Harrogate Railway's results will 'take care of themselves' if they continue to deliver performances
Rob Youhill has reinforced his belief that title-chasing Harrogate Railway’s results will “take care of themselves” if his players continue to deliver quality performances.
The Starbeck outfit were left frustrated on Saturday afternoon after being held to a 1-1 draw by Ilkley at Station View, a result which leaves them 12 points behind NCEL Division One leaders Dearne & District – albeit with five games in hand.
Following on from their 5-0 thrashing of Appleby Frodingham and an equally impressive 4-0 success at Maltby Main, the Rail’s standards dipped below those which they have served up on such a consistent basis in recent months.
And that below-par performance only served to add weight to Youhill’s argument that his players are the only ones who can prevent them from realising their stated aim of finishing 2025/26 as champions.
"Since we have been in charge here, we have said that if we look after the performances, then results will take care of themselves,” he said.
“If we get ourselves right, then I feel like we should be fine against most teams in this league if we keep taking it one game at a time.
"We don’t generally get beat, or it’s the case that teams take points off us. We tend to drop points or beat ourselves.
"On Saturday, it was more about us than what Ilkley did. We just weren’t quite at it.
"It wasn’t the free-flowing football and front-foot display that we usually produce. It was quite disjointed and, collectively, we made a lot of bad decisions with the ball all over the pitch.”
Harris Eggleston fired Railway into a 40th-minute lead against Ilkley, but that goal was cancelled out early in the second half by Joe Snowden.
Up next in the league is a trip to mid-table Route One Rovers this Saturday (3pm).