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Harrogate manager Simon Weaver calls for ‘siege mentality’ ahead of New Year fixture
Harrogate Town manager Simon Weaver has urged his players to use recent frustrations to fire them up for the second half of the season, which begins today (January 1).
Town entertain Tranmere Rovers at the Exercise Stadium on Wetherby Road at 3pm.
The home side plummeted to bottom of League Two of the English Football League following a 1-0 defeat at Accrington Stanley on December 29 and have not won in the league for 13 matches.
Even more worryingly, they have not scored a home league goal since October 6, when they lost 2-1 to Crewe.
Jacob Slater was sent off during the Accrington defeat and has received a three-match ban, despite a protest by Town.
Weaver said the decision “beggars belief’ but was “symptomatic of what’s happening against us”. He added two penalty decisions in the last two away matches had gone against Town.
He said:
It probably should create and foster an even more togetherness and siege mentality from our point of view because there’s been crazy decisions that have been going against us year-on-year at this level.
We have to park that frustration and move on very quickly because we want to get off the bottom of the table. We know where we are at. We know it’s been a difficult first half to the season but now we can attack the second half of the season with venom and real passion and stick togetherness. We feel like we’ve been edging closer to that win.
Town beat Tranmere 3-2 when the two side last met in Harrogate on April 1.
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