NEWPORT County boss Jimmy Dack admits communication is lacking at the Exiles, believing that fan unrest is a result of “uncertainty.”

The successor to Justin Edinburgh who left for League One Gillingham is yet to commit to the Exiles – or seek a commitment from them – beyond the end of the current campaign.

Dack has seen County’s poor recent form cost them a place in League Two’s top seven, as they look to put their faltering promotion bid back on track with back-to-back home clashes against Cheltenham and Luton.

And while confident that the Exiles can still seal an unlikely play-off berth, he admits Newport County AFC are a club in need of pulling everyone together.

“Our last few performances show the players are battling and fighting for each other and we’ll keep doing that, but we need to remember we are only two points outside the play-offs,” he said.

“It has been tough from Christmas onwards really.

“With what has gone on at the football club (Edinburgh’s departure) and one thing or another at board level where things have been changing, there is a lot of uncertainty at the club.

“And it can only stop by getting results, it’s a results business and it down to the players, staff, management, the board, to all pull together and see out the last 11 games and give it our best shot.

“The next two games give us a big opportunity and we will try our best and see where it takes us. That’s all we can do.”

However, despite remaining positive, Dack admits he’s so far drawn a blank in attempting to bring in a loan striker.

“No we haven’t been able to advance that situation,” he said.

“We have to get someone out before we can get someone in and we thought we had sorted that, but it wasn’t to be.

“We have one or two players who want to go out and play some football and we have one ready to come in, we have got our eye on someone, but we need someone to go out the other way first and haven’t been able to do so yet.”

Dack insists his players are itching to get back to winning ways ahead of a local derby and arguably the contest against the biggest side in League Two.

“Of course they are itching to get back, with 11 games to go, these players shouldn’t need motivating,” he said.

“After these 11 games, they know what could be at the end of it. If they need motivating now, they probably shouldn’t be a professional footballer; it is as simple as that.”