Mick Tait is hopeful simmering anger will keep complacency at bay when Blyth Spartans entertain struggling Harrogate Town tonight.
The Spartans boss and his players are still fuming after three key decisions cost them at least two Blue Square North points at title-chasing Southport on Saturday.
Channelling that sense of injustice into positive action against Harrogate - second-bottom of the table - should earn Blyth a third straight home victory.
Southport 3, Blyth Spartans 2
On the day the Six Nations kicked off, Blyth Spartans might as well have been playing rugby as well. Apoplectic at Southport's 'handling' of the game, Mick Tait was also agitated by officialdom.
The Croft Park side succumbed to the second-placed Merseysiders having bettered their lofty Blue Square North opponents.
They led through Ian Graham then, after falling 2-1 behind, equalised thanks to Paul Brayson's eighth goal in six games.
The Northumberland Knightflyers now deliver a unique training programme for all young people in Northumberland which increases morale and participation whilst simultaneously focusing on fun.
Last summer the Northumberland Knightflyers coaches, Alan Hoyle and Isobelle Gibson, travelled to London on a very special journey, to not only watch the Chicago Bulls take on the Utah Jazz, but to actually learn first hand how the Chicago Bulls train, by the Chicago Bulls coaching staff. Alan and Isobelle were two of only fifty coaches from around the world to attend a special NBA coaches clinic with the Six Time World Champion Chicago Bulls.
The Northumberland Knightflyers Basketball Club is open to people of all ages and abilities, our junior team has an age range of 5 - 15 years old, while our senior team has no upper age limit. We also welcome casual players who just wish to improve their game.
Currently both the senior and junior clubs train each Friday, 7pm till 9pm at Coquet High School in Amble (Acklington Road, Amble, NE65 0NG), each session costs £5.
Starting Saturday 6th March, the Northumberland Knightflyers will be starting basketball sessions at Blyth Sportscentre (Bolam Park, Blyth, Northumberland, NE24 5BT) at 11am till 12pm, each session will cost £3.
Young badminton players proved top of the form when they took to the court for a tournament at Ashington Leisure Centre.
Teams from Berwick, Allendale, Alnwick and Prudhoe took part in the Key Stage Three and Four Northumberland Schools Badminton County Final organised by Badminton England and the School Sports Partnership..
Northumberland Schools Badminton County Final Key Stage Four winners (back) and the stage three victors (front) receive their trophies at Ashington Leisure Centre
For the first time, all six School Sports Partnerships in Northumberland - Ashington, Blyth and Bedlington, Cramlington and Seaton Valley, Morpeth and Ponteland, North Northumberland and Tynedale - were involved in the competition.
Stalybridge Celtic 0, Blyth Spartans 1
Blyth Spartans won their first midweek away game in two years when they held on to Paul Brayson's early second-half goal against Stalybridge Celtic in Blue Square North.
Manager Mick Tait handed a debut to Guy Bates, signed from Dublin side Drogheda. At one time he was with Newcastle United.
Bates was immediately in action and in the first minute a superb crossfield pass was brilliantly controlled by Brayson who appeared to be pushed but Blyth's penalty appeal was rejected by referee Anthony Scregg.
Blyth Spartans manager Mick Tait wants his side to go to Stalybridge Celtic armed with more than just confidence tonight.
The in-form Spartans head for Cheshire on the back of six points and eight goals in their last two Blue Square North outings, and pondering whether to recruit former Newcastle striker Guy Bates.
But with one of those recent victories having come against Stalybridge, Tait knows it will take more than the feelgood factor for Blyth to make it three in a row at Bower Fold.
Northern Alliance club Blyth Town returned to action this weekend.
In the Kicks Leisure League Cup, the scheduled tie at Chopwell was switched to Blyth's ground at South Newsham - and Blyth secured a 3-1 win.
Craig Hopwood gave the Town an interval lead which was later increased by Chris Lisle and then Neil Blades before Dave Fitzpatrick grabbed a late reply.
An oversight or otherwise, Blyth ceased updating results on their website three games - a win and two heavy defeats - ago.
You sense they will resume now, having belatedly emerged, and how, from winter hibernation with a thrilling victory over seventh-placed Stalybridge, the best away side in Blue Square North.
Yet with only a single game in over a month and former manager Steve Burr departed to Kidderminster, if Celtic were undercooked or under-coached, it did not show from the off.
As he prepares his side to face a relatively unknown quantity in the shape of Stalybridge Celtic, Blyth Spartans boss Mick Tait is concentrating on what he knows.
The certain belief that Blyth deserved more from Saturday's trip to Blue Square North table-toppers Fleetwood Town will motivate Tait's men tonight.
Stalybridge? Having played one league game in a month, and just lost their manager, it's anyone's guess how they will perform at Croft Park.
Fleetwood Town 4, Blyth Spartans 2
Dominant, encouraging and full of confidence. Not the words you might expect to hear from a manager who had just presided over a 4-2 defeat, only days after a 5-1 reverse.
But this latest loss was at Fleetwood Town, flying high at the top of Blue Square North, for Blyth Spartans, so abject at Northwich Victoria on Tuesday.
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