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Warrenpoint badly need a victory over Coleraine

Warrenpoint Town manager Barry Gray must find a way to beat Coleraine on Saturday 
Warrenpoint Town manager Barry Gray must find a way to beat Coleraine on Saturday  Warrenpoint Town manager Barry Gray must find a way to beat Coleraine on Saturday 

WARRENPOINT TOWN manager Barry Gray is, understandably, a frustrated man at present.

Although his struggling team have been propping up the table for some time now, they have certainly been unfortunate to only collect three points from their last three league outings. At Solitude on New Year’s Day, they gave Cliftonville as good as they got and came very close to taking a morale-boosting win.

Those draws need to start turning into wins immediately if they are to stand any chance of clawing back the gap to the teams immediately above them: “It’s just about seeing can we get a couple of wins on the board now - it doesn’t really matter who it’s against,” said Gray.

“I think that’s a big frustration for us at the minute. We have done relatively well in the last three games and just to come out with the three points is sort of an injustice, but it is what it is.”

Coleraine come to town on Saturday looking for a third win on the bounce and have arrested a slump which saw them lose three in-a-row. Having won 4-0 at Milltown on their last visit, they will fancy their chances of another win.

Gray, however, senses an opportunity in the good form of the Bannsiders: “Their confidence is fairly high, but some might argue that it is a good time to get them when they are like that,” he said.

“It’s very easy to take your eye off the ball when you are like that, especially when you are coming to the team that is right at the bottom of the table. So hopefully there is a wee bit of complacency with them.”

The players signed by the club recently - Tiarnan Mulvenna, Martin Murray and Jonathan McMurray - may be in line for run-outs.