Albion Rovers boss Brian Reid has urged his side to be more clinical in front of goal and turn draws into wins after Saturday’s 1-1 at Stirling Albion.
Reid will take a point from Stirling Albion and move on to this weekend’s trip to Elgin City in League Two, but says Rovers had chances to take all three from Forthbank.
The frustrated former defender says it’s not half-chances his side aren’t taking, and that they could be on a run that can take them higher up the table.
As it is, a win and two draws in their last three games has given them the five points they have from six games so far, leaving them a point above last placed Forfar.
Charlie Reilly’s fourth goal of the season 56 minutes into the game gave Rovers a point, eight minutes after Kyle Banner had opened the scoring for Stirling.
But Reid said: “It’s three games undefeated, two draws and a win.
“We would obviously like to turn these draws into wins but you’ve got to be clinical in front of goal and take your chances when you get them.
“It’s not like we’re missing half-chances, it’s clear-cut chances. We really need to be a wee bit more clinical, and if we can do that we can turn these draws into wins.
“I don’t think we played as well as we can. We were dogged enough, but I don’t think we were at the levels we had been.
“You’re always going to get that inconsistency, but we need to get back to playing the way we can and if we keep doing that we’ll start picking up wins rather than draws.
“But we’re on a decent enough run, three games undefeated from three tough games, so we’ve just got to keep looking forward and taking the positives from it.”
Reid added: “It’s a decent enough point.
“They probably had more of the play, but we had the better chances, so we’ll take a point and move on.
“We had two or three really gilt-edged chances that we probably should score and we could have come away with the win.
“At the same instance I said to them after the game that was one we probably could have lost, so a point at Stirling wasn’t the worst.”
Elgin go into Saturday’s clash at Borough Briggs on the back of a good 2-0 win over Bonnyrigg Rose that has them sitting seventh, a point above Rovers, who will be looking to leap over their hosts.
Reid said: “It’s never easy up there but we’ve got a decent enough record there, so we certainly have nothing to fear.
“We need to go up there and try to pick up points.
“It’s a long journey to go up there and come back with nothing.
“We want to make sure we play at the right levels, defend properly, take our chances when they come along, and hopefully we can get the three points.
“The positives are that we are creating chances, but we need to take them and kill teams off.
“If we can get that second goal it’s a different story altogether.”
Kick-off on Saturday is 3pm.
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