Despite an unsteady start to the campaign with a 3-1 defeat against Lancaster City FC, Farsley soon found their feet in their new surroundings and climbed into the play-off spots with a succession of positive results.

The Redwings made an unsteady start in their inaugural season, going 33-79 to finish last 41 games out of first place in the Western Division.

The prerace frenzy around Rahlves dissolved as soon as he left the gate with an unsteady start, and he finished an ignoble 10th.

While he got off to an unsteady start as captain, with Natal being heavily defeated by Border in his first game at the helm, he later recovered and led the team to win both the four-day and one-day domestic competitions.

After an unsteady start to the 2004-05 season, McInnes began to take control again in the centre of midfield.

Also surviving after an unsteady start was Monica Seles, the defending champion.

But many marriages, like that of the writer J. A. Symonds, got off to an unsteady start as mutual ignorances and shyness inhibited consummation.

If his unsteady start has worried some supporters, it has surprised his opponents.

On May 13, 1607, the first successful English settlement in what is now the United States got off to an unsteady start at a swampy island in a broad tidal river.

Having made an unsteady start, he was 91 not out after the first day's play, and betrayed great nervousness in scoring the required nine runs the next day.