As they basked in the surprisingly warm glow of Saturday’s victory over London Welsh, a warmth that had everything to do with the splendid result and little to do with the unseasonably benign December temperatures, both Kevin Maggs and Richard Stott cast an eye to the near future.

That was not unreasonable, it was, after all, New Year’s Eve and a time for reflection and the making of resolutions, yet completely independent of the other both made reference to the C word. (No, not that one.)

Instead, they alluded to their side’s lack of consistency.

“We’ve just got to build on it now, try and get a bit more like that next week,” Stott opined. “I have been at Moseley long enough, where we get one result and then rest on it.

“We need to get a bit of a mentality now where we get as many wins as we can.”

Maggs’s thought process was precisely the same. The 10-7 victory took years off the Bristolian’s demeanour and while part of him was looking forward to seeing in 2012 with a few beers and in good cheer, another part was already thinking about this weekend’s visit from Leeds.

There is, after all, a score to settle. Of Moseley’s ten Championship defeats this season the 22-21 reverse suffered at Headingley Carnegie was the most painful.

Moseley had put a terrible first half behind them and dominated the second, laid waste to the home pack and scythed through their backs.

Yet one careless, last-minute penalty later and Leeds full-back Tommy Bell landed the knockout punch.

Maggs looked as though he was about to cry as he tried to avoid recourse to a rather more taboo C word.

But there are more important reasons to crave a second successive league win on Saturday and those are all about consistency and building momentum, something Moseley have been appalling at in the last couple of years.

Before Christmas they beat Doncaster and Esher in consecutive weeks, the first time they had registered consecutive regular-season successes in two years.

Their two wins earlier in the campaign – against Esher and Bristol – had both been followed up by league losses at London Scottish and Bedford.

They won five games last term, none of them back to back, until they reeled off four straight when the desperation of the relegation play-offs finally hit home.

Not since October 2009, when they prevailed over Doncaster, Coventry and Plymouth have Moseley been able to claim even a modicum of consistency.

And Maggs knows it is his greatest challenge.

“I still believe we can beat anyone on our day,” the head coach says. “It’s just about getting the best out of these players every week and with a small squad it’s tough. It’s virtually impossible to get the best out of everyone every week.”

The implication is that part-time players find it harder to raise their games on a regular basis. It was an issue that drove Ian Smith to distraction and Maggs, a man who has spent virtually all of his rugby career at the highest level, seems genuinely taken aback by the wild fluctuations in his charges’ performances.

“Being part-time certainly does make a difference – the results show that,” Stott admits.