Hollands & Blair manager Darren Blackburn’s joy at weekend win over Tunbridge Wells and a home game against Glebe this Saturday

Hollands & Blair manager Darren Blackburn will hope his team have turned a corner after securing a much-needed weekend win.

A 2-0 victory over Tunbridge Wells last Saturday came a week after a 7-0 drubbing against Larkfield & New Hythe.

It ended Blair’s run of five straight losses, and was a first league win in over two months, a run of nine games without a success in the Southern Counties East Premier Division.

Blackburn said: “7-0 is a ridiculous scoreline at this level and people will have been wondering ‘what’s going on there? Even a weak team at this level shouldn’t get beaten 7-0.

“They finished well, took their chances and scored regularly throughout the game and had a couple of late ones at the end where we felt beat up, a couple of mistakes at the end.

“We missed an open goal, hit the post, had two cleared off the line, that’s against a team who had only conceded nine goals. It’s not that we didn’t create, but we had a big debrief after, and everyone got to say their piece.

“Every team is capable of a run of losing, but when it goes on a bit longer, you look at what you’ve tried and how you train. I had been loyal to a lot of lads and sometimes you have to take a few of those out, try and tweak it and try to improve things. That is what we did on Saturday.”

Victory lifted Blair out of the drop zone and they face games against the bottom two next.

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Dieko Falade put Blair ahead on 39 minutes, with Kane Rowland doubling their advantage early in the second half.

Blackburn said: “We started the season well, but we were young and we didn’t have the right pegs in the right places.

“I have made some additions and George Goodwin has come in from Erith Town, a very good