FROME Town chief Nick Bunyard is challenging his players to earn their shirts for next season as the current campaign edges toward its conclusion.

With a battered and bruised Robins safe from relegation, Bunyard admits there aren’t many tangible goals for his side to target in their final four games, so the Badgers Hill boss is instead motivating his troops by imploring them to maintain their standards and earn the right to stay at the club past the end of 2015-16.

“Right now, we can’t really wait for the season to end,” said the Frome manager.

“We’ve got a lot of guys that are carrying injuries. You get that at this stage of the season, with people picking up hamstring problems because the games are coming thick and fast.

“We haven’t really got anything to play for. When the pressure is off, we play some good football but people aren’t prepared to put their bodies on the line and they lose 20 per cent mentally.

“So it’s up to them to try and impress me in the last few games and prove that they want to be at the club next season.”

On Wednesday night, Bunyard’s men were held to a 1-1 draw by Chesham United, with Darren Jeffries’ first-half goal cancelled out by the Generals’ Curtis Ujah.

Bunyard said: “I was really happy with the football that we played in difficult conditions in the first half.

“But we didn’t defend our 18-yard-box very well in the second half and couldn’t cope with all the long throws.”

A depleted Frome, with defender Sam Teale in goal, lost 2-0 at Weymouth last weekend, with George Rigg and former Robins striker Ben Thomson netting for the Dorset hosts.