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Bully: Learn from your mistakes

Stafford manager Steve Bull has urged his side to learn from their mistakes at Hyde as they take on bottom club Hucknall at Marston Road tonight (7:45pm).

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bully-opening-day.jpegStafford manager Steve Bull has urged his side to learn from their mistakes at Hyde as they take on bottom club Hucknall at Marston Road tonight (7:45pm).

Complacency cost Rangers in Saturday's Blue Square North clash at Ewen Fields when, after Tom Ingram rattled the woodwork with the visitors leading 1-0, Chris Simm popped up with a 92nd minute equaliser to cost Bully's boys two points.

Hucknall, who lost 2-1 at home to Hinckley at the weekend, will be another game the home side will be expected to win to keep up their push for the play-off places.

But to do so, Rangers will have to perform, something sadly lacking at the weekend according to Bully.

He said: "We have to do a lot better than we did at Hyde. Hucknall may be bottom of the league but they will not just roll over and lets us beat them. The players need to realise that.

"We had some strong words in the dressing room after the game at the weekend. The players agreed that they had took Hyde a little too lightly and they lived to regret it.

"It was not the late goal that angered me, it was the way we played. Nobody turned up and I told the players that. They know that themselves. I warned against complacency ahead of the game and those warnings were not heeded.

"Now we have an instant chance to make up for it."

Rangers face a Hucknall side whose season is lurching from bad to worse. They come to Marston Road on the back of two crushing away defeats, to Farsley Celtic and Newcastle Blue Star in the FA Cup, both by a 4-0 margin.

They are only still in the Blue Square North after Halifax's demotion last term and few are predicting against their luck finally running out this season.

With the two sides enjoying vastly contrasting fortunes, Bully knows the points are there for the taking.

He said: "The points are always there for the taking, but if we do not apply ourselves than we can forget it. I want no repeat of the weekend, which was up there with the Coalville fiasco, and something more like the last midweek game, our 3-1 win against Northwich.

"The players have had their rocket from me, now it is up to them to show me they have listened."

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