City boss Brian Barry-Murphy sat down with the press ahead of this weekend's trip to Stockport County.
The Bluebirds have had an international break since their last competitive action. While away, the City boss was nominated for Sky Bet League One Manager of the Month following an August that contained five wins and a draw from six league matches.
As well as Brian's nomination, City goalkeeper Nathan Trott was also recognised for his excellent work, in the player category.
"I wouldn't vote for me," Brian humbly began. "I think you always have to have an appreciation for the work others are doing.
"For the Club though it is a sign we're doing really well. Whoever is chosen, it is great.
"Nathan has done really well. It's never easy to come into a new Club in that position, with as little time to work as he did. He's had a great impact on the team.
"He's helped us enormously to get some very important results in the first month of the season. We're very pleased with him. Hopefully he can continue to get even better."
The City support are already looking forward to seeing two new Bluebirds for the first time, with Gabriel Osho and Omari Kellyman registered and readying for action. Brian continued: "Gabriel has been playing in France with Auxerre whereas Omari hasn't played in a long time. They're both getting used to our way of working and building up their volume of training.
"We have to be patient in Omari's case. He's a player of the highest potential, but he's been out for a while and had a very complex injury. We have to be careful, as we want him to be really successful over the course of the season.
"One of the most important parts about bringing Omari to the Club is that I've seen him play in all of the front five positions. He can be equally effectively in each of these. This is why he's so important to the squad.
"They're both settling in really well and we're delighted they're here."
With playmaker Rubin Colwill missing out on an international call-up due to a knock, the boss gave an update on how he is getting on, alongside fellow midfielders David Turnbull, and Alex Robertson, who missed matches for City before the break.
"Rubin had an issue with his knee after a strong challenge against Plymouth Argyle," said Brian. "It'll be his first full day of training today, after doing a couple of parts of it on Tuesday. We're hopeful if he can get through today and tomorrow he'll be available for the weekend.
"David is back in full training, and has trained all week and will be with us this weekend.
"Alex has been back this week as well but he is a few weeks behind where the rest of the team are currently with regards to training and fitness. We will need to be patient with him with regards to building that up.
"Based also on his past, with previous hamstring injuries. I wouldn't like to put a definite time frame on his return. We are working with him to get back at the right time."
It would be easy to get carried away after the first month of the season that City have had, but the person least likely to do that is the man in charge of the Club, who during his press conference stressed the need for continued development over the long campaign ahead.
Beginning by discussing the last two away performances at AFC Wimbledon and Luton Town, Brian added: "I thought we played well in both games. On another day at Wimbledon we could've conceded and lost the game and it was the same at Luton. Nathan made several spectacular saves.
"But also, we did play really well in both games. I suppose we're looking to improve as the season progresses with our performances to give us the very best chance to win.
"We're really clear there is a lot more work to do. For us, since the game against Plymouth, we had a chance to look at all of the games really closely and look at what went well and what you can do better, and there are a lot of things we can improve.
"A lot of the matches have been in the balance. You look at the game against Port Vale and we could have lost. The game against Wimbledon was in the balance; a 50/50 game. And Luton was very similar.
"But we have been reliant on some spectacular goals to put us on our way. We need to improve a lot of our attacking play to give us more of the movements that we can rely on.
"We can't always rely on Ryan Wintle scoring from 40-yards. That's a great finish and one that we're very happy to celebrate but you score them around three times out of 100. You can't over rely on those moving forward. We have to get much better at our attacking actions to give ourselves substance to the way we want to play."