DEFENDER Dion Conroy expressed his disappointment that he couldn’t mark his full debut for Swindon own with a win at Bury on Saturday.

The 21-year-old was only informed on the morning of the game that he would be in the side to face fellow League One strugglers Bury.

Conroy, who joined the club on a permanent basis from Chelsea during the January transfer window, was brought into the side to replace Lloyd Jones in the Town back three, with the Liverpool loanee missing out as a result of Rohan Ince being preferred as the fifth loanee in the matchday squad.

Having come on as a late substitute in the defeat to Bristol Rovers, Conroy was keen to get his first start and although the result didn’t go the way he had envisaged, he felt Town’s performance warranted more at Gigg Lane.

“I was buzzing for (making my full debut) and really looking forward to it,” he said.

“I’ve settled in well with all the boys and everyone is getting on.

“Obviously, it wasn’t the best debut because we lost 1-0 but I was very excited to start “I don’t think it was the one we deserved. We deserved to get three points really, so everyone is gutted.

“I think the referee messed up with the penalty but those things happen.

“Everyone kind of had a hold of each other. Nobody was doing anything which I don’t think anyone else wasn’t doing, so I don’t know what the ref has seen and no one really knows what he has given it for.

“I think Loz (Lawrence Vigouroux) had one shot to save so, I think we all defended well.

“It was a bit frantic at the start and then we kind of dominated on the ball and I was getting on the ball a bit more, but everyone was a bit gutted.

“We had a few chances, even Charlie (Colkett) right at the end, so we could have won it.”

However, with Swindon back in action on Tuesday night when they travel to Northampton Town, Conroy knows there is no time to dwell on the result and says Town's players are confident they can avoid the drop, having slipped into the relegation zone at the weekend.

“Sometimes you get the luck, sometimes you don’t. Hopefully, Tuesday we’ll be able to put them away and we won’t get decisions like that going against us,” he added.

“Everyone is positive. We just move that game to one side now and focus on Tuesday to get the three points.

“Everyone is trying to think positive. Everyone is thinking positive.

“There are 14 or 15 games left and we only have to win half of them and we stay up, so we have got to keep thinking positive and keep putting in performances like that, because we dominated the game.

“We had one shot on target, so we do that again and we should get the three points.”