This week, training has been of the highest level and I like everything that I’ve seen from the team. The hunger within in the changing room is to compete against each other and strive to be in a position where each player can play on Saturday.
"That’s all that we can ask for and I do consider myself truly privileged to be in a club with a group of players who are so honest with the way that they attack every single week."
Ahead of Saturday's clash, Brian provided an injury update on his squad.
He continued: “We’ve not seen Will Fish this week in terms of training, he’s a doubt. I don’t think he will train today, but he may train tomorrow. In all likelihood, it’ll mean that he won’t be available for Saturday.
“Since the game against Newport County, Will has had a knee problem and we’ve been monitoring him since then.
"Due to the nature of Dylan Lawlor’s issues, we’ve been quite stretched so Will has been the one who has played all the games, whereas we have rotated the other position at centre-back. The international fixtures come at a good time for us to try and get everyone fit.
“Will joins Perry Ng, who we’ll look to have back after the international fixtures and Chris Willock is in an identical timeline to Perry. Ollie Tanner is making good progress and Eli King is longer term.”
City have a busy week ahead with Saturday's fixture being followed by a Vertu Trophy clash against Arsenal's U21s.
The Bluebirds boss outlined his plans for managing the fitness of the squad with two games in a short space of time.
“It’s something that is different for our club based on how many players we have being called up internationally in every age group." Brian said.
"We’ve pushed the players every day and at every corner this season, but we just have to be mindful of the fact that we can’t ask them to play on Saturday then play again on Tuesday based on how few players we have available.
"For that game in the Vertu Trophy on Tuesday, I’ll speak with Gavin Chesterfield and Darren Purse later today and come up with a squad that will represent us in that game.
"We had a big following of supporters for that game against Newport County and I think it’s important that we’re as clear and transparent as possible with our supporters to make it obvious what team we will have available for that game.
“The beauty of the squad that we have is that so many of the U21 and U18 players have been in our squads so they have had a lot of access to the games programme that we play in.
"The challenge for Tuesday is that the ones that have had the most exposure like Dakarai Mafico and Tanatswa Nyakuhwa for example, they aren’t available so you have to look at younger players. Robert Tankiewicz has unfortunately broken his collarbone so he won’t be available.
"It’s healthy for the young players to have exposure at First Team level, but in this competition, our team is going to be even younger because of who we have available."