Neilston Co-Manager John-Paul Dow claimed that Saturday’s 3-2 defeat to Forth Wanderers was the biggest sickener of the season. 

His side created countless chances but didn’t put the game out of sight, and were dealt a huge hammerblow in added time when the hosts scored two goals in as many minutes to dramatically turn the game around. 

And Dow says that his side need to be more clinical and kill teams off if they have any aspirations of promotion. 

He said: “It was a sickener. The biggest sickener of the season.  We were so far ahead but never killed the game off. On another day we could have scored eight or nine.  

“I don’t want to be too harsh on the strikers because their goal return has been outstanding and it’s a team game, we need the others to chip in with goals as well.

“We need to be more clinical and kill teams off. If you look at the likes of Benburb and Wishaw, they took five and six off teams the other night.  We need to start doing that and we should have on Saturday.” 

And at this crunch stage of the season, Dow admits he’ll happily takes four narrow wins in Neilston’s final four games.

He said: “We could end up stealing the game on Wednesday or Saturday. That’s the way it goes.  

“I’m at the stage where I’ll happily take four 1-0 wins. I would have preferred if we created one chance on Saturday and scored to win rather than creating all those chances and not doing enough. It makes it worse.”