Brighton Bears' Wilbur Johnson knows you cannot please all the fans all the time.

That is why he will ignore anyone casting doubts over the Bears' prize-winning potential and attempt to help them to a trophy semi-final by winning at London Towers on Saturday.

Last weekend's nine-point successes over Chester and Milton Keynes made it 11 straight wins and rendered Bears fans' "ten in a row" song obsolete.

The Blue Army are loving their team's start to the campaign but the theme from fans from elsewhere this week was along the lines of: "You've done nothing yet."

Nick Nurse's men, the argument goes, have still not proved they can beat the best away from home.

Those doubts can be well and truly dispelled over the next three Saturdays. The search for a first win at Towers in 16 attempts, dating back to 1994, will be followed by a league clash at Sheffield a week on Saturday.

Then comes the ultimate in double-headers as Bears tackle Towers at Sheffield in the cup semi-final on December 7 before visiting Chester the following afternoon.

The bar is being pushed higher with every unbeaten week and Johnson is relishing it.

He said: "I think some people went from appreciating what we are doing and now they are hating us a little bit.

"At first they said we hadn't beaten anybody good. Then we beat Newcastle but they said we did it because Niki Arinze was hurt.

"Then they said we hadn't beaten Chester so we did it.

"Then we hadn't won games back-to-back, so we did that, and now they are saying we haven't won a hard game on the road."

"There are always going to be some critics out there but we know we are a good team and I don't think we need to prove anything to anyone.

"We're just concentrating on Towers. They are going to have Terrell (Myers) and Shaheen (Holloway) back but we have got to try and dictate the tempo and have them play to our strengths.

"We've got enough confidence to know if we go out and play our game we should come out on top."

Bears know sides will be gunning for them. That was the case at Milton Keynes as the hosts looked to cash in on Bears' exertions against Chester 21 hours earlier.

Johnson admitted: "We wanted to come out strong because in four of our last five games we had been trailing at half-time.

"It kind of back-fired because I think the guys were tired by the second half but we were still able to hang on and that's the sign of a good veteran team.

"The next game is always the toughest. My college coaches always used to say 'win your next game, don't worry about anything else'."

Coach Nurse had his men on the practice court for two-and-a-half hours yesterday and believes they will enjoy the games coming their way.

He said: "We need challenges so I hope these games get a bit more stressful for us.

"There's nothing more fun than winning on an opposing team's floor and being the only people jumping up and down at the end."