MARC Roberts says Barnsley should be ‘far, far higher’ in the League One table, but they keep ‘wasting points’ after being in winning positions.

The Reds have won just two of their nine home league games this season.

Vice-captain and defender Roberts told the Chronicle: “It’s very frustrating.

“We’re creating a lot of pressure at home but it just doesn’t seem to be dropping for us.

“We keep wasting points from winning positions and games when we’ve had really good spells.

“You look at the table and we should be far, far higher up, and we’re in a good position as it is.

“As long as we keep pushing the standards around the place, I have no doubt we will end up in a good spot.”

It has been a disappointing week for the Reds, whose unbeaten run came to an end with a 1-0 loss to Wigan on Saturday then they could only draw with Reading in midweek after taking the lead.

Roberts said: “That’s football.

“You will hit times when stuff doesn’t go for you.

“As long as you keep performing well you will come out the other side.

“The Wigan game was the only game in six or seven when we have been off the standards we set after the last international break.”

Roberts’ fellow defender Josh Earl scored his first Barnsley goal on Tuesday, a late leveller to secure a 2-2 draw at home to Reading.

Roberts said: “We always take the Mick out of him that he doesn’t do enough.

“He’s become the best blocker at the club to create chances for other players. Fair play to him he got his goal and got us out of trouble.”

Barnsley’s next league games are against two of the top three in Wrexham and Roberts’ former club Birmingham.

He said: “They are all the same, really. I don’t think we’re too bothered about playing anybody.

“They are going to be tough games.

“We will sit down and look at them.

“On our day, if we turn up, we have the right tools to cause anybody in the league real problems.”