Are the players playing for manager?

“I don’t think it has anything to do with the manager to be honest with you.

"We’re not playing for ourselves and for each other first and foremost and there’s no togetherness.

"We give up a goal and heads go down and today it was a bit different, we had a little bit more of the ball and in the second half we came out with a little bit more fight in us and started going at Bournemouth.

"We gave up a second goal and that’s when heads just really dropped.

"There’s no fight amongst the group right now and I said midweek, we’re not a team at the minute we’re a group of individuals who don’t look like they want to stay in this league and until that changes and guys, myself included, step up even more, it’s going to stay this way."

After defeat to Sunderland you were embarrassed and then got really good, same might happen after Cardiff?

“I felt the same thing. I don’t know why (not), I don’t know that everyone grasps what the situation is.

"It’s hard to describe, you don’t want to single anybody out. It’s not any one individual, it’s the group, it’s the collective.”

Are the too many new faces?

“No I don’t think you can blame that on the new guys.

"I don’ think that’s fair on them, I don’t think that’s fair on the guys who are here.

"There’s just not that same mentality and determination. I think too many guys are happy to skate through and not put in the effort that maybe we put in last season.

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"That’s down to every individual.

"We have to look at ourselves first before pointing fingers, this guy and that guy, you have to look in the mirror, it’s easy to say that I know.

"Unless you’re willing and ready to raise your own standards you can’t expect other people to raise their own."

When you mention your frustration - do you see that among team-mates?

"Yeah, and that's natural.

"Everybody in there wants to win games, everybody wants to be further up the table, everybody wants to score goals and concede as many as we are.

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"It's not anything special, it's not anything new.

"There's definitely a frustration we're not picking up results, and not winning games and not conceding so many.

"It's not a frustration with this player or that player, it's more of a frustration at the situation, not one thing that's going on."

How bad is that lack of confidence?

"It's a huge issue. That goes back to the mentality.

"Okay, so we concede a goal, what are we going to do about it?

"Are we going to crumble or are we going to try and change things?

"After the first goal we looked like we were going to try and change things; we came out in the second half and looked like we were going to do something about it, and for some reason the second goal goes in, and that's when heads go down.

"It's human nature to a certain extent, but you still have to fight. It's not acceptable to just cave in and roll over."

How crucial is next week at Huddersfield?

"Every game's crucial; it doesn't matter whether it's Huddersfield, Bournemouth, Liverpool, we have to start getting results, getting three points. We need to be more solid all over the pitch."

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