SWINDON Town manager Mark Cooper has accepted that the fans who travelled to watch his side humiliated by non-league Macclesfield Town on Saturday deserve a refund for their troubles.

Town were dumped out of the FA Cup by the Skrill Premier side following a 4-0 defeat at Moss Rose, as two goals from Connor Jennings and one apiece from Scott Boden and Peter Winn punished the League One visitors for an abject defensive performance.

Around 250 supporters made the trek to Cheshire for the tie and Cooper pledged to at least partially recompense them after a miserable day for the club.

“They deserve a refund and we’ll see if we can do something with the players where they chip in for them for the Colchester game. I’ll certainly be chipping in,” he told the Advertiser.

“They deserve the players to give something back because they’ve travelled a long way and that wasn’t good enough.

“They (the players) can’t keep hiding behind me and other things, they’ve got to look at their own performance and decide whether that’s good enough.

“People think they should be in the team, they’re not in the team, are they playing in the right position? Just play and play as well as you can and run about and show that it means the world to you to play for Swindon.”