LEE Peacock has challenged his Town teammates to do their thinking for themselves after the Robins had their wings clipped by a compact Doncaster Rovers on Saturday.

Peacock and Craig Easton often found themselves over-run in a midfield flooded with blue and white shirts, but the Scot insists Paul Sturrock's tactics were not to blame.

Peacock says the Town players must not be dictated to and must force their own style of play on the opposition, especially at home.

He said: "We have got to make teams adapt to us, rather than us worry about them.

"We find it hard adjusting at times on the pitch. It's not until we're told that everybody will start doing different things.

"It seems that what we get told before the game has to stay like that, and it can't go on that way. Especially us lads in midfield - we have got to adapt.

"We need to make the decisions on the pitch and pull people about.

"We have got to up our game, all over the pitch, in every aspect."

Despite Rovers best efforts to stifle the game, Town did carve out some decent opportunities, with Simon Cox twice guilty of missing the target when well placed.

But Peacock believes the Robins should be shifting from fourth to fifth gear at home, when at times it looked like they were driving in reverse.

He said: "I don't think we deserved to win, but I don't think we deserved to lose either. Our forward and defensive play just wasn't at it today.

"It was nowhere near as bad as last week, but still we've got be do doing more at home and expressing our game on teams.

"We didn't get the ball wide, when you don't do that you don't get crosses in the box - and strikers thrive on crosses.

"It's really really gutting, but you can't be playing like at home. It's okay if you're beaten by a better team but they are not a better team."

Billy Paynter and Simon Cox must both have sore necks this morning after the ball spent so much time in the Wiltshire sky.

Peacock admits Town must try to keep the ball on the deck, and show some patience when trying to prize open the opposition defence.

He said: "We relied on the long ball too much, we relied on the strength of Billy and at the end Big Baz.

"Against Gillingham, as soon as one person got the ball he had three options. Today the ball goes into people and it seems like there's nothing on.

"I'm not just blaming defenders, that's everyone.

"Maybe they didn't see angles from midfielders, wide men and strikers apart from the long ball - that's something we have to put right straight away."