ADAM HINSHELWOOD is keen to instil consistency into his York City side heading into a crucial match with Eastleigh in the penultimate home game of the season.

York will welcome Eastleigh to the LNER Community Stadium on Saturday, June 6 (3pm) with both sides level on points in the Vanarama National League, and both keen to pull further away from the relegation zone.

Hinshelwood remains wary of the visitors and in particular their strike partnership of Paul McCallum and Chris Maguire, but hopes his side can showcase themselves to all but confirm safety on Saturday.

Hinshelwood explained: “They have other threats as well, but they are certainly a potent strike force and one we have to be very wary of.

“It’s a real good partnership, but they’ve got [Scott] Quigley as well who is a handful.

“We’ve got to be ready for whoever is selected for them, but the key thing for us is our performance level which has been good as of late.

“There is a lot of confidence in the team and we want to maintain that, we want to get off to a good start in front of our fans and really get them behind us."

Hinshelwood also discussed the ongoing relegation battle, and the importance of Saturday's match.

“You’ve got to look at the results as of late, teams can get results.

“There is no easy game at this level, and I’m sure that every manager says the same, you have to be concentrated.

“The key thing for us is that we have to find some consistency, we have seen that in the last four games and we have to maintain that until the end of the season.

“There’s no good us performing so well against teams in the higher region of the league, then we get games in and around us and our consistency levels drop.

“That’s the key message for us, our consistency and if we can find the level of performance that we have in recent weeks, then we will be a handful to perform against as well.

“Whether if it is a bit of a backs to the wall type job and we have nothing to lose, so that fearless mentality comes out, I don’t know.

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“If that is the case, we want to create it from the start of the season and not just at the back end.

“That is a key thing for us, everyone sort of wrote us off and rightly so after a heavy defeat at home, we were on a bad run and they responded with that fearless attitude.

“We’ve got to maintain that, I want to see that from them from now until the end of the season, to be brave and get on the ball and play.

“Be brave to take risks, not fear mistakes, leave everything out on the pitch, there has been really good endeavour and work rate.

“We’ve got to breed that consistency and it has been the message this week, that we’ve got to be consistent.

“We’ve shown a high level this week in my opinion, it’s down to us and once you see that as a manager and what they are capable of, you want to see it on a regular basis.

“That’s the challenge now, to keep those performance levels as they have been with consistency heading into the end of the season."

Back on Eastleigh, Hinshelwood is expecting a tough contest against an experienced manager in Kelvin Davies, who was once interim manager in the Premier League with Southampton.

“New management has come in, they’ve started well under their new guidance when they came in.

“They will be disappointed with their run of results at the moment, but it’s like we were after our bad performance with that one result [vs Altrincham] to start a new positive run, they’ll be looking to do that.

“They’ve got enough quality in their ranks, they’ve got a management team with a lot of experience and a lot of knowhow.

“It’s not a game we can take lightly, we can be pleased with our block of work from the last couple of weeks but I still feel that there is more to come. The challenge is to get out of that.”

Hinshelwood is also eager for the backing from the loyal City supporters, and remains confident that the fans can lift the players on their return to the LNER.

Hinshelwood stated: “It’s down to us to get those fans behind us with our performance level.

“If we can get off to a good start, create some chances and get the ball into the opponent’s third of the pitch on a regular basis, then we know that they will get behind us.

“That’s our task and our challenge to do that out on the pitch.

“It does make a massive difference when they get behind us here, I said to the lads at half-time [against Chesterfield] that if we can get one back against Chesterfield, the roof will come off, there will be a surge and we can gain some momentum.

“We certainly felt that, it’s an experience I want to feel a few more times as York City manager.”