A 4-0 defeat of Quirindi at Gipps Street on Saturday followed a 4-0 round one win over Kootingal.

But according to Mountain Goats player Adam Jones, a member of the small group of "good mates" who drove the club's formation ahead of last season, the performances of the Goats' under-6 side are just as important as the performances of the top-flight side.

The Mountain Goats' rapid rise and already fertile "mateship-based" culture, Jones continued, is something "we couldn't imagine" when the club was formed.

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"We've been extremely lucky that a lot of people have got on board with what we were trying to do from the start," he said. "We're hopeful that we can only grow, and we keep bringing those juniors through."

Like the classic US sitcom Cheers, Moore Creek is the club where everyone knows your name, Jones said.

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And one day, he continued, the club would love to repay the suburb they are named after by being based there.

Given the Mountain Goats' exponential growth - 15 junior teams and three senior teams - that will occur sooner rather than later.

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Jones - long considered one of the region's best cricketers - agreed that it was an apt metaphor to describe him as being like a proud father watching his child flourish, in regards to the Goats' progress.

He and the club's other founding fathers sit on Moore Creek's committee, headed by president Matt Bridge, whom Jones said conceived the idea to create a club to serve as a kind of catchment for the "growth" of soccer in Tamworth.

He said the name Moore Creek was chosen, in part, because it was a fast-growing area of Tamworth.

The Mountain Goats' success, he added, was "something that we're already extremely proud of". "And I think we can only become prouder of the club as it grows."

The end goal, Jones said, was to "become a big club in town".