STRANRAER were unable to build on the previous week’s victory over Spartans as they fell to a 2-0 defeat away to Clyde at the weekend.
The Bully Wee were gifted two goals at either end of the second half.
Following a mix-up between to Blues players, Clyde broke up-field before Martin Rennie cut inside on the edge of the area and fired home low into the net.
Scott Williamson wrapped up the points six minutes from time after latching onto a bad back pass. He went on to round the ‘keeper before slotting home into an empty net.
Blues boss Chris Aitken knows his side must stop making basic errors if they are to try and build some consistency.
He said: “I’m just very disappointed. It was a game I was really looking forward to, and I went with the same team that did extremely well last week.
“I’ve said time and time again; the goals that we give away are so cheap. We’re causing our own problems.
“When you’re the away team you can’t go and give the home team something to hang on to.
“I said at halftime we needed more, and it wasn’t to be.”
Aitken added: “The biggest stat from today’s game is Clyde 2-0 Stranraer. That’s the most disappointing thing.
“We need to get away from this – one good performance to one very mediocre performance. We’re giving teams chances to go and hold onto stuff.
“We’ve got to be more ruthless and on the front foot. It has to be every week. It can’t be every second week.
“When you give away the goal we gave away, it takes the stuffing out of it. Before you know it there’s no tempo, there’s no intensity and we didn’t look like we would get anything out of the game.”
Stranraer now turn their attention to this Saturday’s contest against Elgin at Stair Park.
Aitken said: “We’ve got 13 cup finals to go and we’ve got four home games coming up.
“In the home games we need to make sure we have the performance that we had at Spartans. That’s a must.
“I said to the players – don’t feel sorry for yourselves. It’s a huge 13 weeks for this football club.
“I’ll try and be as positive as I can. It’s very hard to be positive today.
“Four of the next five are at home. We need to go and win them, that’s the challenge to the guys.
“There’s still one box that I need to tick this season and that’s back-to-back wins. Hopefully they can come.”
