FRUSTRATED Irvine Victoria boss Brian McLuckie is warning his young side to grow up and stop making "schoolboy errors" after they tumbled to their third straight league defeat.

The Westenders lost 5-2 to Glasgow side St Roch's to leave them with just six points from their opening five games in the McBookie Championship after a promising start which had seen them win the opening two matches.

McLuckie said on Saturday: "Schoolboy errors are costing us. We scored two great goals but every goal we gave away is preventable, terrible. That is something we must work on and we have to take it collectively. We came out after half-time and conceded after another corner-kick, game was finished at 3-1. It's naivete and we need to grow up quickly. We worked it on Wednesday night on corner-kicks, we are conceding too many cheap goals. After the first 10 minutes we controlled the next 35 minutes and the wind is taken out of you in the second half.

"We have never stayed up in this league and we want to do that. But all the games will be challenging. We play Benburb away on Saturday and want to stop the rot."

Vics were without the suspended duo of Ryan and Paul Singleton, along with Michael Holden, who was at a wedding and injured Ross Loughlin."

McLuckie admitted this had been a factor and added: "Key players were missing and we only have a small pool of 17 so having four missing makes it difficult."

Meanwhile Irvine Meadow manager Brian McGinty can see signs of progress, despite his side suffering a 1-0 defeat away to Pollok.

They have taken just one point from their opening five games and are in second bottom spot following their promotion from the Super First Division last season.

He said: "Again we gave away cheap goals which concerns me but apart from the goals Pollok scored, we limited them to very few chances, but our decision-making has to improve.

"We want to make ourselves hard to beat in these matches, Apart from Cambuslang Rangers the promoted teams have found it difficult coming up and we always knew it would be.

"I think you will see a top six emerging and the rest of the teams fighting it out."

Meadow on Saturday head to New Western Park to face Renfrew and McGinty said: "It's an important game for us and we must look to go there and win."