JONJO Dickman believes Grimsby Town felt the brunt of a Darlington side with a point to prove at the weekend.

Midfielder Dickman played an impressive role in Quakers' first away win of the season as David Hodgson's men moved up to sixth in League Two.

Dickman felt the weekend performance and result went some way in eradicating the memories of Quakers' demise against Leyton Orient seven days earlier.

"We couldn't have done any worse than we did against Orient so it was nice to come back and play well and get the result," said Dickman.

The former Sunderland midfielder also admitted that, after taking four points from their opening two games, prior to the Orient defeat, Quakers approached Saturday's game with every incentive to set the record straight.

He added: "We'd played so well in pre-season and the two previous games so we knew how important it was to put things right for ourselves and for the fans.

"The Orient game was very disappointing for everybody, but we've shown a lot of character.

"We know how important it is to get as many points on the board early in the season and hopefully we can build on today's win."

Even after Clyde Wijnhard missed a penalty, Dickman felt the visitors always had the upper hand, before substitute Guylain Ndumbu-Nsungu made sure of the points from the spot.

He said: "We made it a little bit difficult for ourselves but I thought we were the better team over the 90 minutes.

"I thought it wasn't going to be our day when Clyde missed but we stuck at it got the result that we deserved. We played some good stuff and we knew they were there for the taking.

"We played to our strengths, getting the ball down and we knew that we would create chances.

"It took a penalty to win the game, but we I thought we were unlucky not to win it with the other chances we had."