MICHAEL Pook admits Town’s stuttering form has brought last season’s relegation misery flooding back but insists if they are still playing League Two football next campaign they only have themselves to blame.
The Town midfielder admits the doom and gloom around the County Ground, after just one win in six, feels as bad as last campaign’s relegation but is also confident their fortunes will turn round.
Pook insists no-one has come to the County Ground and out-played them while claims failure to secure their place in the league above would be a “tragedy” and an “injustice”.
A dip in form from their relegation rivals sees Town still hopeful of automatic promotion and Pook insists if they finish out of the top three, they will have “thrown it all away”.
He said: “I can’t believe how bad we are feeling at the moment.
“With the doom and gloom there is around the camp at the moment, it feels as bad as last season’s relegation.
“But when you sit back and look at it, we are still in with a great chance of promotion.
“It is not as though we were rock bottom like we were last time round.
“A couple of us were looking at the run-ins last night and a few of our rivals have some very tough games. We have probably the easiest run-in.
“It won’t be justice if we don’t go up, and if we don’t we have only thrown it away. We have spent the whole season right up there and now it is down to the players, management and fans to make sure we don’t throw away all our good work.”
Saturday’s 3-0 defeat at Stockport was the latest in a string of disappointing results and Pook admits it is time they started adressing some “major mistakes”.
After yesterday’s reserve clash at Bristol Rovers was postponed, boss Paul Sturrock arranged a full-scale practice match within the squad to put things right.
Pook said: “After Saturday we have to try and do everything we can to put things right. It is not just small mistakes, we are making major errors.
“The manager wants us to get in a match situation and work on the areas we have gone wrong, that is why we had the practice match.
“It is not as though it was just the one sloppy performance, it has been three or four in the space of a few weeks. We need to turn that around and quickly.”
He continued: “None of us can put our fingers on why things have changed.
“The conditions have changed dramatically, on Saturday Stockport was like a marsh, and teams at the top have been struggling.
“But that is no excuse we have shown earlier in the season we can dig in and battle and we have to start doing it again.”

sounds like us at the start of the season really