SKIPPER Gareth Ainsworth has done 22 pre-season campaigns but he’s as excited by this campaign as he ever has been.

The 37-year-old can’t wait to kick off another ten-month slog and is determined to finish it with a promotion winners’ medal around his neck.

And he says if Blues play to their potential no one will be able to match them in League Two this season.

Ainsworth joined the Blues last season from Championship side QPR and even though the Blues went down last season he says the signs were already there that this term can be a cracker.

He said: “It was crazy. People were saying there was more optimism around the club when they went down than there was when they went up the year before.

“People were so positive that we’d come straight back up because of the football we were playing and the results we were getting at the end of last season.”

And he says Wanderers are stronger now than the team which threatened to pull off a Houdini act.

He said: “We’ve got a stronger squad than last year. It’s smaller but it’s stronger.

“It’s the gaffer’s squad now, he’s put his stamp on it. They’re his players and he’s had a pre-season with us. He’s got us super-fit and now he’s stamping his principles and tactics on our game.

“The aim is promotion. Some managers say you shouldn’t say that word but we should be.

“We should be striving for it and we can achieve that. We’re a good side, we’ve got some good players and we’ve got the right man in charge and if we play like we can we we will get what we want.”

Blues have suffered just one defeat from their nine pre-season games and the 5-1 win over a Chelsea XI was a sign of what they can do when they hit top gear.

Ainsworth said: “The Chelsea game was a joy to play in. I was smiling to myself because the things we had been doing in training we were replicating on the pitch. It had become instinctive.

“We can’t get carried away by pre-season and it would be naive to expect every game to be like that.

“It’s going to be a physical league, it’s going to be very quick and we are going to come up against some physical giant lads who are going to try and stop us but hopefully our football will show through.

“Our ability is not in doubt and I truly believe we have got enough fighters in the team as well.

“You don’t have to be going around getting red and yellow cards to be a fighter, we’ve got different kinds of fighters, who are mentally strong.

“Last season is history. This is 2010/2011 this is the new Wycombe. Everything is right and hopefully we can give it a right good go.”