I'M not sure what frustrated me more on Tuesday night - our struggle to score when we were on top or our struggle to attract supporters to the Fraser Eagle Stadium.

We dared to anticipate pretty much a full house for the night that League football returned to Accrington.

We knew Darlington would bring a good following and thought the home terraces would be throbbing with people eager to see us back in the Football League after such a long time out of it.

To say we were disappointed with attracting less than 2,000 home fans would be a severe understatement.

There's been enough hype surrounding our first two games in League Two to last us a lifetime, so if people don't want to come out to see history in the making then I don't know what more we can do.

You can't knock the fans who were there. But we need more of them. Now, possibly, more than ever.

It is no secret that a good home crowd can be a team's 12th man, and as we search for our first goal and points in this league the fans will have a vital role to play.

So I can only appeal to those stayaway supporters - and even neutrals who perhaps thought about going to the game but didn't - to vote with their feet and have an impact on what we hope will soon be an upturn in fortunes.

I think we're finding this level tougher than we initially anticipated.

But there were strong signs of improvement on Tuesday night.

On the first day at Chester we had too many players who didn't perform. Against Darlington we showed a much better attitude but we needed to score in the first 30 minutes when we were on top.

But we fell to two sucker punches and now we've conceded four goals, two from set plays, a penalty and a calamity.

On a positive note, Andy Procter has been fantastic and I really felt for the lad with his sending off as he will miss the next three games.

Andy Todd's form has been good and Peter Cavanagh has looked positive since recovering from injury.

As far as I'm concerned we have to put the two games behind us and pick ourselves up for Barnet this weekend. Our season starts on Saturday.