MATT Taylor admits there is an element of frustration around the Swindon Town squad at present but has urged anyone attempting to assess their promotion credentials in League Two to hold off until the new year.

David Flitcroft’s side are currently on a four-match losing streak, having been beaten by Grimsby Town and Newport County in their last two league fixtures as well as exiting both the FA Cup and Checkatrade Trophy at the hands of Stevenage and Forest Green Rovers respectively.

Flitcroft was given the remit of winning a place back in League One by chairman Lee Power upon his appointment at the Energy Check County Ground this summer.

Despite their recent woes, Town travel to third-placed Accrington Stanley on Saturday sitting eighth in the League Two table and are only out of the play-off places on goal difference.

Five more league games remain in December as well as the traditional round of matches on New Year’s Day and former Portsmouth and West Ham United player Taylor knows it is currently too soon to gauge what Swindon are capable of this term.

“We are disappointed from the last four results, albeit that only two of them have been in the league,” said Taylor, who joined the club on a free transfer from Northampton Town over the summer.

“We want to win football matches, that’s why I came here. I came here to be successful this season and the aim from the beginning of the season has always been to try to get promoted.

“If you look at it, I think we are a point off fifth, so from that point of view, we are still on target with where we want to be.

“It is not even Christmas yet so let’s have a chat in January and see where we are.

“We have got work to do, we are aware of that, but we work very hard on the training ground and that is vitally important.

“The manager and Ben (Futcher, assistant) are trying to get their ideas across to the boys and the guys here are very receptive to how the manager wants to work.

“We need to keep believing in what we are doing and I’m sure we will do and results will pick up and we can start to look up instead of over our shoulder.”

A late Christian Doidge strike for Forest Green ended Town’s participation in the Checkatrade Trophy on Tuesday night, with the team also beaten by an odd goal in their previous two league defeats.

With a wealth of experience all the way up to the Premier League to his name, 36-year-old Taylor is well aware how narrow the gap is between agony and ecstasy.

“It is small margins in all of football, my experience tells me that,” said Taylor, who was won promotion to English football’s top flight from the Championship three times in his career.

“If we had taken a couple of the chances we had on Tuesday night, then we are sitting in the next round of the Checkatrade Trophy but we didn’t.

“That’s the difference, I would suggest, between the teams sitting at the top of every league and those that languish from the middle to the bottom half.

“They tend to have the players that put the ball in the back of the net more often and that tends to cost a little bit more money no matter what level of football you play at.”