Dave Anderson says Barton Town Old Boys need a win against Liversedge tomorrow
Dave Anderson has laid down the gauntlet to his Barton Town Old Boys players by urging them to go and beat Liversedge tomorrow.
Last season’s Toolstation NCEL Premier Division runners-up are bottom of the table ahead of the visit of Liversedge after Armthorpe Welfare picked up a point on Wednesday night.
Barton have lost all three of their opening games, but have played up to three games less than some teams as Anderson’s men have yet to have had a midweek fixture.
Anderson told Non League Yorkshire: “We have no points on the board and we are coming out on the wrong side of things.
“We have a massive game against Liversedge tomorrow.
“We had no midweek game again, but the games start coming thick and fast.
“The most important thing when you suffer a defeat is having a midweek, but we have another week off.
“We’ve had three league games and it’s baffling as other teams have played five or six.
“We just have to battle through this period.
“Corresponding fixtures last season saw us have four points at this stage, this season we have zero.
“There’s pressure attached to the game tomorrow and we have to go out and get a result.
“We have to get a result and we need one quickly. If it’s a 1-0 win, it’s 1-0, we just need a result.
“We’re not a million miles away, but we have to get up and running.”
Barton’s latest defeat was the 3-2 loss to Tadcaster Albion last Saturday.
Scott Phillips had ensured that Barton were level at the break, but two quick-fire goals gave Barton a mountain to climb and Anderson said it was a familiar story.
“It just summed our season because we just can not get going,” he said.
“In all our games I feel we have been the better side, but we have been conceding silly goals.
“When we concede, we concede straightaway and in three games we have conceded two goals in five minutes and you can’t do it at this level.
“We played Thackley and had a made five minutes and conceded two. We went to Warrington and were 1-0 before conceding two goals in two minutes.
“Against Tadcaster it was the same and at the end of the day, it is just not good enough.
“What we showed against Tadcaster is that we are a good side, but we are just coming out on the wrong end of results and it is very frustrating.”