STOURBRIDGE boss Gary Hackett was “delighted” with the discipline showed by his team during Saturday’s scrappy 2-0 victory over Marine.

Two Jordan Archer first-half headers were enough to seal the three points for the Glassboys in a very physical game at the War Memorial Ground.

The result moves the team into the playoff places for the first time this season.

Hackett said: “It was hard earned. They were a very difficult team to break down, but we were very disciplined, very professional, and I think we thoroughly deserved the 2-0 victory.

“Apart from a couple of shots from long distance, they haven’t really posed a threat to our goal.

“I’m delighted with 2-0. We’re not going to have every game where it’s going to be fluent football and opening teams up like we have done in recent weeks.

“Sometimes you have to win a different way. You have to win the points whether it’s a scrappy one but we were efficient in what we did today and closed the game out extremely well.

“We shut them out and were never in any real danger of letting Marine back in the game.”

The win moves the Amblecote side up to fourth in the Northern Premier League table due to superior goal difference, but they do have games in hand over their rivals.

Hackett added: “It’s very cliché but we take it one game at a time and I think there’s 20 games to go.

“We’re in the middle of a great run but we’ve got to keep doing the right things. I said before the game that if it’s not wrong don’t change it.

“That’s what we’re maintaining to do and until people work out how to stifle what we’re doing, we’ll just continue doing the same thing.”