INCONSISENCY is a constant source of frustration for Ronnie Moore.

Since taking over as Hartlepool United boss, he’s had four games – two draws and two defeats. But it’s 12 games without a win in League Two.

Pools have been consistently poor this season, and Moore admits he struggles to get successful back to back days on the training ground, let alone in matches.

On his first day in charge last month, Moore oversaw a full-scale practice match and was impressed. The next day, same scenario again he was horrified at the drop in standard.

And so it’s been proved the case in his spell in charge.

He said: “I can come and do a session on a Monday, 11 v 11 and think that’s not bad that. Then on the Tuesday I think there are all different players.

“It is that inconsistency that gets you where you are. You have to be in your 60/70/80 per cent all the time.

“There are players here who should not be here. When you get beat week in, week out you turn up expecting to get beat - and when you concede you think well we don’t score many, we have to score two.

“We have to weather the storm and stay in the game.

“If you do that at 1-0 then the worst side in the world will always get a chance.

“If we can come off from a game thinking how did we win that? We have been battered and the keeper had a worldie - it is something like that that can lift people.

“It is seeing how we react when we get the win, we have won, do we really think we can go to Shrewsbury and win?

“We have reached that stage where you are going to have to do things like that.’’

Pools go to the title-chasing Shrews next weekend, before a trip to Moore’s former club Tranmere. Ten points short of safety, victory this afternoon is imperative.

Moore said: “It would be great to win three or four, starting on Saturday but there are no easy games.

“It doesn’t matter who you play, hand on heart I thought Morecambe was a winnable game for us.

“We missed Marlon Harewood and the tempo of the game wasn’t right. We need to be the home team and put the away team on the back foot for 15 to 20 minutes.

“You can win the game in the first 20 minutes if it is done right.

“It is that mentality, that is why they are playing League Two because they are not mentally strong and a lot of them don't have the ability to play higher.

“But there are some good teams who don’t have the best players.’’

Moore is out to engineer some much-needed sprit and camaraderie within his squad. He has bemoaned the fact that he has inherited a dressing room full of quiet and tame individuals.

Fostering a United front is essential and Moore admitted: “As long as you have the ‘group’ toy have a chance. Everywhere I have been we have had a great team spirit and togetherness.

“We would go and fight anybody and not be afraid - big lads who will head it and not turn their back on things.

“It becomes a team then, not individual players. We won’t have the best players here - everybody realises that.

“We might have one or two that can go higher that that but as a group we can have the best team. We could have the spirit and go out there and say ‘nobody is going to steamroll us or outfight us’.

“If you have that you win more games than you lose at this level.”

Moore hasn’#t been able to add to his options this week, despite his constant efforts. Players aren’t willing to move permanently to a team in a position as precarious as Pools.

“We are still trying to add to it,’’ he said. “We have had players who have gone somewhere else. We need two in at least to make us better and we are desperately trying for a new striker – a targetman who can score goals.

“But we stay positive and I’ve seen a lot of good things from last Saturday.

“Cheltenham have signed three from Liverpool and three good players at that. I tried to get Jones in here, and the players will make them better.

“But we know how they play – it’s about what we do and we haven’t put the opposition on the back foot at home like we should be. We’ve had over 4,000 in the last two home games and not performed.

“It shows everyone wants to get out of this mess and now can the players believe?’’