WHILE he admitted to being shocked by his team's "lethargic and disjointed" display last weekend, Halstead Town manager Mark McLean says he won't be going back to the drawing board.

Halstead were well under par as they were beaten 3-0 in a dismal show against Frenford at the Milbank Stadium.

It cost them top spot in Thurlow Nunn League division one south, so they will look to bounce back quickly when they make the short trip to Coggeshall United on Saturday and McLean insisted that he wouldn't make any knee-jerk reactions on the back of one poor performance.

“I don’t feel the need for changes," he said.

“You don’t rip things up on the back of one 90 minutes of football.

“We know what we need to fix; we definitely know that.

“But this was a game that was a big wake-up call.

“We’ll bounce back because we always bounce back and we are good enough."

However, knowing that his team could respond did little to temper the disappointment of what McLean had seen against Frenford.

He added: “It was bad – as bad as we can be.

“We could have been playing all night and not scored.

“It was just a poor performance all round – a poor poor performance.

“It was lethargic and disjointed and I have to say, I sensed it in the warm-up.

“It was one of those days; unrecognisable from what we have been doing.

“The middle three who I thought were unplayable the week before looked like they’d never played together.

“I don’t think it was complacency at all, but I honestly don’t know what to say after that.

“We missed Kane (Gilbert), who was suspended after picking up five bookings and it showed what a big player for us he has become.

“But I have just never seen us look so disjointed.

“We got what we deserved.

“It was across all of them and I could have changed every single one of them.

“There was an air about us from very early on that wasn’t normal.

“If I knew why, then it wouldn’t have happened.

“It tells me that there’s a lot for us to work on, but it shocked me to be honest.

“It was poor; by our standards, it was very poor and it surprised me."