Brighton Bears coach Mark Dunning hopes his side can put in a 'proper performance' against Manchester Giants at the Brighton Centre tomorrow night.

Dunning is fed up with his side's inconsistencies which were evident again last weekend.

After recording only their fifth win of the season against Edinburgh Rocks, they led Milton Keynes by seven points the following day only to end up losing again.

He said: "I was very disappointed after the Milton Keynes game because we should have won, but once again we made error after error down the stretch instead of the right decisions.

"It has happened all season, but we are due to produce a proper performance for the entire game. If we do that against Manchester we can win the match."

Bears beat Giants by a point a month ago, but the northern conference outfit were without their influential forward Julius Joseph that night. He is fit again after injury, although Manchester may be without guard Brian Read who has missed the last two matches through injury.

Dunning has had the luxury of a full squad in training this week for the first time in over two months and co-captain Michael Brown, slowly returning to full fitness after tearing a thigh muscle, could play an important part tomorrow.

"Mike played 30 minutes on Sunday which is more than I would have liked," said Dunning. "He's still game rusty, but he feels okay and there is improvement in his fitness with every day so that's encouraging."

The game starts at 7 pm.