Yates awaits drop dogfight

Tyrone Barnett rose to head the winner in the first half and nudge the Silkmen closer to survival, leaving the Robins sitting a perilous four points above the drop zone.

Yates said: "We're in a relegation fight but the only time we can do anything about that is on Monday, next Saturday and the Saturday after.

"We should have come out of this game with something and it should have been a scrappy 0-0 but we conceded a poor goal.

"We then got sucked into not playing the way we wanted to play, and although we had opportunities to shoot we turned them down for some reason.

"It wasn't good enough and if the players don't realise that they're in a scrap they need to look at the table and see that they really are. We have a big game on Monday and I'm not going to turn on my players now, but believe me we knew in the dressing room it wasn't good enough."

Source: PA

Source: PA