Martin Foyle urges misfiring York City to ‘deliver’

10:42am Tuesday 9th March 2010

By Steve Carroll

MARTIN FOYLE has urged his players to deliver as his York City side look to end a run of five games without a win against Salisbury City at Bootham Crescent tonight.

The Minstermen manager could go into the game without four key players – with top scorer Richard Brodie, David McGurk and Daniel Parslow all being assessed before the match having suffered knocks in the 2-1 loss at Forest Green on Saturday and Alex Lawless definitely on the sidelines.

With those injuries coming at the wrong time, with City in the midst of their first blip of the Blue Square Premier season, Foyle believes his side need to roll their sleeves up and secure a precious three points.

Saturday’s results, coupled with the removal of Chester from the table, mean York have dropped out of the play-off places for the first time in months.

While acknowledging there has been a blip in recent games, Foyle, pictured, reckons his side can bounce back.

“We will have to assess them today,” the City boss said of his injured quartet. “They all look doubtful but we have got to get on with it. They (injuries) always come round at the wrong time.

“There have been a lot of individual mistakes, which is not like us and there’s lots of things we need to put right. I am not going to hide from the fact that the last three or four results haven’t been very good.

“We have got to keep doing the right things. It is a blip but good players come back. It is down to us to make sure everyone is up for it. We are all in it together. Three points would be welcome and motivation has never, ever been a problem.

“We have probably had five or six players at six out of ten. We just need more to come to the front when you are losing games.

“When we take the lead we look great and then we drop our heads when we go behind.

“It is a pressure time and we have got to deliver a bit more and believe in ourselves a bit more.”

City have never won against Salisbury, Foyle’s home-town club, in the Conference but the York chief said he neither looked at records, nor the fixture list, when assessing his team’s chances.

“We have to keep being positive, keep crossing the ball and keep getting in the box,” Foyle added when asked what his side needed to do to end their streak.

“Salisbury might have one eye on the FA Trophy semi-final at the weekend against Barrow and we will certainly be going for them.

“I have seen a lot of their games and they have scored a lot of late goals to win matches.

“We have to get that bit of quality and tempo and give our supporters something to cheer about.

“We have to peg them back as they are not going to be open. We have got to be a little bit more adventurous without switching off at the back.”