BALTI Sports’ boss Marco Nott has called for more application from his charges before taking on Gillingham Town in the Dorset Premier League tomorrow (2pm).

Town are unbeaten at home in six league games this season and, after losing their past two games and conceding 11 goals, Nott is keen for Balti to return to the form shown during their terrific run of 11 matches unbeaten.

That streak was unceremoniously ended by a 6-0 drubbing at Parley Sports in early November, before a 5-3 loss to Wimborne Development halted Balti’s Dorset Senior Trophy involvement.

Now Nott admits fifth-placed Sports will need to go “back to basics” against their seventh-placed opponents.

He told Echosport: “We always go up there and have a good old slog. The form we’re in at the moment we’ve obviously lost the last couple. We need to start applying ourselves better and knuckle back to basics.

“We’ve conceded 11 goals in two games so we need to get back to doing what we were doing two games prior and that was making sure we’re always in shape, being disciplined and don’t come out from that.

“Hopefully we’ll give a much better account of ourselves because we’ve done ourselves a bit of an injustice the last couple of weeks.

“This time last year we did the same, a big dip in form. It’s imperative that we nip this in the bud and get back to winning ways.”

Ricky Lane and Carl McClements (both unavailable) return, as does Ash Smith (cup-tied), and Ethan Devaney could come back.

Charlie Kenderdine and Ryan Dovell miss out with work, while Sammy Nicholls is unavailable.