Still calls on Town to cut out errors

John StillJohn Still
John Still
Hatters boss John Still has called on his side to cut out the individual errors as they look to get their League Two campaign back on track against Mansfield this weekend.

After Saturday’s 3-2 defeat at Notts County, courtesy of yet another stoppage time strike, Still promised to have a serious look at the defensive make-up of his side which has now conceded 13 goals already, the joint third worst in the division.

Having done so this week, Still admits there is little else they could do to prepare the side correctly, as he said: “It’s really important that you do analyse, win or lose, and while taking into account my teams take a while to get going, I think we’ve played all right, I really do.

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“With the playing all right I would expect to have more points and we’ve been beaten too often late in games, it’s not right and we’ve conceded too many goals.

“We work on the training ground and learn there if we’re vulnerable or not and it’s not anything we’ve seen in training.

“We’ve analysed all of the goals with the players and looked at what we think maybe possible reasons and we’ve been out and worked.

“What you can’t take away is human error, no matter how organised you are, no matter who knows their job.

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“If someone lets the ball go over their head, you can’t do that out there (in training) because out there it’s spot on but they do it in games.

“We’ve had a good week, we’ve worked well, we’re conceding too many goals, so that tells me we’ve got to work hard to rectify this little problem.

“I think our form is okay, we’re into the vein of playing how I want, but we have to make sure we don’t concede avoidable goals. It happens, but I think we’ve been guilty of it for a few games now.”

Still believes it wasn’t just his defence who have been culpable for the continued mistakes, although admitted how to eradicate them from a match day remains something of a mystery.