Corby boss Graham Drury has labelled his side’s latest defeat at Steel Park as “disappointing and frustrating.”

The loss against Hinckely on Wednesday evening was the Steelmen’s sixth loss on the bounce at home and the ninth time Corby have tasted league defeat at Steel Park this season.

Speaking to www.corbytownfc.co.uk after the match, Drury said: “If it’s one thing you don’t want in football, you don’t want heads to drop. And I think that happened after Hinckley got their first goal.”

“The whole team weren’t really firing on the night and then subconsciously you’re thinking, ‘where’s our goal coming from’, which makes it harder to concentrate on actually scoring.”

The match against the Knitters was the Steelmen’s first in three weeks and Drury believes the impromptu winter break has left his side at a disadvantage.

“Obviously it was the same for all the teams in our league, but I think it may have affected us more then most. We have a few new faces that we need to blend into the side which we haevn’t been able to do in the past few weeks.”

“A sense of ‘togetherness’ is hard to achieve at the best of times, but when you haven’t even trained as a unit then it makes it that much harder.”

“Having said that, I’m not going to offer excuses. We were beaten by a better side on the night – the difference was in the movement on and off the ball. They had it, we didn’t.”

Corby face David Livermore’s Histon at Steel Park on Saturday, with the Stutes looking to avenge two defeats against the Steelmen already. As if the grudge match wasn’t daunting enough, Drury may have to enter the contest with just one known forward in Jordan Smith.

Strike partners Mark Jones and Sam Mullarkey were substituted through injury on Wednesday night and both are highly unlikely to feature at all against the Stutes.