Motherwell striving for consistency this season to avoid last season's nightmare run, says No.2 Stephen Frail

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Motherwell No.2 Stephen Frail says the club are striving for consistency and want to progress in the Premier Sports Cup, as they aim to avoid the nightmare run that derailed them last season.The Fir Park club went on a good run at the start of last season, beating Hibs and Kilmarnock, and triumphed 1-0 at Hearts on September 3, despite Paul McGinn being sent off.But though they played remarkably well in games against St Mirren, Rangers, Celtic and Livingston, they took nothing from that sequence and that sent Motherwell on a run of 15 games without a win, that was halted with a 3-1 win over Livingston on December 30.Frail wants some of those early-season performances, but without the horrendous dip, as they chase a top-six finish.

In between those Fir Park wins over Hibs and Killie came a 1-0 League Cup first round defeat to St Mirren, and Frail wants more.“We’re going to keep working away, trying to do things the way we want to do them, and hopefully people see that when we start the season,” said Frail.“We had a really good start last year, and if we can get off to equally as good a start, but maintain that, it could be an exciting season for us.

We got results against Hibs and Kilmarnock at home, and things were going really well.“We look back at the Hearts result, away from home on a hot summer’s day, and we felt the performance and result was excellent.

But we then hit that period of four games where we played so well against St Mirren, Rangers, Celtic and Livingston, but didn’t take anything from it, and it kind of dipped.“So getting off to a good start is not vital to that, but everything’s geared between now and the first game against Edinburgh City.“Although these games are still used as your preparation,