ALLOA keeper Neil Parry admitted his side will take any sort of victory as they look to get back into the League One promotion chase.

The Wasps are now without a win in six games following their defeat to Brechin on Christmas Eve, and Parry says they are desperate for a change of fortune.

With the chance to end the year on a high when they travel to Stenhousemuir on Hogmanay, the keeper says a victory would be the ideal tonic to end their recent run of poor form.

Parry told Advertiser Sport: “We were playing brilliantly at the start of the season but now that we are going through a sticky patch we will take anything. 

“It might be one of those games where you snatch a 1-0 win which gets us back on the winning trail. 

“We are going through a difficult spell just now but feeling sorry for ourselves won’t help it. 

“We need to get back on the horse, train hard and make sure we are ready for Stenhousemuir.

“It won’t be easy. Even though we beat them 4-1 here, it was much closer than the scoreline suggests. 

“They are no mugs and we know it will be a difficult game, but we will go there believing we can get the win and full of determination to bounce back.”

Parry says his side’s cause has not been helped by some poor officiating in recent weeks, and the former Airdrie man criticised the decision to award Brechin a penalty from which they scored to take the lead on Saturday.

He said: “We are really disappointed, firstly with the penalty decision but also that we conceded an awful goal after getting ourselves back into the game. 

“We deserved the equaliser at the time but once they went in front with half an hour to go they sat back.

“I don’t blame the referee because he couldn’t see from the angle he was at, but the linesman was the one who gave the penalty and he actually told me that I’d won the ball but my follow through took the boy out, which is just ridiculous because if I’ve won the ball then it clearly isn’t a penalty. 

“It was just an awful decision.”

The 31-year-old insisted that the Wasps will do all they can to stamp out the kind of lapses which saw them gift Brechin their winner, with the visitors capitalising on a defensive blunder.

Parry added: “We scored a really well-worked goal but straight away we have gifted them the second, and it was just an absolute disaster defensively from us.

“It isn’t something we’ve been doing so we will work hard to make sure it doesn’t happen again. 

“But I just don’t think we played particularly well, so there is no point in dwelling on things.”