Last weekend’s defeat against AFC Wimbledon was one to forget.

We feel the players let the fans down, the coaches down, the manager down and the chairman down. They let everyone down by the manner in which we lost.

But we need to pick ourselves up, we’ve regrouped and started again.

The games are coming thick and fast and we have a tough trip to Accrington this weekend. We have to pick a team that are going to put their bodies on the line.

We have been derailed a bit over the last couple of weeks and need a good result to give everyone a lift.

We have 20 games to go and need to push on to try and get as many of those 60 points as possible.

It was a late night on Saturday for the manager and I as we analysed the DVD of the Wimbledon game.

We showed the video nasty to the players on Sunday morning and it didn’t make good viewing, especially defensively.

What concerned us was after scoring three fabulous goals, they scored four against us because we switched off. It was criminal.

We were 1-0 up and then at 3-1 the game should have been dead and buried. But to switch off from a corner for nobody to take control is just rank bad defending.

For all the drills and coaching we put on, that was just basic defending which you learn as a schoolboy – not to switch off and turn your back.

At Shrewsbury last week we gave a free-kick away on the edge of the box and the lads all turned their backs. We got away with it then but it should have been a warning.

When the ball goes dead we need organisers on the pitch, people with voices, players who will get others by the neck and tell them when they aren’t doing it.

In the old days we had players like the manager, myself, Barry Ashby, Paul Smith and Ade Pennock in the team. They wouldn’t stand for that. When you have a defeat like that players on the sidelines will be saying ‘give me a chance.’

If you don’t give them a chance they will say ‘well, what’s the point of being around here?’ So there could be changes this weekend.

We don’t need reminding about our last trip to Accrington, where we lost 7-4.

It was a freak result, though, and we need to pick a team willing to fight fire with fire and roll up their sleeves. This is the first of 20 massive battles for the club and we need to show big hearts and play with our heads.