The start of the season is always a dangerous time for over inflating expectations or causing unrest and pressure. Both are usually unfounded. I always think that performances are much more important than results early on. If the results come as well then obviously that is ideal.
Many times teams will rush off getting points but this masks the deficiencies in the team (every team gets a spell where they pick up points but don't play well and essentially get lucky/goalie plays a blinder/opposition plays poorly etc etc) as Graham points out with Cheltenham.
If you are doing the right things, results will usually follow.
Look at the game against Southampton a while back, we got a scrappy goal and the points but we were basically outplayed from beginning to end. The result didn't make us a good team nor Southampton a bad team (as the season showed) but the performance of each on the day gave a clue.
There will always be freak results at the start of the season before it settles down.
One thing that does seem to be determined in the early season though is top goal scorers. I have no specific evidence on this but it does seem that players that have an early goal scoring burst do carry that through the season, irrespective of their team results. What springs to mind is Lee Power; he had a pre-season where he couldn't stop scoring. On the opening day he had a goal disallowed (for offside I think) and I don't think he scored again that season and disappeared, he seemed to lose all the confidence that he had brought into the season.
So I look for us to not lose, reports that we played well (i.e. weren't hanging on) but with some things just not quite clicking, and at least one of the strikers scoring!
Oh and one other thing I look for is how we play in the League Cup. We often play against higher league opposition and if we hold our own(even if we lose) that gives me confidence for the season.
So nothing tangible just a personal opinion...it will soon unfold, but for now we are all in the same boat dreaming that this will be our year!