AFTER two days of soul-searching, Swindon Town manager Mark Cooper is no closer to explaining what happened at Macclesfield - but he’s determined his players will make amends when Wycombe come calling tonight.

Cooper described the 4-0 thrashing at the hands of the non-league Silkmen as his worst moment in management and pledged to contribute to a refund of sorts for Town fans who travelled to Cheshire.

But with a place in the southern section area semi-finals of the JPT at stake tonight, the 44-year-old wants his squad to do their apologising on the pitch.

“We’ve done a lot of soul-searching, there have been a lot of questions about how a team can go from very, very good against Port Vale to being as bad as they were seven days later, having trained exactly the same,” he said.

“It was the same team apart from one player, the same system and it’s difficult. We’re trying to figure out where and why it went wrong.

“We can’t concede goals like we do. No matter how badly you play you should always be in the game and the way we conceded the goals on Saturday didn’t give ourselves the chance to even get a replay.

“We just totally capitulated by giving ridiculous goals away.

“We keep putting ourselves in a position where we need a reaction because we win at home and go away and lose, or we win one and we think we’ve cracked it and then we lose a couple more away from home.

“Straight away the players are putting themselves under pressure to have a reaction and win again. There has to be a reaction in terms of a performance and the way they apply themselves tomorrow night.”