SWINDON Town manager David Flitcroft is looking for his side to kick on in their preparations after being held to a 1-1 draw at non-league Salisbury last night.

On the eve of the club’s trip to Portugal, new loan signing Harry Smith, who had earlier missed a penalty, opened the scoring at the Raymond McEnhill Stadium in the 22nd minute, only for the hosts to grow into the game and Claudio Herbert’s fine second-half free-kick to pull things back level.

The draw, Town’s second in four days, having also drawn 1-1 with Oldham last Friday, left plenty for Flitcroft to ponder, with the County Ground boss admitting the club are still light on the player front as they continue to look for extra recruits.

“They’re taking on some of the ideas,” he told the local media.

“I think the change over from last season and the new ideas we are trying to bring in to the football club, we are still trying to manage that change and evolve into the team we want to be.

“We’ve not got the players that I want in yet to challenge the group but we are working on that, for competition for places.

“But, it is slowly coming, slower than I wanted.

“It was a really robust challenge against Oldham, there was a fantastic ferociousness to the game but we withstood it and came good in the second half.

“I’m just looking for individual things at the minute and some combinations and connections so we are trying a lot of things out.

“We’re having a look at different possibilities, different options, different partnerships and I’m just trying to see where those partnerships are forged and strong.

“It’s given us a lot of opportunities and we are making slow progress.”

With Flitcroft stating that they couldn’t come to an agreement with Zavon Hines, while Jordan Slew, who is now on trial with Mansfield Town and Jack Bainbridge not being explored any further, Swindon handed a trial to West Bromwich Albion’s Andre Wright last night, as well as another unnamed trialist.

Wright won’t be making the trip to Portugal, for non-footballing reasons, but Flitcroft is looking to use the trip as a real test of his squad.

“We go out to Portugal which gives us the opportunity to get three sessions a day in so we can really up the physical aspect in terms of body and conditioning work, as well as the tactical work,” he added.

“You’re almost getting two weeks work into the players within a five or six day period.

“It’s been okay up until this point but now we really kick on over in Portugal.”