Harrogate Town have not been panicking during a miserable run of results but now they are showing signs of coming out of it, striker Tom Cursons wants them to cash in.

The Sulphurites had lost six consecutive league and FA Cup matches until last week and although winning a Football League Trophy dead rubber against Newcastle United Under-21s last Tuesday lifted morale, they still went to Notts County missing 10 injured players, plus Jacob Slater and Stephen Duke-McKenna to international call-ups, one point above the relegation zone.

But they have been used to difficult spells of form in their six seasons in League Two, if not an injury crisis that left them with only two outfield substitutes.

They showed tremendous spirit to lead through Cursons' third goal of the week after a goalless start to his campaign and defending it until promotion-chasing County scored a controversial 93rd-minute penalty through substitute Matthew Dennis.

"We got a better result than we've been getting so it is a step in the right direction," argued striker Cursons, whose until last week had not scored since Easter Monday.

"We would have loved to come away with three points but we're still in a good place. We're still okay.

"We're not panicking. We've got plenty of ability in the squad to turn the tide and start picking up some good results.

"It's not like everyone's down in the dumps and it's all misery. We're coming in, we're training properly. We're in a sticky patch where we just can't quite get the rub of the green.”

NO PANIC: Tom Cursons says the spirit in the Harrogate Town dressing room has remained strong in a tough period (Image courtesy of Harrogate Town)

placeholder image — NO PANIC: Tom Cursons says the spirit in the Harrogate Town dressing room has remained strong in a tough period (Image courtesy of Harrogate Town)

Cursons felt the penalty was a case in point with Shawn McCoulsky fouling Will Jarvis outside the area but the winger falling into it.

“If you're in a team that's on a good run, does that penalty get given? Who knows?” he said.

"We're just in one of those sticky patches. That happens to all teams. We're not hitting the panic button.

"There's plenty of belief in the ability we've got in the squad that we don't need to panic.

"It's on us and we're the ones that can affect it and we have the ability to affect it. Now it's on us to start picking up the results that we need."

Harrogate face another promotion-chasing side, second-placed Walsall, on Saturday.

"We look at out games against the teams at the top end of the table and it gives us belief,” said Cursons.

"We went away to Bristol Rovers on the first day of the season and picked up a result, we went to Notts County and played well so we know that we can go toe-to-toe with these top teams."