Jarvis frustrated with loss

The defender, who watched the game from the stands as he served the first of his two match suspension, just thought there was something missing from their display.

“Everyone was saying in the warm-up that they were a little lethargic and you can’t be doing that in any game, but particularly in those types of games,” conceded Jarvis.

“Maybe we thought because Coagh came up from the division below this season that it was going to be an easy game but as we all know now it wasn’t.

“I watched the game from the stands and everybody didn’t seem very up for the game.

“But we controlled the game and it was just some stupid mistakes at the start and they didn’t help towards the defeat.”

The 20-year-old, who also misses this weekend’s trip to Tobermore United, knows that he and team-mates will be ready for the battle when they take on Premiership men Coleraine in the North West Senior Cup Final, next Tuesday night.

“We are playing Coleraine next week and I have no doubt the preparation for that will be very good and I can guarantee there will be a pile of players at training looking to get their place in the side for that game, but we need to have that attitude for every match.

“Matches against Coagh and Tobermore and every game in the league are the matches where we can get points to try and win the league, so we can’t just be relying about getting ourselves up for games just because we are playing a big team, we have to be up for it for every game, no matter who we are playing.”

The former Northern Ireland under age international concedes that he’s enjoying his football at Drumahoe, even though he’s playing in a unaccustomed centre-back position.

“I don’t mind playing at centre-half, because I used to play there when I was younger in the D&D, because I was always seemed to be the bigger kind of player, so they put me in at centre-half, but I feel because I can read the game well, it maybe suits me.

“I play alongside Paddy (McLaughlin), but I try to play behind him and sweep things up, but to be honest I would rather play left-back, because I like getting on the ball and getting forward.

“However you have to do your job where you are put and if Keeso wants me to play centre-half, then I have no complaints.”

Jarvis is getting a little frustrated that he and his team-mates can’t start finishing the chances, which they are creating.

“At the back we always seem to be playing well and then in midfield we have done alright, but when we get to the last third of the pitch things seem to be breaking down an awful lot and we all need to start getting a rhythm up there.

“We really need to start getting someone to get the ball in the back of the net, people could see we had a lot of chances against Coagh but it just didn’t seem to be happening, I don’t know what it’s about, because they had three or four chances and they scored three times, but we just couldn’t finish all the chances we had.”

The former Ballymoor youngster who spent a year with Scottish Premier League side Aberdeen still harbours hopes of returning to full-time football back across the water some day.

“I definitely want to get back across to Scotland or England; I’m really working hard at the minute and I’m really trying hard to get us back in the Premiership, because at the end of the day, it’s a better league, there are more people watching and it’s a better standard for you to be playing at, so hopefully we can put the Coagh defeat behind us and we can push on again.”