James Tomkins has warned that nobody should get too carried away with the team’s great start to the season.

Talking to the Essex based Echo the 25 year old central defender declared: “It has been a great start for us. There is great confidence among the whole team and it is nice to see us right up there with the big teams.

Hopefully it will continue but it is a massive ask to make it go all the way to the end of the year. It is too early on to get too carried away but to be in the top half of the table is still the aim at the end of the year.”

Tomkins has been unable to win his place back since picking up a thigh injury against Queens Park Rangers and he said: “I am doing everything I can to get back into the team at West Ham. That is my main goal at the club and I have to focus on that.”

He is pleased that Sam Allardyce has received the backing of the board adding: ““I think it’s great we are playing so well this season and the manager has got us into this position.

“Obviously the chairman put faith in him and this year his record speaks for itself, we’ve done really well and he’s answered the critics.”