Rutherglen Glencairn boss Willie Harvey has warned his facet they will’t afford too many extra hiccups after dropping to 10-man Shotts on Saturday.
However Harvey is bound the result's only a blip, and that his facet will haul their means up the West of Scotland League First Division desk.
Jack McIlveen’s 51st-minute strike levelled Taylor Evans’ first-half opener, regardless of Dean Sutherland being despatched off 20 minutes in.
However Chris Meikle popped up with a winner for Shotts with 20 minutes left, leaving Harvey annoyed.
He mentioned: “It’s a hiccup, however we are able to’t afford too lots of these.
“We’ve obtained cup ties within the subsequent few weeks and we’re going to finish up doing catch-up. We don’t need to be doing that, and additional down the road hastily we have to go on a 10-match run or one thing to get again into competition.
“I’m fairly assured as soon as we quiet down and get extra common league video games that we are going to get ourselves climbing up the desk.
“We’ll have a few video games in hand that may take us to inside about fifth or sixth within the league, after which we’ve obtained everyone above us to play.
“It’s solely the beginning of the season, there’s a protracted approach to go.”
Harvey wasn’t happy together with his facet’s efficiency, although, and felt it was beneath the requirements that they had set for themselves.
He mentioned: “We didn’t play on the ranges that we had executed within the weeks earlier than, after we had been actually happy with the performances.
“We felt we had been a wee bit below-par on Saturday for some purpose – although in saying that, we had sufficient possibilities to win the sport.
“Sadly we didn’t take any of these possibilities, and a few errors have value us the end result.
“It’s irritating to not capitalise on them happening to 10 males, however generally it goes towards you, if the opposite staff step up to speed.
“Actually, once you’re 11 v 10, you must be capable to unfold it a few bit, particularly so early on within the recreation.
“The concept is to get the ball down, get it handed about, make the opposing staff chase the ball, tire them out and create areas, the place you must all the time have the spare man accessible.
“We didn’t do sufficient of that, we didn’t take management of the ball in addition to we must always have been doing, and allowed Shotts an excessive amount of play within the recreation.”
Harvey now turns his consideration to the go to to Tayport within the Scottish Junior Cup third spherical, and he mentioned: “We count on a very onerous recreation, however I’m not going to fret about them, we’ll arrange the best way we usually do, and play our recreation.
“However I'm on the lookout for a response, and the gamers are offended at themselves.”
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