Tim Flowers wants improved players

Stafford Rangers' players have been given assurances that they will be given every chance to improve under manager Tim Flowers.

Flowers and assistant boss Matt Elliott will take their third training session at Marston Road tonight, ahead of Saturday's first away game for the new regime at Solihull Moors.

Management are starting to form opinions on the current crop they inherited coming into the club last week, such as who will be able to cope when Flowers puts his foot down on how he expects the team to play.

Saturday's game will be the next barometer after tonight and - with the prospect of a two-week break from action after the weekend - it could be the last chance for some to impress the Rangers boss.

Flowers insists all he is looking for at this stage is improvement, on the training field and in matches, as he looks to arrest a slide that has seen Rangers slip to 18th place in the Blue Square North.

But, in the long run, those that don't shape up will be shipped out.

He said: "The league table doesn't like and we are down there for a reason.

"The players have worked hard, there's a good attitude and a great spirit among them - that's what we want to keep.

"But technically we are lacking and, as management, we have got to drum into them exactly what we want when we are in and out of possession.

"It will come with time and, as long as we see a gradual improvement, that's fine.

"I am just looking for progression, I know it won't happen overnight but we can chip away at it."