Albion Rovers boss blasts 'naive' side for blowing game at East Stirling

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Furious Sandy Clark blasted his ‘naive’ Albion Rovers side after they blew a 2-1 lead to lose 3-2 at East Stirling, and said silly mistakes are killing them.Rovers bounced back from an early goal at the Falkirk Stadium to lead through strikes from Adam Fernie and Bright Prince, only to capitulate with two goals in the last eight minutes.The Coatbridge club’s misery was compounded when Barry Duncan saw red for a second booking in the last minute.That leaves Rovers 14th in the Lowland League table, and though they have as many as five games in hand over rivals, Clark isn’t taking consolation from that after his former side inflicted a fifth defeat in 15 games.He said: “Frustrating is the right word.

The goals we conceded were really poor.“We’re going through a spell where we seem to be getting punished big-time for every mistake, but we are making mistakes, and that gives the other team an opportunity.“That’s where the frustration comes from.“I keep saying we’re a young team, and we are, but we’ve got to learn, and learn quickly, because the results recently, while there haven’t been a lot of defeats as far as the league goes, there haven’t been enough wins.“It’s something we need to try and address as we go along.“We lost a goal really early on and it’s a really poor goal to lose.

It’s not quite like us, but it happened.“We’ve done well to get back into the game, we did well to get in front, and we should have been able to manage the game in the last 10 minutes and get through it.“That’s the bit where we’re very naive, we need to learn that we haveto improve in that kind of situation.

We scored two goals, it’s a case of stop giving away goals. We’re getting punished from making mistakes, so we’ve got to eliminate the