Invicta Dynamos have plenty of time to digest a disappointing weekend just gone.

A third-period comeback ensured they beat Romford Buccaneers on Saturday but they were second-best the following day in a 5-2 home loss against the Slough Jets.

With no game this weekend, and no home fixture until Oxford City Stars visit on October 28, there’s plenty of time to work on things.

Coach Karl Lennon admitted they were fortunate to have at least picked up two points from the weekend with victory in Romford, having been 5-2 down at the start of the third period, winning 7-5.

Lennon said: “Across the weekend, as a club, we didn’t meet the expectations that we set ourselves at the start of the season, our performances were poor both days.

“The attitude was pretty poor for parts of both games and application was poor for the majority of the periods that were played. I was not a happy coach with how we performed.

“Thankfully on Saturday, despite not showing up for the first two periods of the game, where Romford were the dominant team, playing much better than we did, we managed to make the most of the game in the third period with five unanswered goals.”

Brandon Chard got them level after going behind in the first period at the Romford Ice Rink but they were 4-2 down at the end of the second, allowing the Essex men to score a fifth early on in the third.

The Mos rallied as Tommy Huggett got them back to a two-goal deficit, Tom Soar pulled it closer and Owen Dell levelled. Gregor McAllan’s strike and another Soar effort completed the turnaround.

Lennon admitted he had some tough decisions to make on the night.

He said: “I had to make changes to get the job done and it paid off. That wasn’t a reflection on the players where changes were made, it was more to make an impact on the game and try and bring the best out of the ones that were literally doing close to nothing in the fixture. I had to make difficult decisions but that is my job.

“The third period was excellent, we were brilliant, it’s just frustrating because if we had that for three periods it would have been a comfortable win, everyone would have been happy and instead it was more dramatic than it needed to be.”

The Mos were unable to take that third-period momentum into the game on home ice, suffering with the loss of the injured Huggett.

Slough dominated the first period but netminder Owen Rider kept them down to a 1-0 advantage. Dell got it back to 1-1 in the second but the Jets struck twice more.

There were two more goals from the visitors in the final period, with Soar getting another for the Mos in the 5-2 loss.

“Without Tommy I thought we looked a little weaker,” said the coach.

“They are a high-intensity team, work really hard, the coach there is fantastic, he has a young core of players who have been brought up through the ranks, a bit like what I am trying to do here and I take a lot of lessons from what Slough are doing, most definitely. He has them all on the same page, all working hard, all energetic and that created a host of problems for us where they were creating shot after shot.

“It looked like we would be in a good position going into the third period but in the last couple of minutes we made two very casual mistakes again, which resulted in two goals for them, then the third period is a much different proposition.

“We were always chasing and when you’re chasing, my feeling was that we tried to do things too much on an individual basis, we aborted the teamwork ethic we normally apply in these situations, which got us out of trouble on Saturday, and it didn’t work.

“I don’t know why the players decided to play like that, it’s not my coaching method to teach them to skate end to end with the puck, I am teaching them how to move it around each other and work together but sometimes these things happen.

“They were great for their win, fantastic from start to finish, it was a tough one to digest. We didn’t deserve any points and I think we were lucky to get two out of the weekend.”

The Mos return to the ice on Sunday, October 15, away against reigning champions and league leaders Streatham.

“The bad thing for me is that now we have to sit on a loss,” said the coach.

“We have that to learn and understand and we have four practices ahead before we play Streatham away from home. We will have to be a world apart from where we were this weekend, in terms of competing with them.

“It’s going to be two weeks of hard work and preparation to be better against a team that is currently top of our division again.

“There is so much talent on this team, there really is, there is no doubting that, there is talent but then there is application and realising that talent, talent only gets you so far and hard work gets you the rest of the way and unfortunately the hard work part is most of it.

“It was good to get the win (on Saturday), probably two points we didn’t deserve, but we got them and we’ll take them, because we got nothing on Sunday.”

Lennon admits he would also like his team to show a bit more balance in their emotions, adding: “For me, the highs are high and the lows are low at the moment, that is how it feels like, we need to become a little more consistent, not just with our performances but with our emotions as well.

“It is very easy for us to have a five-goal swing in the third period but it can also be a three-goal deficit in a period and the world is ending, we need to have that resilience and fight to get back into games and I don’t think we did that well enough the last couple of games.

“Every step along the way is a lesson, if we are not better for that, then we will never get better, we have to take that on board and look forward. It’s better for it to happen now at the start of the season than the end, we had a similar start last season where it was difficult in places but we rode it out and it is no different now.

“The reality is we are now three (wins) and two (losses), we could be four and one, a much different start to the season and one I would have preferred.”