‘We are playing forour futures’ - Roddy

Saturday’s defeat at Ards was the Waterside men’s fourth defeat in five league games and Roddy concedes every player needs to stand up and be counted.

“The coaching staff are already talking about bringing players in when the transfer window opens and if you aren’t doing it then you can’t expect to be in the team or even expect to be at the club,” explained the right-back.

“The club is now looking to bring players in so that they can push on and try to be a Premiership club and if we can’t do it with the players that we have here at the minute then we can’t really argue.

“We can sit and talk about it all the time but talk is cheap and we need to start doing it on the pitch.

“All the talking is done, it’s now up to us as a group of players to step up and be counted as a team.

“To be honest Keeso (Paul Kee) and the staff can’t do any more, it’s up to us and we have to pull together as a team and maybe ask as a team do we want it, do we want to push on and try to get into the Premiership next season, in the last few performances, it’s not good enough.”

The former Finn Harps man knows that although they continue to play attractive football, sometimes that isn’t enough and they need to start rolling their sleeves up in games.

“We seem to be talking about it in the changing room every week, we do all the football against teams, have all the possession, play well but we get hit on the break and go 1-0 down and whenever we go 1-0 down heads drop.

“It isn’t good enough and if we want to get into the Premiership next year then we have to get that side right as well as the playing side of it.

“We just have to learn and pull together as a team, because we can do it, we showed it against big teams like Coleraine, who are in the Premiership.

“It just seems whenever we play against a team who like playing football we play excellent, but whenever we are in matches, which are just a battle we seem to come off second best all the time.

“I know we are good enough, we have players who can battle but at this minute in time it just isn’t working, we went eight games unbeaten earlier in the season and we need to do that again, if we are going to be anywhere near the top of the league at the end of the season,” concluded Roddy.