SIMON WEAVER was left to rue missed early chances and an overall “lack of quality” in the final third following Harrogate Town’s 1-0 home defeat to Oldham Athletic.

The Sulphurites suffered a sixth consecutive loss on Saturday as Latics defender Manny Monthe netted the only goal of the game midway through the first half.

That defeat was Town’s fifth on the bounce in the league and saw them drop to 21st place, where they now sit just a single point above the relegation zone.

But, Weaver believes that things could easily have played out very differently at Wetherby Road.

"I thought that we deserved something from the game,” he said. "We could have scored a couple of goals in the first five or six minutes, and then it’s a different story.

"If we score early with one of the chances that we had then I feel we could have put Oldham to the sword. I thought that there was a lot of indecision in their back-line because of the movement of our front players and their physicality.

"I thought that we switched the play a lot better on Saturday. We got the widemen out there, we got the opposite full-back out, there was just a little bit of a lack of quality in terms of the finishing power.

"We were back to supplying good balls into the box from out wide. But one of them has to go in.

"We need to start scoring goals at home, and today we just didn’t have that moment of quality to break the deadlock, or maybe a late equaliser and then push for the win.”