PLYMOUTH Albion captain Kieran Hallett admitted the Brickfields outfit need to win sooner rather than later if they are to rescue their season.

Albion have won just twice in seven Championship matches this term and currently sit third from bottom in the standings.

Tonight, they head to Butts Park Arena (7.45pm) to take on Coventry, who sit two points and two places above them.

Another defeat would leave Graham Dawe's side languishing in a relegation play-off spot.

However a victory would lift them above the Midlands team and out of the bottom four.

Ninth-placed Rotherham, who are a point and one position better off than Albion, take on leaders Exeter Chiefs tomorrow.

"I don't think it is fair to say we are in a relegation battle just yet," said Hallett (pictured top), who is Albion's leading points-scorer this season with 63 points.

"But we have got ourselves in a situation now where we have to get a win from somewhere.

"If you look at the teams around us, they are losing as well.

"But, obviously, last Saturday's (21-6) home defeat to Doncaster doesn't help and we have got to try and turn it around somehow.

"It isn't one thing we have got to change, it is a team collective. We have got to sit down and ask ourselves, 'What is going on here?"

Hallett has started each of Albion's seven matches this term.

He added: "Doncaster was a game we should have won, but it was another game we haven't performed in.

"I don't think there is any one reason and it isn't any one person's fault.

"As a team, we aren't firing at the moment and I wish I knew why.

"We are doing the hard part – getting ourselves into positions to score tries.

"We are playing territory well and we are putting teams under pressure, but we are falling at the final hurdle.

"We had a couple of line-outs in Doncaster's 22 and didn't capitalise.

"The same with scrums. It was either dropped balls or another error – errors which are killing us at the moment.

"When you have opportunities like that and don't take them, everyone looks around and asks if it is going to be a repeat performance."

Albion have saved their best performances this season for the derbies against the Chiefs and Cornish Pirates.

Plymouth lost 30-24 to Chiefs, but beat Pirates 16-8.

Hallett said Albion have to replicate that passion in every game they play, starting at Coventry tonight.

"You can't have passion and intensity only against the Chiefs and Pirates, because that is not good enough," said Hallett.

"You have got to bring that every week and at the moment, we are really not doing that – we are going through the motions.

"This league is relentless. Every week there is another tough game and that doesn't change tonight."

Hallett added: "It is never easy to go up to Coventry and win.

"We managed it last season and we have got to get ourselves in a mindset where we are ready to play come 7.45 tonight.

"We will keep plugging away and we will keep trying things to try and get back on track."