Hollands & Blair manager Scott Porter calls for end to costly errors after double defeat at Easter makes it four losses in a row

Hollands & Blair boss Scott Porter is demanding better from his players as he looks to build momentum heading into their Challenge Cup Final against Fisher next month.

His Blair side let slip a 1-0 half-time lead against Whitstable Town on Monday to trail 2-1, but shortly after Ben Brown got them level at 2-2 late on, they conceded a penalty which the visitors duly converted for a 3-2 win.

It was a fourth straight defeat in the Southern Counties East League Premier Division, having suffered a 4-1 loss away to Welling Town on Saturday.

“That summed up our last four games, giving poor goals away,” said Porter.

“They had a lot of possession, we knew they would, but they didn’t open us up for their goals, we conceded from two crosses and a penalty and that frustrates the hell out of me. I hate conceding poor goals, especially from those areas.

“Whitstable are a possession-based side, we knew that. I thought we dealt with it okay, created a few chances ourselves and then we gave a poor penalty away - the bloke was back to goal, our centre-half has clattered him from behind when he wasn’t going anywhere.

“Three poor goals again and that has happened in the last four games now, since we got to the Cup Final. We have had a very stretched squad, players unavailable, players injured, players suspended. I still haven’t played the same team that got us to the Final.

“That was very frustrating because I thought at the end we were going to get the point.

“We need to pick up some wins, we need to get some consistency going into the Final because we’ve conceded 14 goals and lost four on the trot.

“This is a big three games for us now. We can’t just go to the Final expecting them to turn up, we need to generate that, work on it and play