BALANCE is a hard thing to find.

Whether it is balancing your finances or getting a balanced diet, everyone knows that it doesn’t come easy.

It was the word that Luke Williams turned to in his post-match press conference on Saturday evening, having seen his side suffer a late heartache.

There were no excuses from the Swindon Town manager, no clichés thrown around about a hard-luck story and no blame placed at somebody else’s door.

Maybe that is just something that comes with the territory for a manger in his first role who hasn’t been ground down to generic mumbles.

For the last few weeks, with Town conceding eight in their last three home league games before Saturday, many a fan has been calling for solidity at the back.

They certainly got what they wished for in the last two games, but at what expense?

Having scored eight in two at the County Ground with entertaining and often heart-attack inducing football, Swindon have now only scored once in the last two outings.

So it is a tough challenge for Williams to work out how to get that stability at the back without losing the potency up top.

The Swindon boss opted to turn to a formation that did Town no harm last season to accommodate the return of captain Nathan Thompson on Saturday.

The hosts switched to three central defenders, and Brandon Ormonde-Ottewill and Brad Barry (James Brophy in the second half) as wing backs.

Instead of freeing up Ormonde-Ottewill and Barry to attack even more it seemed to subdue them, so maybe more time is needed with those young players to teach them the role further.

However, with Barry suffering a migraine at half-time against Barnsley and being forced off, Williams may be forced to return to the flat back four for their trip to Port Vale on Tuesday night.

Whatever happens, Williams needs to rack his brain to work out the best way of playing the ‘Swindon way’ without sending too many people to A&E.