JACKIE McNAMARA has set two unwanted records after a calamitous start as York City boss - his side have equalled their worst losing run and suffered their biggest home defeat for 58 years.
The former Dundee United and Partick Thistle boss opted to hand debuts to four Under 21-year-olds in his side and former Hibs star Danny Galbraith, but it backfired spectacularly as Accrington Stanley romped to a 5-1 win, with Rangers target Josh Windass netting.
York were destroyed 6-0 by Portsmouth in midweek and they are now one game away from their worst ever run in their history - with McNamara in charge of six of those eight defeats in a spin.
And it was their biggest home defeat since a 1957 walloping from Carlisle United.
However, McNamara has vowed to get it right in time for their next game in two weeks against Bristol Rovers.
He said: "I’ve got two weeks to put my stamp on things.
"People have got to win their one-on-one battles and I’m expecting to see a different team at Bristol. I know I’ve got a big job on, but I’m determined to put things right and I believe I can do and the club will kick on.
"Some of the new boys did better than others.
"Danny Galbraith has not played since last season so it was asking a lot of him. He will need to get fit and we can get two weeks of hard work into him now.
"We had experience in previous weeks and didn’t win then.I think we’ll be stronger, though, when we get the right kind of experienced players back who can talk and organise in the middle of the park.
"I was disappointed with a lot of things defensively against Accrington and we looked like a team that had just met each other the day before.
"I thought it would be asking a lot of the back four with three new players in there because we only had one training session before this match, but I still expected us to do a lot of things better."
"We were naive with our decision making at times and brought a lot of the trouble on ourselves by being too soft, but we’ve got two weeks to get to know each other now and there’s a lot to work on."
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