First things first, as players we’d like to apologise for Saturday’s performance against Millwall.

It’s hard to pinpoint why and how we lost on Saturday but there’s a lot of things that went wrong in our game. We weren’t passing well enough, we were losing the ball in areas that you can’t give the ball away cheaply in – and at the minute, the luck isn’t with us.

You can’t do anything about the deflection which proved decisive.

At times when you have a derby game, you do get sucked into playing certain ways and it takes a strong team to get the ball down and play the way you want to play.

But you can get dragged into the occasion sometimes and do things that you maybe wouldn’t do against any other team.

If we keep doing the right things in training, eventually things will start falling for
us.

Saturday was a tough game because it didn’t really matter about form or things like that. You take away all of that in a derby and it’s about who gives more and it ends up being a battle.

I can definitely say we are hurting just as much as the fans.

They were entitled to have their views on the game. They want to see games won by us and if we’re not winning, we’re not happy and the fans are not happy. They’re entitled to boo but the boys will get back and hopefully get a win next week.

It’s not nice when you lose. You go home, you think about the game, you play the whole 90 minutes through your head again. It is hard not to take it home.

I had Sky-plussed the game and like a lot of the team, I went home and re-watched
it.

We also watched it again at the start of the week, picking out the good and bad points. But then we have to move on.

Then it’s about recovering physically ahead of the trip to Burnley on Saturday.

That’s the good thing about the Championship, there is always a game round the corner to put things right. We also have players returning from injury at the end of the week hopefully. We haven’t had a clean sheet yet. I think that’s got to be where we start from.