ROD Brown has the ingredients for a successful Stourport Swifts side - he just hasn’t found the right mix yet.

Brown’s young side went into last weekend’s Baker Joiner Midland Alliance clash with Walsall Wood in fine form after back-to-back cup wins only to ‘not turn up’ and lose 2-0.

Then on Tuesday they went 2-0 up through James Lemon and Chris Morrison at Coleshill Town but in the end were grateful to bag a point with a late equliser from Jamie Willets.

“The Swifts boss said: “The frustration for me is that we have the quality but not the balance in the side and it’s something I’m giving a lot of thought to. I’m going to work on something else and it’s like put all the ingredients in a bowl and mixing them up.

“We hit the post just before half-time and if we’d gone in three up the games is over but we warned the lads that Coleshill would have to come out and up their game and they did, and scoring two goals in the first four minutes gave the game a different focus.”

Stourport entertain second-bottom Heather St John on Saturday and Brown says they need to turn their cup form into league wins as nine points from a possible 30 is not good enough.

“We gave away poor goals against Coleshill and didn’t turn up as a team collectively against Walsall Wood.

“In the end I was pleased to get a point but overall I was disappointed having been two up. But at least we showed some resilience to come from behind which we have done two or three times this season when last season we didn’t do it at all.

“Sometimes when you are working with young players confidence is the main thing and when things aren’t going well heads can drop.

“James {Lemon} did well scoring on his debut and for an 18-year-old coming into the side he had no pre-conceived ideas and I was pleased with him whereas maybe some of the existing players have the world on their shoulders.

“I was also pleased with Ashley Walker who did well and I feel we could perhaps do with another player coming in.”

“Now it’s all about dusting ourselves down and moving on. It’s a double edged sword really and we just have to worry about ourselves.

“We are still in two cups, whereas last year our league form was good and we were out of everything, so we’ve got to stick together and look at the positives.

“I didn’t beat the players up after the Walsall game but I asked them how many would have given themselves more than five out of ten if they were marking themselves? You’re not going to win games at any level if you’re not above average.

“We were a lot better at Coleshill - the body language did change when we went behind - but we changed things around a bit and in the end we might even have nicked it.”