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Defiant Collis aims to kick-start campaign
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TADCASTER Albion boss Jim Collis is calling on his
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TADCASTER Albion boss Jim Collis is calling on his side to "stand up and be counted" ahead of tomorrow's NCE Division One clash at home to Winterton Rangers. (3pm k.o)
The Park club slumped to a 2-0 reverse at Carlton Town last weekend and have now slumped to sixth place in the league.
Collis dubbed his squad a "Jekyll and Hyde" outfit and has ordered them to eradicate sloppy tackling and introduce clinical finishing in a bid to kick-start their campaign.
The Albion chief admitted his side had been "making mistakes all season" and revealed he "couldn't understand" why Taddy had lost the games they have.
But he remains in defiant mood and insisted his charges are capable of recapturing their winning form tomorrow.
"I'm looking for a win," Collis said.
"We beat Winterton at their place and I'm looking on the positive side. I want three points. The lads need to go out and prove a point. I don't think that their heads will be down.
"And I'm not going to be making wholesale changes because I think we've played well recently.
"People might say, 'you lost so why aren't you changing things around?'. But we showed with the Sutton game that an attitude like that isn't always best.
"We lost the first game and then, just a week later with the same team, we paralysed them.
"So I'll be sticking to the same team and hopefully they'll go and do the business. Everyone keeps telling me that we're the best team they've played all season.
"But talking a good game won't get us anywhere. We need to let our football speak for us and kill teams off.
"I'll be having a few words with them before the game. I imagine the lads are dreading seeing me at 2pm tomorrow afternoon!"
Albion were left to rue two defensive blunders that saw them give away a fifth penalty of the season and concede a painfully soft goal in last week's 2-0 defeat to Carlton Town.
And Collis's men were also smarting after missing a string of gilt-edged chances to put the game beyond the visitors.
"To be quite honest, last week's result was a joke," Collis said.
"We should have won the game quite easily. I don't know how to describe it. We made mistakes at both ends.
"Up front, we missed chances. We had five decent opportunities. Three of those were in the six-yard box and one was only a foot out.
"And, defensively, we were poor. The lads didn't seem to know how to hold a man off. It was just tackle, tackle, tackle.
"It was disappointing. I went to the game full of beans but left for home with my chin between my knees.
"Let's just hope that things are a lot brighter come tomorrow evening."
tom.cullimore@ypn.co.uk
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'www.wetherbytoday.co.uk 17th December 2004'
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