The Ferney Park clash against Harland and Wolff Welders is the last competitive game before the Irish Cup semi-final at the end of the month, but the manager is fully focussed on getting three points.

“Saturday’s game is important to us and we have to still continue to go full tilt,” said Harry.

“There can be no holding back because that is a very dangerous game to play. We haven’t performed overly well in the top half of the table and we haven’t grabbed as many points as I would have liked.

“Performances haven’t been bad but results haven’t been what we would like.

“If we can win this game it will put us in to fifth place which will be a massive psychological boost. We want to get a good performance and see if we can find a few goals.”

While the boss has called for maximum commitment, he acknowledges that he will have to approach his team selection with an eye on the cup tie, as he has several players just one yellow card away from missing the Warrenpoint clash.

“Ultimately it is about making sure we get people through the game without any unnecessary suspensions,” he acknowledged.

“We will have to look to protect a few players, because they are in the situation where one booking would rule them out of the semi-final. We will have to be clever with our team selection. That will give others a chance to come in and give us something to think about for the 30th.”

The Welders come to Ferney Park after a poor run of eight defeats in their last nine games. The one victory in that sequence came against the Mallards, but the defeats have cost the manager his job and they will play on Saturday with a new man in charge.

“There is no question the Welders were not in a good place and were not looking forward to coming to us, but now they will get a bounce effect from whoever comes in and we have to be ready for that,” said Harry.

“We were on the wrong side of a good performance at the Welders so we feel we owe them this time. They have great quality with Matthew Ferguson up front and hopefully we can deal with him better this time around. We need to be very competitive in the middle of the field and if we can put their back four under pressure we can cause them problems.”

Harry is confident that Saturday’s 3-0 defeat to Larne will not affect morale at the club.

He was keen to take the positives from a game despite the Mallards failing to replicate the performance they produced in the cup a week earlier.

“I was delighted to have that Larne fixture after the cup because you could maybe come away from the cup sensation feeling you are a little bit better than you really are, but you have to be grounded and this was the game we knew we could not be in any way complacent,” he said.

“We had a great energy level in difficult conditions. We introduced Ross Taheny for Jay on the left which we wanted to have a look at. Ben McCann had a super 90 minutes in the centre of defence and proved his injury is well and truly healed.

“We got Nathan Cashel game time up top and were able to rest Ryan Campbell who came on in the second half. We got Robbie Hume back on the pitch after his hamstring injury and that is looking very positive and we were able to take off Josh McIlwaine who was feeling a bit of a thigh strain.

“In the big picture, we are not too despondent at this stage. We just feel it’s another part of our learning, given the quality of the opposition and given that they needed to win that game to take the title.

“Overall we weren’t too unhappy. We have competed against a very good side, and apart from a few lapses we were very much in the game.”