"It was awful, totally inept. Whatever words you want to put on paper that's what it was.

I'm not making any excuses. The players have been made well aware that there will be changes now. Losing four games in a row is not acceptable. Whatever they did well in the 12 games or so before is in the past and they are now playing for their futures. It's as simple as that.

If they want to be here, then great. If not I'll get someone in who does want to do it. 10 people in January were witness to that and if another 10 have to go then so be it.

In the last four games I've asked for a response and not got it. I can talk all week and tell them I want passion and commitment and desire and the tempo to be raised. But it is not happening.

It didn't happen in the first half and while everyone will say they had a go in the second half, well I should bloody well hope so.

I won't accept it and I don't want to keep coming into these press conferences saying that's unacceptable. We've shown we can do it and to not do it in four games is totally against what I want to do.

Maybe it's about mental strength. I like to talk about mental strength and have players that can do it week in, week out. To be successful and be promotion contenders you've got to have mentally strong players and no matter the conditions or team you are up against we need to go out and do the job. At the moment we have players quite happy doing their own thing and that's not acceptable.

We've got six loan players at the moment and I can only pick five. To get a loan player with experience costs money. We've made a collective decision as a football club in January that things were not going right and those ten new players ate into the budget. That was a decision I was very happy to have made because it gives me a chance to get the players I want to in the summer without getting rid of other players.

I've identified several players I want to bring in and I feel would benefit the squad and starting eleven. What I'm going to do is give the lads here a chance to turn things around. We've got 46 points and I think we need 50 for safety. They've shown they're capable of getting to that and I want to see who wants it basically.

We've had some bad injuries to Kevin and Matty and that has hit us hard. It was good to see them back at the ground today. I think Matty's going to be out for longer than we anticipated. We have really missed his leadership and his impact on the team. And likewise with Kevin.

Matty could be out for the season. He's seeing the consultant again on Friday but there is a possibility it may have punctured his lung so he would be out for the season.

There are four players in the squad who need operations now but are playing through it. Well I don't want to tell you because then our opponents will know who is injured.

But there will be at least four players who will have operations at the end of the season, if not before. One played tonight. He was likely to be booked in for an operation on Friday. Fair play to him for getting through it. He came to see me and told me he wanted to play. And that shows I'm getting the right kind of player in.

I'm not making excuses but we have a lot of young players whose consistency level is frightening. One week they are excellent then others they are dire. But that happens with young players.

The games are thick and fast. The problem I have on the training ground is we have 6/7 players carrying injuries and with so many games coming up I have to look after them. It is very hard to work on the team shape and the plans I have for games like I did before with the intensity that we did.

But I'm making sure they are not over-doing it, looking after them in terms of the way they eat and travel and so they have to give me something back on the pitch and I'm not getting it. And neither are the fans and I won't tolerate it. The fans have had enough to deal with this season and to go back to those poor performances is not acceptable and I won't have it.

The fans can rest assured I'll be doing everything I can to make sure they won't happen again. Everyone is entitled to give us stick after that first half but what I will say is there is a plan in place for next season. It was always going to be a long term plan but players in the squad have got to prove to me that they are going to be part of that plan. I'm definitely going to be here and I won't let players who aren't doing it jeopardise what I want to do at this club and how we're going to progress.

I thought John Mousinho did very well, playing out of position. He did well to get through 90 mins, but we've got to look after him with so many games coming up.

Over the next couple of days I'll be having a severe think about what I'll do on Saturday because people need to know those types of performances won't keep them in the side.

No, I didn't think about a centre half on loan. We got Osei in to cover in the centre and we had Matty, Karleigh and Darius. But now we've lost Matty and Osei and Kevin's not there either.

I've got 12 players on contract for next season but I want to have a squad of 19 or 20 players next year that can come in and do a job. There's got to be competition for every place. At the moment with the size of the squad and our injuries that's not possible.

Obviously finances will play a part but I'm confident I can get the players in who want to come and play for Brentford and do the job for the money we are offering.

I didn't think we had a strong enough squad at the beginning of the season. My views were made clear to the chief executive at the end of the August transfer window that at best we were a mid-table side. And that looks like where we'll end up, even after getting rid of ten players.

The average age of the squad today was 21. If they can learn from their mistakes it will make then stronger players next season. If they don't then they'll fall by the wayside and that's the challenge I've set them.

I'm not going to start shouting and screaming in the dressing room because they sat their and knew exactly where they had gone wrong. But no matter what I say it is up to them to do it on the pitch. They've got to recognise when things go against them they've got to bond together as a team, because we're going back to when we were 11 individuals out there, not a team."

Many thanks to Simon Webster