IT was a lovely weekend spoilt by a game of football!

I've been in the game long enough to know that whatever you do after a result like Saturday's it comes back to reflecting on the match and the majority of the waking hours over Saturday night and Sunday were spent analysing the performance.

You hear ripples of complaints and I can understand the frustration of supporters - there is no getting away from it, we played poorly.

Saturday was the first time in our six matches, and through pre-season, where we haven't performed to a satisfactory standard, although in three of the four matches when we have done well we have been away from home.

The smooth transition we wanted from last season had looked as if it would materialise after the first three matches but the Stevenage match, parts of the Northwich match, and against Halifax have shown there is a problem.

One or two of the players who performed so well last season were not on top of their game last Saturday but while we have five newcomers and a new coach, I certainly don't think that the newcomers' arrivals have had a bearing, particularly on Saturday's result.

We are as fit, if not fitter, than last season. We've done the tests to prove it and we know the players are in good physical shape.

In terms of attacking we've done OK - 13 goals from seven different scorers. Adam Stansfield has four in six games and David Brown, three, so, stretched over a whole season, that's almost 50 goals from the front two which would be terrific.

So, although we have not passed the ball well, we've scored goals. It's at the other end we have to show concern with the number of goals we have conceded. We have kept one clean sheet which equates to seven in the season and that's not good enough.

You don't pick out individuals - although there has been some poor individual defending - just as we attack as a team, so we defend as a team.

Over recent seasons the game has changed and you want the players to have an input so we'll have our team meeting, the players will have their say and between us we'll sort it out for this coming Saturday.

In John Trewick we have an excellent, experienced coach who has been through the mill of football management, as have I, and the one thing we shall not do is panic.