"I'm loving it."

Paul Fairclough is lapping up his third spell in charge of Barnet.

Fairclough, who replaced sacked boss Mark Stimson at the beginning of the year, guided the Bees to another point in their battle to avoid the drop from the Football League at Northampton Town on Saturday.

The 0-0 draw was further evidence that Fairclough has made Barnet into a much more difficult team to beat.

His charges have only lost two of the six games he has been in charge of.

Fairclough is likely to stay in charge until the end of the season and that is something that he is happy with.

"I'm loving every minute of it," he said. "I love working with the players, and I'm loving the whole thing."

Fairclough this week brought in two midfielders on loan. Anthony Pulis, 26, arrives from Southampton, while Sam Deering, 19, comes from Oxford United.

The boss knows that the team cannot solely rely on the strikers for goals, even though Izale McLeod and Steve Kabba, on paper, should form one of the most potent attacks in League Two. He will now be hoping that the new arrivals, more attacking than holding midfielders such as Glen Southam, Mark Hughes, Tommy Fraser and Rossi Jarvis, can supply the front two with plenty of ammunition and weigh in with a few strikes themselves.

Both Kabba and McLeod were in action at Northampton, though it was defender Clovis Kamdjo who came closest to a goal.

The Bees are back on home soil this Saturday, when Torquay United come to Underhill.