The manager said "Even within the camp, it's felt like a crisis is looming and then you look at the results.
"We set high standards early in the season and we admit ourselves we haven't met them. When you're in that mode you have to dig in.
"I thought we limited them to very little. We carried a good threat. We spoke about when we were on our bad run, trying to play out from the back but not really earning the right to play. I thought we did that, we won our battles and when we have the ball we played to open them up.
"When we stripped back what was going wrong, we weren't earning the right to play, we were getting snuffed out and then we were too open. We're not a scrapping, fighting team, other teams will do that better than we are, we have to earn the right and then play.
"They were great goals too, you need players to chip in from all around the pitch. Jordan (Barnett) could've had two with the one vs one and Reevesy's free-kick was magical."