Northampton Town manager Chris Wilder has urged his players to maintain consistent levels if they are to keep hopes of automatic promotion alive.

The Cobblers have lost only one of their last nine League Two fixtures to remain in strong contention for a top-three spot.

Victory over Stevenage helped maintain Northampton's promotion charge, and Wilder was quick to praise his players for their "outstanding" recent run.

"The win takes us right in and amongst it now and I've got nothing but praise and admiration for the group and the way they're going about it, as well as the whole club," the Northampton Chronicle quotes him as saying. "You'd rather be there than fourth from bottom so we've made a good, solid start but I still believe there's more to come from us, and we'll get better and stronger.

"Our points per game ratio is outstanding and now we just need to keep that consistency. We'll have days, like the first half on Saturday, when it doesn't flow but it's about how you react and how you react to defeat, and for us to go on the run we did - the six games unbeaten - lose at Cambridge and then win the next two is an outstanding effort.

"We've got a week off now so we'll rest and get our feet up and then go into work looking to go again and keep in touch at the top and we'll do that by being positive and trying to pick up another three points. We've got a spring in our step and we should be proud of what we're doing at this club."

Town's tally of 27 points from 15 games is their highest since 1990-91 when they were competing in Division Four.