LEE Peacock has urged his Town teammates to take Saturday's cruel defeat on the chin and use their anger at referee Lee Mason as motivation ahead of Saturday's derby with rivals Bristol Rovers.

Peacock was livid with the match officials after an afternoon of one-sided officiating in Yorkshire but insists Town must be big enough to take a portion of the blame themselves.

He said: "Personally I think the referee was an absolute shambles, but we can't blame it all on him. We have conceded two goals, but even so I thought we did enough to get a point.

"We didn't do what we did last year and just sit back.

"Once we got the goal we pushed on, but we got caught with a real sucker punch.

"There's one or two little things we have to tighten up on but I thought we did really well both defensively and offensively."

It was Peacock's cool side-footed finish early in the second half that gave Town hope of ending Leeds unbeaten home record, but Mr Mason ensured it would be a long journey home for the travelling Swindon fans.

With a vocal Elland Road crowd baying for Robins blood, Peacock believes the big occasion got to the referee.

He said: "So many decisions went Leeds' way.

"The penalty against Hasney was outside the box, but was it ball-to-hand anyway? Then at the other end, Billy passes to me and the ball bobbles up and hits the lad's hand - nothing given.

"Ady (Williams) got a text from a friend who was watching Sky Sports News and they were saying Ken Bates must have bribed the referee because the decisions were that bad!

"That's on Sky Sports News, so that's somebody outside looking in saying how bad it was.

"I don't know whether it was the crowd that got to him or just a lot of bad decisions."

Despite the kick in the teeth from the official, Peacock believes the Town squad are big enough to bounce back when Rovers visit the County Ground at the weekend.

He said: "We showed a lot of character which I don't think we have done enough in the last month.

"We've got another big game next week, a local derby, and we've still got a game in hand on most teams so we could move back up the league.

"We have got the players, we just have to believe in ourselves.

"It's easy to do that against Leeds and next week in a local derby, but it's the so-called lower games that we have got to play well in. We can't just try against the bigger teams.

"Hopefully we can take a lot of confidence from today and push on next week."