Holloway felt Town looked like they were back to earlier in the season

Ian Holloway said Swindon Town looked like they were back to their play earlier in the season as they went down 1-0 at Morecambe.

A difficult March came to a close with a defeat as they struggled to assert themselves on Morecambe and failed to cause much danger.

A Lee Angol strike in the first half was the only moment of quality in the game as Swindon could not get their play going on a poor surface.

Holloway was bitterly disappointed by the desire that his players showed as they never got going at the Mazuma Mobile Stadium.

He said: “We took too long to do anything, when we think that we are a good football team and can pass it then we lose all recognition of ourselves.

“I don’t think they have a clue why we do well. I have just told them in there that we are going to have to have a good look at that.

“We didn’t deserve anything today.

“I look like I am lucky to get one [a new contract] after today, I don’t want to talk about a vision when I have just seen the biggest pile of rubbish I have seen in a long time.

“They didn’t play much better than us, let’s be brutally honest, but they were men about it, and all we needed to do was win that challenge.

“If it was 0-0, then I would have had to take it, but we have lost that game, and that is not good enough.

“I am going to have a battle on my hands if that is how they think I want us to play, messing around with it and trying to look good.

“Then with three minutes left, we are passing it around at the back. What are we doing?

“I had the desire, and I have always had the desire to win games, and I have no idea why they didn’t, so I will be asking them that on Monday.”

Holloway was especially disappointed with how Swindon conceded the goal, as Angol was able to win multiple duels before smashing home.

He said: “I don’t think that goal would have happened with him [Ollie Clarke].

“I think Ollie would have smashed through the first tackle, he definitely would have won the next challenge and he would have been there for the shot. That is the difference.

“He makes us aggressive, and without pointing the finger, there were three challenges that we could have won there, and we should have won there, and we didn’t win them.

“That goes right back to when I first came in, and if that is everyone showing me that they want to be part of this long-term, then they need to try a bit harder than that as that wasn’t good enough, not in a million years.

“To give a goal away like that is an absolute disgrace, in my opinion. You need to do something about it, and I don’t understand why we didn’t do that.”